Exam 1: Basic Concepts

Culture means to

A map displays in full detail what lies on Earth's surface.

The idea that the physical environment limits human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to or act counter to that environment is called possibilism.

If a cartographer approached you claiming that she had produced the world's most accurate and useful world map, with none of the shortcomings of previous maps, why would you need to doubt her claims? Give details or examples from this chapter to support your ideas.

According to the surviving evidence, the first person to write the word geography was

The frequency of a phenomenon in a given study area is known as density.

Geographers draw two types of lines (arcs) on maps to indicate location. The lines (or arcs) drawn between the North and South Poles are known as ________. The Equator and other circles north and south of it are known as ________.

A ________ is the spread of something over a given study area.

The nine regions that the Census Bureau has established within the United States are examples of

What immediate and long-term affects could you envision if rainfall and drinking water suddenly became unavailable in your state or province? What roles might economic and cultural networks play in dealing with this drastic change? Assuming that major efforts were made to continue to sustain part of the population in your state, what traditional networks would either fail completely or have to be drastically revised, and what kind of population could continue to survive there?

You see the coordinates 5 E longitude, 10 N latitude. You do not need to look at a map in order to deduce that this location is

The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of other phenomena is

To whom might globalization represent a threat? Name a group in your community or elsewhere in the world and explain why. What alternatives or kinds of resistance to globalization might be shown by this group?

Every map projection distorts the surface of Earth in some way.

Oxford, Ohio, is located five miles east of the Indiana state line and thirty-five miles northwest of Cincinnati. This is an example of which of the four ways of indicating location?

Geographers generally reject environmental determinism for possibilism.

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite, spacecraft, or specially equipped high-altitude balloon is

You are given the coordinates 128 E longitude, 45 N latitude. This is an example of a

The historic diffusion of HIV/AIDS in the United States is an example of which type of diffusion?

The U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the country into a system of