Geography Test

Question 1

What does the word geography mean

Answer 1

Earth description

Question 2

What is geography the study of

Answer 2

Our interaction with the environment and the earths living things

Question 3

What are the types of geography

Answer 3

Human, physical, economic, political, regional

Question 4

Human geography

Answer 4

Studies activity of people and how they vary place to place

Question 5

Regional geography

Answer 5

Study of the specific regions of the world and how each affects the other

Question 6

5 themes of geography

Answer 6

Location, place, human environment interaction, movement, region

Question 7

Two types of location

Answer 7

Relative and absolute

Question 8

What is relative location

Answer 8

The position of one place in relation to other places

Question 9

Absolute location

Answer 9

Exact spot on the earth where something is found

Question 10

Longitude lines

Answer 10

Imaginary lines that run vertically from the north to South Pole around the earth. The measure east and west of the prime meridian

Question 11

Prime meridian

Answer 11

Runs through Greenwich England. All lines of longitude are measure either east or west of that point

Question 12

Lines of latitude

Answer 12

Imaginary lines that run in an east west direction but measure north south of the equator

Question 13

Another name for lines of latitude

Answer 13

Parallels(they are equal in distance)

Question 14

What are lines of longitude and latitude measured in

Answer 14

Degrees

Question 15

What does place describe

Answer 15

Human and physical characteristics of a location

Question 16

Physical characteristics

Answer 16

Descriptions of mountains, rivers, beaches, animal and plant life

Question 17

Human characteristics

Answer 17

Human designed cultural features of a place, transportation and communication networks

Question 18

What do geographers focus on and what is the personality of geography

Answer 18

Place

Question 19

Life layer

Answer 19

All places located in a space on the earth

Question 20

4 systems that create our environment

Answer 20

Lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere

Question 21

Lithosphere

Answer 21

Land layer

Question 22

Hydrosphere

Answer 22

Water layer

Question 23

Atmosphere

Answer 23

Air around us

Question 24

Biosphere

Answer 24

Earths plant and animal life working together

Question 25

Formal region

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Certain characteristic is found throughout the area

Question 26

Functional region

Answer 26

Have one central place and is surrounded by the areas it affects

Question 27

Perceptual region

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Regions that people perceive exists as a part of their cultural identity

Question 28

Human environment interaction

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People learn to use what the environment offers them and to change that environment to meet their needs (positive and negative)

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Movement

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Linear time and psychological

Question 30

Most important tool to geographers

Answer 30

Map

Question 31

Map

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Flat diagram of all or parts of earths surface

Question 32

A map maker

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Cartographers

Question 33

Distortion

Answer 33

Alteration of the original shape

Question 34

Us geological survey

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Largest employer of cartographers, produces all topographic maps of the us

Question 35

Projection

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Process of putting the features of a map onto a flat surface

Question 36

Mercator projection

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Shows true direction. Mostly used by navigators. Shows shape of water and land accurately

Question 37

Flat plane projection

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Used mapping the north and South Pole.shows true area but distorts shapes (azimuthal projection)

Question 38

Robinson projection

Answer 38

Often used in world maps

Question 39

Three categories of maps

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General reference, thematic, navigational

Question 40

Different graphs

Answer 40

Bar, line, pie, pictograph, climograph

Question 41

How many languages are spoken today

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3000-6500

Question 42

Worlds most extensively spoken language

Answer 42

Indo European family

Question 43

What are the languages in the romance branch

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Spanish and French

Question 44

Language with the most speakers in the world

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Mandarin Chinese

Question 45

Dialect

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Regional variety of a language

Question 46

What has English become

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Lingua Franca- a language of trade and communication

Question 47

Ethnic religion

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Focus on one ethnic group and have not spread into other cultures

Question 48

Animism

Answer 48

Special type of ethnic religion

Question 49

Economic geography

Answer 49

Deals with how people earn a living and use resources

Question 50

GNP gross national product

Answer 50

Total value of goods and services that a nation produces in a year

Question 51

GDP gross domestic product

Answer 51

Includes only those goods and services created within a nation

Question 52

Do poor countries have more rapid rates of population growth

Answer 52

Yes

Question 53

The richer the country the more the population...

Answer 53

Consumes

Question 54

Urbanization

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How widespread is machine power in a nation

Question 55

Economic geographers divide the world into how many groups

Answer 55

2

Question 56

More developed

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High standards of living, high GNP high GDP complex communication and transportation systems.

Question 57

Less developed

Answer 57

Have lower standards of living low per capita GDP. Most people farm. Many don't have electricity

Question 58

Why do less developed countries have high birth rates

Answer 58

Many parents will have a lot of children for the expectation that some will die because there is a high infant mortality rate