Test 1

Question 1

Migration

Answer 1

The movement of people from place to place

Question 2

Great Circle Route

Answer 2

An imaginary line that follows the curve of the earth and represents the shortest distance ebtween two points

Question 3

Map projection

Answer 3

A mathematical formula used to represent the curved surface of the earth on the flat surface of a map

Question 4

Planar projection

Answer 4

A map created by projecting the image of the earth on a geometric plane

Question 5

Cylindrical Projection

Answer 5

Projection earth onto a cylinder

Question 6

Conic projection

Answer 6

Projection earth onto a cone placed over part of an earth model

Question 7

Absolute location

Answer 7

The exact position of a place on the earths surface

Question 8

Relative location

Answer 8

Location in relation to other places

Question 9

Elevation

Answer 9

The height of a land surface above the level of the sea

Question 10

Relief

Answer 10

Variation in elevation across the earths surface

Question 11

Thematic map

Answer 11

Emphasizes a particular kind of information or a single idea about an area

Question 12

Global Positioning System

Answer 12

Navigational system that can determine absolute location by using satellites and receivers

Question 13

Geographic information system

Answer 13

Computer programs that provide and organize details about earth and integrate them with satellite pictures and other things

Question 14

Remote sensing

Answer 14

Obtains information about an object from a distance, typically from an aircraft or satellites

Question 15

Spatial Perspective

Answer 15

A way of looking a patterns on earth and their relationships to one another

Question 16

Site

Answer 16

A sp civic location of a place, including its physical setting

Question 17

Situation

Answer 17

The geographic position of a place in relation to other places or features

Question 18

Formal region

Answer 18

A region defined by a commonality such as a product

Question 19

Functional region

Answer 19

A central place and the surrounding territory linked to it

Question 20

Perpetual region

Answer 20

A place defined by common ideas or feelings rather than objective data

Question 21

Hydrosphere

Answer 21

All the water on earth

Question 22

Lithosphere

Answer 22

All the crust of the earth

Question 23

Atmosphere

Answer 23

The thin layer of gases that surrounds the earth

Question 24

Biosphere

Answer 24

The part of earth where life exists

Question 25

Continental shelf

Answer 25

The part of a continent that extends underwater

Question 26

Core

Answer 26

Solid inner core liquid outer core

Question 27

Mantle

Answer 27

Hot rock middle layer

Question 28

Crust

Answer 28

Outer layer of the earth hard rocky she’ll

Question 29

Continental drift

Answer 29

The theory that the current not nets were once joined but drifted apart

Question 30

Spreading

Answer 30

The process by which magma wells up between plates and pushes them apart