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What are the two concepts used by geographers to explain why every place is unique?

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Region and Place

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Who wrote an 8-volume guide to geography?

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Ptolemy

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Which map scale would most likely be used on a map to guide tourists on a walking tour of downtown Seattle?

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1:2,000 Fractional

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What part of the geographic grid is the parallel with the largest circumference and the place where every day has 12 hours of daylight?

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The Equator

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GIS's are typically used for

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The physical feathers of the Earth like the mountains and rivers but no the juan features.

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The physical characteristic of a place is its ______, and its location relation to other places is its ____.

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Site; Situation

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A functional region has

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A central focus that diminishes in importance moving outward.

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The density and concentration of a given area

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Vary depending on the distribution of the given feature.

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Expansion diffusion is

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The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process.

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Expansion diffusion may result from which three processes

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Hierarchical diffusion, contagious diffusion, & stimulus diffusion.

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Environmental determinism says that

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General laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences and that geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

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An advocate of environmental determinism would suggest

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That the temperature climate in northwestern Europe produces greater human efficiency and productivity.

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The first person to use the word geography was

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Eratosthenes

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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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Geographers are not concerned with

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The memorization of named places.

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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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Geography is concerned with

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The study of physical processes.

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Scholars of the ancient world had

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A remarkable knowledge of planetary dimension.

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Chinese scholars were active in

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Geographic thinking from ancient times.

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What map projection is best suited for the country map used in your text

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Conic

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The science of making maps is called

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Cartography

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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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A 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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1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale

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Fractional scale

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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

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A bar line showing the distance on a map is a form of ____

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Graphic scale

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Every map projection ____ the surface of Earth in some way

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Distorts

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When you have an understanding of time zones and longitude you know that

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Moving eastward from the prime meridian you should turn your watch forward one hour for each 15 degrees of longitude

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Greenwich time is measure from

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0 degrees longitude

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The international date line mostly follows

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180 degrees longitude

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The parallels are drawn parallel to

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The equator

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For each 15 degrees change in longitude, time changes by ___

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1 hour

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Meridians are drawn between

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The north and south poles

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Multiple "layers" of spatial information are stored in

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GIS

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A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is called the

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GIS

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The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long- distance method is called

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Remote-sensing

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The relationship between remote-sensing and the GIS is best described as

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Remotely sensed images that can be used in a GIS

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The name given to a portion of Earth's surface is known as

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Toponym

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A site identifies a place by its

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Unique physical characteristics

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A situation identifies a place by its

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Location relative to other objects

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Site and Situation are both ways to ______

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Describe a location

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An area distinguished by a unique combination of features is called a

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Region

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A vernacular region can be defined as

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An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

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The south can be defined as a vernacular region of the united states by

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Low high school graduation rates, climate, the baptist church, and the right to work laws.

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A functional region can be defined as

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An area organized around a node or focal point.

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Moving toward the southern border of the US, 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 region

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A formal region is defined as

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An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.

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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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Formal regions can ____

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Overlap

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Regions are NOT found only where _____

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Physical and economic characteristics are strongly related.

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Formal regions are NOT organized around a _____

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Node

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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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For many people, the globalization of culture also permits the ____

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Preservation of cultural diversity

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The arrangement of a feature across Earth's surface is its ____

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Distribution

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The frequency of something within a given unit of area is called

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Density

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The spread of something over a given study area is

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Concentration

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Local ____ is in opposition to the force of globalization

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Diversity

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The extent of a feature's spread over space is defined as

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Concentration

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According to distance-decay an more distant group less likely

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To be influential than a nearer group

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Stimulus Diffusion is defined as

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The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected.

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Hierarchical Diffusion is defined as

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The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.

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Contagious Diffusion is defined as

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

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Most plants and animals find food and shelter in the

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Lithosphere

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The biosphere often includes elements of

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All three abiotic systems

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Out of the four major earth systems, which one is composed of living organisms

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Biosphere

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What are the four major Earth systems

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Atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere

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The atmosphere contains

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The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth.

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The biosphere contains

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All living organisms on Earth, including plants and animals, as well as microorganisms.

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The lithosphere contains

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Earth's crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust.

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The hydrosphere contains

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All of the water on and near Earth's surface.

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The biosphere overlaps with

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Each of the other three Earth systems

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According to environmental determinism

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The physical environment causes social development

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The concept that the physical environment limits human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment is

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Possibilism

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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 emergency response to hurricane Katrina may have been incompetent and slow because

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The victims lacked political and economic power.

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Geographers generally reject environmental determinism in favor of

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Possibilism

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