Question: Map projections attempt to correct for errors in

A: transferability

B: distance, shape, and lines of latitude and longitude.

C: distance, proximity, and topology

D: area, distance, scale, and proportion.

E: area, distance, shape, and direction.

Answer: D: area, distance, scale and proportion

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Question: Cairo, the capital of Egypt is located at 30.0444° N, 31.2357 E, this is an example of

A: absolute location

B: site.

C: relative location

D: node

E. region

Answer: A: absolute location

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Question: Seattle is located on Puget Sound in northwestern Washington. It has a moist, marine climate, a large university, and a famous downtown market. Seattle’s primary economic activities inclue ship and aircraft construction and high technology enterprises. This information gives us a description of Seattle’s

A: site

B: cognitive/mental image

C: landscape

D: relative distance

E: Situation

Answer: A: site

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Question: Which of the following could be a vernacular region?

A: a sports “conference” or area within which sports teams compete with one another the area

B: the area of dominance of a television station

C: the market area of a supermarket

D: the area of dominance of a certain worldview or philosophy

E: the area served by a pizza delivery person

Answer: D: the area of dominace of a certain world view or philosophy

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Question: The map above represent what kind of projection?

A: A planar projection with parallels appearing as circles.

B: A cylindrical projection that makes middle-latitude countries look smaller than countries in the tropics.

C: A Robinson projection that attempts to balance distortions in shape, size, distance, and direction.

D: A Peters projection that distorts the shapes of the land masses.

E:A Mercator projection with distorted land masses in areas far distances from the equator.

Answer: E: A mercator projection with distorted land masses in areas for distances from the equator

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Question: What is the difference between GPS and GIS?

A: GPS uses GIS data.

B: GIS uses GPS data to determine location.

C: GPS correlates with GIS, but GIS does not correlate with GPS.

D: GPS is the layering of data, whereas GIS is the gathering of data.

E: GIS is the layering of data, whereas GPS is the gathering of data

Answer: E: GIS is the layering of data, whereas GPS is the gathering of data

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Question: Geographic scale refers to

A: a notion of place, based on an individual’s perception of space.

B: the level of aggregation at which geographers investigate a particular process.

C: the ratio between distance on a map and distance on the earth’s surface

D: the many ways people define regions. E: distance between two points on a map.

Answer: C: the ratio between distance on a map and distance on the earth’s surface

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Question: Lines of longitude

A: intersect at the poles.

B: never meet.

C: are referred to as parallels

D: contain the two tropics.

E: begin at the Equator.

Answer: A: intersect at the poles

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Question: Which of the following is true concerning formal regions?

A: They are strict functional units.

B: They are figments of our imagination.

C: They have well-defined boundaries.

D: They are usually defined by a standard mathematical formula.

E: They are conceptual constructions.

Answer: C: They have well-defined boundaries

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Question: A ___________ is the spread of something over a given study area.

A: concentration

B: density

C: distribution

D: pattern

E: diffusion

Answer: B: density

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Question: Everything in the “built” environment

Answer: Situation

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Question: What are the 5 types of geography?

Answer: Location, movement, regions, place and human/ environment interactions

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Question: What are the types of regions?

Answer: Cultural- Formal

Economic- Functional

Political- Perceptual

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Question: What is a cultural region

Answer: Uniform region (government, cultural value, crops, property, climate) (U.S.)

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Question: What is a functional region?

Answer: A nodal region (transportation) (node or focal point)

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Question: What is a veneactular region?

Answer: A perceptual region (people believe it exist)

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Question: What is a cultural landscape?

Answer: Combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features (industry) physical features (climate/regetation)

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Question: What is a region?

Answer: A unique place or area on Earth, defined by one or more distinctive characteristics

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Question: What is a situation

Answer: Location of a place relative to other places (unfamiliar place or importance of a place)

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Question: What is a site

Answer: The physical character of a place. (Humans can change the characteristics)

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Question: What is a location?

Answer: Position that something occupies on Earth

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Question: What is a place

Answer: A unique location (feeling, a sense of place) or a specific point on Earth, distinguished by a particular characteristics

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Question: What is a toponym

Answer: The name givin to a place

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Question: What is the name of GPS?

Answer: Global Positioning System

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Question: What divides the Earth

Answer: Longitude (meridian) and latitude lines (parallel)

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Question: What are longitude lines

Answer: Run north to south ( | )

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Question: What are latitude lines?

Answer: Run west to east (———-)

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Question: What is culture?

Answer: Body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct traditions of a group of people

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Question: What is spatial association

Answer: The relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature

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Question: What is globalization?

Answer: a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope

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Question: What is a transnational corporation?

Answer: conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries

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Question: What is density

Answer: The frequency with which something occurs in space

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Question: What is concentration?

Answer: The spread of something over a given area.

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Question: What is pattern?

Answer: The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a particular area

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Question: What is diffusion?

Answer: Feature spreads across space from one place to another or spread of feature or trend by the movement of people region to region

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Question: What is a network?

Answer: A chain of communication that connects places

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Question: What is environmental determinism?

Answer: Physical environment causes human development (19th century/ island nations)

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Question: Environment Possibilism

Answer: Physical environment may limit to adjust (20th century)

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Question: Polders

Answer: low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new land (Netherlands) or a piece of land that is created by draining water from an area. (First created in the 13th century)

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Question: sequent occupance

Answer: Layers of imprints in a cultural landscape that reflects years of differing human activity

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Question: Core

Answer: Wealthy, powerful, media & finance, technologically advanced ( U.S.,Europe, Australia)

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Question: Periphery

Answer: Less developed, poor, depend upon core countries

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Question: What is the Koppen system?

Answer: Divides the world into 5 main climate regions

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Question: Biomes

Answer: Freshwater, desert, tropical forest, grassland, marine, temperate forest, tundra

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Question: Tobler’s 1st law of geography

Answer: All things related (things close together)

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Question: sequent occupance

Answer: Layers of imprints in a cultural landscape that reflect years of differing human activity.

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Question: Hearth

Answer: a region from which a phenomenon originates; center of innovation

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Question: Distance decay

Answer: Importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from the hearth

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Question: time-space compression

Answer: Innovation and technology have allowed for time and space to lesson

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Question: Maps

Answer: Scale can be expressed 3 ways

-A ratio or fraction

-a written scale

• a graphic scale

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• Question: Biotic

• Answer: composed of living organisms

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• Question: Abiotic

• Answer: Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter

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• Question: Earth’s Systems

• Answer: atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere

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• Question: atmosphere

• Answer: A thin layer of gases surrounding Earth (abiotic)

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• Question: Hydrosphere

• Answer: All the water on earth (abiotic)

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• Question: Lithosphere

• Answer: Earth’s crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust (abiotic)

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• Question: Biosphere

• Answer: All living organisms on Earth (biotic)

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• Question: Economy

• Answer: The price of a resource depends on a society’s technological ability to obtain it and to that society’s purpose

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• Question: Environment

• Answer: The sustainable use and management of Earth’s natural resources to meet human needs such as food, medicine and reaction.

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• Question: Social

• Answer: Humans need shelter, food

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• Question: nonrenewable

• Answer: Produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed (oil, coal, gas)

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• Question: Renewable

• Answer: Produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed (pollution)

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• Question: resource

• Answer: A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.

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• Question: Sustainability

• Answer: The use of Earth’s resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future

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• Question: Erosion

• Answer: Occurs when soil washes away in the rain or blows away

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• Question: Cultural Ecology

• Answer: the geographic study of human-environment relationships

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• Question: Environment determinism

• Answer: Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Ritter believed that the physical environment caused social development

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• Question: Possibilism

• Answer: The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment.

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• Question: spatial distribution

• Answer: The arrangement of phenomenon across the Earth’s surface

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• Question: Earth on maps

• Answer: The earth can’t be accurately represented on a flat surface, distortion happens

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• Question: Robinson map

• Answer: This projection is cartographers favorite map to use

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• Question: Contemporary tools

• Answer: GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing

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• Question: What is GIS stand for

• Answer: geographic information system

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• Question: What is a reference map

• Answer: Focus on accuracy of absolute location, coordinations

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• Question: What is a thematic map?

• Answer: Tells a story, usually require a key or legend to interpret (population)

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• Question: What is a cartogram map?

• Answer: Phenomena based on portporsion

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• Question: Mental map (congnitive)

• Answer: Maps our minds of places we have been and places we have heard of

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