What is one of the main elements of GPS?

Satellites are placed in orbit by the U.S Military

What are the two questions that geographers ask?

Where are people/activities found on Earth? Why there?

What are the three pillars of sustainability?

The environment, the economy, and the society

What does globalization mean?

A process that results in making something worldwide

What is an example of Hierarchical Diffusion?

Political Leaders passing down ideas to other people

What is the definition of Distance Decay?

Contact eventually disappears with larger distances

What are four things that distort map projections?

Shape, Distance, Area, Direction

What are the three types of Expansion Diffusion?

Hierarchical, Contagious, Stimulus

What is an example of a Formal Region?

States because a government passes laws that are followed

It is used to create accurate maps from satellite data

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Chapter 1: Basic Concepts

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1
The definition of situation is the location of a place relative to other places (True/False)
True
False
2
Approximately how wide are time zones?
200 miles
2000 miles
90 degrees
15 degrees
3
What are some characteristics of site?
Climate, water Sources, soil
Soil, appearances, the name
Vegetation, relation to other places, landforms
Water Sources, industry, climate
4
What is one of the main elements of GPS?
Create accurate maps draw by hand
Helps to compare sites of illnesses.
Satellites are placed in orbit by the U.S Military
Allows for maps to be altered easily
5
What are the two questions that geographers ask?
What a climate is like? What caused it?
Where is evidence of life? Who put it there?
Where are people/activities found on Earth? Why there?
How did it get there? Why is it there?
6
What are the three pillars of sustainability?
Recycling metals, the economy, construction
The environment, the economy, and the society
Resources, renewable resources, nonrenewable resources
Developing urban areas, construction, polluting
7
In terms of concentration, Australia's interior is clustered(True/False)
False
True
8
This is an example of
environmental determinism
possibilism
9
The frequency of occurrences of something within a given unit of area is
concentration
pattern
scale
density
10
The belief that climate and landforms are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development.
globalization
possibilism
sustainability
environmental determinism
11
A location or region where people or ideas originate is called
situation
toponym
hearth
site
12
What kind of diffusion is it when an underlying idea spreads to other areas
Relocation Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Hierarchical Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
13
The farther away someone is from another, the less likely the two are to interact
uneven development
distance decay
space-time compression
scale of analysis
14
What does globalization mean?
How people are affected by folk culture
A process that results in making something worldwide
The numbering system on maps
How long something takes to reach the other side of Earth
15
What is an example of Hierarchical Diffusion?
Ideas such as agriculture or how to plant crops
The spread of a certain feature from one place to another
The adoption U.S. AIDS Prevention methods/medicine
Political Leaders passing down ideas to other people
16
The reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place
space-time compression
technology
globalization
distance decay
17
What is the definition of Distance Decay?
The process of islands disappearing
The time it takes to reach a certain location
How long it takes land to decay
Contact eventually disappears with larger distances
18
What are four things that distort map projections?
Time, Shape, Distance, Direction
Shape, Surface Area, Distance, Time
Shape, Distance, Area, Direction
Regions, Direction, Oceans, Size
19
The first person to write the word geography was
Thales of Miletus
Aristotle
Eratosthenes
Plato
20
What are the three types of Expansion Diffusion?
Hierarchical, Contagious, Stimulus
Stimulus, Hearth, Vernacular Region
Hierarchical, Contagious, Relocation
Contagious, Relocation, Hearth
21
What is preserved in a Mercator Map?
It preserves the area
The land area and shape is disorted
The distance from the center point is preserved
The distance is preserved
22
What is an example of a Formal Region?
The place where a large variety of cultures are practiced
States because a government passes laws that are followed
The South because people's perception of it varies
A T.V. Station because it has a focal point
23
Greenwich Meantime is measured from
90 degrees latitude
0 degrees latitude
0 degrees longitude
180 degrees longitude
24
What kind of map is this?
Robinson
Cartogram
Choropleth
Mercator
25
What type of region does this show?
Perceptual Region
Uniform Region
Functional Region
Vernacular Region
26
Global, regional, natioanl and local are
geospatial technology
types of maps
types of regions
scales of analysis
27
What does toponym mean?
The name given to a place
A synonym for globalization
The place named after a person in ancient history
The physical character of a place
28
How is GIS used?
It is used to find the location of a specific person
It is used to create accurate maps drawn by hand
It is used to create accurate maps from satellite data
It is used to track certain locations

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