Human Geography: Unit 1 - Quiz Reveiw

Scale is…                                     

• the system used by geographers to transfer locations  from a globe to a map
• the extent of spread of a phenomenon over a given area
•  the difference in elevation between two points in an area
•  the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

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

• Cartogram
• Projection
• Globe
• Instagram

Billy thinks that in the south, everyone eats grits, eats fried chicken and watches football. He would be creating what type of region of the south with these ideas?

• Formal

• Functional

• Perceptual/Vernacular

• Uniform

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/Vernacular

• Functional

• Uniform

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

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

• latitude
• longitude
• relief
• scale

What are lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction and measured in degrees?

• longitude
• latitude
• grid
• equator

The science of making maps

• cartography
• cartographer
• distortion

The change in size, shape, direction, or distance of something once a globe is converted to a map. 

• Cartography
• map
• distortion
• scale

According to the surviving evidence, the first person to write the word geography was

• Thucydides

• Eratosthenes

• Strabo

• Kevin Sorbo