Regional (area) analysis emphasizes interactions among places,
whereas spatial (locational) analysis integrates the geographic
feature of an area.
True
False
A formal region contains a selected feature or trend throughout.
True
False
Environmental determinism is the belief that the physical
environment is a significant causal factor in human behavior.
True
False
Some attempts to alter the physical environment for the
betterment of humans, like water-control efforts in South Florida,
have had unforeseen and negative consequences.
True
False
What map scale would a cartographer choose if one inch of road
on a map represents 54,000 inches on the ground?
1:54,000
1:24,000
54,000:1
24,000/1
Transferring locations from Earth's surface to a flat map is called
projection. What types of distortion can occur in this transference?
The direction from one place to another can be distorted.
The relative size of different areas may be altered.
The shape of an area can be distorted.
The distance between two points may be incorrect.
All of the above are true.
What is a pandemic?
A. A local outbreak of a disease.
B. A worldwide outbreak of a disease.
A disease that is always present in an
C.
environment.
D.
An outbreak of a disease for which there is no
cure.
Which of the following is not one of the five themes of
geography?
A. location
B. place
C. movement
D. history
The art and science of making maps is referred to as:
A. cartography.
B. cartogramography.
C. mapology.
D. None of the above.
GPS stands for:
A. Geographic Positioning System.
B. Global Positioning System.
C. Global Point System.
D. Geographic Positioning Schematic.
GIS stands for:
A. Geographic Information Systems.
B. Global Information Systems.
C. Global Interaction System.
D. Geographic Interactive Systems.
What is s cultural hearth?
A.
An area where more than 1000 different cultures
exist together.
B.
An area where people gather to discuss and pass
down their culture.
C. An area where cultural traits die or cease to exist.
D.
An area where cultural traits develop and from
which the cultural traits diffuse.
The way the common cold spreads is an example of
which type of diffusion?
A. Expansion
B. Contagious
C. Stimulus
D. Relocation
The spread of fashion is typically an example of which
type of diffusion?
A. Expansion
B. Contagious
C. Hierarchical
D. Stimulus
Which of the following statements regarding possibilism
is true?
The natural environment determines the choices
A.
available to a culture.
B.
The natural environment merely serves to limit
the range of choices available to a culture.
C.
Climate is the critical factor in how human
behave.
D.
Some climates are better for production than
others.
The vast majority of the 1 billion malnourished people on
the Earth are women and children.
A. True
B. False
Global food distribution is usually distributed evenly.
A. True
B. False
The best-fed countries have the most arable (farmable)
land.
A. True
B. False
Absolute and relative location are interchangeable terms.
A. True
B. False
A functional region is the product of interactions, of
movement of various kinds.
A. True
B. False
Chapter 1
Human Geography
Physical Geography
Poverty
Per capita income
Calorie consumption
Arable land
Globalization
Spatial perspective
Pandemic
Epidemic
Medical geography
5 Themes of geography
Region: formal, functional, perceptual
Place
Location
Cultural landscape
Sequent occupance
Traditions of Geography
Culture: trait, complex, hearth, independent invention, cultural barriers,
Expansion diffusion, contagious diffusion, relocation diffusion
GIS
GPS
Maps
Simplification
Generalization
Aggregation
Reference
Thematic
Isoline
Choropleth
Proportional symbol
Rescaling
Scale
distortion
Projection: Mercator, Mollweide, Dymaxion, Van Der Gruten, Robinson, Polar/Azimuthal
Environmental determinism
Possibilism