Ch. 1, The Geographer's Toolbox

Which phrase best summarizes what geographers study?

• The history of cities around the world

• The reasons that people and nations engage in trade

• The science of how GPS works

• The location of places and the people who live there

What are geographic patterns?

• Questions that geographers ask

• Similarities among different places

• Categories of information

• Key ideas about physical processes

What theme of geography explains how people, ideas, and animals get from one place to another?

• Location

• Movement

• Place

• Region

What is absolute location?

• Exact point where a place is found

• Position of one place compared to another

• Region that contains a place

• Characteristics that make a place unique

When geographers study the economic life of people from a certain place, what essential element are they studying?

• Human systems

• Physical systems

• Places and regions

• Spatial thinking

Which region is also an entire continent?

• Russia and the Eurasian Republics

• South America

• South Asia

• Sub-Saharan Africa

A map element that represents information on a map such as the location of natural resources is called a:

• Legend

• Scale

• Symbol

• Title

A locator globe shows:

• Specific area of the world displayed on a map

• Distance represented on a map

• Direction a person would travel to reach a location

• Elevation of a location in the world

The center line of latitude:

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Equator

A large-scale map would be used to show:

• Five Great Lakes on a state map

• Appalachian Mountains on a state map

• Location of Las Vegas, Nevada, on a U.S. map

• Streets in Portland, Oregon