Geography Quiz
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Geography Quiz

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Who is considered the Father of Geography?

  • Pythagoras
  • Plato
  • Eratosthenes (correct)
  • Aristotle

    • When were the Five Themes of Geography developed?

  • 1984 (correct)
  • 500 A.D.
  • 1500 B.C.
  • 200 B.C.

    • What does Human Environment Interaction in geography focus on?

  • The development of human culture and society
  • How humans interact and adapt to the environment (correct)
  • How natural events shape the Earth
  • Physical characteristics of a place

    • When was the study of geography officially named geography?

    <p>Around 200 B.C.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the branch of geography that focuses on how human culture and society have formed the Earth?

    <p>Human geography</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who was the first recorded scholar to have used the term geography?

    <p>Eratosthenes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the two main sections into which geography is broken?

    <p>Physical geography and Human geography</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to refer to the notions people have of what is East and what is West and other geographical concepts?

    <p>Metageography</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between physical and political boundaries?

    <p>Physical boundaries are natural, while political boundaries are created by humans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three types of regions used to divide the earth for study?

    <p>Formal, functional, and vernacular</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to metageography, which continent is to the East or West is determined by:

    <p>Your perspective and upbringing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the five macrogeographic regions mentioned in the text?

    <p>Oceania, The Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term refers to the true location of places geographically as opposed to our perception of location?

    <p>Macrogeographic regions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'metageography' emphasize?

    <p>The influence of culture and location on geographical notions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What concept does movement focus on?

    <p>How people move themselves, goods, and information around the globe</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which tool is widely used by scientists and researchers to communicate and share location-based data more effectively?

    <p>GIS</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the best-known geography tool that uses satellites to calculate the location of objects by measuring the frequency of radio signals?

    <p>GPS</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What kind of map provides data to explain a phenomenon in a particular location?

    <p>Thematic map</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the ancient science in the form of map-making?

    <p>Cartography</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which projection, developed in 1570, is still used in many maps today?

    <p>Mercator projection</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does GIS stand for?

    <p>Geographic Information System</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the act of making maps, including thematic maps?

    <p>Cartography</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of map uses continuous lines to represent data, such as elevation changes?

    <p>Isoline map</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of map uses color and shade to represent amounts of data, such as county political affiliation?

    <p>Choropleth map</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which map does not represent real physical space and stretches or shrinks data over its location?

    <p>Cartogram map</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of map uses tiny dots to represent each piece of data, such as incidents of disease in a neighborhood?

    <p>Dot distribution map</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which continent is a combination of Europe and Asia, with Eastern Europe and Western Asia acting as a subtle border between the two?

    <p>Eurasia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which continent is the only one to have no permanent human civilizations?

    <p>Antarctica</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of region is organized by shared dependencies on a system?

    <p>Functional region</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to refer to the true location of places geographically as opposed to our perception of location?

    <p>Absolute location</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the equator's latitude?

    <p>0 degrees</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do geographical coordinates specify?

    <p>Position or location on the Earth's surface</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the prime meridian's longitude?

    <p>0 degrees</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the ratio in a scale map represent?

    <p>Relationship between map distance and real-life distance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the latitude's role in geographical coordinates?

    <p>Denotes how far north or south a position is</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of longitude in geographical coordinates?

    <p>Denotes how far east or west a position is</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of a scale map?

    <p>To show the relationship between map distance and real-life distance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the equator represent in geographical coordinates?

    <p>0-degree latitude</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of latitude in plotting geographical coordinates?

    <p>Plotting the y-value on a Cartesian coordinate plane</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of longitude in plotting geographical coordinates?

    <p>Plotting the x-value on a Cartesian coordinate plane</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of a map legend?

    <p>To show the relationship between objects on a map</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the map scale express?

    <p>The relationship between the distance of objects on a map and the distance between the objects in real life</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the map key?

    <p>To provide instructions for reading the map</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the geographic coordinate system let you locate?

    <p>A point on a three-dimensional sphere</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the latitude measure?

    <p>How far north or south you are from the equator</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the longitude measure?

    <p>How far east or west you are from the prime meridian</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the map legend include?

    <p>Symbols and colors to represent various objects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does a Cartesian coordinate plane transfer onto a flat, x-y coordinate plane?

    <p>Longitude and latitude</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the best way to show spatial relationships on Earth?

    <p>A map</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main purpose of a map?

    <p>To display spatial relationships on Earth</p> Signup and view all the answers

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