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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

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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 Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin

Geography comes from these two Greek words, meaning this and this. Click on screen to continue

What are Geo (earth) and graphy (writing)? Click on screen to continue

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