APHG: Chapter 01 - This is Geograpgy

Question 1

Piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

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Polder

Question 2

Environment can limit certain actions of people, it cannot wholly predestine their development.

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Possibilism

Question 3

_______ is a circle drawn around the globe that runs east to west.

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Parallel

Question 4

What map projection is this?

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Gall-Peters

Question 5

Innovations spread from the place they originated.

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Hearths

Question 6

The spread of something through only certain or elite classes of society.

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Hierarchical diffusion

Question 7

Place names in Brazil most commonly have _____ origins.

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Portugese

Question 8

The farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact.

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Distance decay

Question 9

Jamaicans are relaxed, laid back and 'lazy' because they live on a tropical island

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environmental determinism

Question 10

Human Geography is the study of ___ and ___ of human activities are located where they are.

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where and why

Question 11

One’s perceived image of the surrounding landscape’s organization.

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Mental Map

Question 12

The total number of people in an area.

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Arithmetic density

Question 13

The first person to use the word geography.

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Eratosthenes

Question 14

The arrangement of a feature in a space.

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Distribution

Question 15

The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

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Space-time compression

Question 16

Defined by Carl Sauer, it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

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Cultural Lanscape

Question 17

What map projection is this?

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Azimuthal

Question 18

The frequency with which something occurs.

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Density

Question 19

Invention of fertilizers and pesticides contributed to the high output of crops in agriculture

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posibilism

Question 20

A specific point of Earth distinguished by a particular character.

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Place

Question 21

The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

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Pattern

Question 22

The belief that the physical environment causes social development.

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Environmental determinism

Question 23

The time in that zero encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degree longitude.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Question 24

An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

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Formal Region

Question 25

The spread of something rapidly through all levels of society, such a popular fads.

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Contagious diffusion

Question 26

a two-dimensional model of Earth’s surface, or a portion of it.

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Map

Question 27

The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

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Relocation diffusion

Question 28

____ is a system that determines one’s exact location on Earth .

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GPS

Question 29

The geographic study of human-environment relations.

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Cultural ecology

Question 30

The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

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Agricultural density

Question 31

The extent of a feature’s spread over space.

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Concentration

Question 32

_____ refers to the position that something occupies on Earth’s surface.

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location

Question 33

____ is the acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite, drone, or an airplane.

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Remote sensing

Question 34

What map projection is this?

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Robinson

Question 35

the longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

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International Date Line

Question 36

The physical gap between two objects.

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Space

Question 37

The process by which a characteristic spreads across space.

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Diffusion

Question 38

An area organized around a node or focal point.

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Functional Region

Question 39

a climate with frequent variability in weather will lead to more determined, driven work ethics

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environmental determinism

Question 40

Modern means of communication like computers and the internet, has changed the world

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posibilism

Question 41

The location of a place relative to other places.

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Situation

Question 42

Is an arc drawn between the North and South poles.

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Meridian

Question 43

The method of transferring locations on Earth’s surface to a map.

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projection

Question 44

_______ refers to the physical character of a place.

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Site

Question 45

What map projection is this?

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Mercator

Question 46

A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

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Vernacular Region

Question 47

Science or art of making maps

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Cartography

Question 48

Place names in North America and Australia most commonly have _____ origins.

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British

Question 49

First to demonstrate that Earth is spherical.

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Aristotle

Question 50

The total number of people per unit of arable land.

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Physiological density

Question 51

The relationship between a map’s distances and the actual distances on Earth.

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Scale

Question 52

An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

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Region

Question 53

A computer program that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data.

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GIS

Question 54

______ is the name given to a place on Earth.

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Toponym

Question 55

Beliefs, material traits, and social forms that form distinct traditions of a group of people.

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Culture

APHG: Chapter 01 - This is Geograpgy

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APHG: Chapter 01 - This is Geograpgy

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