Prestest 1

Question 1

What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?

Answer 1

They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do.

Question 2

Scale is

Answer 2

The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape.

Question 3

1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?

Answer 3

A ratio or fraction

Question 4

A mathematical process for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is a(n)

Answer 4

Projection

Question 5

The art and science of making maps is

Answer 5

Cartography

Question 6

You are given the coordinates 128 E longitude, 45 N latitude. This is an example of a

Answer 6

Mathematical location.

Question 7

Which statement is more accurate?

Answer 7

Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end.

Question 8

Greenwhich Mean Time is measured from

Answer 8

0 degrees longitude

Question 9

The International Date Line is measured approximately from

Answer 9

180 degrees longitude

Question 10

A map projection may distort a continent, making it appear stretched in some areas and smashed n others in order to

Answer 10

Depict accurately the physical area of a country or continent

Question 11

If the surface is 1:100,000, then 1 centimeter on the map represents ____ on Earths’s surface.

Answer 11

1 kilometer

Question 12

Which of the following types of maps would have the largest scale?

Answer 12

City

Question 13

Distortion is especially severe and apparent on

Answer 13

Small-scale maps

Question 14

Without glancing at a map, we can guess that the coordinates 20 S latitude, 178 E longitude are likely

Answer 14

In the Pacific Ocean just west of the International date line

Question 15

Driving around gathering information from street navigation devices is called

Answer 15

Ground truthing

Question 16

The acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite, spacecraft, or specially equipped high-altitude balloon is

Answer 16

Remote sensing

Question 17

A computer system the stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is

Answer 17

GIS

Question 18

Global positioning systems reference ____ location

Answer 18

Mathematical

Question 19

The name of a location on earths surface is a

Answer 19

Toponym

Question 20

Situation identifies a place by its

Answer 20

Location relative to other objects or places

Question 21

Site identifies a place by its

Answer 21

Unique physical characteristics

Question 22

New York city’s ____ is approximately 100 miles northeast of Philadelphia and 100 miles southwest of Boston

Answer 22

Situation

Question 23

Which of the following are fundamental elements of culture

Answer 23

Customary beliefs, material traits and social forms

Question 24

The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of other phenomena is

Answer 24

Spatial association

Question 25

An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics is a(n)

Answer 25

Region

Question 26

The nine regions that the census bureau has established within the United States are examples of

Answer 26

Formal regions

Question 27

The south is established as a vernacular region of the United States by

Answer 27

Climate, low educational attainment, cotton production, and the prevalence of baptist churches

Question 28

Which of the following is most likely a functional region

Answer 28

The area of dominance of a television station

Question 29

Which of the following best describes the idea of a cultural landscape

Answer 29

A landscape where human activity has modified the natural environment in some way

Question 30

To geographers, the spread of McDonalds around the world represents

Answer 30

Economic and cultural globalization

Question 31

Globalization of the economy has

Answer 31

Heightened economic differences among places

Question 32

Common practices of _____, include exploiting the distinctive economic assets of different countries and regions, organizing production according to a spatial division of labor, placing earnings in offshore bank accounts to avoid paying taxes, and moving factories from high wage regions to low wage regions

Answer 32

Transnational corporations

Question 33

The township and range system

Answer 33

Established a gridlike pattern for much of present-day land use in the United States

Question 34

The arrangement of a phenomenon across earths surface is

Answer 34

Distribution

Question 35

The frequency of something within a given unit of area is

Answer 35

Density

Question 36

A _____ is the spread of something over a given study area

Answer 36

Concentration

Question 37

In this figure, which two boxes have the highest concentration of dots

Answer 37

(B,D)

Question 38

In this figure, which two boxes have the highest density of dots

Answer 38

(A,D)

Question 39

A hearth is

Answer 39

A region from which a phenomenon originates

Question 40

Which of the following are forms of expansion diffusion

Answer 40

Contagious and hierarchical

Question 41

The historic diffusion of HIV/AIDS in the United States is an example of which type of diffusion

Answer 41

Contagious

Question 42

The concept that the physical environment sets broad limits on human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to a wide variety of physical environments is

Answer 42

Possibilism

Question 43

The study of how humans and the environment interact is called

Answer 43

Cultural ecology

Question 44

According to environmental determinism

Answer 44

The physical environment causes different types of social and cultural development

Question 45

The three pillars of sustainability are

Answer 45

Society, economy, and environment

Question 46

The biosphere system is made up of all the living organisms on the earth. The abiotic (or nonliving) system is made up of three subsystems,

Answer 46

Atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere