APHUG Chapter 1: Basic Concepts – Flashcards
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Which is most likely a functional region?
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the area of dominance of a television station
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A ____ is the spread of something over a given study area
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diffusion
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According to environmental determinism,
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the physical environment causes different types of social and cultural actions
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The study of how humans and environments interact is called
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cultural ecology
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Moving toward the southwestern border of the United States, Spanish is increasingly spoken in addition to English. What type of region does this gradual change of language reflect?
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functional
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The U.S. land ordinance of 1785 divided much of the country into a system of
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townships, ranges, sections, and quarter sections
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Situation identifies a place by its
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location relative to other objects or places
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Which type of map would have the largest scale?
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city
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Distortion is especially severe and apparent on
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small-scale maps
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If a geographer uses some of the components and applications of a computer system to organize and display maps, but she doesn't use it for other functions,
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she is still utilizing a GPS, although she may not be using all of its potential to store, organize, retrieve, and analyze data
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We can judge from the various kinds of maps in this chapter that
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maps have appeared in many forms in different societies and times, including modern paper maps, GPS in cars, the "stick charts" of Polynesia, and the carved maps of ancient Turkey
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The township and region system
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established a grid-like pattern for much of present-day land use in the United States
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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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A map projection may distort a continent, making it appear stretched in some areas and in other areas in order to
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distort distances and relative sizes of countries and continents
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You are given the coordinates 128 E longitude, 45 N latitude. This is an example of
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mathematical location
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A geographer might use a GPS to
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find the best route to a store or log the locations where photographs were taken
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Which of the following best describes the idea of a cultural landscape?
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a landscape where human activity has modified the environment in some way
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Which of the following are forms of expansion diffusion?
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contagious and heirrarchial
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The idea that the environment sets broad limits on human activities, but people have the ability to adjust to a wide variety of physical environments is
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possiblism
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1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?
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a ratio or fraction
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Scale is
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the relationship between the length of an object on a map and the feature of a landscape
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Global Positioning System reference ____ location
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exact
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When geographers say that the South is partly declined as a region by the Baptist Church, they understand that
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the Presbyterians, Roman Catholic, Methodist, and other churches also attract adherents in the South, but to a lesser extant than do Baptist churches
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Which of the following are fundamental elements of culture
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customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms
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Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the United States is an interesting geographic case study because
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the effects are an interaction of human and physical geography
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The frequency of something within a given unit of area is
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density
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The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite, spacecraft, or specially equipped high-altitude balloon is
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remote sensing
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A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is
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GIS
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Highest density
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the highest number
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The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of other phenomena is
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spatial association
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Culture means to
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care about and nurture something
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Which is most correct regarding the origins of geography?
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geography was invented as a science in the late 18th century
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Highest concenration
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Most clustered together
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The South is established as a vernacular region in the United States by
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high cotton production, high church attendance, the prevalence of right-wing talk radio stations, and limits placed on the civil rights of ethnic and racial minorities
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Which of the following could be a vernacular region?
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a sports "conference" or area within which sports teams compete with one another
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A mathematical process for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is a
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projection
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According to the surviving evidence, the first person to write world geography was
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Eratosthenes
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Site identifies a place by its
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unique physical characteristics
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Among the elements of globalization of culture are tendencies toward
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uniform consumption preferences, enhanced communications, unequal access to resources, and uniformity in cultural forms
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A hearth is
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a region from which a phenomenon originates
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An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics is a
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region
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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 name of a location on Earth's surface is a
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toponym
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The art and science of making maps is
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cartography
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The arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth's surface is
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distribution
