Unit 1 Human Geography Review

In political geography, another name for state is 

• country
• land
• territory
• provision

_______ is the study of where something is and how it got there

• Cartography
• Geology
• Geography
• History

____ is a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.

• GIS
• GPS
• GGS
• ARC

The science of mapmaking is

• demography
• cartography
• urban geography
• geomorphology

A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is

• GIS
• GPS
• GGS
• ARC

Analyzing how people, places and phenomena are organized and arranged on the surface of the earth is thinking _____

• critically.
• globally
• spatially
• geographically

A drone taking photos of the parts of California that are threatened by wildfires is the best example of (a)

• remote sensing
• Surveying
• Global Positioning System
• Geographic Information Systems

North, South, East and West are the

• cardinal directions
• intermediate directions
• key
• compass rose

The 0 degree line of latitude is the

• tropic of cancer
• tropic of capricorn
• equator
• prime meridian

The 0 degree line of longitude is the

• Tropic of Cancer
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Equator
• Prime Meridian