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2 Thinking Geographically

3 THIS IS

4 With Host... Your

5 100 200 300 400 500 Where Are We? Location, location, location Measure- ments The Result is... Hodge Podge A Hodge Podge B

6 Located at 0 degrees latitude. A 100

7 What is the equator? A 100

8 GMT is measured from the... A 200

9 What is the Prime Meridian or 0 degrees longitude? A 200

10 Lines of latitude converge at these places. A 300

11 What are the North and South Poles?

12 Low-lying coastal reefs off the coast of Florida. A 400

13 What are the Barrier Islands or Keys? A 400

14 A region from which a phenomenon originates. A 500

15 What is a hearth? A 500

16 The acquiring of information about the Earth’s surface from an orbiting satellite. B 100

17 What is remote sensing? B 100

18 A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. B 200

19 What is GIS? B 200

20 Name given to a portion of the Earth’s surface. B 300

21 What is toponym? B 300

22 An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics. B 400

23 What is a region? B 400

24 A piece of land created by draining an area. B 500

25 What is a polder? B 500

26 The time and day in California if it is 1:00 AM on Sunday in Florida. C 100

27 What is 10 PM on Saturday? C 100

28 Of the following, it has the largest scale: world, continent, state, or city. C 200

29 What is city? C 200

30 The 1:24,000 is an example of this type of scale. C 300

31 What is a fractional scale? C 300

32 DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager

33 If the scale of a map is 1:36,000, then 1 inch on the map represents ___________ Feet on Earth’s surface. C 400

34 What is 3,000? C 400

35 Time changes by one hour at this increment of longitudinal degree. C 500

36 What is every 15 degrees? C 500

37 The idea that the distribution of one phenomenon is scientifically related to the location of other phenomenon. D 100

38 What is spatial association? D 100

39 The frequency of something within a given unit of area. D 200

40 What is density? D 200

41 The spread of something over a given study area. D 300

42 What is concentration? D 300

43 This occurs when a group of people migrated from Papua New Guinea to North America and adopt Western cultural habits. D 400

44 What is acculturation? D 400

45 This development has enhanced the global movement of money. D 500

46 What are electronic communications/technology? D 500

47 First person to use the word geography. E 100

48 Who was Eratosthenes? E 100

49 The science of making maps. E 200

50 What is cartography? E 200

51 Divided much of the U.S. into townships, ranges, and sections. E 300

52 What is the U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785? E 300

53 The type of diffusion illustrated with the swine flu. E 400

54 What is contagious diffusion? E 400

55 This word means to “care about” and “to take care”. E 500

56 What is culture? E 500

57 Concept that the human environment limits human actions. F 100

58 What is environmental determinism? F 100

59 G____________ of the economy has heightened economic differences among places. F 200

60 What is globalization? F 200

61 The spread of a new fashion first in large cities, and later to smaller towns is this type of diffusion. F 300

62 What is hierarchal diffusion? F 300

63 The area of Maryland in which are found high rates of cancer. F 400

64 What are the eastern rural areas? F 400

65 The International Date line is measured from here. F 500

66 What is 180 degrees longitude? F 500

67 The Final Jeopardy Category is: Environmental Impact Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin

68 The rechanneling of the Kissimmee River in Florida had several adverse environmental impacts. Name two of them. Click on screen to continue

69 What are 1) runoffs from cattle grazing 2) disruption of wildlife habitats 3) pollution of drinking water? (name 2 to get credit) NOT flooding Click on screen to continue

70 Thank You for Playing Jeopardy! Game Designed By C. Cox


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