Unit 1

Question 1

What elements of study does human and physical geography have in common?

Answer 1

They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do.

Question 2

In science, the term “theory” is?

Answer 2

a scientific opinion

Question 3

Scale is?

Answer 3

The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

Question 4

A system for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is

Answer 4

projection

Question 5

The acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method is ?

Answer 5

remote sensing

Question 6

A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is?

Answer 6

GIS

Question 7

The science of making maps is

Answer 7

cartography

Question 8

Situation identifies a place by its

Answer 8

location relative to other objects.

Question 9

Site identifies a place by its?

Answer 9

unique physical characteristics

Question 10

An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics is a

Answer 10

region

Question 11

This is the earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507

Answer 11

Amerigo

Question 12

Did you download a state Quiz

Answer 12

Did you TINA??

Question 13

One important feature of the world’s population with the most significant future implications is that

Answer 13

the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries.

Question 14

Geographers define overpopulation as

Answer 14

too many people compared to environmental capacity.

Question 15

Physiological density is the number of

Answer 15

people per area suitable for agriculture.

Question 16

The most common measure of density, the number of people per area of land, is known as ________ density.

Answer 16

population

Question 17

Arranging a country’s population along a bar graph representing ages and genders creates a population ________

Answer 17

pyramid

Question 18

The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is called?

Answer 18

total fertility rate

Question 19

Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition is characterized by a high ________ rate

Answer 19

natural increase

Question 20

Counter-urbanization is?

Answer 20

migration to rural areas and small towns

Question 21

Counter-urbanization is?

Answer 21

migration to rural areas and small towns

Question 22

Refugees migrate primarily because of which type of push factor?

Answer 22

political

Question 23

Immigration means?

Answer 23

migration into a country.

Question 24

A lingua franca is?

Answer 24

language understood by people who have different native languages

Question 25

A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a

Answer 25

Language family

Question 26

A group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a?

Answer 26

language branch

Question 27

A(n) ________ is one that is unrelated to any other language, thus it cannot be connected to any language family.

Answer 27

isolated language

Question 28

The intentional killing of large sums of people targeted because of their ethnicity, political ideology, religion, or culture is called?

Answer 28

genocide

Question 29

Give the most common example of a religion that is NOT a universal religion?

Answer 29

Judaism

Question 30

The Eight Fold Path belongs to which religion?

Answer 30

Buddhism

Question 31

The largest sect of Islam is?

Answer 31

Sunni

Question 32

______ refers to a population whose members identify with each other based on real or presumed shared ancestry

Answer 32

Ethnicity

Question 33

Mecca is considered the ________ of Islam because it originated there.

Answer 33

Hearth