GEOG200 QUIZ SOUTH AMERICA UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ physical geography
Answer: is concerned with climate, weather patterns, landforms, soil formation, and plant and animal
ecology
◉ human geography
Answer: focuses on the spatial organization of human activity and how humans make Earth home
◉ enviromental gerography
Answer: connects physical and human geography and studies the relationship between the two
◉ world regional geography
,Answer: lies in its ability to describe and examine global geographic processes while at the same time
explaining why and how certain patterns emerge on earth
◉ geographic imagination
Answer: how people think about the world around them- their own places and the places of others
◉ map
Answer: visual representation and generalization of world
◉ scale
Answer: term that defines the relationship between distance on the map and distance on the surface
of the earth
◉ globalization
Answer: system of elements- political, economical, sociocultural, environmental-linked together so
when one element changes so does another element
, ◉ anthropocene
Answer: period of earth's history where human activity dominates the earth system, aka human
induced climate change
◉ weather
Answer: current state of temperatures and precipitation
◉ climate
Answer: the average weather at a location over long periods of time
◉ climate system
Answer: effects of sun's energy with the interactions of the air, water, ice, landform, and ecosystem
◉ greenhouse gases
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ physical geography
Answer: is concerned with climate, weather patterns, landforms, soil formation, and plant and animal
ecology
◉ human geography
Answer: focuses on the spatial organization of human activity and how humans make Earth home
◉ enviromental gerography
Answer: connects physical and human geography and studies the relationship between the two
◉ world regional geography
,Answer: lies in its ability to describe and examine global geographic processes while at the same time
explaining why and how certain patterns emerge on earth
◉ geographic imagination
Answer: how people think about the world around them- their own places and the places of others
◉ map
Answer: visual representation and generalization of world
◉ scale
Answer: term that defines the relationship between distance on the map and distance on the surface
of the earth
◉ globalization
Answer: system of elements- political, economical, sociocultural, environmental-linked together so
when one element changes so does another element
, ◉ anthropocene
Answer: period of earth's history where human activity dominates the earth system, aka human
induced climate change
◉ weather
Answer: current state of temperatures and precipitation
◉ climate
Answer: the average weather at a location over long periods of time
◉ climate system
Answer: effects of sun's energy with the interactions of the air, water, ice, landform, and ecosystem
◉ greenhouse gases
