Unit 1 Thinking Geographically

What kind of map is shown above?

• Dot-density

• Cartogram

• Color-bloc

• Choropleth

• Graduated symbol

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

• Cultural environmentalism

• Environmental determinism

• Possibilism

• Cultural possibilism

• Cultural ecology

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

• Environmental determinism

• Cultural environmentalism

• Cultural determinism

• Possibilism

• Environmental ecology

Which of the following is not a use of a global positioning system, or GPS?

• Tracking airplanes

• Helping farmers in their fields

• Determine when a volcano will erupt

• Provide driving directions to a destination

• Take a road trip

What is the difference between absolute and relative location?

• Absolute location is the exact location of something

• Absolute describes where something is compared to another place

• Absolute cannot be identified using lines of latitude or longitude

• Absolute location describes the characteristics of a place

• Absolute location can change

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

• Visual

• Formal

• Functional

• Perceptual

• Uniform

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?

• Visual

• Perceptual

• Formal

• Functional

• Uniform

Geographers group like things together into regions in order to make them easier to study. What type of regions are those labeled in the image?

• Visual

• Global

• Perceptual

• Formal

• Functional

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?

• Projection

• Simulation

• Instagram

• GIS

• Globe

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

• Photographic interpretation

• Field observation

• GPS

• Remote sensing

• GIS