WGU C255 Intro to Geography Questions and Answers (Verified)

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WGU C255 Intro to Geography Questions and Answers (Verified) Geography ✔✔The study of the interaction of all physical and human phenomena at individual places and of how interactions among plac... es form patterns and organize larger spaces 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 Remote sensing ✔✔Mapping Earth from satellites and aircraft Geographical information systems (GIS) ✔✔Used for storing, displaying, and analyzing geographic data regional geography ✔✔Special geography that describes and analyzes places in terms of categories such as local population, customs, politics, economy, and religion topical geography (systematic geography) ✔✔The study of universal laws or principles that apply to all places; topics may be as diverse as the geography of soils (pedology), of life forms (biogeography), of politics (political geography), of economic activities (economic geography), and of cities (urban geography) system ✔✔An interdependent group of items that interact in a regular way to form a unified whole site ✔✔Sescribes 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 region ✔✔An area defined by one or more distinctive characteristics or features, such as climate, soil type, language, or economic activity area analysis ✔✔Analysis which integrates the geographic features of an area or a place. Focuses on regions. spatial analysis (locational analysis) ✔✔Analysis which emphasizes interactions among places. Looks for patterns in the distribution of human actions, environmental processes, and interactions among and between places or regions geographic systems analysis ✔✔Analysis which emphasizes the understanding of physical and human systems and the interactions among them formal region ✔✔A region that exhibits essential uniformity in one or more physical or cultural features, such as a climate type or language area functional region ✔✔A region defined by interactions among places, such as trade or communication vernacular region ✔✔A region defined by widespread popular perception of their existence by people within or outside them density ✔✔The frequency of occurrence of a phenomenon in relation to geographic area (usually a number per sq.km.) pattern ✔✔The geometric arrangement of objects within an area concentration ✔✔The distribution of a phenomenon within a given area. Close proximity is concentrated, far apart is dispersed. distance ✔✔The measure of how far away something is, sometimes expressed in time or cost instead of length friction of distance ✔✔The effort to overcome distance when [Show More]

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