Chapter 1 APHUGTest – Flashcards
Flashcard maker : Kate Moore
Which of the following statements is most correct regarding the origins of geography?
Humans have practiced geography at least since the time of ancient Greek civilization
What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?
They are concerned with where things occur and how they occur where they do.
Which map would have the largest scale?
City
Driving around to gather information for street navigation devices is called
Ground truthing
Distortion is especially severe on
Small-scale maps
Situation identifies a place by its
Location relative to other objects
Site identifies a place by its
unique physical characteristics
Which is true?
Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end
Greenwich Mean time is measured from
0 degrees longitude
The International Date Line is measured approximately from
180 degrees longitude
The township and range system
Resulted in a grid like pattern for much of present-day land use in the United States
The U.S Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the country into a system of
Townships, ranges, sections, and quarter sections
Holland converted the Zuider Zee into a fresh water lake by using
Dikes
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
Region
Which is not an example of a functional region?
The area dominated by a particular crop
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?
Functional
According to environmental determinism
The physical environment causes social development
The study of how humans and the environment interact is called
Cultural ecology
Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on the United States is an interesting geographic case study because
It’s effects are an intersection of human and physical geography
The barrier islands of Florida are
Attractive location for homes and recreation and large sandbars that shield the mainland from flooding and storm damage
Examining maps of cancer death rates drawn at different scales reveals that
A region with an overall low cancer death rate may have some areas with high cancer death rates
The frequency of something within a giving unit of area is
Density
The population of the United States is approximately 300 million, and the land area is approximately 9 million square kilometers. The arithmetic density of the United states is approximately
30 persons per square kilometer
Which is not a common practice of transnational corporations?
Relocate command centers from more developed countries
Globalization of economy has
Heightened economic differences among places
