chapter one

Question 1

What type of Map Projection is used primarily for navigation?

Answer 1

Mercator

Question 2

Direct linkage between different regions or locations is called what?

Answer 2

Connectivity (under spatial connections)

Question 3

What does “geography” mean literally?

Answer 3

To write or draw the Earth

Question 4

What is relative location?

Answer 4

The location of an object or feature in relation to something else

Question 5

Angular distance east or west of the Prime Meridian is referred to as what?

Answer 5

Longitude

Question 6

What is the science of map making called?

Answer 6

Cartography

Question 7

What do you call a region that is defined by a limited set of criteria (example: The Corn Belt)

Answer 7

Formal Region

Question 8

What are the five themes of geography?

Answer 8

Location, Place, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement

Question 9

What is distance decay?

Answer 9

The notion that as distance increases between two phenomena, the less likely they are to interact.

Question 10

If you examined a phenomena at the country, state, and national level, what concept are you employing?

Answer 10

Scale

Question 11

Which of these two maps would have the smallest scale? World map or City map?

Answer 11

World Map

Question 12

What is the name that is assigned to a portion or place on Earth’s surface called?

Answer 12

Topogram

Question 13

The relationship between the length of an object on a map and a feature on the landscape is called…

Answer 13

Scale

Question 14

What is remote sensing?

Answer 14

The collection of data from earth’s surface from satellites or other long distance methods.

Question 15

At what location on a map would you find the Equator?

Answer 15

0 Degrees latitude

Question 16

What is a map that depicts places you routinely visit or your activity spaces?

Answer 16

Mental map

Question 17

What is the frequency in which something occurs in a region called?

Answer 17

Density

Question 18

What continents are entirely in the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 18

N. America, S. America

Question 19

What is a cartogram?

Answer 19

A map that uses information other than land are to display countries.

Question 20

If you were to describe the site of a place, what information would you use?

Answer 20

Physical characteristics

Question 21

What is the name for a themontic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data?

Answer 21

Choropleth map

Question 22

The term sense of place refers to what?

Answer 22

uniqueness of a region (from vernacular/perceptual regions)

Question 23

The interrelationships between people and their environments is called what?

Answer 23

Cultural Ecology, Human-Environment Interaction

Question 24

What is possiblism?

Answer 24

The idea that humans are limited by their environment, but can adapt to it.

Question 25

What is the most important function of longitude and latitude?

Answer 25

Finding absolute location

Question 26

The delivery are of a pizza place would be considered what kind of region?

Answer 26

nodal or functional region