Chapter 1 Review: What Geographers Do

When geographers acquire geographic information by direct observation, they

• Conduct interviews and surveys.

• Look for evidence on the internet.

• Visit a place or use information from remote sensing devices.

In addition to direct observation, geographers gather information through

• Interviewing, analyzing statistics, and participating in ecotourism.

• Attending cultural events, mapping, and interviewing.

• Mapping, analyzing statistics, and participating in ecotourism.

• Using technology, analyzing statistics, and mapping.

To properly understand places, geographers must

• Focus strictly on things like longitude and latitude, elevation, and resource distribution.

• Focus broadly on culture, politics, history, and economics.

• Focus primarily on the objective data provided by geographic technology such as surveying equipment.

• None of these answers are correct.

Internal maps relate to

• Individuals’ subjective perception of the geographic world around them.

• Specific topics in geography such as landforms, vegetation, or population of a known area.

• Maps inside technical devices like GPS systems in cars that help us find places.

• Layers of information such as soils, zoning, and population within composite maps.

A reading of 36 degrees North latitude and 140 degrees East longitude provides

• A relative position.

• An absolute location.

• A global reckoning.

• A planar projection.

The three major ways the round Earth is presented on a flat map include _____________________.

In the grid system used to map locations on Earth’s surface, lines parallel to the Equator are called

• Latitudinal lines

• Geometric lines

• Barometric lines

• Longitudinal lines

One limitation of geospatial technology is that it cannot provide information about

• Things below the surface.

• Why humans do things.

• The impact of industry.

• Areas humans cannot safety visit.

Which is an advantage of using Goode’s Interrupted Equal Area Projection Map?

• It shows accurate distances between land features.

• It distorts only the less-inhabited areas near the North and South Poles.

• It shows the true size and shape of landmasses.

• It clearly shows latitude and longitude lines.

Which is the best comparison to the geographic term “situation?”

• A socially-important location.

• A specific site in a certain time period.

• A latitude and longitude location where something happens.

• A position relative to other places of features.