Cultural Geography Quiz 1

What does Geography mostly use?

Spatial Science for mapping data

What does culture relate to?

Anything human, and is based more on hypothesis

What is Cultural Geography?

It looks at spatial distribution of anything human.

What are the frameworks of culture?

Artifacts (anything tangible), Mentifacts (Belief systems), and Sociafacts (learned behaviors)

What does Spatial relate to?

Anything occupying a space (3d Relationships), or where something is located

What 2 things do Maps allow?

Display (show something important), and Analysis

What do Geographic Grids do, and what are the two components?

They create unique locations, Latitude (x value) and Longitude (y value)

What is Oglesby’s Coordinates?

41 degrees North, and 88 degrees west of London

What is GMT?

Greenwich Mean Time

What is Absolute Location?

Describes the position of a place in a way that never changes, such as geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude.

What is Relative Location?

The location of a place relative to other places

What is a Chloropleth Map?

A map where recognizable areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the data collected.

What is an Isoline Map?

Lines connect point w equal value, allows someone to see subregional patterns

What is a Graduated Circle (Symbol) Map?

Displays a graphic, such as a circle, multiple times that changes in size according to the value of data.

What is a Dot Distribution Map?

Depicts data as points and shows how those points are clustered together or spread out over an area.

What is a Cartogram?

A map in which the size of a territory, such as a U.S. state, is proportional to the value of particular data.

What are Map Projections?

Shows Earth’s surface as a 2d image instead of a globe, tends to distort land area size

What is Absolute Distance?

Distance that uses units like miles/km to mark an exact location (5280 ft to miles)

What is Relative Distance?

Distance that changes depending on time or cost of certain things.

What is Globalization?

“interdependence” or being dependent on everyone else (Communications or travel). The scale of the world is shrinking in the ability of a person, an object, or an idea to interact with a person, an object, or an idea in another place.

What is Distance Decay?

The farther away someone is from another, the less likely the two are to interact.

What are the two most common map projections?

Mercator Projection and Robinson Projection

What are the types of Spatial Distortion caused by map projections?

Land Area Distortion- Does not display the correct size of places

Direction Distortion- The directions from one place to another could be distorted

Shape Distortion- Shapes could be longer than normal

Distance Distortion- May increase or decrease between areas depending on the map

What are the Types of Regions?

Formal (uniform)- Has distinctive boundaries, for example, a state boundary

Functional (Nodal)- A pinpoint based off spatial interaction (like how suburbs live off Chicago)

Vernacular (Popular)- Collective identity, region that is known by locals but not by outsiders

What is Space-Time Compression?

The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

What are the different types of Scales on a map?

Microscale (the smallest, townships in Ohio)

Mesoscale (Middle, counties in Ohio)

Macroscale (Largest, Ohio as a whole)

What is Cultural Ecology?

The study of the interaction between humans and their environment.

What is Environmental Determinism?

The study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

What is Possibilism?

The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. So, Humans are equal with the environment.

What is Environmental Perception?

States that humans dominate over the environment (AC would be an example)