5 Written Questions

1. a cylindrical map projection that attempts to retain the accurate sizes of all the world's landmasses.
2. roman geographer-astronomer and author of Guide to Geography which included maps containing a grid system of latitude and longitude.
3. the outer edge of a city's sphere of influence, used in the law of retail gravitation to describe the area of a city's hinterlands that depend on that city for its retail supply.
4. usually have higher resolution and cover much smaller regions.
5. the actual or potential relationship between two places, usually referring to economic interactions.

5 Matching Questions

1. Topographic maps
2. george perkins marsh
3. gravity model
4. prime meridian
5. Azimuthal projection

1. a projection in which either the north or south pole is oriented at the center of the map.
2. b an imaginary line passing through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, which marks the zero degree line of longitude.
3. c inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar, his classic work, Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, provided the first description of the extent to which natural systems had been impacted by human actions.
4. d maps that use isolines to represent constant elevations. If you took this map out into the field and walked exactly along the path of an isoline on your map, you would always stay at the same elevation.
5. e a mathematical formula that describes the level of interaction between two places, based on the size of their populations and their distance from each other.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. exist in the minds of people (perceptual regions)
   1. mercator projection
   2. region
   3. vernacular regions
   4. fertile crescent
2. a set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform,analyze, and display geographic data.
   1. Topographic maps
   2. george perkins marsh
   3. global positioning system
   4. geographical information systems
3. a set of satellites used to help determine location anywhere on the earth's surface with a portable electronic device.
   1. global positioning system
   2. george perkins marsh
   3. geographical information systems
   4. topological space
4. the human-modified natural landscape specifically containing the imprint of a particular culture or society.
   1. cultural ecology
   2. carl sauer
   3. Topographic maps
   4. cultural landscape
5. the realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena of the earth's surface.
   1. cartography
   2. systematic geography
   3. environmental geography
   4. physical geography

5 True/False Questions

1. thematic layers → individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a Geographical Information System to understand and analyze a spatial relationship.

   True        False

2. choropleth map → maps that use isolines to represent constant elevations. If you took this map out into the field and walked exactly along the path of an isoline on your map, you would always stay at the same elevation.

   True        False

3. remote sensing → concepts or rules that can be applied universally

   True        False

4. mercator projection → a type of map projection that maintains the accurate size and shape of landmasses but completely rearranges direction such that the four cardinal directions- north, south, east, and west- no longer have any meaning.

   True        False

5. stimulus diffusion → when a trait of one culture prompts invention or innovation in another.

   True        False