Exam Questions Ch.1 Testbank Introduction To Human Geography

Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture, 12^th Edition

Chapter 01 Testbank: Introduction to Human Geography

Multiple Choice

1. Which of these South American countries has the highest percent of undernourished population?

a) Argentina

b) Peru

c) Bolivia

d) Chile

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

2. Most of the one billion malnourished people in the world:

a) have little power

b) have little money

c) are women or children

d) all of these choices are correct.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

3. Two countries with very high percentages of arable land are:

a) the United States and South Africa.

b) Colombia and Togo.

c) India and Ukraine

d) Egypt and Mongolia

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..

4. Much of Kenya’s income comes from:

a) oil

b) coffee and tea production

c) iron ore

d) tourism

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.1 Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..

5. Which of the following countries has the lowest percentage of arable land?

a) Bangladesh

b) India

c) Poland

d) Norway

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

6. The type of process increases interactions deepens relationships and heightens interdependence regardless of national boundaries.

a) spatial

b) nationalizing

c) ecological

d) globalization

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

7. Human geographers focus on:

a) how people make places.

b) how we organize space as a society.

c) how we interact with each other in places and across space.

d) all of these choices are correct.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

8. The branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms, climate, soils and vegetation of the Earth is:

a) cultural geography

b) human geography

c) physical geography

d) biogeography

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

9. The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows:

a) the arrangement and organization of things on the surface to the Earth

b) the history of an area

c) human activity only

d) the political impact of boundaries

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

10. Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in:

a) China

b) India

c) Afghanistan

d) Indonesia

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

11. By the time the last great cholera pandemic began in 1865, people knew to take precautions against _____ and ended the great waves of cholera.

a) traveling in groups

b) contaminated water

c) eating canned food

d) improper disposal of garbage

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

12. Outbreaks of cholera in Yemen in 2016 infected an estimated

a) 1 million people.

b) 500,000 people.

c) 250,000 people.

d) 100,000 people.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..

13. Cholera vaccines exist, but the problem is that:

a) they are costly and have limited effectiveness

b) they have serious side effects and can be deadly

c) many people refuse to take them

d) many people may not know the vaccine is available

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

14. Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact of the drainage of part of the Florida Everglades?

a) human-environment

b) movement

c) place

d) location

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

15. _________________ refers to the infusing of a locality with meaning and emotion.

a) Regionalization

b) Human-environment interaction

c) Sense of place

d) Location theory

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

16. The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network is referred to as:

a) spatial interaction.

b) movement.

c) landscape.

d) connectivity.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

17. Geographer Carl O. Sauer is most closely connected with:

a) natural landscape

b) cultural landscape

c) regional geography

d) location theory

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

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18. In their study on students’ perceptions of place, Gould and White found that

a) students would prefer to live near the Rocky Mountains.

b) students would prefer to live in Utah over California.

c) students have no place preferences.

d) students have a strong bias for their home region.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

19. The cultural landscape of Dar es Salaam is a composite of several different culture groups which have administered the place. British policy stimulated the development of a district of 3 to 4 story apartments reminiscent of:

a) London

b) Bombay

c) Nairobi

d) Paris

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

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20. Latitude and longitude are most useful in determining:

a) relative location

b) topography

c) absolute location

d) elevations

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the world.

21. The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called:

a) absolute location

b) site

c) relative location

d) index of placeness

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms:

Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the world.

22. Chicago’s relative location has changed over time with:

a) the building of new railroads.

b) the opening of O’Hare international airport.

c) the construction of Interstate Highways system.

d) all of these choices are correct.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the world.

23. The mental map you have of places you routinely visit is a map of your:

a) neighborhood.

b) inner world.

c) region.

d) activity spaces.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the world.

24. Which of the following regions generally receives the most precipitation?

a) North Africa

b) Southwest Asia

c) Eastern Europe

d) Southeast Asia

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the world.

25. The concern of geography with space puts _________ at the center of its agenda.

a) patterns

b) distance

c) scale

d) places

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: knowledge

Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the world.

26. A good example of a formal region would be a:

a) region surrounding a manufacturing complex

b) city and its surrounding region

c) region of similar language

d) region showing the migration to a central location

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

27. A good example of a functional region would be:

a) a city and its surrounding region

b) region where everyone speaks French

c) region where farming practices are the same

d) region of a similar climate

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

28. The cultural geographer Wilbur Zelinsky approached the task of defining and delimiting the perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada by analyzing:

a) results from thousands of personal interviews.

b) results of census data.

c) contents of hundreds of telephone directories of metropolitan areas.

d) data of social workers.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

29. Of the 12 major perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada identified by Zelinsky, the one that has changed markedly since the Civil Rights era is:

a) Southwest.

b) New England.

c) Middle Atlantic.

d) the South.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

30. Culture is a subject also studied by:

a) archaeologists.

b) anthropologists.

c) geologists.

d) psychologists.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in human geography.

31. Cultural geographers identify a single element of normal practice (e.g. cattle herding)

as:

a) a culture trait.

b) a cultural peculiarity.

c) a culture region.

d) a cultural heritage.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in Human Geography.

32. A cultural complex is defined as:

a) a single trait spread over a geographic region.

b) a discrete combination of traits, for example Masaai cattle herding.

c) several groups sharing the same trait.

d) several groups occupying the same region.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in Human Geography..

33. The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge and skills from their place of origin to other areas where they are adopted is called:

a) diffusion.

b) adjustment.

c) spreading.

d) cultural invasion.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in Human Geography..

34. Hagerstrand emphasized that culture hearths should be viewed in the context of space and:

a) time.

b) location.

c) innovations.

d) population.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in human geography.

35. The greater the distance from the hearth the less likely an innovation will be adopted.

This is referred to as:

a) inverse innovation rule.

b) adoption avoidance.

c) time-distance decay.

d) cultural repulsion.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

36. The lack of penetration of alcoholic beverages in Islamic regions illustrates the effect of what on cultural diffusion?

a) cultural taste

b) poor transport systems

c) cultural barriers

d) psychological barriers

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in human geography..

37. The diffusion of the idea of the hamburger to India but with a vegetable patty instead of the religiously prohibited beef is an example of:

a) cultural mimicry.

b) cultural barrier.

c) stimulus diffusion.

d) independent invention.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in human geography.

38. Which of the following is not an example of a form of expansion diffusion?

a) hierarchical

b) stimulus

c) contagions

d) independent invention (ancient agricultural hearths)

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

39. The spread of disease where nearly all adjacent individuals are affected is an example of:

a) relocation diffusion.

b) independent infection.

c) contagious diffusion.

d) stimulus diffusion.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 124: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

40. The diffusion of Under Armour is an example of:

a) independent adoption.

b) contagious diffusion.

c) hierarchical diffusion.

d) stimulus invention.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

41. Which form of diffusion cannot be transmitted by media (television, internet, radio)?

a) relocation diffusion

b) hierarchical diffusion

c) stimulus diffusion

d) expansion diffusion

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

42. The notion that cultural factors are the product of environmental conditions (e.g. the ancient Greek idea that Europeans were fierce and brutish because of the cold climate), is an example of:

a) environmental prejudice.

b) modern environmental psychology.

c) environmental determinism.

d) environmental possibilism.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

43. The study of human cultures and their ability to adapt and exist within a particular physical environment is called:

a) possibilism.

b) cultural ecology.

c) culture history.

d) cultural determinism.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

True/False

44. The world’s cultures live in spatial isolation and show little change that is the result of interaction and diffusion.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

45. Geographers study the spatial aspects of phenomena.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

46. The study of landforms, climates, and environmental change is referred to as physical geography.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..

47. The cause of cholera was deduced by mapping the spatial relationship between the use of particular London public wells and the incidence of cholera infection.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..

48. Cholera outbreaks have not occurred in the Twentieth Century and never in the Western Hemisphere.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..

49. A city’s relative location can change over time.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

50. Activity spaces refer to neighborhood playgrounds in large cities.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the world.

51. A world map of Gross National Product would show details of wealth distribution across the United States.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.1: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the world.

52. Functional regions are the product of interaction and movement.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

53. Diffusion which proceeds through the levels of an urban hierarchy, from largest to smallest places, is hierarchical diffusion.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

54. Migration of individuals is a form of diffusion.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

Essay

56. Identify and explain why geographic thinking is important. Illustrate examples of the need for geographic knowledge in diverse areas such as international politics, domestic politics, economics, and popular culture.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.

57. Examine the difference between absolute and relative location. Identify the absolute location of your school? How would you describe the relative location of the town or city where your school is located?

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

58. Analyze and explain perceptual geography from two personal perspectives: the mental map of your activity spaces and the map of your preferred place of residence in the United States.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

59. Describe the use of spatial analysis in the discovery of the cause of cholera. Give one or two examples of the spatial aspects of diseases, which are commonly in the news (e.g. AIDS, flu, etc.).

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..

60. Differentiate between a formal and functional region. Describe the functional region associated with a nearby metropolitan center.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

61. Contrast expansion and relocation diffusion, giving several examples of each.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts

62. The South has unique characteristics that differ from the rest of the United States. Identify some of the material and nonmaterial cultural attributes associated with this region. Discuss possible boundaries of the region and distinguish what you would use to establish the boundaries. In your opinion, is the South becoming more or less like the rest of the country? Give evidence for your opinion.

Difficulty: Hard

Blooms: Evaluation

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts

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