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Contemporary Human Geography
(Rubenstein)
Chapter 1 Thinking
Geographically
1) The first
person to use the word geography was
A)
Aristotle.
B) Eratosthenes.
C) Strabo.
D) Thales of
Miletus.
E) Thucydides.
2) The first person to demonstrate that
the Earth is a sphere was
A) Hecataeus.
B) Aristotle.
C) Strabo.
D) Anaximander.
E) Thales of
Miletus.
3) Which 19th-20th
century geographer is associated with the approach
called
determinism
A) Carl
Ritter
B) Friedrich Ratzel
C) Ellsworth Huntington
D)
Ellen Churchill Semple
E) All of the
above
4) According to the
theory of environmental determinism, which of the
following is the most
accurate?
A) The physical environment
specifically causes social development.
B) The physical environment sets limits
on human actions.
C) People can adjust
to the physical environment.
D) People
can choose a course of action from many
alternatives offered by the physical
environment.
E) People
determine their physical environment.
5) The concept that the physical
environment limits human actions, but that people
have the ability
to adjust to the
physical environment is
A) climate.
B) environmental determinism.
C) possibilism.
D) spatial
association.
E) cultural relativism.
6) As an example of
environmental adaptation, Holland converted the
Zuider Zee into a fresh
water lake by
using
A) a polder.
B) a
delta plan.
C) dikes.
D)
canals.
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E) solar
desalination.
7)
Rechannelling the Kissimmee River in Florida
produced an increase of which of the following
adverse environmental impacts?
A) pollution of drinking water
B) runoffs from cattle grazing
C) disruption of wildlife habitats
D) A and B
E) A, B, and C
8) A polder is
A) the conversion of a saltwater sea to
a freshwater lake.
B) the creation of a
low-lying delta area.
C) a piece of
land created by draining water from an area.
D) a project to seal off the sea.
E) a political organization to manage
water distribution.
9)
Which of the following statements about the
Earth's Coordinate System are correct?
A) Every meridian is actually a circle
rather than a line.
B) Every meridian
is the same length and has the same beginning and
end.
C) Every parallel begins and ends
at the poles.
D) Every parallel is the
same length.
E) Every meridian is
distorted by magnetic declination.
10) The science of making maps is
A) demography.
B)
cartography.
C) topography.
D) geomorphology.
E)
meteorology.
11) The Prime
Meridian is measured approximately from
A) 0 degrees latitude.
B) 0
degrees longitude.
C) 90 degrees
latitude.
D) 180 degrees longitude.
E) 90 degrees longitude.
12) Scale is
A) the system
used by geographers to transfer locations from a
globe to a map.
B) the extent of spread
of a phenomenon over a given area.
C)
the difference in elevation between two points in
an area.
D) the relationship between a
feature's size on a map to its actual size on
Earth.
E) the ratio of the largest to
smallest areas on a map.
13) 1:24,000 is an example of what kind
of scale?
A) bar line
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B) metric scale
C)
graphic scale
D) written scale
E) fractional scale
14) Which map would have the smallest
scale?
A) world
B) continent
C) state
D) city
E) county
15) A
system for transferring locations from a globe to
a flat map is
A) distribution.
B) interruption.
C)
rendition
D) scale.
E)
projection.
16) Map
projections can cause what kind of distortion?
A) relative size and shape
B) direction and distance
C)
topography and orientation
D) A and B
E) both A and C
17) The acquisition of data about
Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the
planet or from another
long-distance
method is
A) GIS.
B) GPS.
C) remote sensing.
D) aerial
photography.
E) USGS.
18) A computer system that can capture,
store, query, organize, analyze, and display
geographic
data is
A) GIS.
B) GPS.
C) remote sensing.
D) USGS.
E) topographic
analysis.
19) A system that
determines the precise position of something on
Earth through a series of
satellites,
tracking stations and receivers is
A)
GPS.
B) Geotracking.
C) GIS.
D) remote sensing.
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E) USGS.
20) The name given to a portion of
Earth's surface is known as
A)
location.
B) site.
C)
situation.
D) toponym.
E)
jargon.
21) Situation
identifies a place by its
A) location
relative to other places.
B)
mathematical location on Earth's surface.
C) nominal location.
D)
unique physical characteristics.
E)
primary dimensions.
22)
Site identifies a place by its
A)
location relative to other places.
B)
mathematical location on Earth's surface.
C) nominal location.
D)
unique physical characteristics.
E)
primary dimensions.
23) New
York City's ________ is characterized in part by
its extensive waterfront created from
multiple stages of landfill.
A) location
B) situation
C) site
D) toponym
E) jurisdiction
24) Location can be described by
A) site, situation and place names.
B) distribution, space and scale.
C) place, region and spatial
interaction.
D) diffusion, density and
concentration.
E) place, space and
pattern.
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25) Whereas toponyms in North
America and Australia commonly have British
origins, in South
Africa, they are
often
A) Portuguese.
B)
Dutch.
C) Spanish.
D)
French.
E) German.
26) The cultural landscape is a
combination of
A) cultural features
such as religion and language.
B)
economic features such as agriculture and
industry.
C) physical features such as
climate and vegetation.
D) all of the
above
E) none of the above
27) An area of Earth defined by one or
more distinctive characteristics is a
A) biome.
B) landscape.
C) region.
D) uniform unit.
E) ecosystem.
28) Which is not an example of a
functional region?
A) the circulation
area of a newspaper
B) the area of
dominance of a television station
C)
the market area of a supermarket
D) the
area dominated by a particular crop
E)
area served by a sports franchise
29) The South is established as a
vernacular region of the United State by which of
the following
characteristics?
A) climate
B) the Baptist
Church
C) low high school graduation
rates
D) high cotton production
E) all the above
30) The division of the United States
into congressional districts is an example of a
A) climatic region.
B)
functional region.
C) nodal region.
D) formal region.
E)
vernacular region.
31)
Globalization of the world economy is most
accurately explained by which of the following
statements?
A) leveled
economic differences between places
B)
made the world more uniform and interdependent
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