Chapter 1 Quiz

The study of natural processes and the distribution of features like landforms, plants, animals and climate.

• political geography
• physical geography
• human geography

This is the study of events and processes that have shaped how humans understand, use and alter the Earth.

• political geography
• physical geography
• human geography

This is a geographic perspective that focuses on how people live on Earth, how they organize themselves and why the events of human societies occur where they do.

• Ecological perspective
• Possibilism
• Spatial Perspective

This is a perspective that focuses on the relationships between living things and their environment.

• Ecological perspective
• Possibilism
• Spatial Perspective

This is a point an object occupies on Earth.

• location
• situation
• place

______________ is the exact location of an object or a place usually including longitude and latitude.

• absolute location
• situation
• relative location

Internalized representations of portion's of Earth's surface.

• mental maps
• thematic maps
• reference maps
• political maps

The area or distance that is between two things, places, sites, spots, locations, etc.

• space
• density
• flow
• distribution

How things are arranged in a given space.

• space
• density
• flow
• distribution

The number of things (people, animals, or objects) in a space.

• space
• density
• flow
• distribution