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What’s Time-Space-Compression?
Time will one day compress onto us, destroying all known time systems
Connectivity makes everything seem closer together
The farther away from one another, the less interaction you’ll have
Time goes faster when you need it most
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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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Tertiary centers around sale and trade of services; found in Core Countries
False
True
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What is Ariel photography?
Photography taken from the ground aimed upwards
Photography taken from a Birds Eye view
Professional images taken from drones or aircraft
All of the above
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What does S-A-D-D stand for?
Shape Agriculture Direction Distance
Shape Area Distance Direction
Sails Area Shape Direction
Shape Area Demand Direction
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What’s remote sensing ?
Collecting/ analyzing data without physical contact
Second hand data
A computer system that makes thematic maps and layers information.
Photography taken from the ground aimed upwards
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What is a Coropleth map
Uses different colors or shades of one color to show data distribution
Uses lines to connect points of equal value, used for weather and elevation
Shows elevation
Uses dots to represent a specific quantity
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N° 27 W° 78
Relative Location
Absolute Location
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What is a Functional Region?
Based on personal perspective of a location/place
Organized around a focal point; based off economics, travel etc
Based off a cultural identity
United by specific traits; economic, social, political, and environmental
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What is a Political map ?
Uses symbols
Shows elevation
Shows highways and streets
Shows States/Countries/Capitals
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What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Relocation and culture
Cultural and language
Expansion and Culture
Expansion and relocation
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Secondary sectors process the raw goods from primary; found in semiperiphery countries
True
False
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Types of Thematic maps ?
Coropleth, Dot Density, Graduated, and Cartogram
Physical, Coropleth, Cartogram, Road, and Isoline
Isoline, Political, Physical, and Road
Isoline, Topographic, Dot Density, and Coropleth
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What’s a Thematic map ?
Communicates information about a place spatial aspects
Used to show elevation
Shows general information, navigation, and location
The process of a cartographer showing the earth on a flat surface
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What can reference maps be used for ?
Relative Direction
Spatial Aspects
Navigation/Location
General information
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Primary sectors provide raw materials; most primary sectors come from periphery communities
False
True
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What is a Graduated/ Proportional Symbol map ?
Uses various colors and shades to show distribution of spatial data
Used to show elevation - type of isoline map
Shows natural features
Uses symbols of different sizes to indicate amounts of a variable
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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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What map projection is this ?
Peters Equal Area
Robinson
Mercator
Gnomic
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What is a perceptual region ?
Based off a cultural identity
Based on personal perspective of a location/place
Organized around a focal point; based off economics, travel etc
United by specific traits; economic, social, political, and environmental
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What is possibilism
The idea that culture is purely based off who you talk to
Photography taken from the ground aimed upward
The belief that the environment shapes human behavior
Humans respond rather than be influenced by their environment
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What is the GIS?
A map used for navigation
A map used for location
Satellites that communicate locational data to receivers
A computer system that makes thematic maps and layers information.
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What is Cultural Ecology?
The study of how culture influences the meat people eat
The study of how humans interact with animals
The study’s of how humans interact or adapt to the environment
The belief that all cultures have a god
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Who uses Geospatial technologies?
Businesses
None of the above
Organizations
All of the above
25
What is a Census?
A bird eye view of the globe
An official count of population done every 5 years or every new president
A official count of people done every 10 years
Road tracking technology
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What increases Time-Space Compression?
Culture
Mountains and Valleys
A broken bike
Technology and Transportation
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What does census influence?
Where people live
How many years of college it takes to get a P.H.D.
Government funding
Where culture spreads
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What are the scales of analysis ? (In order)
Global-Regional-State/Country/National-Substate- County-City-Census Tract
Global-Regional-State/Country/National-Substate- County-Census Tract
Global-County-State/Country/National-Substate- Regional-City-Census Tract
Global-state,country,national- substate-regional-county-census tract
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What is a Dot-Density map?
Uses dots to represent a specific quantity of a variable
Communicates spatial information
Shows roads, highways, streets etc.
Used to show elevation
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What’s Regionalization?
How geospatial technology helps make decisions
The environmental features of a location; climate, topography, etc.
The process geographers use to divide/categorize into smaller analysis
The spread culture to other states countries, counties, etc
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What’s the scale of Analysis?
Sub-State
State-Country-National
Global
County
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What is “sense of place” ?
factors that make a location unique
A place with no identifying attributes
A place with a focal point
Defined by people’s perspective on a place
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Large Scale map is small area, large info
False
True
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Small scale map is small area, large info
True
False
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Patterns / Spatial Associations?
Absolute distance
Indicates 2 or more phenomena may be related to one another
Close together; dense
Exact precise location
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What’s an example of a place with placelessness ?
Niagara Falls
A Chuck E Cheese
A custom made mansion
A UFO monument
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North, South, West, East, are all examples of ?
Absolute Direction
Relative direction
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What’s Site/Physical Landscape
A main factor in Core societies
The environmental features of a location; climate, topography, etc.j
How the culture relates to a places topography
How people around the world define the place
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What’s a Toponym ?
How often a new physical map is made in a certain country, county, or state
The factor that contributes to a unique location
The process geographers use to divide space
Locations name; reflects culture and history of the place
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What is fieldwork/field observation
Observing footage after an event
Mapping out the topography physically
A person physically visiting a location and recording, first hand info.
Searching up interviews from a crime you’re working on
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Around the corner to the left of the bakery on baneberry street
Relative location
Absolute location
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What kind of Map is this ?
Coloropleth
Political
Reference
Thematic
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What is a Topographic Map ?
Shows highways, streets etc.
Shows elevation, is a type of isoline map
Dots represent specified quantities
Uses lines to connect points of equal value ; Used for weather/elevation
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Left, right, forward, backwards is an example of?
Relative Direction
Absolute Direction
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What barriers disconnect or connect societies according to distance decay ?
All of the above
Mountains and rivers
Language and Religion
None of the above
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What’s a Physical map
Shows Highways and roads
Shows continents, states, and county’s
Shows natural features
Uses dots to represent specified quantities of a variable
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What is a Formal region?
Based on personal perspective of a location/place
Organized around a focal point; based off economics, travel etc
Based off a cultural identity
United by specific traits; economic, social, political, and environmental
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What is a Cartogram Map?
Sizes of countries are distorted to show a certain variable
Shows Elevation
Uses various colors to show spatial data
Dots represent specified quantities
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What is cultural landscape ?
Somewhere with no defining attributes
A place defined by its uniqueness
Physical artifacts that humans create; making up the landscape
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What Map projection is this ?
Peters Equal Area
Robinson
Mercator
Gnomic
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What is a Road Map ?
Shows States/Countries/Capitals
Uses dots to represent a specific quantity
Shows highways and streets
Shows elevation
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Which of the following are examples of reference maps ?
Political, Physical, Topographic
Dot Density, Road, Political
Coropleth, Road, Physical
Road, Physical and Political
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What is GPS?
A computer system that makes thematic maps and layers information.
General Principles Satitlites
Used for making coropleth maps
Satellites that communicate locational data to receivers
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What’s Spatial Interaction ?
Connections, Contacts, movement and flow of things between places
How geospatial technology helps make decisions
The process of dividing information
The spread culture to other states countries, counties, etc
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Clustering refers to entities being close together.
False
True
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What’s Distribution?
Shows Elevation
How close together something is in an area
How far apart or spread out something is over an area
World System Theory
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What’s Distance Decay?
Interactions between two places increase or decline from barriers
A place with a focal point
How people around the world define the place
A main factor in Core societies
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What kind of map is this?
Thematic
Isoline
Topographic
Reference
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“The McDonald’s is next to the Stater Bros and Across from Becky’s ice cream” is an example of ?
Absolute Distance
Absolute Location
Relative Direction
Relative Location
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What’s an Isoline map?
Shows elevation, is a type of isoline map
Shows natural features
Uses dots to represent specified quantities of a variable
Uses lines to connect points of equal value ; Used for weather/elevation
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3D models of Ariel Photographs often distort?
Shape
Size
Area
Scale
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What is Diffusion ?
The process by when a characteristic spreads across space.
Dividing the M&Ms by color
The belief that culture should not be shared.
When you put a bland substance into a colorful and bright substance
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What map projection is this ?
Mercator
Robinson
Peters Equal Area
Gnomic
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What is environmental determinism?
The idea that culture is purely based off who you talk to
The idea that anything is possible with the human mind
The belief that the environment shapes human behavior
Humans respond rather than being influenced by their environment
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Who makes map projections ?
Cartographer
Engineer
Entomologist
Map maker
