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APHG Ch. One Test

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Who was Erasthenes?   show
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show "Earth".  
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show "to write".  
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Physical Geography is...?   show
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show Where and why human activities occur.  
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show Draw maps.  
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show How our spherical earth is put on a flat surface.  
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What are distortions?   show
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show A projection where the poles are distorted, and the map itself is placed on a rectangular surface.  
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How would you describe the Mollweide Projection?   show
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show A projection with a curved grid, and where oceans seem to be larger than the land.  
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What is a GIS?   show
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show A system that determines accurately the precise position of something on the Earth.  
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show Location, Place, Region, Interaction, and Movement.  
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What is location?   show
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What is a toponym?   show
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show A map in your mind.  
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show Decreasing influence from distance from its origin.  
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show Formal Regions, Functional Regions, and Vernacular Regions.  
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What are Formal Regions?   show
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show Defined by a node of activity and distance decay from a center.  
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What are Vernacular Regions?   show
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What is Culture?   show
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show Forms superimposed on the physical environment.  
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What is Enviromental Determinism?   show
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show The belief that humans can overcome their enviroment.  
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Who first introduced the classification of climate?   show
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show Tropical Humid, Dry, Mild-Mid Latitude, Severe Mid-Latitude, Severe Mid-Latitiude, Polar, Highland.  
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What is Globalization?   show
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What is Globalization of the Economy?   show
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What is Globalization of a culture?   show
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show Population, Arithmatic, Agricultural, Phycological--- all of which are ways for somethign to be spread out.  
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show How things are spaced out.  
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What is pattern?   show
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show The reduction of time in which it takes for one thing to reach another place.  
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show That everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than farther things.  
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What is diffusion?   show
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What is Hierarchical Diffusion?   show
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show It refers to a cultural trait spreading across a population like a disease.  
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What are the two branches of expansion diffusion?   show
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