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Terms Review Quiz
Absolute location: Position of an object on the
global grid; latitude and longitude
Cartography: Process of mapmaking
Choropleth thematic map: Map that shows a
pattern of a variable, such as population density or
voting patterns, using various colors or degrees of
shading
Cultural ecology: Study of human-environment
interaction
Distortion: Necessary or resulting from trying to
represent the round, nearly spherical earth on a flat
plane, or map
Equal-area projection (Gall-Peters): Map that
maintains area but distorts other properties
Equidistant (azimuthal) projection: Map that
maintains distance but distorts other properties
Formal region: Region composed of areas that
have a common (or uniform) cultural or physical
feature; sometimes called uniform regions
Friction of distance: Degree to which distance
interfere with some interaction
Functional region: Group of places linked together
by some function’s influence on them after
diffusing from a central node; sometimes referred to
as a nodal region
Geographic model: Simplified version of what
exists on the earth or what might exist in the future;
helps a geographer search for answers to why
patterns exist on the earth as they do
Global positioning system (GPS): System of
satellites used to determine an exact location on the
global grid
Greenwich mean time (GMT): Baseline for time
zones around the world, centered on the prime
meridian; sometimes called Universal time
Human geography: Branch of geography primarily
concerned with analyzing the structures, processes,
and location of human creations and interactions
Intermediate directions: Northwest, southwest,
northeast, southeast
Isoline thematic map: Map displaying lines that
connect points of equal value; for example, a map
showing elevation
Map: Two-dimensional model of the earth or a
portion of its surface
Perceptual region: Region whose boundaries are
determined by people’s beliefs, not a scientifically
measurable process
Relative direction: Directions commonly given by
people, such as right, left, up, and down, among
many others
Robinson projection: Map showing the world with
slight distortions to all four properties, rather than
having one property correct and the other three
drastically distorted
Sense of place: Person’s perspective of the human
and physical attributes of a location that give it a
unique identity in that person’s mind
Simplification: Cartographer’s process of
eliminating unnecessary details and focusing on the
information that needs to be displayed in the map
Site: Internal physical and cultural characteristics of
a place, such as its terrain and dominant religions,
among others
Situation: Location (or context) of a place relative
to the physical and cultural characteristics around it.
The more interconnected a place is to other
powerful places, the better its situation
Spatial perspective: Outlook through which
geographers identify, explain, and predict the
human and physical patterns in space and the
interconnectedness of different spaces
Multiple-Choice Answers:
1. C- The smaller the map scale, the larger the
area of area being represented on the
map
2. B- An isoline map uses lines to connect
areas of equal elevation.
3. D- Just as time is essential to a historian,
space is he quintessential tool to
geographers
4. A- If 1 unit on the map represents 60,200
units in real life, then 3 inches on the
map represents 180,800 inches in real
life 5,280 feet in a mile, = 63,360 inches.
180,800/63,360= 2.85 miles
5. A- The larger the area being studied, the
coarser the study’s level of data
aggregation. The smaller the area the
finer the study’s level of data
6. A- The threshold is the number of units
represented by a dot
7. D- The cities internal characteristics make
up its site
Terms Review Quiz
8. D- for every hour difference from the prime
meridian and Greenwich mean time
(GMT), 15 degrees of longitude separate
the time zones.
9. C- although some geographers see Europe
and Asia undivided as a continental
Eurasian landmass, the two continents
are typically divided along a line
extending from the Ural Mountains to
the Caspian and Black Seas.
10. A- it takes one year for the earth to make a
complete revolution around the sun.
11. A- Distortion occurs on all flat maps
because it is impossible to take the round
earth and represent it on a flat surface.
12. A- Human geography is the study of
people’s patterns and their processes in
relation to the earth’s patterns and
processes.
13. C- Latitude and longitude together represent
a place’s absolute location on the global
grid.
14. B- Formal regions are groups of places
sharing internal uniformity, whether
sharing a political affiliation, religious
characteristic, topographic similarity, or
language usage.
15. B- Distance from the ocean is not a part of
pinpointing an absolute location on the
global grid.
16. A- The Gall-Peters projection was created to
more accurately portray the relative sizes
of the landmasses, so that areas such as
Africa are not understated on maps in
relation to size, as they were on earlier
maps such as the Mercator and Robinson
projections.
17. D- The address in (D) is the only one of its
kind; therefore, it is an absolute location.
18. C- Maps are a tool geographers use to study
the earth.
19. C- Conformal maps maintain shape.
20. B- Verbal scales state the map scale in
linguistic terms (e.g., 1 inch equals 10
miles).
21. C- Proportional-symbol thematic maps use a
symbol (e.g., a circle) to show some
feature on a map (e.g., population).