Zane Harkness
Sean Kirkpatrick
2nd Period
Chapter 1
Human geography focuses on how people make places, organize space
and society, how we interact with each other across space, and how we
make sense of others in localities, region, and the world. These things
develop the 5 themes of geography: place, location, human-environment
interaction, region, and movement. The final theme, movement, involves
diffusion. There are five types of diffusion as well, with contagious,
hierarchical, relocation, stimulus, and expansion. Diffusion can be the
spread of culture or a cultural trait,which identifies not only the tangible
lifestyle of a people, but also their beliefs and values. These traits could be
anything from clothing to religion to architecture,and are all unique among
different cultures.
Another topic encompassed in chapter 1 is maps. There are several
kinds of maps, including isolines maps, graduated symbol maps, and even
mental maps. Mental maps vary through everyone, and are based on a
person's sole perception of the earth. Furthermore, the mental maps you
make will be more accurate inside your activity space, as opposed to
halfway around the world. Activity space involves the space in which you
travel routinely to in your daily activities. These spaces are affected by how
other people form the cultural landscape, or the visual imprint of human
activity on land, and this forms regions. There are 3 types of regions,
including formal, functional, and perceptual. Formal regions involve shared
cultural traits, as opposed to functional regions forming around a certain
activity taking place in that area, such as a newspaper route. Perceptual
regions, on the other hand, are all about how people divide the area in
their own mind. For example, “The South” is not a defined area, but is
referred to by almost everybody. There is no defined boundary o where the
south and the north split, it differs depending on your perception of the
area. Finally, chapter 1 focuses on possibilism and environmental
determinism. The former is the widely accepted theory as to how the
environment affect how humans use space, and the latter is what was
accepted before it. Environmental Determinism stated that the environment
completely controls how humans arrange their space. Possibilism, on the
other hand, says that humans are merely impacted the spatial
arrangement, and that it is possible to overcome the environment to
occupy certain areas.
Major Items To Review For Chapter 1:
 Diffusion
 Culture
 Types of Regions
 Five Themes
 GPS/GIS
 Types of Maps
 Physical Geography
 Possibilism
 Environmental Determinism
 Globalization
 Location Theory
 Human Geography
 Medical Geography
 Cultural Landscape
 Geocaching
 Activity Spaces
Multiple Choice:
1. Which of the following is technology that gathers data at a distance from the Earth's surface?
A) GIS
B) GPS C)Possibilism D)Remote sensing
E) Mental Maps
2. Which type of region has shared cultural traits?
A)Functional
B) Formal
C) Perceptual
D) Cultural Complex
E) Cultural
Landscape
3. Which theory states that human behavior is strongly affected by the physical environment?
A) Human geography
B) Possibilism
C) Location Theory
D) Expansion
Diffusion
E) Environmental Determinism
4. What type of map is a map in your mind?
A) Human Geography
B) Activity Space
C) Generalized Map
D) Mental Map
E)
Remote Sensing
5. What is the art and science of map making?
A) Cartography
B) Cartography
C) Quartography
D)
Carography
E) Culture
6. Which is not one of the 5 themes of geography?
A) Location
B) Movement
C) Culture
D) Human Environment Interaction
E) Place
7. What is a set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and
accelerating interdependence across national borders?
A) Spatial Distribution
B) Pandemic
C) Physical Geography
D) Globalization
E)
Connectivity
8. What disease did Dr. Snow study?
A) AIDS
B) Swine Flu
C) Cholera
D) Ebola
E) Spatial Perspective
9. What are the 5 themes based on?
A) Spatial Perspective
B) Cultural Complex
C) Location Theory
D) Spatial
Interaction
E) Connectivity Theory
10. Which of the following is a hobby based on the GPS?
A) Culture
B) Geocaching
C) GIS
D) Remote Sensing
E) Functional Region
Answer Key:
1. D
2. B
3. E
4. D
5. A
6. C
7. D
8. C
9. A
10. B