exam study ABCLR

Question 1

What is an isoline map?

Answer 1

uses lines

Question 2

What is a cartogram?

Answer 2

changes the shapes of states

Question 3

What is a heat map?

Answer 3

warm colors: higher numbers
cool colors: lower numbers

Question 4

What are the three characteristics of distribution?

Answer 4

density, concentration, pattern

Question 5

What is a site?

Answer 5

Describes the physical characteristics of a place

Question 6

What is a formal region?

Answer 6

regions with borders

Question 7

What is distance decay and time-space compression?

Answer 7

distance decay: idea changes, or will not diffuse the further the way it is
time-space compression: takes longer to diffuse the further away it is

Question 8

What is an S-curve and how does it relate to diffusion?

Question 9

What is independent innovation?

Answer 9

many different cultures created the same ideas but separate from each other

Question 10

What is GIS?

Answer 10

geographic information system

Question 11

What is the zone of transition?

Question 12

How are time-zones measured?

Answer 12

fifteen degrees

Question 13

What are parallels and meridians?

Answer 13

parallels: horizontal
meridians: vertical

Question 14

How many different time zones are there?

Answer 14

24

Question 15

What is interregional migration (historically and presently)?

Answer 15

between two regions

Question 16

What is Syllabic writing?

Answer 16

uses symbols that represent words

Question 17

What is ideogrammatic writing?

Answer 17

uses symbols that represent objects

Question 18

What is the most spoken official language?

Answer 18

mandarin

Question 19

What makes African languages unique?

Question 20

What group/location/languages belong with the Germanic branch?

Answer 20

family: indo european
group: west-germanic, germanic
languages: german, english, swedish, norwegian, danish, swiss

Question 21

What group/location/languages belong with the Indo-Iranic branch?

Question 22

What group/location/languages belong with the Balto-Slavic branch?

Question 23

What group/location/languages belong with the Romance branch?

Answer 23

family: indo-european
group: italo dalmation,

Question 24

What is an isogloss

Answer 24

a line that separates two languages

Question 25

What is BRP and how does it relate to standard languages?

Question 26

What are the three branches of buddhism

Answer 26

Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana

Question 27

What is balkanization

Answer 27

Division of a place or country into several small political units, often unfriendly to one another.

Question 28

What are the five pillars of islam

Answer 28

the declaration of faith (shahada), prayer (salah), alms-giving (zakat), fasting (sawm) and pilgrimage (hajj)

Question 29

What are the four noble truths

Answer 29

the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.

Question 30

What is spatial analysis

Answer 30

examines the characteristics, location, and relationship between places and features on the earth's surface in order to explain the spatial expression of human behavior patterns.

Question 31

slow, rapid, and negative stages

Answer 31

slow growth: stage 4 rapid growth: stage 2 negative growth: stage 5

Question 32

What is a reason for there to be more males than females

Answer 32

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