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| show | Spatial
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| show | Taxonomy
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| show | Hinterland
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| show | Is more meaningful and practical than absolute location
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| show | Functional Region
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| A function region: | show 🗑
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| show | Functional regions are generally more static and immobile than formal regions.
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| The difference between “formal” and “functional” regions is: | show 🗑
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| show | Homogeneity
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| Which cartographic device, when deployed on a map, will tell you its scale? | show 🗑
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| A large scale map shows: | show 🗑
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| The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is known as: | show 🗑
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| show | A map with the fractional scale 1:103,000,000 has a larger scale than one of 1:1,000,000.
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| show | The smaller the representative fraction the larger the scale of the map
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| Wegener's supercontinent is known as: | show 🗑
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| Complicating the possibility of global warming is the possibility of: | show 🗑
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| Water covers about _____ % of the Earth's surface. | show 🗑
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| The process by which water circulates from the oceans to the landmasses is known as: | show 🗑
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| show | Evapotranspiration
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| Which of the following statements is true? | show 🗑
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| show | East-west
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| Which of the following statements about “A” climates is incorrect? | show 🗑
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| show | Principally nighttime rainfall in rainforest (Af) areas, reducing evapotranspiration
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| show | Humid equatorial
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| Which of the following environmental types is grouped with the B climates? | show 🗑
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| The Mediterranean climate is classified under which of the following Köppen‑Geiger letters? | show 🗑
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| show | B climates only occur in the low latitudes
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| Which of the following statements about “D” climates is incorrect? | show 🗑
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| The prevailing climatic type in the southeastern United States, Western Europe, southern Brazil and northern Argentina, south coastal South Africa and Australia, eastern China and southern Japan is the mid-latitude or: | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements is incorrect? | show 🗑
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| show | Learned patterns of thought and behavior characteristic of a population or society.
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| Which of the following is not one of the world’s three largest population concentrations? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following major rivers is not associated with one of the world’s great population clusters? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements is incorrect? | show 🗑
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| show | megalopolis
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| show | 40
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| show | cartogram
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| The system used in the United States to divide land is known as the: | show 🗑
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| States first began to develop: | show 🗑
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| The European state model includes all of the following except: | show 🗑
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| The second world: | show 🗑
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| The World Bank divides the world into four groups. Which of the following is not one of those groups? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is not contained within the European realm? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following countries constitutes a geographic realm in its entirety? | show 🗑
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| The islands of the Caribbean Sea belong to which of the following realms: | show 🗑
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| show | the Ganges Valley
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| The gradual reduction of regional contrasts resulting from increasing cultural, economic, political, and other types of exchanges is known as: | show 🗑
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| show | urban geography
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| show | regional and systematic
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| show | True
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| A classification system is known as a taxonomy. | show 🗑
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| Transition zones mark the place where geographic realms meet. | show 🗑
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| A region marked by homogeneity is known as a formal region. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| A region need not possess the geographic property of location. (F) | show 🗑
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| Relative location has less relevance in geography than absolute location. | show 🗑
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| A region arranged around a central urban core is known as a functional region. | show 🗑
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| Map scale is the ratio of the distance between two places on a map and the actual distance between those two places on the Earth’s surface. | show 🗑
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| A small scale map shows a large area. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| Pangaea is the name of Wegener’s supercontinent. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| The D climates are humid cold climates. | show 🗑
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| More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is ocean. | show 🗑
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| In the Köppen‑Geiger scheme, the world's drier climates are largely grouped under the letter A. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| Culture is totally genetically predetermined; it is completely instinctive. | show 🗑
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| Carl O. Sauer developed a school of cultural geography that had the concept of cultural landscape as its focus. | show 🗑
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| A cultural landscape consists of a composite of human imprints on the surface of the Earth. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | False
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| Southeast Asia does not rank among the world’s four largest population agglomerations. | show 🗑
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| The great majority of the people of East Asia are concentrated in the great cities including Beijing (Peking) and Shanghai. | show 🗑
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| The three largest population agglomerations in the world today all lie on a single landmass: Eurasia. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| A state constitutes a political region. | show 🗑
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| Middle and South America together are sometimes called “Latin” America. | show 🗑
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| The islands of the Caribbean Sea belong to the South American realm. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | False
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