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Chap1 test review
chapter 1 geo review
Question | Answer |
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____________ means to change by building a bridge, digging an irrigation canal. | Modify |
______________ is the study of the earth and the ways people live and work on it. | Geography |
The movement of goods and people is known as ________________. | Transportation |
______________ ____________ is the exact location of a place in terms of latitude and longitude. | Absolute location |
_______________ ___________ is the position of a place in relation to other places. | Relative location |
________________ ______________ are climate, landforms, plants, soil, and animals. | Physical location |
Examples of________________ ______________ would be how many people live in one place, _______________ tell what language people speak, what religion they practice and what they do for a living. | Human characteristics |
The movement of ideas and information is known as ________________. | communication |
The five themes of geography are ________________, region, human environmental interaction, location, and place. | movement |
What theme answers the question: Where a place is located? | location |
What theme answers the question: What a place is like? | place |
What theme answers the question: How people use, adapt to or how they change their environment? | human and environmental interaction |
What theme answers the question: How are people and places linked together? | movement |
What theme answers the question: How is the world organized? | regions |
A flat map can not accurately show the Earth's whole surface because the Earth is a ______________. | sphere |
________________ are ways of representing the earth on a flat surface. | Projections |
______________ ______________ is another name for a mercator projection. | Cylindrical projections |
On a mercator projection, the map is most distorted at the north and south ____________. | poles |
On a mercator projection, the map is the most accurate at the ________________. | equator |
________________ ______________ are still used by navigators today. | Mercator projections |
The four ways in which a globe accurately represent the Earth are distance, area or size, ______________, and shape. | direction |