Geography Unit 1

What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?

• They are sometimes found as part of the dame department in major universities.

• They are concerned with where things occur and why hey occur where they do.

• They are trying to solve the problem of how to manage the natural environment.

• They are trying to solve the problem of how to manage the growing human population.

The first person to use the word geography was...

• Aristotle

• Eratosthenes

• Strabo

• Thales of Miletus

• Thucydides

The science of making maps is...

• demography

• cartography

• topography

• geomorphology

• meteorology

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.

• The ratio of the largest to smallest areas on a map.

In terms of Map Scale, a ratio of 1:2,000,000 means...

• 1 unit on the map represents 2 million of the same unit on the ground.

• 1 unit on the ground represents 2 million of the unit on the map.

• The ratio between the smallest and largest features on the map.

• The ration between the largest and smallest features on the map.

• The number of maps in print.

A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is...

• GIS

• GPS

• remote sensing

• USGS

• topographic analysis

The name given to a portion of Earth's surface is known as...

• location

• site

• situation

• toponym

• jargon

Site identifies a place by its...

• location relative to other objects

• mathematical location on Earth's surface

• nominal location

• unique physical characteristics

• primary dimensions

Situation identifies a place by its...

• location relative to other objects

• mathematical location on Earth's surface

• nominal location

• unique physical characteristics

• primary dimensions

______________ helps us find an unfamiliar ____________________ by comparing its location with a familiar one.

• place, situation

• situation, place

• maps, situation

• situation, location

• geographers, location