Prestest 1 Flashcards
What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?
They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do.
Scale is
The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape.
1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?
A ratio or fraction
A mathematical process for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is a(n)
Projection
The art and science of making maps is
Cartography
You are given the coordinates 128 E longitude, 45 N latitude. This is an example of a
Mathematical location.
Which statement is more accurate?
Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end.
Greenwhich Mean Time is measured from
0 degrees longitude
The International Date Line is measured approximately from
180 degrees longitude
A map projection may distort a continent, making it appear stretched in some areas and smashed n others in order to
Depict accurately the physical area of a country or continent
If the surface is 1:100,000, then 1 centimeter on the map represents ____ on Earths’s surface.
1 kilometer
Which of the following types of maps would have the largest scale?
City
Distortion is especially severe and apparent on
Small-scale maps
Without glancing at a map, we can guess that the coordinates 20 S latitude, 178 E longitude are likely
In the Pacific Ocean just west of the International date line
Driving around gathering information from street navigation devices is called
Ground truthing
The acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite, spacecraft, or specially equipped high-altitude balloon is
Remote sensing
A computer system the stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is
GIS
Global positioning systems reference ____ location
Mathematical
The name of a location on earths surface is a
Toponym
Situation identifies a place by its
Location relative to other objects or places
Site identifies a place by its
Unique physical characteristics
New York city’s ____ is approximately 100 miles northeast of Philadelphia and 100 miles southwest of Boston
Situation
Which of the following are fundamental elements of culture
Customary beliefs, material traits and social forms
The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of other phenomena is
Spatial association
An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics is a(n)
Region
The nine regions that the census bureau has established within the United States are examples of
Formal regions
The south is established as a vernacular region of the United States by
Climate, low educational attainment, cotton production, and the prevalence of baptist churches
Which of the following is most likely a functional region
The area of dominance of a television station
Which of the following best describes the idea of a cultural landscape
A landscape where human activity has modified the natural environment in some way
To geographers, the spread of McDonalds around the world represents
Economic and cultural globalization
Globalization of the economy has
Heightened economic differences among places
Common practices of _____, include exploiting the distinctive economic assets of different countries and regions, organizing production according to a spatial division of labor, placing earnings in offshore bank accounts to avoid paying taxes, and moving factories from high wage regions to low wage regions
Transnational corporations
The township and range system
Established a gridlike pattern for much of present-day land use in the United States
The arrangement of a phenomenon across earths surface is
Distribution
The frequency of something within a given unit of area is
Density
A _____ is the spread of something over a given study area
Concentration
In this figure, which two boxes have the highest concentration of dots
(B,D)
In this figure, which two boxes have the highest density of dots
(A,D)
A hearth is
A region from which a phenomenon originates
Which of the following are forms of expansion diffusion
Contagious and hierarchical
The historic diffusion of HIV/AIDS in the United States is an example of which type of diffusion
Contagious
The concept that the physical environment sets broad limits on human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to a wide variety of physical environments is
Possibilism
The study of how humans and the environment interact is called
Cultural ecology
According to environmental determinism
The physical environment causes different types of social and cultural development
The three pillars of sustainability are
Society, economy, and environment
The biosphere system is made up of all the living organisms on the earth. The abiotic (or nonliving) system is made up of three subsystems,
Atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere
