Human Geography, Practice Quiz: Chapter 01

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. Geography from the Greeks onward has had ________ components.

a) physical correct incorrect

b) human correct incorrect

c) environmental correct incorrect

d) regional correct incorrect

e) Both A and B correct incorrect

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. The concept of latitude and longitude, which describe the grids in maps, were developed by ________.

a) European civilization correct incorrect

b) Islamic civilization correct incorrect

c) Greek civilization correct incorrect

d) Asian civilization correct incorrect

e) Chinese civilization correct incorrect

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. ________ was one serious difficulty early mapmakers encountered in drawing accurate maps.

a) The lack of a printing press correct incorrect

b) How to represent a sphere on a flat surface correct incorrect

c) Describing the relationship between humans and their physical surroundings correct incorrect

d) An unmet consensus of regional boundaries correct incorrect

e) All of the above correct incorrect

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. ________ focused on human geography, or what he termed anthropogeography.

a) Carl Ritter correct incorrect

b) Alexander von Humboldt correct incorrect

c) Vidal correct incorrect

d) Friedrich Ratzel correct incorrect

e) Griffith Taylor correct incorrect

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. The first formalized definition of geography was developed in the seventeenth century by ________.

a) Gerardus Mercator correct incorrect

b) Bernhardus Varenius correct incorrect

c) Alexander von Humboldt correct incorrect

d) Friedrich Ratzel correct incorrect

e) Immanuel Kant correct incorrect

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. ________ is the view that human activities are controlled by the physical environment.

a) Environmental determinism correct incorrect

b) Spatial analysis correct incorrect

c) Regional geography correct incorrect

d) Chorology correct incorrect

e) Landschaftskunde correct incorrect

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. Chorology is another term for ________.

a) map-making correct incorrect

b) space correct incorrect

c) description correct incorrect

d) exploration correct incorrect

e) regional geography correct incorrect

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. Contemporary regional geography ________.

a) is concerned with regions as settings or locales for human activity correct incorrect

b) explains the location of geographic facts correct incorrect

c) explains the ways in which regions reflect the characteristics of the occupying society correct incorrect

d) was denounced in geography in the 1970s correct incorrect

e) Both A and C correct incorrect

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. The first North American department of geography was established in ________.

a) Salem correct incorrect

b) New York correct incorrect

c) Toronto correct incorrect

d) Montreal correct incorrect

e) Chicago correct incorrect

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. Spatial analysis incorporates ________.

a) Humanist and Marxist perspectives correct incorrect

b) quantitative approaches and techniques correct incorrect

c) possibilism correct incorrect

d) environmental determinism correct incorrect

e) simple description in regional studies correct incorrect

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. The first geography department was established in ________.

a) France correct incorrect

b) Australia correct incorrect

c) Canada correct incorrect

d) Prussia correct incorrect

e) America correct incorrect