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Question 1 of 33

1. Question

A hiker buys a map of a national park that shows trails, elevation contours, campsites, ranger stations, and the park boundary, but does not display any statistical information about the park. This is an example of a

thematic map
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choropleth map
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reference map
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cartogram
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Question 2 of 33

2. Question

A newspaper publishes a map of the United States in which each state is shaded a different color according to its unemployment rate, with darker shades representing higher rates. This map is an example of a

thematic map
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reference map
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topographic map
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mental map
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Question 3 of 33

3. Question

On the unemployment map described above, the states are shaded in graduated colors so that readers can compare rates at a glance. This specific style of thematic map is a

dot-density map
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graduated-symbol map
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isoline map
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choropleth map
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Question 4 of 33

4. Question

On a popular world map used in many classrooms, Greenland appears nearly as large as Africa, even though Africa is actually about 14 times bigger. This distortion occurs because of the map’s

scale
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projection
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legend
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orientation
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Question 5 of 33

5. Question

A GPS receiver reports a position as 39.1031° N, 84.5120° W. This description of position is an example of

relative location
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situation
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site
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absolute location
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Question 6 of 33

6. Question

A visitor asks where the university is, and a resident replies, “It’s about two miles north of downtown, just past the hospital.” This description of position is an example of

relative location
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absolute location
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spatial association
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regionalization
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Question 7 of 33

7. Question

Two towns are 60 miles apart by road, but because the highway between them is often jammed with traffic, residents say the trip “takes forever” and rarely make it. The 60-mile figure and the residents’ perception illustrate the difference between

site and situation
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formal and functional regions
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absolute and relative distance
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space and place
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Question 8 of 33

8. Question

A city planner uses software that layers census data, zoning boundaries, flood maps, and bus routes on top of one another to identify neighborhoods that lack access to public transit. The planner is using a

global positioning system
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geographic information system
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remote sensing platform
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field survey
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Question 9 of 33

9. Question

Scientists track changes in Amazon rainforest cover by comparing satellite images taken of the same area each year, without anyone visiting the forest in person. This method of data collection is called

GIS analysis
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field observation
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census enumeration
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remote sensing
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Question 10 of 33

10. Question

Every ten years, the United States government attempts to count every person living in the country and record their age, sex, race, and household characteristics; the results determine how congressional seats are distributed among the states. This count is the

census
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survey
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registry
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poll
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Question 11 of 33

11. Question

To understand why a neighborhood is losing residents, a geographer interviews long-time residents and reads local newspaper accounts, then also analyzes census figures showing the population change by decade. The interviews and newspaper accounts, as opposed to the census figures, are examples of

quantitative data
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qualitative data
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geospatial data
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remote-sensing data
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Question 12 of 33

12. Question

Pittsburgh grew where it did because the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio, providing flat land along the riverbanks, abundant water, and nearby coal deposits. These physical characteristics of the city’s location describe its

situation
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relative location
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functional region
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site
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Question 13 of 33

13. Question

Singapore has become one of the world’s busiest ports because it sits at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca, on the main shipping route between the Indian Ocean and East Asia. This description of Singapore’s location relative to trade routes and other places refers to its

situation
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site
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absolute location
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pattern
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Question 14 of 33

14. Question

A geographer notes that there are 300 miles of open country between two cities, with few towns in between, and studies how that gap affects trade and travel. In this analysis, the 300 miles of extent between the cities is an example of

place
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region
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space
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scale
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Question 15 of 33

15. Question

Residents of a small coastal town describe it as having a distinct character: a historic lighthouse, a Friday fish market, a local dialect, and a tight-knit community that newcomers immediately notice. The town’s unique identity and the meaning people attach to it make it a

site
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space
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place
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node
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Question 16 of 33

16. Question

Each weekday, 50,000 commuters travel from suburbs into the city center, trucks carry goods along the interstates, and money moves electronically between the region’s banks. Geographers describe these movements of people, goods, and capital between places as

patterns
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flows
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regions
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scales
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Question 17 of 33

17. Question

Looking at a map, a student notices that wind turbines in a state are arranged in long rows following the ridgelines, that fast-food restaurants are bunched around highway exits, and that farmhouses are spread evenly across the countryside. The arrangement of each set of features on the map is its

flow
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situation
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projection
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pattern
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Question 18 of 33

18. Question

In the scenario above, the fast-food restaurants grouped tightly around highway exits and the farmhouses spread evenly across the countryside are examples, respectively, of

clustering and dispersal
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dispersal and clustering
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linear and random patterns
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absolute and relative location
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Question 19 of 33

19. Question

A survey finds that a Cincinnati sports team draws most of its fans from within 30 miles of the stadium, far fewer from 100 miles away, and almost none from 300 miles away. This decline in interaction as distance from the stadium increases is called

time-space compression
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distance decay
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friction of distance
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spatial association
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Question 20 of 33

20. Question

In 1850, news from London took weeks to reach New York by ship; today a video call connects the two cities instantly, and an overnight flight covers the distance in seven hours. The way technology has shrunk the effective distance between the two cities is called

distance decay
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friction of distance
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time-space compression
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spatial association
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Question 21 of 33

21. Question

A company considering whether to ship products from Ohio to customers in Oregon calculates the fuel, driver wages, tolls, and delivery time involved and concludes that the cost of covering that distance is too high to be profitable. The obstacle the company is weighing is known as the

distance decay effect
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time-space compression
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spatial association
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friction of distance
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Question 22 of 33

22. Question

A town decides to protect its river by limiting how much water farms can withdraw each year, so that the river will still support fishing, drinking water, and farming for future generations. The principle guiding this decision is

possibilism
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sustainability
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environmental determinism
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land use
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Question 23 of 33

23. Question

Timber, fresh water, iron ore, and fertile soil all come from the physical environment and are used by people to build, drink, manufacture, and farm. Some of these replenish themselves, while others cannot be replaced once used up. Together these materials are called

cultural landscapes
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natural resources
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land uses
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ecumene
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Question 24 of 33

24. Question

A 19th-century scholar argued that people in tropical climates were naturally lazy and that only temperate climates could produce advanced civilizations, so that climate alone explained why some societies prospered and others did not. This now-rejected view is called

environmental determinism
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possibilism
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sustainability
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cultural ecology
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Question 25 of 33

25. Question

The Netherlands lies largely below sea level, yet the Dutch have built dikes, pumps, and polders that turned flood-prone marshland into some of Europe’s most productive farmland and densest cities. The idea that the environment sets limits but people choose how to respond within them is called

environmental determinism
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sustainability
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possibilism
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regionalization
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Question 26 of 33

26. Question

A study of voting results shows that the United States as a whole leaned toward one party, that Ohio leaned the other way, and that within Ohio, Hamilton County leaned back toward the first party. The fact that the pattern changes depending on whether one examines the country, the state, or the county illustrates the importance of

scale of analysis
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map scale
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map projection
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spatial association
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Question 27 of 33

27. Question

A student compares two maps of Ohio. On the first, one inch represents 50 miles and the whole state fits on a page; on the second, one inch represents one mile and only downtown Columbus is shown, with individual buildings visible. The ratio of map distance to ground distance on each map is its

scale of analysis
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projection
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resolution
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map scale
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Question 28 of 33

28. Question

The Corn Belt is a region of the U.S. Midwest, including much of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, where corn is the dominant crop on the majority of farmland. Because it is defined by a shared characteristic found throughout the area, the Corn Belt is a

functional region
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formal region
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perceptual region
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nodal region
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Question 29 of 33

29. Question

A pizza restaurant delivers to all addresses within a 15-minute drive of its kitchen; customers inside that zone order from the restaurant, while those outside it do not. The delivery zone is organized around the restaurant and the flows of orders and drivers to and from it. This area is a

formal region
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perceptual region
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functional region
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vernacular region
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Question 30 of 33

30. Question

When asked to outline “the South” on a blank map of the United States, students draw very different boundaries: some include Texas and Kentucky, others do not, and the region’s edges depend on each person’s beliefs about where Southern culture begins and ends. “The South” is an example of a

perceptual region
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formal region
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functional region
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political region
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Question 31 of 33

31. Question

A geographer divides Africa into five parts (North, West, East, Central, and Southern Africa) for a study, knowing that the lines between them are debatable, that the Sahel straddles two of them, and that another geographer might draw the divisions differently. The process the geographer is carrying out is called

scale analysis
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spatial association
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possibilism
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regionalization
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Question 32 of 33

32. Question

A map of a city shows that neighborhoods with the highest asthma rates are almost exactly the same neighborhoods that sit closest to the industrial district and its major highways. The matching distribution of the two phenomena is an example of

distance decay
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regionalization
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spatial association
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time-space compression
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Question 33 of 33

33. Question

A county is deciding whether to zone a stretch of farmland for new housing, keep it in agriculture, or set it aside as a nature preserve. The question of how people choose to employ and modify a given area of Earth’s surface is a matter of

land use
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site
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natural resources
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spatial association
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