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WGU D199- Introduction toGeography Exam Questions and
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Physical geography - -Studies the characteristics of the physical
environment. When geography concentrates on topics such as climate, soil ,
and vegetation, it is a natural science.
-Human geography - -Studies human groups and their activities, such as
language, industry, and the building of cities; it is a social science.
-Cartography - -Mapmaking.
-Remote sensing - -Mapping Earth from satellites and aircraft.
-Geographic information systems (GIS) - -For storing, displaying, and
analyzing geographic data.
-Regional geography - -Describes and analyzes places in terms of
categories such as local population, customs, politics, economy, and religion.
-Topical or systematic geography - -The geography of climate, water,
vegetation, or minerals.
-Site - -Describes the exact location of a place and can be described either
in terms of latitude and longitude or in terms of the characteristics of the
place.
-Situation - -The location of a place relative to other places, and knowledge
of a place's situation helps us understand how it interacts with the rest of the
world.
-Relative location - -Location in reference to another place. Relative location
may describe accessibility, which is indicated by terms such as nearer and
farther, easier or more difficult to reach, between, and on the way or out of
the way.
-Globalization - -Many activities have expanded their scale of organization
to cover the whole globe, which is a process called globalization. Economic
globalization has far outpaced cultural or political integration.
-Regions - -Areas defined by one or more distinctive characteristics or
features, such as climate, soil type, language, or economic activity.
, -Formal region - -One that exhibits essential uniformity in one or more
physical or cultural features, such as a climate type or language area.
-Functional region - -One defined by interactions among places, such as
trade or communication. The city of Chicago, for example, is a formal region,
whose government covers the legal limits of the city's incorporation. The
many commuters and shoppers who circulate daily throughout the city and
its suburbs, however, would more readily identify a region larger than
Chicago; they would identify the functional region of the Chicago
metropolitan area, or "Chicagoland," which includes parts of Illinois, Indiana,
and even Wisconsin. The desire of people in northwest Indiana to be in the
same time zone as Chicago confirms that northwest Indiana is part of the
Chicago functional region.
-Vernacular region - -Vernacular means "everyday language," and
vernacular regions are defined by widespread popular perception of their
existence by people within or outside them.
-Spatial analysis - -Looks for patterns in the distribution of human actions,
environmental processes, and interactions among and between places or
regions.
-Distribution - -Its position, placement, or arrangement throughout space.
-Density - -The frequency of occurrence of a phenomenon in relation to
geographic area, usually expressed as a number per square kilometer or
square mile. Examples include road density (the number of kilometers of
roads per square kilometer) and population density (the number of people
per square kilometer).
-Concentration - -The distribution of a phenomenon within a given area is
described by concentration. If all the occurrences are found in close
proximity, the distribution would be described as concentrated, but if they
are scattered far from each other, the distribution would be described as
dispersed. For example, in many parts of the world farmers live in villages
and travel to their fields in the countryside. The population of such an
agricultural landscape is concentrated in villages. In North America, on the
other hand, most farmers live in isolated farmhouses located on the land
they farm, so the population is dispersed.
-Pattern - -Refers to the geometric arrangement of objects within an area.
For example, in most modern cities, streets are arranged in a rectangular
grid pattern, whereas in older cities the street layout is more irregular. In
areas where rock structures exert strong controls on stream erosion, we
sometimes see streams with many right-angle bends; this pattern is called a
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