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Name______________________________________________
Homework: Thinking Geographically: Key Issue 2
Date_____________
K
Period______________
Read pages 13-28 in your textbook and respond to the following prompts.
1. Define toponym:
2.
Identify FOUR ways in which places can receive names:
3.
Indentify THREE reasons for which places sometimes change names:
4.
Define site:
5. List some site characteristics:
6. Complete the following sentence about site:
Human actions can _________________________ the characteristics of a site.
7.
Define situation:
8.
What role do familiar places have in understanding situation of unfamiliar places?
9. What place is designated as 0 degrees longitude?
10. What is the name for the line drawn at 0 degrees longitude?
11a. How is the degree of longitude or latitude further subdivided?
11b. Give an example:
12. How many degrees of longitude do you need to travel across to pass through one “hour” of time (or one time
zone)?
13. How many time zones are there?
14. Read the first column on p. 20. Where and why were standard time zones first adopted?
WHERE?
WHY?
15. What is the longitude of the International Date Line?
16. Use the map on p. 19 and the information in the reading to annotate the map below.
 Draw the Prime Meridian and International Date Line
 Shade and label all countries (or regions) which use non-standard time zones
 Label the country which has forced the 3000 mile deviation of the Prime Meridian.
 REGIONS: AREAS OF UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS
17. A region is an ____________________ of ______________________ defined by one or more
__________________________
18. One contemporary (current) approach to studying the cultural landscape is called the regional studies
approach. What do geographers who adopt this view believe regarding regions?
19. Geographers using the regional studies approach argue that distinctive landscapes of different regions result
from what two things?
20. Complete the chart below which details types of regions identified by geographers:
Formal Region
also called
definition
example
Functional Region
Vernacular Region
21. How does a geographer conclude that two (or more) phenomena are “spatially associated,” that is, that they
bear some sort of cause and effect relationship?
22. Very carefully define the following terms:
 Cultural ecology

Environmental determinism

Possibilism
23. How many major types of climates do geographers identify?
24. In what major way does climate influence human activities? (Give an example)
25. List the four major biomes, or major plant communities, found naturally on earth.
26. What are the two major problems with which geographers are concerned as far as soil is concerned?
27. Complete the two case studies which describe human modifications of and adaptations to the local environment.
To do so, annotate the blank maps and bullet in brief notes to the right of each.
A) THE NETHERLANDS
B) FLORIDA