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According to the surviving evidence, the first person to write the word geography was
Thucydides
Eratosthenes
Strabo
Kevin Sorbo
Greenwich Mean Time is measured from
90 degrees W longitude
0 degrees latitude
0 degrees longitude
90 degrees S latitude
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite, spacecraft, or specially equipped high-altitude balloon is
remote sensing
GIS
USFL
IPMPCW
In recent years, the global movement of money has been enhanced primarily by
improvements in electronic communications.
safeguards to ensure that economic recessions do not result from bank policies.
relocation of production from core to peripheral regions.
establishment of new stock exchanges in London, New York, and Tokyo.
Common practices of ________ include using the distinctive economic assets of different countries and regions, organizing production according to a spatial division of labor, placing earnings in offshore bank accounts to avoid paying taxes, and moving factories from high wage regions to low wage regions.
nationalized corporations
mom and pop shops
transnational corporations (multinational corporations
The Illuminati
millionaires and billionaires
The U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the country into a system of
quarter sections, range sections, town land sections, and county sections.
townships, towns, cities, municipalities, and major urban centers.
townships, ranges, sections, and quarter sections.
ranges, distances, scales, projections, and map symbols.
You are given the coordinates 128 E longitude, 45 N latitude. This is an example of a
situation on a grid system.
site-situation intersection.
placename on the grid system.
mathematical location.
Which of the following maps would have the largest scale?
world
continent
country
city
An object at 90 degrees north latitude is located
at the North Pole.
on the equator.
at the Tropic of Cancer.
at the Tropic of Capricorn.
The frequency an object appears in a given area is its
concentration
pattern
density
diffusion
Lines of ________ are drawn as east and west circles on the globe and yet they measure distances north and south of the ________.
longitude, Prime Meridian
longitude, equator
latitude, Prime Meridian
latitude, equator
Which of the following is not a formal culture region?
The distribution network for USA Today newspaper
A wheat-growing county in Kansas
A Haitian neighborhood in Miami, Florida
The part of Italy called “Lombardy”
A French-language region in Canada
That the physical environment causes social development is the core concept of
Cultural relativism
Possibilism
Cultural ecology
Environmental determinism
The division of the United States into nine regions by the Census Bureau is an example of a…
vernacular region
formal region
functional region
Which is a form of expansion diffusion?
Stimulus Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Hierarchical Diffusion
Every diffusion listed here is a form of expansion diffusion.
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