Chapter 1 Human Geo – Flashcards
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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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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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The township and range system
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uses a grid like pattern, much like what is used in the US today
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Site identifies a place by its
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unique physical chacteristics
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Geographers generally reject environmental determinism for possibilism.
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true
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Global Positioning Systems reference ________ location.
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mathematical
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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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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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If you flew south along the International Date Line you would reach the South Pole, and if you continued flying straight ahead (with unlimited fuel) you would eventually cross the equator along the prime meridian.
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true
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New York City's ________ is approximately 100 miles northeast of Philadelphia and 100 miles southwest of Boston.
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situation
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Driving around to gather information for street navigation devices is called
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ground truthing
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A map projection may distort a continent, making it appear stretched in some areas and smashed in others in order to
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depict the physical area of the continent
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The art and science of making maps is
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cartogrpahy
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From the various maps shown in this chapter, we can say 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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Every map projection distorts the surface of Earth in some way.
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true
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The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians is called latitude.
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false (it's called longitude)
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The name of a location on Earth's surface is a
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toponym
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Globalization of the economy has
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increased the gap of economical differences between areas
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Culture means to
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care about and nurture something
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Geography is concerned with the study of physical processes, although some geographic studies do not focus primarily on physical processes.
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true
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Regions are found only where physical and economic characteristics are strongly related
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false
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Which of the following is most likely a functional region?
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the area of dominance of a television station
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Which of the following statements is most correct regarding the origins of geography?
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Humans have practiced geograpahy even since the Greek civilization
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What force or trend is in opposition to the force of globalization?
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localization
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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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Which statement is about meridians is more accurate?
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every meridian has the same length and has the same beginning to end
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What is density?
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The frequency of something within a given unit of area i
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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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If the scale of a map is 1:100,000, then 1 centimeter on the map represents ________ on Earth's surface.
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1 kilometer (100cm=1m=1/100km)
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Greenwich Mean Time is measured from
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0 degrees longitude
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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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Huricane Katrina's landfall on the United States is an interesting geographic case study because
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it's affects intersect on physical and human geography
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You are given the coordinates 45 N latitude, 128 E longitude. This is an example of a
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a mathematical location
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An area that is distingushed by one of more unique characteristics is
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a region
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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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Which of the following could be a vernacular region?
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an area where a certain world view has dominance
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What is concentration?
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when many things are spaced together, the volume divided by the space it takes up
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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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The nine regions that the Census Bureau has established within the United States are examples of
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formal regions
