Ftce Social Science 6-12 Geography
Questions And Answers 100% Correct!!!
Geography - ANSWER✔✔ - The study of the earth's surface, including such
aspects as its climate, topography, vegetation, and population.
- Spatial discipline
- Concerned with how living things and earth's features are distributed around the
earth.
Three Questions of Geography - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Where?
2. Why there?
3. What are the consequences of it being there?
Political Geography - ANSWER✔✔ Deals with the effect of geography on
politics, especially on national boundaries and relations between states.
Economic Geography - ANSWER✔✔ A study of the interaction between the
Earth's landscape and the economic activity of the human population.
Four MAIN branches of Geography - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Human Geography
2. Physical Geography
3. Regional Geography
4. Topical/Systematic Geography
Five Themes of Geography - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Location
2. Places
3. Human/Environment Interaction
,4. Movement
5. Regions
Absolute Location - ANSWER✔✔ - the exact whereabouts of a place, person, or
thing. Every point on Earth has a specific location that is determined by an
imaginary grid of liens denoting latitude and longitude.
- a location is absolute when it has only one possible reference point.
Latitude - ANSWER✔✔ Parallels of latitude measure distances North and South
of the equator
Longitude - ANSWER✔✔ Meridians of longitude measure distances East and
West of another imaginary line called the Prime Meridian
Relative Location - ANSWER✔✔ - most commonly used
- a description of the relationship of a place between and among other places.
- usually described by landmarks, time, direction, or distances, from one thing to
another.
Place - ANSWER✔✔ - a unique combination of physical and cultural attributes
that give each location on the earth its individual stamp
- geographers describe places by two types of characteristics and images: physical
and human
Physical Characteristics - ANSWER✔✔ - compromise its natural environment and
emanate from geological, hydrological, atmospheric, and biological processes
present in that location
, - can include mountains, rivers, beaches, topography, flora, fauna, resources, land
forms, bodies of water, climate, soils, and natural vegetation
Human Characteristics - ANSWER✔✔ - derived from the changes to an
environment as a result of human ideas and actions
- include man-made designed features of places like architecture, religion, food,
and transportation and communication networks.
Human-Environment Interaction - ANSWER✔✔ - both positive and negative
effects can result from human interaction with the environment: how humans rely
on it, alter it, and adapt to it
- one significant issue with this geological theme is that the interaction between
humans and the environment can change quickly, and such change might be
temporary.
Movement - ANSWER✔✔ - humans as well as their ideas, fads, goods, resources,
and communication travel distances
- answers the question of how and why places, people, and things are connected to,
and dependent upon, one another
- it examines how relationships are shaped by the movement of transportation
(imports/exports), flow of people (immigration/migration), and ideas and resources
over time within a geographical area
Cultural Diffusion - ANSWER✔✔ How ideas, innovation, and ideology spread
from one area to another
Spatial Interaction - ANSWER✔✔ How places interact through movement
Questions And Answers 100% Correct!!!
Geography - ANSWER✔✔ - The study of the earth's surface, including such
aspects as its climate, topography, vegetation, and population.
- Spatial discipline
- Concerned with how living things and earth's features are distributed around the
earth.
Three Questions of Geography - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Where?
2. Why there?
3. What are the consequences of it being there?
Political Geography - ANSWER✔✔ Deals with the effect of geography on
politics, especially on national boundaries and relations between states.
Economic Geography - ANSWER✔✔ A study of the interaction between the
Earth's landscape and the economic activity of the human population.
Four MAIN branches of Geography - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Human Geography
2. Physical Geography
3. Regional Geography
4. Topical/Systematic Geography
Five Themes of Geography - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Location
2. Places
3. Human/Environment Interaction
,4. Movement
5. Regions
Absolute Location - ANSWER✔✔ - the exact whereabouts of a place, person, or
thing. Every point on Earth has a specific location that is determined by an
imaginary grid of liens denoting latitude and longitude.
- a location is absolute when it has only one possible reference point.
Latitude - ANSWER✔✔ Parallels of latitude measure distances North and South
of the equator
Longitude - ANSWER✔✔ Meridians of longitude measure distances East and
West of another imaginary line called the Prime Meridian
Relative Location - ANSWER✔✔ - most commonly used
- a description of the relationship of a place between and among other places.
- usually described by landmarks, time, direction, or distances, from one thing to
another.
Place - ANSWER✔✔ - a unique combination of physical and cultural attributes
that give each location on the earth its individual stamp
- geographers describe places by two types of characteristics and images: physical
and human
Physical Characteristics - ANSWER✔✔ - compromise its natural environment and
emanate from geological, hydrological, atmospheric, and biological processes
present in that location
, - can include mountains, rivers, beaches, topography, flora, fauna, resources, land
forms, bodies of water, climate, soils, and natural vegetation
Human Characteristics - ANSWER✔✔ - derived from the changes to an
environment as a result of human ideas and actions
- include man-made designed features of places like architecture, religion, food,
and transportation and communication networks.
Human-Environment Interaction - ANSWER✔✔ - both positive and negative
effects can result from human interaction with the environment: how humans rely
on it, alter it, and adapt to it
- one significant issue with this geological theme is that the interaction between
humans and the environment can change quickly, and such change might be
temporary.
Movement - ANSWER✔✔ - humans as well as their ideas, fads, goods, resources,
and communication travel distances
- answers the question of how and why places, people, and things are connected to,
and dependent upon, one another
- it examines how relationships are shaped by the movement of transportation
(imports/exports), flow of people (immigration/migration), and ideas and resources
over time within a geographical area
Cultural Diffusion - ANSWER✔✔ How ideas, innovation, and ideology spread
from one area to another
Spatial Interaction - ANSWER✔✔ How places interact through movement
