APHG Unit 1

Taking photos of Earth from space is also called:

• sattelite imagery

• aerial photos

• World image

• Mechanical map

Newspaper delivery areas are an example of which type of region?

• Functional

• Disfunctional

• Aerial

• Detailed

Who first coined the term geography?

• Aristotle

• Eratosthenes

• Plato

• Negative Nancy

What geographical feature usually distinguishes time zones?

• 15 degrees of longitude

• 45 degrees of longitude

• 23 degrees of latitude

• 50 degrees of latitude

The prime meridian is what degree of longitude

• 0 degrees

• 100 degrees

• 30 degrees

• -2 degrees

The linking of places by common traits or characteristics is defined as

• region

• place

• geographical position

• site

What type of map has all lines of latitude and longitude meeting at right angles, creating much distortion at both of the polar regions?

• Mercator projection

• Robinson projection

• Political map

• Delongated Map

What geographical approach suggests that humans possess the ability to dominate their environment rather than that they are defined by the environment?

• Possibilist approach

• Dementialist approach

• Floppinson approach

• Laquifa approach

What is the term for the phenomenon that the farther a feature moves from a hearth, the less dominant it is?

• Distance Decay

• Central Map

• Central phenomenon

• Vernacular Dissassociation

If an area has objects in it that are tightly arranged, it is said to be what?

• Clustered

• Scattered

• Dispersed

• Claustrophobic