Unit 1 test Geo

Which of the following is the location of the International Date Line?

180° longitude

Which of the following map scales would be most appropriate for studying locations of the major cities of the world?

1:3,000,000

How many criteria of TODALSIGS are present on this map

3

Central place theory is most obviously expressed in

A city markets location at a transportation node.

The type of map that would best describe the massive human migration that followed the partition of India in 1947 would be

A flow-line map

The Mexican/U.S. border culture region is best defined as

A formal region

A place defined on a map using coordinates such as latitude and longitude is referred to as a(n)

Absolute location

A transnational corporation:

All of these are correct.

Which of the following laid the foundations for cartography, the art and science of map-making?

Ancient Greeks

If an individual were to find the number of items per square unit of distance, this individual has calculated

Arithmetic Density

Which of the following is the most important factor in shaping perceptual regions?

Culture identities

The Mercator map projection was devised in the early 16th century to help navigate ships across the Atlantic Ocean, a situation in which the most important fact was to show true

Direction

The phenomenon that occurs when distance plays a role in obstructing interaction between two locations is known as

Distance decay

Which of the following is responsible for space-time compression?

Globalization

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of regions?

Historical sequence of movement

An instance of contagious diffusion can be seen in the way that

Humanistic ideas spread through the Italian peninsula and eventually into northern Europe

Which of the following statements about latitude is NOT true?

Latitude is always written as some number between 0 degrees and 180 degrees.

What is a geographer's most important tool for thinking spatially?

Maps

On certain maps, the shape of Greenland is accurate, but the size of the island appears to be larger than South America. The name of this intentional distortion is called a(n)

Mercator projection

When examining Scale as the level of analysis (or the way you look at something), which of the following are not considered

Micro-State

Which of the following areas is the LEAST densely populated?

North America

which criteria of TODALSIGS is missing from this map

O

One of the first uses of remote sensing technology was to

Provide intelligence regarding Soviet arms during the Cold War.

All of the following would be examples of places with sequent occupancy EXCEPT

Sweden

Which of the following groups of countries have the lowest population growth rates?

Switzerland, Canada, and France

Functional or nodal regions are now being less important because of:

Technology

The gravity model of human geography estimates the strength of the relationships between two places. What is it that causes Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (population: 11 million) to have a greater gravity with Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2 million) than with New York City (20 million)?

Their distance apart

This geospatial technology uses a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers to determine precise absolute locations on earth. Remote-sensing satellites orbiting the earth scan the surface and send transit digital images to receiving stations on earth. Images of tine areas are organized by pixels to create larger images or maps. The statement above refers to which of the following?

a GPS

Which of the following is the best single geographic explanation for a change in the prosperity of and/or type of activity in a city?

a change in relative location

Every map projection has some degree of distortion because

a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distorting curvature..

Which of the following would be most likely to make use of a contour map?

a hiker going through rough terrain

A toponym is:

a name given to a place on Earth.

Which of the following is a current issue resulting from China's population policy from the late 1970s until 2015?

a rapidly aging population

Which of the following is a physical site characteristic?

a type of soil

The total number of people divided by the total land space measures...

arithmetic (or crude) density

Refugees fleeing from Syria are mostly reaction to

cultural push factors

Density and dispersion are independent statements about the location of things within a defined area. They are different in that

density is the number of items in the area and dispersion describes their proximity.

The elements common to all spatial distributions are

density, dispersion/concentration, and pattern.

The Meridians shown on the map above calculate the

distance east and west of the prime meridian

Which of the following phenomena often directly results from globalization?

economic specialization

The field that centers on the interaction of human and physical geography is called

environmental geography

What type of thematic map is illustrated above?

isoline

A large-scale map would best illustrate:

neighborhood streets in a suburb.

Spatial association requires geographers to look at the distribution of phenomena:

on a national, state, and urban (local) scale.

Most adjacent times zones are exactly

one hour apart

A functional or nodal region is defined by

patterns of interaction and connection.

All of the following are key reference points in the grid system EXCEPT the

polar circumference.

The school of thought that says that the physical environment may limit some actions but people can adjust to their environment is:

possibilism

Perceptual or vernacular regions

reflect personal or popular impressions of territory and spatial divisions.

The location of a place described by its local physical characteristics is called its

site

Which of the following best provides a basis for understanding the locations of peoples, places, events, and regions, as well as interconnections between places and regions?

situation

An example of a formal region is

the city limits of Oklahoma City.

Which of the following problems of other map projections does the map projection illustrated above correct?

the fact that on other projections, Africa and Latin America appear to be smaller than they really are.

A topographic map shows:

the natural landscape as caused by natural and human processes.

"New England", "Springfield", and "Three Rivers" are all examples of

toponyms