Exam 1: Objectives and Tools of World Regional Geography

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Use the Five Themes of Geography - location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region - to describe your school building. ​

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Which type of map would a topographic map be classified as? ​

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What type of region would the countries of Europe be classified as? ​

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Lines of Latitude - match the terms to their coordinates
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23.44 degrees south
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Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Antarctic Circle
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23.44 degrees south
Tropic of Cancer
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Carl Sauer challenged geographers to consider the transformation through time from a cultural landscape to a natural landscape. ​

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Compromise projections do not preserve any one metric, or try to distort all properties about equally for aesthetic purposes. ​

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Core locations are more important than peripheral locations. ​

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Which type of scale would most likely be utilized to draw a map of the United States? ​

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The polarregions may also be classified as low-latitude regions. ​

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A map showing the distribution of season ticket holders for Atlanta Braves baseball games would be classified as which type of region?

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Explain the differences between relative and absolute locations. Give one example of each.

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Latitude and longitude lines are a common coordinate system and measured in degrees, minutes, seconds. ​

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The science of acquiring information about Earth's surface without being in direct contact with it is called __________ __________. ​

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Why is the concept of regions in geography useable? ​

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What is the collection of physical and human geographic features on Earth's surface called? ​

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