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Human Geography Chapter 1 Jeopardy Review Game
By: Lana Miller and Sarah Davidson
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RegionsSpatial AnalysisMaps and Model
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What is the study of Geography?
Answer:
Study of the earth as created by natural forces and modified by human action
What is Location?
Answer:
Explains where something is on the Earth and the effects that position has on human
life
What is Distance Decay?
Answer:occurs when the intensity
of some phenomenon decreases as distance
increases
What are the three types of Expansion Diffusion?
Answer:Hierarchical, Contagious, and Stimulus
What is Accessibility?
Answer:The opportunity for contact or
interaction from a given point or location in relation to other
locations
What is Physiological Density?
Answer: # of persons per unit of area suitable agriculture
What are Reference Maps?
Answer: They show common
features such as boundaries, roads, and
mountains
What are Dot Maps?
Answer:Single dot or other
symbol represents a specified number of occurrences of some
particular phenomenon or event
What does the Mercator Projection do?
Answer:It preserves direction but
distorts area (higher latitudes are distorted)
What are the three types of Regions?
Answer:Formal,
Functional, and Perceptual
What is a Perceptual Region?
Answer:vernacular region, is a place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
What is Irredentism?
Answer:Assertion by the
government of a country that a minority living
outside its formal border belongs to it historically
and culturally.