Unit 1 Thinking Geographically Review

What is it called when you take a 3D image and put it onto a 2D surface?

• Cartogram
• Projection
• Globe
• Instagram

The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior is called ____.

• acculturation
• innovation
• cultural hearth
• diffusion

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

• Prime Meridian
• Hemisphere Line
• Equator
• Tropic of Capricorn

Which type of map would show the boundaries of countries?

• vegetation map
• political map
• land-use map
• elevation map

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 location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called: 

• absolute location
• relative location
• site
• situation

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

Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of 

•  Expansion and hierarchical
• Contagious and stimulus
•  Expansion and relocation
•  Migrant and hierarchical

Geographers group like things together into regions in order to make them easier to study.  What type of region would a corn field be?

• Perceptual
• Formal
• Functional
• Vernacular