Human Geography Ch.2 Quiz

Question 1

How Do Geographers Describe Where Things Are?

Answer 1

Human geographers therefore ask two simple questions…
Where are people and activities found on Earth?(Where do they live?)
Why are they found there?(what makes them want to live there?)

Question 2

Time Zones

Answer 2

A region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes

Question 3

UTC

Answer 3

Coordinated Universal Time

Question 4

GMT

Answer 4

Greenwich Mean Time

Question 5

Daylight Savings

Answer 5

adjusting local clock time by an hour
Many land time zones are skewed toward the west of the corresponding nautical time zones. This also creates a permanent daylight saving time effect

Question 6

Standard Deviations

Answer 6

The standard deviation is the average distance between each value and the mean.
For every 15º= 1 hour

Question 7

Describe how geographers calculate standard deviation off of time at UTC

Answer 7

The International Date Line is…
Located at 180º longitude.
Position deviates from 180º longitude at times to accommodate various nearby nation-states.
Point you move the clock back 24 hours (one day), if you are heading eastward toward America.
Point you move the clock ahead 24 hours (one day), if you are heading westward toward Asia.

Question 8

Grid

Answer 8

A framework of spaced bars that are parallel to or cross each other; a grating

Question 9

Latitude

Answer 9

Lines on maps that run East &West

Question 10

Longitude

Answer 10

Lines on maps that run North &South

Question 11

Parallels

Answer 11

Side by side and having the same distance continuously between them

Question 12

Meridians

Answer 12

A circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth’s surface and the terrestrial poles

Question 13

Significant lines of Latitude

Answer 13

1. Equator(0,0’)
2. Tropic of Cancer(23,26’N)
3. Tropic of Capricorn(23,26’S)
4. Arctic Circle(66,34’N)
5. Antarctic Circle(66,34’S)
6. Significant lines of Longitude

Question 14

Significant lines of Longitude

Answer 14

1. Prime Meridian(0,0’)

Question 15

Map Scale

Answer 15

Level of detail and the amount of area covered on the map depend on its map scale. Relationship of a feature’s size on a map to its actual size on Earth

Question 16

Meridian

Answer 16

A line drawn on maps that go from the North Pole to the South Pole (runs north & south)

Question 17

Parallel

Answer 17

Side by side and having the same distance continuously between them

Question 18

Prime Meridian

Answer 18

An imaginary line drawn on a map that divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres(runs North & South)

Question 19

Understand and describe the role of map scale and map projection in reading maps (3 ways)

Answer 19

Map scale is presented in three ways…
1. Ratio or Fraction Scale: Ex. 1:24,000 or 1/24,000
Number on left is one unit of distance, while number on right represents same unit of distance on Earth’s surface.
2.Written Scale: Ex. 1 inch equals 1 mile
Number on left is one unit of distance, while number on right represents a different unit of distance on Earth’s surface.
3.Graphic Scale: Usually consists of a bar line marked to show distance on Earth’s surface The map scale needs to be correct, because if not some continents might be too big or too small

Question 20

mental maps

Answer 20

A mental map is a personal visualization of spatial information. In other words, it’s a map inside our own minds.
People use mental maps all the time and don’t even realize it. For instance when you know your way around school, you use a mental map of the school.

Question 21

Describe the three was you use mental maps

Answer 21

1. Finding our way from point A to point B
2. Organizing and storing information for future reference
3. A way to make meaning (more on this below)

Question 22

How are mental maps used in Human Geography?

Answer 22

Mental maps provide people with essential means of making sense of the world and of storing and recalling information about the patterns of Earth’s physical and human features

Question 23

Cartography

Answer 23

Cartography is the science of mapmaking.
Geography’s most important tool for thinking spatially and the distribution of the features across the Earth is a map. A map is a two-dimensional or flat-scale model of Earth’s surface, or a portion of it.

Question 24

Maps

Answer 24

A map is a two-dimensional or flat-scale model of Earth’s surface, or a portion of it

Question 25

Absolute Location

Answer 25

An absolute location is the exact site

Question 26

Relative Location

Answer 26

A relative location is the position of something relative to another landmark.

Question 27

Describe the two ways that geographers use maps.

Answer 27

1. As a reference tool to identify an object’s absolute and relative location.
2. As a communications tool to convey the distribution of human activities or physical features. (i.e. The Thematic Maps)

Question 28

Identify the progression of early mapmaking

Answer 28

Earliest maps were reference tools—simple navigation devices to show a traveler how to get from Point A to Point B.
At first maps were just about Europe, as their technology developed. That made it possible to explore the rest of the world (evolving maps)

Question 29

Human Geography

Answer 29

The branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place.

Question 30

Geography

Answer 30

The study a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the earth and planets

Question 31

Physical Geography

Answer 31

The branch of natural science which deals with the study of processes and patterns in the natural environment like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, as opposed to the cultural or built environment which is the domain of human geography

Question 32

Map Scale

Answer 32

Level of detail and the amount of area covered on the map depend on its map scale.
Relationship of a feature’s size on a map to its actual size on Earth

Question 33

What are the three ways Map Scale is presented

Answer 33

1. Ratio or Fraction Scale: Ex. 1:24,000 or 1/24,000
   Number on left is one unit of distance, while number on right represents same unit of distance on Earth’s surface.
   2.Written Scale: Ex. 1 inch equals 1 mile
   Number on left is one unit of distance, while number on right represents a different unit of distance on Earth’s surface.
   3.Graphic Scale: Usually consists of a bar line marked to show distance on Earth’s surface
   Distance between two points can be overlaid on the scale bar to determine the distance on Earth’s surface.