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Important Geography Concepts
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1. Which of the following cartographic terms describes the location of a place in terms of its angular distance north or south of the equator?
2. The principle of distance decay describes
3. A subjective image of an area informed by individual perceptions and experiences in that area is known as a
4. A travel agency surveys 100 adults in the local area regarding their travel habits. Among the findings, the travel agency discovers that 90 percent of survey participants indicate that they are willing to travel between 100 and 200 miles to attend a family reunion. However, beyond a distance of 200 miles, the percentage of survey participants willing to travel to a family reunion plummets to under 30 percent. Within this context, 200 miles represents a(n)
5. The particular conditions that compel individuals or groups to migrate from one place to another are commonly referred to as
6. Which of the following U.S. cities is a site along the Mississippi River and is situated as a major port for offshore petroleum production in the Gulf of Mexico?
7. Spatial coordinates of latitude and longitude express
8. The forced dispersion of Jews from their ethnic homeland, which took place across many centuries, is a prominent example of
9. The notion that the physical environment offers certain constraints and opportunities that influence cultural practices without entirely determining them is known as
10. Which of the following best describes the site of Manhattan?
11. Which of the following pairs of states possess territory along the Strait of Gibraltar?
12. During the process of mapmaking, in which the three-dimensional surface of the earth is projected onto a flat, two-dimensional surface, all of the following attributes can become distorted EXCEPT
13. "A ratio of the number of items within a defined unit of area measures"
14. The idea that material innovations, such as new technologies, diffuse more rapidly than newly exposed cultures can adequately respond and adapt to them best illustrates the idea of
15. Which of the following fields of study is least associated with human geography?
16. The Prime Meridian, which passes through Greenwich, England, is equivalent to which of the following lines of longitude?
17. Processes of globalization are most closely associated with which of the following forms of socioeconomic organization?
18. Curves on a topographic map that are used to illustrate specific values of elevation above or below sea level are known as
19. Relative to lines of latitude near the equator, lines of latitude near the poles are
20. Which of the following terms most directly refers to geographical techniques that collect information about the earth’s surface from distantiated perspectives?
21. In the context of the contemporary United States, a strip mall shopping center best exemplifies which of the following types of landscape?
22. Which of the following is not true of culture?
23. Which of the following geometric map projections would be most appropriate for producing a world map in which the equatorial zone is least distorted?
24. Which of the following examples is least likely to be perceived as a path in cognitive space?
25. In cartography, parallels refer to