APHG Unit 1 Thinking Geographically

Front

What kind of map is shown above?

Back

Choropleth

Front

What is it when the physical environment completely determines social and cultural development?

Back

Environmental determinism

Front

What is it when the environment influences, but does not strictly determine, how a culture interacts with the environment?

Back

Possibilism

Front

Essex County, New Jersey is an example of what kind of region?

Back

Formal

Front

Tori thinks that in the south, everyone eats grits, eats fried chicken and watches football. She would be creating what type of region of the south with these ideas?

Back

Perceptual

Front

What is it called when you take a 3D image, such as a globe, and put it onto a 2D surface, such as a map?

Back

Projection

Front

What is the layering of geographic data by computers into data sets known as?

Back

GIS

Front

What kind of map is shown?

Back

Reference

Front

Why does every map projection have some degree of distortion?

Back

A curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distortion.

Front

Scale is

Back

The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape.