Exam 1: Thinking Geographically

The biosphere is made up of portions of all the other three Earth systems.

In a GIS, each layer represents a different piece of human or environmental information.

Azimuthal projections are well-suited for smaller areas and are used for most of the city maps.

Identify and describe the four Earth systems.

Imagine you are located on the equator at 150 degrees west longitude. Now imagine your cousin's living on the equator at 135 degrees East longitude. Calculate how many miles you are away from your cousin

Another name for a perceptual region is a functional region.

Modern geographers tend to reject environmental determinism in favor of possibilism in explaining relationships between human activity and the physical environment.

The spread of ideas from nodes of power to other places is an example of

The name given to a place is called a/an:

Geographers often use functional regions to display information about economic areas.

What is the difference between Environmental Determinism and Possibilism?

Which of the following is NOT true of formal regions?

In trying to find an unfamiliar place by referring to familiar places when driving, you are using the concept of ________.

In order to find a location on Earth, one could use coordinates of

In geography, we can describe the location of a place by ________, which is the physical character of a place.

Explain the difference between GIS and GPS.

Using standard time zones, if a country is 60 degrees to the east of you, theoretically, it would be:

Another name for a functional region is a nodal region.

A formal region is also called a functional region.

If your cousin lives in a country three time zones to your west, then in theory, she lives about 60 degrees of longitude away from you.