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What is a Topographic Map ?
Shows elevation, is a type of isoline map
Shows highways, streets etc.
Dots represent specified quantities
Uses lines to connect points of equal value ; Used for weather/elevation
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What is a Formal region?
Based on personal perspective of a location/place
United by specific traits; economic, social, political, and environmental
Organized around a focal point; based off economics, travel etc
Based off a cultural identity
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An example of absolute distance is : spring pines is 78.5 miles away from mulberry farm.
True
False
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What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Expansion and relocation
Expansion and Culture
Relocation and culture
Cultural and language
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What can reference maps be used for ?
Spatial Aspects
General information
Navigation/Location
Relative Direction
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What’s a Physical map
Uses dots to represent specified quantities of a variable
Shows natural features
Shows continents, states, and county’s
Shows Highways and roads
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What’s remote sensing ?
Second hand data
Photography taken from the ground aimed upwards
Collecting/ analyzing data without physical contact
A computer system that makes thematic maps and layers information.
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What does S-A-D-D stand for?
Shape Agriculture Direction Distance
Sails Area Shape Direction
Shape Area Distance Direction
Shape Area Demand Direction
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What is a Census?
A official count of people done every 10 years
Road tracking technology
A bird eye view of the globe
An official count of population done every 5 years or every new president
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What’s Time-Space-Compression?
Time will one day compress onto us, destroying all known time systems
The farther away from one another, the less interaction you’ll have
Time goes faster when you need it most
Connectivity makes everything seem closer together
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What barriers disconnect or connect societies according to distance decay ?
Language and Religion
None of the above
All of the above
Mountains and rivers
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Secondary sectors process the raw goods from primary; found in semiperiphery countries
True
False
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What are the scales of analysis ? (In order)
Global-Regional-State/Country/National-Substate- County-Census Tract
Global-state,country,national- substate-regional-county-census tract
Global-County-State/Country/National-Substate- Regional-City-Census Tract
Global-Regional-State/Country/National-Substate- County-City-Census Tract
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What is a Road Map ?
Shows highways and streets
Uses dots to represent a specific quantity
Shows elevation
Shows States/Countries/Capitals
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What’s the scale of Analysis?
Sub-State
County
Global
State-Country-National
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North, South, West, East, are all examples of ?
Absolute Direction
Relative direction
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What’s an Isoline map?
Uses dots to represent specified quantities of a variable
Shows natural features
Uses lines to connect points of equal value ; Used for weather/elevation
Shows elevation, is a type of isoline map
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What is cultural landscape ?
Physical artifacts that humans create; making up the landscape
Somewhere with no defining attributes
A place defined by its uniqueness
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Types of Thematic maps ?
Isoline, Topographic, Dot Density, and Coropleth
Physical, Coropleth, Cartogram, Road, and Isoline
Coropleth, Dot Density, Graduated, and Cartogram
Isoline, Political, Physical, and Road
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What is a Coropleth map
Shows elevation
Uses different colors or shades of one color to show data distribution
Uses dots to represent a specific quantity
Uses lines to connect points of equal value, used for weather and elevation
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Who makes map projections ?
Map maker
Engineer
Entomologist
Cartographer
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What’s Spatial Interaction ?
The process of dividing information
The spread culture to other states countries, counties, etc
Connections, Contacts, movement and flow of things between places
How geospatial technology helps make decisions
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What is fieldwork/field observation
Searching up interviews from a crime you’re working on
A person physically visiting a location and recording, first hand info.
Mapping out the topography physically
Observing footage after an event
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What is a Graduated/ Proportional Symbol map ?
Shows natural features
Used to show elevation - type of isoline map
Uses symbols of different sizes to indicate amounts of a variable
Uses various colors and shades to show distribution of spatial data
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Primary sectors provide raw materials; most primary sectors come from periphery communities
False
True
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Clustering refers to entities being close together.
True
False
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What’s Distribution?
Shows Elevation
How far apart or spread out something is over an area
World System Theory
How close together something is in an area
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What is possibilism
The idea that culture is purely based off who you talk to
Humans respond rather than be influenced by their environment
Photography taken from the ground aimed upward
The belief that the environment shapes human behavior
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What is a Cartogram Map?
Dots represent specified quantities
Sizes of countries are distorted to show a certain variable
Shows Elevation
Uses various colors to show spatial data
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What map projection is this ?
Gnomic
Peters Equal Area
Mercator
Robinson
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3D models of Ariel Photographs often distort?
Scale
Shape
Size
Area
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What map projection is this ?
Mercator
Gnomic
Robinson
Peters Equal Area
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What is a Political map ?
Shows States/Countries/Capitals
Uses symbols
Shows elevation
Shows highways and streets
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What’s Regionalization?
The spread culture to other states countries, counties, etc
The process geographers use to divide/categorize into smaller analysis
The environmental features of a location; climate, topography, etc.
How geospatial technology helps make decisions
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What’s an example of a place with placelessness ?
A custom made mansion
A Chuck E Cheese
A UFO monument
Niagara Falls
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What kind of Map is this ?
Reference
Political
Thematic
Coloropleth
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Tertiary centers around sale and trade of services; found in Core Countries
False
True
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“The McDonald’s is next to the Stater Bros and Across from Becky’s ice cream” is an example of ?
Relative Direction
Absolute Location
Relative Location
Absolute Distance
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Small scale map is small area, large info
True
False
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What is a perceptual region ?
Organized around a focal point; based off economics, travel etc
United by specific traits; economic, social, political, and environmental
Based on personal perspective of a location/place
Based off a cultural identity
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What is Diffusion ?
When you put a bland substance into a colorful and bright substance
The belief that culture should not be shared.
Dividing the M&Ms by color
The process by when a characteristic spreads across space.
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What is “sense of place” ?
A place with a focal point
Defined by people’s perspective on a place
factors that make a location unique
A place with no identifying attributes
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Left, right, forward, backwards is an example of?
Absolute Direction
Relative Direction
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What’s Site/Physical Landscape
How people around the world define the place
How the culture relates to a places topography
The environmental features of a location; climate, topography, etc.j
A main factor in Core societies
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Large Scale map is small area, large info
False
True
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The Mercator projection, all though great at area and size, is not great for navigation.
False
True
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Patterns / Spatial Associations?
Close together; dense
Absolute distance
Indicates 2 or more phenomena may be related to one another
Exact precise location
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What is Cultural Ecology?
The study of how humans interact with animals
The study of how culture influences the meat people eat
The study’s of how humans interact or adapt to the environment
The belief that all cultures have a god
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What is the GIS?
A computer system that makes thematic maps and layers information.
Satellites that communicate locational data to receivers
A map used for location
A map used for navigation
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What is a Dot-Density map?
Communicates spatial information
Uses dots to represent a specific quantity of a variable
Used to show elevation
Shows roads, highways, streets etc.
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What is GPS?
Used for making coropleth maps
A computer system that makes thematic maps and layers information.
Satellites that communicate locational data to receivers
General Principles Satitlites
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Which of the following are examples of reference maps ?
Dot Density, Road, Political
Road, Physical and Political
Coropleth, Road, Physical
Political, Physical, Topographic
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What kind of map is this?
Isoline
Reference
Thematic
Topographic
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What is environmental determinism?
Humans respond rather than being influenced by their environment
The idea that anything is possible with the human mind
The idea that culture is purely based off who you talk to
The belief that the environment shapes human behavior
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What’s a Toponym ?
Locations name; reflects culture and history of the place
The factor that contributes to a unique location
The process geographers use to divide space
How often a new physical map is made in a certain country, county, or state
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What increases Time-Space Compression?
Technology and Transportation
Mountains and Valleys
A broken bike
Culture
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Who uses Geospatial technologies?
Businesses
None of the above
Organizations
All of the above
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What Map projection is this ?
Robinson
Gnomic
Mercator
Peters Equal Area
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Around the corner to the left of the bakery on baneberry street
Absolute location
Relative location
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What’s a Thematic map ?
Used to show elevation
The process of a cartographer showing the earth on a flat surface
Communicates information about a place spatial aspects
Shows general information, navigation, and location
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What does census influence?
Government funding
Where people live
Where culture spreads
How many years of college it takes to get a P.H.D.
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What is a Functional Region?
Based off a cultural identity
United by specific traits; economic, social, political, and environmental
Organized around a focal point; based off economics, travel etc
Based on personal perspective of a location/place
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What is Ariel photography?
Professional images taken from drones or aircraft
All of the above
Photography taken from a Birds Eye view
Photography taken from the ground aimed upwards
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What’s Distance Decay?
A main factor in Core societies
Interactions between two places increase or decline from barriers
How people around the world define the place
A place with a focal point
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N° 27 W° 78
Absolute Location
Relative Location
