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This is the relationship between the portion of Earth being
studied and Earth as a whole.
A 100
What is scale?
A 100
The science of mapmaking is called...
A 200
What is cartography?
A 200
The method of transferring locations on Earth’s surface
to a flat map is a….
A 300
What is a projection?
A 300
This divided the United States up into a series of townships and ranges to
facilitate settlement of the West.
A 400
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
A 400
He is the first person known to have used the word
geography.
A 500
Who is Eratosthenese?
A 500
This refers to a computer system that can capture, store,
query, analyze, and display geographic data.
B 100
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)?
B 100
The acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a
satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distance methods is known as ….
B 200
What is Remote Sensing?
B 200
This system accurately determines the precise
position of something on Earth.
B 300
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)
B 300
The earliest surviving maps were drawn by these people.
B 400
Who are the Babylonians?
B 400
He was the first person to demonstrate that the Earth is
spherical.
B 500
Who is Aristotle?
B 500
This is the name given to a place on Earth’s surface.
C 100
What is a toponym?
C 100
This refers to the physical characteristic of a place.
C 200
What is site?
C 200
Parallel lines that circle the globe and measure distances
north and south of the equator are lines of ___.
C 300
What is latitude?
C 300
DAILY DOUBLE
C 400
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This is the master reference for all points on Earth.
C 400
What is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)?
C 400
List the 3 types of regions and briefly describe each.
C 500
What are:
a. Formal – an area within which everyone shares in common one or
more distinctive characteristics
b. Functional – an area organized around a node or focal point
c. Vernacular – a perceptual region, exists as part of your cultural identity
C 500
The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms is also known
as….
D 100
What is culture?
D 100
This school of thought believes that the physical
environment causes social development.
D 200
What is environmental determinism?
D 200
This refers to a piece of land created by draining water
from an area.
D 300
What is a polder?
D 300
This school of thought, begun by Paul Vidal de la Blache and Jean
Bruhnes, argues that each region has its own distinctive landscape that results from a unique combination of social relationships and physical
processes.
D 400
What is regional studies?
D 400
This climate predominates in northwestern Europe.
D 500
What is Marine West Coast?
D 500
This process/force involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide
in scope.
E 100
What is globalization?
E 100
This type of entity conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many
countries.
E 200
What is a transnational corporation?
E 200
This refers to the arrangement of a feature in space.
E 300
What is distribution?
E 300
The spread of something rapidly and throughout a population is this type of
diffusion.
E 400
What is contagious?
E 400
The adoption of the use of the mouse with computers is an
example of this.
E 500
What is stimulus?
E 500
The frequency with which something occurs in space is
known as...
F 100
What is density?
F 100
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach
another place is known as…
F 200
What is space time compression?
F 200
The fact that people who live far apart probably interact less than people who live
close together is indicative of this concept.
F 300
What is distance decay?
F 300
List the three types of expansion diffusion.
F 400
What are hierarchical, contagious, and stimulus?
F 400
These are the three properties of distribution
F 500
What are density, concentration, and pattern?
F 500
The Final Jeopardy Category is:
GEOGRAPHY
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Geography comes from these two Greek words, meaning this and
this.
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What are Geo (earth) and graphy (writing)?
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