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What is a functional region?
A central place surrounded by areas that depend on it.
Not sure
Defined by landscape, structure or government.
Area defined by key place characteristics.
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What is a perceptual region?
Area defined by key place characteristics.
A central place surrounded by areas that depend on it.
Defined by landscape, structure or government.
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What is a thematic map?
A map showing cities, states, capitals and boundaries
A map with a specific theme
A map showing landscapes
4
How do humans adapt to the environment to make life easier?
Humans also use nearby water sources for transportation.
All of the above.
Humans use local domesticated crops and livestock.
Develop a sense for the weather, and dress accordingly.
5
Define Linear Distance
A scale.
Distance relating time it takes to travel.
A line.
The amount of space between 2 things
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What is absolute location?
Where something is?
A place
Latitude and Longitude coordinates of a location.
Describes the geographical features around the given place.
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Which is an example on how the 5 themes have helped shape the US?
Water sources divided states b/c states wanted ocean access
All of the above.
Region- European Kings divided state outlines.
Human Environment interaction - lead to economic powers
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How has the Mississippi river helped shape the US?
Was the dividing line between many of the states.
All of the above.
Surrounded Kaskaskia causing people to move to nearby states
Large water source that gave surrounding states advantages.
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Which projection preserves size, but distorts shape?
Dymaxion
Mercator
Homolsine
Robinson
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What is location?
A position
Describes the cultural landscape
Absolute and Relative location
Describes physical and human features surrounding it
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What projection is used in our textbooks, that keeps distance between countries and shape?
Peterson
Mercator
Robinson
Dymaxion
12
How does the environment adapt to human changes?
Unknown plants and species are brought to different places.
Grows economically and technologically.
All of the above.
Grows crops & other domesticated plants planted by farmers.
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How do humans change the environment to make it easier?
Using and removing natural products to use as resources
Building roads, train tracks and runways.
People make houses and develop communities.
They cause global warming and pollution.
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What are lines of longitude?
Horizontal lines that run parallel to the equator.
Vertical lines that run parallel to the Prime Meridian.
15
What are lines of latitude?
Horizontal lines that run parallel to the equator.
Vertical lines that run parallel to the Prime Meridian.
16
What type of region is a time zone?
Formal region - follows state and country boundaries.
Functional region - Time is the central idea to other places
Perceptual Region - defined by a key characteristic of time
Not sure.
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Which projection distorts distance and placement, but keeps size and shape?
Peterson
Dymaxion
Robinson
Mercator
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What projection do cartographers use, that keeps accurate shape and distance?
Robinson
Peterson
Dymaxion
Mercator
19
What are the 5 themes of geography?
Location Place Human Environment Interaction Movement Region
Isoline, Proportional, Topograhic, Cartogram, Thematic
Person, place or thing
Formal , Functional , Perceptual, Eastern, Western
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How has Chicago changed since pre-European times?
Natural landscape was washed away by Chicago becoming a city
Technology has increasingly developed
Chicago's population and diversity have grown.
All of the above.
21
What is political map?
A map showing cities, states, capitals and boundaries
A map showing landscapes
A map with a specific theme
22
How does humans interacting with the environment cause problems for the humans.
Lack of resourses
Health problems/bad air quality
Dirty water supply
Overpopulation
23
What is place?
A position
Describes physical and human features surrounding it
Absolute and relative location
Describes the cultural landscape
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What is a key?
Shaped metal with incisions cut to fit a specific lock.
A group of answers
The representation of features using colours and symbols.
Something that is used to unlock something else.
25
What is movement?
changing physical location or position
a change or development in something
Explains the process of moving houses
Explains how people, goods and ideas move around.
26
What is a formal region?
Defined by landscape, structure or government.
A central place surrounded by areas that depend on it.
Not sure.
Area defined by key place characteristics.
27
What is a physical map?
A map showing landscapes
A map showing cities, states, capitals and boundaries
A map with a specific theme
28
Which other projection preserves shape and size, but not distance?
Peterson
Robinson
Mercator
Homolosine
29
Where are you standing at 47 degrees N and 122 degrees W?
Salem
Las Vegas
Seattle
San Francisco
30
What is a hemisphere ?
Half of the Earth
Imaginary line of longitude that divides W & E hemispheres.
Imaginary line of latitude that divides N & S hemispheres.
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What is relative location?
A place
Describes the geographical features around the given place.
Where something is?
Latitude and Longitude coordinates of a location.
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What is human environment interaction?
What people find a necessity to live by
shows the relationship between genes and the environment
describes what people like about the world
interactions between humans and the ecosystem
33
What is a region?
Described using the terms formal, perceptual and functional
an area
Unifying characteristics in climate, population or history
A place that has many different characteristics.
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How does humans interacting with the environment cause problems for the environment.
Acid rain
Global Warming
Pollution
Climate change
35
What is the prime meridian?
Imaginary line of longitude that divides W & E hemispheres.
Half of the earth.
Imaginary line of latitude that divides N & S hemispheres.
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What is a scale?
Corresponding ratio between actual distance and map distance
Something that measures weight.
the skin of fish and reptiles.
The difference between 2 things.
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What is the equator?
Imaginary line of longitude that divides W & E hemispheres.
Half of the earth.
Imaginary line of latitude that divides N & S hemispheres.
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What is absolute location?
Latitude and Longitude coordinates.
Refers to the position based on its surroundings.
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What is relative location?
Latitude and longitude coordinates
Refers to the position based on its surroundings.
