World Geography Intro Unit Review

Computer programs that organize details about places on the earth and layer them.

A map which focuses on things like cities; things made by people.

The World's Largest Buffalo is in Jamestown, North Dakota.

Which of the following would be an example of a functional region?

Lines of latitude run...

Which of the following would be a CULTURAL characteristic of a place?

The study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on the earth.

Which of the following would be an example of a perceptual region?

Which is the main purpose for global positioning technology (GPS)?

You buy a package on Amazon.com to be shipped to someone in Egypt.

Which is NOT one of the three major ways the round Earth is presented on a flat surface.

Which of the following would be an example of a formal region?

You're trying to figure out where certain types of crime most occur in a city.  Which to use?

A map shows differences in height between mountains and lower regions; mostly natural things.

You see a map which focuses on population density.  Which type of map is this?

Sometimes humans build dams in order to control a river from flooding.

Which of the following would be a PHYSICAL characteristic of a place?

Which type of map is this?

Lines of longitude run...

Omaha is near Lincoln.  This is an example of which of the following?

A team of experts decided that a new housing development is the place to build a new school.

Sometimes glaciers flatten out huge chunks of land, completely changing its landscape.

Which type of map is this?

Attempting to represent something curved (like a globe) on a flat surface.

What does map scale do?

Which type of map is this?