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What does GIS stand for?
What is arithmetic density?
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1
What is arithmetic density?
people to the amount of food
people to amount of farm land
total people per amount of total land
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What does GIS stand for?
Geographic Information System
Global Intel System
Graphic Information System
Geographic Information Section
3
What does diffusion not involve?
buildings
people
a bird
desks in a class room
4
A toponym is the name of a place.
False
True
5
The possibilist approach states humans ________
do not have skills needed to modify the environment.
are a product of the environment.
can't modify the environment
have skills needed to modify the environment for there needs
6
GIS is technology used by geographers to show specific types of geographic data.
True
False
7
The demographic Transition Model describes human activities in the past and predicts activities
True
False
8
What is physiological density?
number of people to number of stores
total people in a city
number of people to number of houses
total people per amount of arable land
9
Why are mental maps important?
allows people to navigate
they are always accurate
helps people understand
most people have them so it can be useful for communication
10
What is expansion diffusion?
characteristics spread through talking
phenomenon spreads as a result of a group
characteristics spread through relocation
when a characteristic spreads from a central node
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What is random distribution?
pattern but no specific reason
no pattern on the landscape
random patterns on the landscape
12
What kind of diffusion is people moving to the United States and bringing there culture?
contagious diffusion
relocation diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
expansion diffusion
13
What kind of diffusion is the spread of a disease?
hierarchical diffusion
contagious diffusion
expansion diffusion
stimulus diffusion
14
How are characteristics given to places and regions?
characteristics are randomly assigned
people in area have there own descriptions
characteristics are assigned to areas which are linked
15
The Greeks first classified geography as a study and a spatial relation.
True
False
16
What links different places?
location
environment
region
area
17
Meridians run east to west.
False
True
18
Place is a particular point or position.
False
True
19
Saying the location of Hagerty is near UCF is an example of ______.
Site
Mental map
a relative location
a absolute location
20
What is the situation of Hagerty?
large courtyard
lots of classes
Near UCF and Carillon Elementary
8 buildings
21
What is spatial interaction?
why people move
The flow of people between locations.
how many people are in an area
where people like to go
22
Who was credited as the first person to use the term geography?
Socrates
Plato
Eratosthenes
Aristotle
23
The United States is not linked to North Korea.
False
True
24
What is another name for agglomerated?
dispersed
clustered
far
25
Human-environment interaction is describing ______.
how people modify or alter the environment for there needs
the environment modifies peoples needs
people modify there culture to fit the environment
people don't modify the environment
26
What is environmental determinism?
Religion directly impacts the physical environment.
Proposes cultures are a direct result of where they exist.
destroying the environment
The environment determines the culture in the area.
27
When is distortion on maps the greatest?
small-scale map
large-scale map
28
Density is how often an object occurs within a given area or space.
True
False
29
What does a conformal map do?
creates zero distortion in the map
distort everything
distorts area in order to keep shapes intact
separates shapes in order to have the least distortion
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What is a cylindrical map?
A map that shows true direction but loses distance.
doesn't show direction but shows correct distance
a cylinder map
map not on a flat surface
