Unit 1 Review Questions: simpler answers Flashcards
Describe the one billion malnourished people in the world. What do they have in common?
They are all in poverty and either they do not have arable land or their arable land is owned by foreigners.
What is absolute location? What do geographers use to determine absolute location?
o Absolute location is found by using a coordinate system that has longitude and latitude. It is a satellite based GPS that helps people find places easily and quickly.
Describe what cultural complexes are. How are they different than cultural traits?
Cultural complexes are when cultural traits are shared throughout many cultures.
Which theme of geography would deal with the logging of trees in the Cascade Mountains?
Human-environment interactions because it describes the relationship of the humans and the environment since the humans and changing the environment.
What is relocation diffusion? How does it spread?
When people move, but bring their cultural traits with them. If enough individuals leave the hearth, then culture may fade there, but grow strong in another place.
Explain why scale is so important to geographers.
Scale is so important to geographers because phenomena found at one scale are usually influenced by what is happening at other scales.
How does distance decay affect diffusion?
If the thing that is being diffused is not accepted by some cultural then it will slow down the diffusion process due to time-distance decay.
Describe your mental map of your activity spaces.
My house and my school are my activity spaces. My mental map for my house would be the downstairs kitchen with an island. Then upstairs there are four bedrooms.
Summarize Gould and White’s research. What were the findings of their studies?
Gould and White asked college students to pick a place to move if there were no financial issues or any other obstacles, this was based on the perceptual places of different people. The majority of the students preferred to live in California(their home state) or very close to it.
What is hierarchical diffusion? What is the example (from the book) of it?
Hierarchical diffusion is the pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are willing to try out what is being diffused, people who are connected to it. An example would be when crocs diffuse first through boaters, gardeners and then the American public, like children.
Describe stimulus diffusion? What are some examples of it?
Stimulus diffusion is when ideas don’t relate to an entire population right away, but still end up having a big impact. An example of this would be when a hamburger was introduced to India, it did not diffuse very fast, because cows are sacred there, but they took the idea and changed into a vegetarian burger which became very popular.
What is possibilism? How does it affect cultural development?
The choices that a society makes dpend on what its members need and on what technology is available to them. It affects cultural development by pushing boundaries of the culture.
What are perceptual regions? Give two examples of them.
Impressions and images of various regions we make up, through previous knowledge. It is what people think of regions, like what their cultural and physical traits are. Ex: “the south” and “the middle east”
Hypothesize how the government might use remove sensing technology?
They need it to get a layout of the land and what going on in the world.
Brainstorm how geographic information systems could help corporations/companies?
Geographic information systems could help corporations by finding out where the most people are in functional regions and what they like to do.
