APHG Rub 1.2

The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called:

• A. referenced location

• A. central location

• A. relative location

• A. absolute location

The physical qualities of the original location for a city is referred to as the

• site

• situation

• relative location

• absolute location

The layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as:

• GPS

• GIS

• ENSO

• OPEC

Measuring the distance people are willing to travel to shop at a store would be creating what type of region for that store?

• Formal

• Perceptual

• Functional

Which of the following divides Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

• Prime Meridian

• Hemisphere Line

• Equator

• Tropic of Capricorn

Imaginary North-South line that passes through Greenwich, England, and has a value of 0 degrees

• latitude

• longitude

• relief

• scale

A ___________ region, also called a uniform region, is an area within which everyone shares n common ONE or more distinctive characteristics.

• Formal

• Functional

• Vernacular

T or F: Spatial thinking is the most fundamental skill that geographers possess. 

• True
• False

What does GPS stand for?

• Gio's Pet Sam
• Geographic Positioning System
• Global Positioning System
• Global Positioning Satellite

a place name

• Space

• Pattern

• toponym