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Practice Quiz Chapter 01
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_________ is the study of patterns and processes of the earth's human or social environments.
a) Physical geography
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b) Geographical perspective
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c) Human geography
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d) Sense of place
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e) Regionalization
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Saint John, New Brunswick, Spirit Lake, Yukon; and Devil Island Manitoba are all examples of _________ toponyms
a) personal
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b) imported
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c) religious
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d) event-related
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e) optimistic/pessimistic
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_________ is an example of a non-religious sacred space.
a) Mecca
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b) Jerusalem
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c) A church
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d) The World Trade Centre
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e) A shopping mall
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_________ is the process of geographic phenomena spreading over space and through time.
a) Pattern
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b) Concentration
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c) Spatial distribution
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d) Friction of distance
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e) Diffusion
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_________ is the "First Law of Geography."
a) What is where, why there, why care?
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b) Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things
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c) One must understand geography to understand the world
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d) In order to have an understanding of geography, we need to focus on both the physical and human
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e) Geography is about explaining the underlying causes of the observed spatial distributions of people, places, and natural phenomena
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_________ is the art and science of making maps.
a) Cartography
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b) Projection
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c) Geographic information science
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d) Cartogram
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e) Fieldwork
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Daylight Savings Time (DST) is mostly practised in _________.
a) North America and Central Asia
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b) Northern Africa and Southeast Asia
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c) North America and Western Europe
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d) Western Europe and Central America
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e) North America and Oceania
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Distortion is the largest at a _________ scale.
a) regional
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b) local
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c) national
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d) global
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e) continental
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_________ is a series of techniques used for collecting spatial data through instruments that are physically distant from the object of study.
a) Global positioning systems
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b) Computer-assisted cartography
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c) Geographic information systems
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d) Remote sensing
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e) Fieldwork
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To be geographically aware, one must _________.
a) memorize the capital of obscure countries
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b) memorize obscure places within more centrally important countries
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c) understand people, places, and the interactions between them
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d) know the key commodity exports of particular countries
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e) use the knowledge of past events to understand how that is relevant to today
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