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Which is an example of active remote sensing?Read the answer and worked solution →Which area applies statistical methods to geographic phenomena?Read the answer and worked solution →Which approach combines geography and poetry?Read the answer and worked solution →A chorochromatic map is used to show which kind of data?Read the answer and worked solution →Which techniques give human geographers qualitative data?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of the four geographic approaches asks why features are found in a specific area?Read the answer and worked solution →Which geographic approach specifies the locations of features and populations?Read the answer and worked solution →Which geographic approach groups knowledge into categories that can be explored globally?Read the answer and worked solution →Which question does all geographic research and analysis start with?Read the answer and worked solution →The oldest known world maps come from which ancient civilisation?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Babylonian world map dates to about 600 BC?Read the answer and worked solution →Who is credited with inventing the gnomon, which allowed early measurement of latitude?Read the answer and worked solution →Who is credited with the first rigorous system of latitude and longitude lines?Read the answer and worked solution →In Hipparchus's system, each degree of a meridian was divided into how many minutes?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Muslim geographer produced detailed world maps such as the Tabula Rogeriana?Read the answer and worked solution →In which city did Islamic scholars set up the House of Wisdom to translate Greek and Roman works?Read the answer and worked solution →Who published the Geographia Generalis in 1650?Read the answer and worked solution →Which inventor solved the problem of finding longitude with the H-4 chronometer in 1760?Read the answer and worked solution →The International Meridian Conference of 1884 adopted which meridian as the zero meridian?Read the answer and worked solution →In what year was the Royal Geographical Society founded?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two scholars are regarded by Hartshorne and Kerski as founders of modern geography?Read the answer and worked solution →Which theory held that people's habits are directly shaped by their environment?Read the answer and worked solution →Which approach aimed to divide space into regions and describe each region's unique character?Read the answer and worked solution →Why was regional geography criticised in the 1960s?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1970s school of geography drew on Marxist theory?Read the answer and worked solution →Geography is called a bridge between which fields?Read the answer and worked solution →What does geography give to the study of historical events?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the study of the geography of Mars called?Read the answer and worked solution →Geology goes beyond geography in which type of research?Read the answer and worked solution →Behavioral geography emerged to help understand which matter?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which is an example of active remote sensing?

  1. Ordinary photography
  2. Hand sketching
  3. Field interviews
  4. LiDAR scanning
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Correct answer: D. LiDAR scanning

1. Remote sensing can be passive or active. 2. LiDAR is the given example of active remote sensing. 3. Traditional photography is the passive example, and sketching and interviews are not remote sensing. _Source: Wikipedia, Geography, Remote sensing_

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Which area applies statistical methods to geographic phenomena?

  1. Geostatistics
  2. Cartography
  3. Geopoetics
  4. Ethnography
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Correct answer: A. Geostatistics

1. Geostatistics deals with quantitative data analysis of geographic phenomena. 2. It applies statistical methodology and relies on GIS. 3. Cartography makes maps, and geopoetics and ethnography are qualitative. _Source: Wikipedia, Geography, Geostatistics_

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Which approach combines geography and poetry?

  1. Geopoetics
  2. Geostatistics
  3. Geomatics
  4. Geodesy
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Correct answer: A. Geopoetics

1. Geopoetics is an interdisciplinary approach combining geography and poetry. 2. It explores links between humans, space, place and environment. 3. The other terms deal with statistics, information and measurement. _Source: Wikipedia, Geography, Geopoetics_

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