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Chapter 1 – Introduction to Human Geography

Open Book Quiz

1. The branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms, climate, soils, and vegetation of the Earth is:

a) cultural geography

b) human geography

c) locational geography

d) physical geography

2. True/False: Both formal and functional regions share in common the properties of area, location, and limits.

3. The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows:

a) the arrangement and organization of things on the surface of the Earth

b) the history of an area

c) human activity only

d) the political impact of boundaries

4. True/False: All regions are basically the same.

5. Alfred Wegener developed a hypothesis explaining the jigsaw-like fit of the continental land masses on opposite sides of the North and South Atlantic Oceans called:

a) plate tectonics

b) plate distribution

c) continental drift

d) crustal spreading

6. True/False: If a geographer wishes to specialize in the study of human geography it is not necessary that they also be familiar with physical geography.

7. Human geography is related to many fields outside the discipline. Of the four such external fields listed below, which would be least related to human geography.

a) Psychology

b) Linguistics

c) Physics

d) Demography

8. True/False: Remote sensing is an important technique used to locate things on the surface of the Earth with extraordinary accuracy.

9. Physical and human geography are two great branches of the discipline. Which of the following is now emerging as a link between the two.

a) historical geography

b) environmental geography

c) urban geography

d) medical geography

10. True/False: A city's relative location can change over time.

11. Which of the traditions of geography listed below has given rise to regional science?

a) culture-environment

b) earth-science

c) locational tradition

d) area-analysis

12. True/False: Today, Japan's relative location is changing as The Philippines to the south becomes a major Asian trading partner.

13. Geographers use this term to refer to the material character of a place.

a) landscape

b) biosphere

c) sequence

d) resources

14. True/False: Regions are ways of organizing humans geographically.

15. The concern of geography with space puts ? at the center of its agenda.

a) patterns

b) distance

c) scale

d) place

16. True/False: Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift eventually led to the discovery of plate tectonics and crustal spreading.

17. The country of Rwanda is located on the continent of:

a) South America

b) Australia

c) Asia

d) Africa

18. True/False: Physical geography and natural geography are two completely different fields of geographic study.

19. The coordinates of absolute location are useful mainly in determining exact:

a) distances

b) directions

c) distances and directions

d) elevation

20. True/False: Geography is sometimes accurately referred to as the study of things.

21. The physical location of a place using the Earth latitude-longitude grid is properly called the:

a) relative location

b) absolute location

c) central location

d) referenced location

22. The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called:

a) absolute location

b) site

c) relative location

d) actual location

23. Chicago's absolute location has not changed but its relative location changed markedly in 1959 because:

a) Lake Michigan shrank

b) O'Hare international airport opened

c) the St. Lawrence Seaway opened

d) a new railroad was completed

24. During the past century which one of the following Asian countries experienced a dramatic change in their relative location?

a) China

b) India

c) Indonesia

d) Japan

25. Physical geography is important to the study of human geography because:

a) the Earth's surface forms the physical setting for creating the human imprint.

b) human activities are shaped by physical conditions

c) the Earth's surface constantly changes and humans need to be aware of this

d) by knowing the physical features of an area human geographers will know where to look for people

26. A vital rule that maps demonstrate in geography is:

a) geography is not always spatial

b) places on the Earth have their own distinctive properties

c) a map is worth many pages of written text

d) geographic studies do not necessarily need maps

27. When Japan decided to embark on the road to industrialization, they chose which of the following countries as their model?

a) the United States

b) Germany

c) France

d) Britain

28. Except for South and Southeast Asia, what ocean influences the moistest areas of the world?

a) Pacific

b) Indian

c) Arctic

d) Atlantic

29. The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge, and skills from their places of origin to other areas where they are adopted is called:

a) diffusion

b) adjustment

c) spreading

d) expansion

30. While it is not possible to measure the diffusion of cultural aspects quantitatively, it is possible to trace:

a) speed of movement

b) direction of movement

c) reason for movement

d) time of movement

31. Arrows are one of the most useful symbols used on maps but there are limitations to what they can show. Which of the following could arrows not show?

a) direction of movement

b) destination of movement

c) volume of movement

d) reason for movement

32. Which of the following is not used as criteria for defining a region:

a) area

b) location

c) time

d) boundaries

33. A good example of a formal region would be a:

a) region surrounding a manufacturing complex

b) city and its surrounding region

c) region of similar language

d) region showing migration to a central location

34. Regions are:

a) actual existing entities on the Earth's surface

b) limited in the information that can be handled

c) a means of handling large amounts of information

d) useful only to geographers

35. Mental (or cognitive) maps are derived from:

a) visual observation from the real world plus scrutiny and study of printed maps

b) cartographic development

c) a quick analysis of data

d) imagined experiences only

36. The total impression that generates our mental map is called:

a) experience perception

b) environmental perception

c) inherited perception

d) physical perception

37. Everyone agrees that human activity is in certain ways affected by the natural environment, but people are:

a. totally subordinate to it

b. the decision-makers and the modifiers

c. often controlled by it

d. less able to modify it now than in earlier times

38. The farther it is from its source, the less likely an innovation is to be adopted, and the innovation "waves" become weaker. This is an example of ? in the diffusion process.

a. cultural barriers

b. an interruption

c. time-distance decay

d. physical interruption

39. The areas where civilizations first developed are called:

a. culture systems

b. primary culture regions

c. culture hearths

d. source regions

40. The composite of artificial features that humans develop and leave on the Earth's surface is called:

a. the cultural landscape

b. tangible cultural

c. technological imprint

d. the human imprint

41. Cultural geographers identify a single element of normal practice in a culture as:

a. a cultural trait

b. a peculiarity

c. a cultural heritage

d. cultural history

42. What percent of the Earth's surface is water?

a. 60

b. 70

c. 30

d. 50

43. What percent of the land surface of the Earth is desert, rocky or has sparse vegetation, and can support little population?

a. 60

b. 75

c. 70

d. 25

44. The domestication of root crops, plants that grow as tubers in the tropics, included all but which of the following?

a. manioc

b. yams

c. sweet potatoes

d. sugar cane

45. Seed agriculture is generally believed to have started in:

a. Western Europe

b. the Fertile Crescent

c. northwest Africa

d. northeast Asia

46. The planned cultivation of seed plants marked the beginning of what has been called the:

a. Second Agricultural Revolution

b. Modern Agricultural Revolution

c. First Agricultural Revolution

d. Fourth Agricultural Revolution

47. Very early states arose in this river valley which is located in present-day Pakistan.

a. Tigris

b. Brahamputra

c. Ganges

d. Indus

48. One of the most remarkable and useful maps of world climatic regions was developed by:

a. Axel Von Ludwig

b. Glen Trewartha

c. Waldimir Köppen

d. Robert Taaffe

49. What are the 5 themes of Geography and define each of them in your own words?

| |Theme |Definition |

|1 | | |

|2 | | |

|3 | | |

|4 | | |

|5 | | |

50. Name 2 countries that have the lowest calorie consumption.

1. ____________________________

2. ____________________________

51. Name 2 countries with the highest calorie consumption.

1. ____________________________

2. ____________________________

52. Name 3 countries with an adequate per capita gross income

1. ____________________________

2. ____________________________

3. ____________________________

53. Define Globalization – in your own words please.

54. Define Medical Geography – in your own words please.

55. Who was Dr. John Snow and what did he figure out?

56. Define Pandemic and Epidemic.

57. What does GPS stand for?

58. What does GIS stand for?

59. What does GISc stand for?

60. What term did Victoria Lawson coin?

61. What are the 3 types of regions?

62. What is a culture trait?

63. What is the difference between contagious and hierarchical diffusion?

64. What is NOT today’s Geography?

65. Define Possiblism in your own words.

66. Who defined geography as the “why of where?”

67. What street did most of the cases of cholera have the most death cases on?

68. What year did the 5 themes of geography come out in?

69. What is a mental map?

70. What is cultural ecology?

71. What is political ecology?

72. Who wrote the guest field note on Montgomery, Alabama?

73. Which type of map includes “terra incognita?

74. In 1996 McDonalds opened where?

75. What type of diffusion is the opening of McDonalds an example of?

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