Geography Vocabulary Quiz! Trivia Test
Do you know anything about geography vocabulary? Can you pass this quiz? Geography is the research of places and relationships between people and their environments. Human geography is the study of the circulation of groups of people and cultures on earth, and it is the study of the distribution of networks of people and cultures on the earth’s surface. Take this quiz and learn more about geography vocabulary.
- 1.Greek for "to write about the Earth". A study concerned with the analysis of the physical and human characteristics of the Earth's surface from a spatial perspective.
- A.
Sociology
- B.
Geography
- C.
Geology
- D.
Spatial Dispersion
- 2.One of the two major divisions of geography. This is the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes.
- A.
Cultural Studies
- B.
Geology
- C.
Physical Geography
- D.
Human Geography
- 3.Mapping the distribution of disease in order to find its cause.
- A.
Medical Geography
- B.
Human Geography
- C.
Geology
- D.
Statistics
- 4.A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders.
- A.
Location
- B.
Place
- C.
Globalization
- D.
Region
- 5.One of the five themes of geography. This term refers to the mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet.
- A.
Place
- B.
Movement
- C.
Region
- D.
Culture
- 6.A core aspect of geography. This term refers to the material character of a place, the complex natural features, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place a particular form.
- A.
Landscape
- B.
Region
- C.
Movement
- D.
Globalization
- 7.This type of map tells stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon.
- A.
Reference Map
- B.
Globalization
- C.
Population Pyramid
- D.
Thematic Map
- 8.Precisely on Earth where something is. This type of location is used in the creation of reference maps.
- A.
Absolute location
- B.
Relative location
- C.
Longitude
- D.
GPS
- 9.Where a place is in relation to other human and physical features. This type of location changes over time.
- A.
Absolute Location
- B.
Longitude
- C.
Latitude
- D.
Relative Location
- 10.A way that geographers monitor the Earth from a distance using technology that is a distance away from the place being studied. This type of data is collected via satellites and aircraft usually.
- A.
Spatial Geography
- B.
Remote Sensing
- C.
Human Geography
- D.
Physical Geography
- 11.This is a type of region that is labeled based on a shared trait. This can be either cultural or physical.
- A.
Formal Region
- B.
Functional Region
- C.
State
- D.
Country
- 12.An area defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it.
- A.
Functional Region
- B.
Formal Region
- C.
State
- D.
Country
- 13.An area where cultural traits develop and from which cultural traits diffuse.
- A.
Religion
- B.
Trait
- C.
Cultural Hearth
- D.
Region
- 14.The process of the dissemination of an idea or innovation from its hearth to other places.
- A.
Cultural Diffusion
- B.
Hierarchical diffusion
- C.
Relocation Diffusion
- D.
Stimulus Diffusion
- 15.A type of expansion diffusion in which nearly all adjacent individuals and places are affected.
- A.
Expansion Diffusion
- B.
Hierarchical diffusion
- C.
Stimulus Diffusion
- D.
Contagious Diffusion
- 16.The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and space from its point of origin or source.
- A.
Cultural Diffusion
- B.
Time-Distance Decay
- C.
Environmental Determinism
- D.
Stimulus Diffusion
- 17.Lines connecting points of equal temperature values.
- A.
Possibilism
- B.
Cultural Ecology
- C.
Isotherms
- D.
Relocation Diffusion
- 18.The idea that human behavior, individually and collectively, is strongly affected by the physical environment. Generally, this theory is rejected.
- A.
Cultural Ecology
- B.
Possibilism
- C.
Stimulus Diffusion
- D.
Environmental Determinism
- 19.A type of diffusion different from expansion diffusion. This diffusion involves the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea or innovation and who carry it with them to new areas.
- A.
Relocation Diffusion
- B.
Isotherms
- C.
Expansion Diffusion
- D.
Stimulus Diffusion
- 20.This is an area defined by intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography. These can include people, their cultural traits, places, and their physical traits, etc.
- A.
Perceptual Regions
- B.
Functional Region
- C.
Geographic Information System
- D.
Activity Spaces
- 21.Pertaining to space on the Earth's surface; sometimes used as a synonym for geographic.
- A.
Spatial
- B.
Pattern
- C.
Pandemic
- D.
Epidemic
- 22.An area on the Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon.
- A.
Location
- B.
Movement
- C.
Region
- D.
Distance
- 23.The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations.
- A.
Cultural landscape
- B.
Landscape
- C.
Connectivity
- D.
Accessibility
- 24.A hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the Internet by others.
- A.
Relative location
- B.
Geocaching
- C.
Mental map
- D.
Activity space
- 25.The area within which daily activity occurs.
- A.
Generalize
- B.
Remote sensing
- C.
Activity space
- D.
Formal region
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