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WorksheetsUnit 1 Vocabulary Practice
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 16mins
Maps used to show landforms and /or places
physical map
reference map
cartogram
choropleth map
Maps used to display specific types of information pertaining to an area
political maps
reference maps
thematic maps
graduated symbol maps
A thematic map that shows statistical data by transforming space.
cartogram
choropleth
dot density map
graduated symbol map
Thematic map that use shading or coloring by transforming space.
cartogram
choropleth
dot density map
graduated symbol map
Thematic map that uses dots to indicate a feature or occurrence.
cartogram
choropleth
dot density map
graduated symbol map
Thematic map that indicates relative magnitude of some value for a geographic region in which the symbol varies in proportion to date
cartogram
choropleth
dot density map
graduated symbol map
What is GIS in the most encompassing sense?
A software to make maps
System designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and present all types of geographic
Application to collect data on the field and store in database
Tool to edit and design maps for visualization
What is the technique that collect information from the earth from a distance?
Geographic Information Systems
Global Positioning Systems
Remote Sensing
Ethnography
Demography
The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called:
referenced location
central location
relative location
absolute location
The greater the distance from the hearth, the less likely the interaction would be referred to as,
Distance Decay
Acculturation
Time-Space Compression
Sequent occupance
Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact drainage of part of the Florida, Everglades?
Movement
Location
Place
Human Environment Interaction
An area where everyone shares 1 or more distinctive characteristics (Texas and their set of laws)
Formal Region
Functional Region
Vernacular Region
An area organized around a node or focal point with a strong charateristic in the center
Formal Region
Functional Region
Vernacular Region
An area people believe exist as part of their culutral idenity and their informal sense of place
answer choices
Formal Region
Functional Region
Vernacular Region
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 true about distance decay?
Space-time compression has greatly reduced the effect of distance decay today
Space-time compression has not impacted the effect of distance decay in the modern world
Space-time compression has provided for equal access to technology across the planet today
Space-time compression has greatly increased the effect of distance decay today
Images of earth collected by satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.
census data
online mapping
satellite imagery
projection
Systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population is called
census data
population recording
statistics
human geography
An arrangement of objects on earth, including the space between those objects.
space
pattern
place
density
Describes an area on the surface of the Earth with distinguishing human & physical characteristics.
region
location
cultural landscape
place
Increasing interdependence of nations and peoples across the globe.
Infrastructure
Globalization
Interdependence
Specialization
The measure of restricting effect of distance on spatial interaction. The greater the distance, the greater the "friction" and the less the interaction or exchange, or the greater the cost of achieving the exchange.
scale
globalization
time-space compression
friction of distance
Analyzing date at a variety of scales (i.e. global, regional, national, local.)
scale
scale of anaylsis
network
spatial sensing
