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    STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 1

    Review all Vocabulary for the Unit in addition to the questions below.

    Themes of Geography

    1. What are the five themes of geography? (Examples of each)

    2. Explain the difference between sense of place and perception of place.

    3. Identify Carl Sauer and concept of Cultural Landscape. Explain Sequent Occupance.

    4. What is relative location? Absolute location? How do they differ?

    5. How do site and situation differ?

    6. The Rust belt is example of what type of Region? Why? What are the other regions? Examples.

    7. How do humans alter the environment?

    Maps/Geographic Tools

    1. What are the different projections? Which one is used most often? How do each show distortion?

    2. Difference in Maps: Reference/Thematic. Identify Thematic Maps.

    3. Where is the International Date Line, Prime Meridian?

    4. Does latitude increase, decrease or remain the same as one moves away from the equator?

    5. Who coined the term geography? Who were the first society to start writing about geography?

    6. Explain how geographers use different tools. (i.e. GIS, Remote Sensing, GPS)

    7. Explain how cartographers use scale.

    8. What are mental maps and how do we use them?

    Diffusion

    1. What are the different types of diffusion? What are the three types of Expansion Diffusion and

    examples for each?


    2. What effect does intervening opportunities/obstacles have on diffusion?

    3. What are the three hearth’s of the diffusion of global culture and economy? Has globalization

    increased uneven development or decreased it? Why?

    4. Define Culture. Cultural Complex. Cultural Landscape. Sequent Occupance.

    5. Explain the impact of time space compression.

    6. What is distance decay? How does it relate to time space compression?

    7. Explain the difference between: Distribution, Density, Concentration, Pattern.

    Geographic Concepts

    1. Explain the difference between Environmental Determinism and Possiblism.

    2. What do we mean when we say geographer ask “the why of where?”

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