Geography – Physical Geography – Flashcards
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To geographers the spread of McDonald's around the world represents
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Economic and cultural globalization
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Situation identifies a place by its
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Location relative to other objects
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An area distinguished by a unique combination of features is a(an)
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Region
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If the scale of a map is 1:1000,000, then 1 centimeter on the map represents ______cm
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1 kilometer
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The beach at Ipanema, Brazil can be studied using tools
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From both human and physical geography
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The concept that the physical environment limits human actions , but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical is
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Possibilism
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The state of Texas is BEST considered a formal region because
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The same state laws apply everywhere in the region
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The frequency of something within a given unit of area is
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Density
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According to environmental determinism
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The physical environment causes social development
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Moving toward the Southern border of the United States, English becomes less common and spanish is more often spoken. What type of region does this gradual change of language reflect?
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Functional
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Site identifies a place by its
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Unique physical characteristics
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What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?
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They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do.
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The arrangement of a feature across Earth's surface is its
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Distribution
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1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?
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Fractional scale
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Scale is?
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The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape.
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NOT an example of a functional region
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The area dominated by a particular crop
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The spread of something over a given study area is
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Concentration
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Forms of expansion diffusion
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Contagious, stimulus, hierarchical
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The study of how humans and the environment interact is called
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Cultural ecology
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The science of making maps is called?
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Cartography
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Of the four major earth systems , which is composed of living organisms?
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Biosphere
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The international date line mostly follows
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180 degrees longitude
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In making a map, cartographers must strike a balance between
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The amount of land and the level of detail displayed
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Greenwich mean time is measured from?
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0 degrees longitude
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Multiple "layers" of spatial information are stored in a(an)?
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GIS
