Exam 1: Thinking Geographically

Explain how density differs from patterns and concentration.

The Chinese only began making maps after 100 B.C.

The level of detail and the amount of area covered on a map depends on the ________, which is the relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth.

The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole is known as scale.

For as long as we can remember, maps have been used to help explain where things are found.

Another name for a vernacular region is a perceptual region.

New York City is on 75 degrees west longitude. Los Angeles, on the other hand, is on 120 degrees west longitude. If the time is 5 PM in Los Angeles, what would the time be in New York City?

The extent that a fast food chain is spread over a region would be referred to as its ________.

The Prime Meridian and the International Date Line are the same location.

The geometric arrangement of objects in space is pattern.

Which of these is NOT one of the four Earth systems?

________ refers to relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

By international agreement, Greenwich Mean Time is:

Explain in simple terms what the different types of diffusion are.

Describe the three main types of regions, providing examples of each type.

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distance methods is known as ________.

Transnational corporations are also called multinational corporations.

Geography is divided into two broad categories-physical and supernatural.

A characteristic of a region need not be universal for it to define a ________ region.

Latitudes all converge at the poles.