WorksheetsUnit 1: Thinking Geographically
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 23mins
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
Emily 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
Vernacular
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
GIS
Globe
What is the layering of geographic data by computers into data sets known as?
Photographic interpretation
Field observation
GPS
Remote sensing
GIS
What kind of map is shown?
Dot-density
Reference
Graduated Symbol
Isoline
Cartogram
Why does every map projection have some degree of distortion?
Earth is not a perfect sphere
Latitude lines are shorter than meridian lines
The grid system is two-dimensional, while the real world is three-dimensional
Parallels and meridians never cross at right angles on a globe
A curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distortion
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 location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called:
Absolute location
Relative location
Site
Situation
The map projection with the greatest amount of distortion, although visually appealing because of its nice, straight lines, is called _____.
Mercator
Gall-Peters
Azimuthal
Homolosine
Robinson
0 degrees latitude is also known as the
Equator
Prime Meridian
International Date Line
Tropic of Capricorn
What is the location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it?
Site
Situation
Absolute location
Geographic location
Projection
If there are 20 desks in Room 206, 20 desks in Sr. Fran's office, and 20 desks in the gym, which location has the highest population density in desks?
Room 206
Sr. Fran's office
The gym
This 2016 election map is an example of a
Dot-distribution map
Cartogram
Isoline map
Distorted projection
The "shrinking" of the earth shown in the picture is better known as:
Distance decay
Possibilism
Determinism
Space-time compression
The science of map making is known as
Geology
Mapology
Cartography
Earth-writing
What type of map is shown?
Choropleth
Isoline
Cartogram
Dot-density
All of the following are accurate effects on the application of the distance-decay function EXCEPT
The Internet allows for consumers in New Jersey to purchase from vendors in California
A jet plane allows for faster travel time to London than a boat would
The Interstate Highway system allows for cars to travel faster between major cities
FM radio weakens as a device moves further away from a station tower
