AP Flashcards

6383406271	Space	the physical gap or distance between two objects	0
6383408477	scale	the relationship between the size of an object or distance between objects on a map and the size of the actual eject or distance on earths surface	1
6383413965	Pattern	the arrangement of objects on eats surface in relionshop to one another	2
6383416654	Regionalization	the organization of eats surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas.	3
6383418282	Globalization	the expansion of economic, polical and cultural activities	4
6383421983	spatial origination	the locations of places, people and events and the connections among places and landscapes	5
6383427951	Geography was studied by greek gods from the words?	geo "the earth" and graphein "to write"	6
6383431000	cartography	the art and science of map making	7
6383436492	geography was reborn in?	Europe in the 17th century as a broad study	8
6383442772	Immanuel Kant defines geography as	the study of interrelated spatial patterns	9
6383449750	Geopraphy became more specialized such as	sub fields like cultural, social urban, population, medical, economic and political	10
6383457872	Human Geography focus on	PEOPLE - Where are they? How are they alike and different?	11
6383467108	Physical geography	focus on the natural environment itself such as glaciers coastlines and climates	12
6383469282	Spatial perspective	means that they notice patterns of both natural and human environments, distributions of people, and locations of all kinds of objects	13
6383470718	Absolute location	maps provide the exact location of a place on mathematical grid of the earth divided by two sets of imaginary arcs: meridian and parallels	14
6383474759	Eratosthens	a greek scholar and accurately calculated the circumference of the earth by the sun angles and used geometry to conclude the circumference based on distance	15
6383480098	Ptolemy	recalculated the circumference of the earth and to be much smaller, but was WRONG but was taken as truth for hundreds of years	16
6383483871	Idrisi	a 11 century Arab geographer, worked for the kind of sicily to collect geophrical	17
6383488014	Geoge Perkins Marsh	classic work in Man and nature Focused on the impact go human actions on the natural environment	18
6383494069	Carl sauer	geographer from CAlifromia, interactions between humans and environment	19
6383499638	Equator	imaginary circle that lies exactly half way between north and south poles	20
6383504018	Paralles measure latitude or	distance north and south of the equator	21
6383509487	Relative location	All places on earth have a reactive location	22
6383511557	Reference material	maps are efficient tools for sorting information. maps show roads or waterways that connect places	23
6383516352	communication/education	maps may also be used to explain spatial perspectives to other. soil types, relative equations and economic prosperity levels	24
6383529277	Cartograhers faces the issue of distortion caused by..	trying to represent a three dimensional object on earth, on a two dimensional surface	25
6383539114	Projection	method of transferring locations on earths surface to a flat map	26
6383542697	The mercator projection	Flemish cartopgraher Geradus Mercator Pros: navigating ships across the Atlatic ocean between Europe and the Americas. Aif to navigators Cons: Distorts size and areas as a flat piece of paper Anartoca and the south of Greenland in the north look huge	27
6383573736	The robinson projection	Pros: tried to correct for this distortion in the high north and south latitudes Shapes are not distorted very badly within 45 degrees north or south of the equator. Cons: Makes erros in four ways shape size distance and direction best for wall maps and classrooms	28
6383592825	The peters projection	Pros: focuses on keeping land masses equal in area. Cons: Afrerica and latin america appear smaller, shapes are disotred resulting in overall map that seems unfamiliar to most viewers	29
6383604208	Contour map	designed to reveal the nature of local topography. Usful for hikers and for engineers or developers as they construct best places to build homes	30
6383614852	Scale important tool and has two meanings	Size of the unit studied and Map Scale	31
6383616635	Size of the unit studied	refer to the problem such as drought on a local scale, region scale or global scale	32
6383618217	Map Scale	tells up the mathematical relationship between the size of an area on a map	33
6383622232	Scale affects...	our perception of accuracy and the truth Local global continuum - phenomena at one level influence those at other levels	34
6383633226	The earth is divided into..	360 degrees of longitude	35
6383637104	time zone	a region that has adopted the same standard time and usually referred to as the local time	36
6383644374	Greenwich Mean Time	the standard time at the prime meridian	37
6383649159	International Date Line	divides the world from pole to pole through the pacific ocean	38
6383653851	Solar time	based on the position of the sun in the sky as the day progresses	39
6383663612	Place identified in four ways	place names, site, situation and absolute location	40
6383667764	Place name	most places on earth have names or toponyms to show them from others	41
6383672776	Site	location may also be defines by site like physical site characteristics phyiscal site characteristics include climate, topography, soil, water sources, vegetation and elevation	42
6383679235	Situation	this charateriscs refers to relative location highly subject to change	43
6383685330	Abosoulte location	a place may be located by mathematical calcauting its location	44
6383688194	Pattern	arrangement of objects on eats surface in relation to other objects	45
6383691726	grid	rectilinear pattern relfects a rectangular system of land survey	46
6383699290	regionaliztion	the organization of eats surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas	47
6383705534	Rectillnear pattern	reflects a rectifier system of land survey adopted on much of the country	48
6383712670	formal regions	formal region is an area that has sticking similarities in terms of one ore a few physical features	49
6383715129	Perceptual regions	vernacuar regions, example despite Korean peninsula is divided into two formal region, North and South people of the area have long history as Koranes with cook language	50
6383725213	Fuctional regions	called nodal regions, areas organized around cores or nodes The core area has distant characteristics that lessen in intensity as one traveles into the periphery	51
6383737934	Globaliztion	expansion of economic, political and cultural activities to the piot that they reach and have impact on any areas of the world	52
6383746284	space time compression	the changes that rapid connections among places and regions have brought	53
6383750938	Multi national corporations have...	centers of operation in many parts of the globe	54
6383754642	GIS	a computer system that captures stories and analyze and displays data	55
6383757773	field baed skills include	familiarity with and ability to manipulate and interpret GIS catpgrpahy and cumpet mapping competence in data analysis and problem solving	56
6383764687	GPS	uses a series of satellites tracking stations and receivers to determine precise absolute locations on earth	57
6383773540	Biggest employers of geographers in US is	U.S. Census Bureau	58