Deck 1: Introduction to Human Geography

Question 1

Much of Kenya's income comes from:

A) oil
B) coffee and tea production
C) iron ore
D) tourism

Answer 1

B

Question 2

_____% of Kenya's land is arable.

A) 72
B) 48
C) 23
D) 8

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Geographer Carl O.Sauer is most closely connected with:

A) natural landscape
B) cultural landscape
C) regional geography
D) location theory

Answer 3

B

Question 4

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.

Question 5

The South American country with the highest average daily calorie consumption per capita is

A) Argentina
B) Peru
C) Brazil
D) Chile

Question 6

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

Question 7

Cholera vaccines exist,but the problem is that:

A) they are too expensive
B) they have serious side effects
C) many people refuse to take them
D) they do not remain effective for longer than about 6 months

Question 8

The set of processes that are increasing interactions,deepening relationships and heightening interdependence regardless of national boundaries are called __________ processes.

A) spatial
B) nationalizing
C) ecological
D) globalization

Question 9

Two countries with very high percentages of arable land are:

A) the United States and South Africa.
B) Colombia and Togo.
C) Rwanda and Poland
D) Russia and India.

Question 10

Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in:

A) China
B) India
C) Afghanistan
D) Indonesia

Question 11

In 1990,an outbreak of cholera killing over 10,000 people occurred in:

A) the Western Hemisphere
B) Africa
C) West Asia
D) Bangladesh

Question 12

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 the above

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

A) Regionalization
B) Human-environment interaction
C) Sense of place
D) Location theory

Question 15

Human geographers focus _____________

A) on how people make places.
B) on how we organize space a society.
C) on how we interact with each other in places and across space.
D) all of the above

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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 storey apartments reminiscent of:

A) London
B) Bombay
C) Nairobi
D) Paris

Question 19

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

Question 20

It is estimated that _____ of the world's population is seriously malnourished.

A) 1/20??
B) 1/10??
C) 1/6??
D)

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

A) patterns
B) distance
C) scale
D) places

Question 25

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

Question 26

The concept of culture is closely identified with:

A) archaeology
B) anthropology
C) sociology
D) psychology

Question 27

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

Question 28

Chicago's absolute location has not changed but its relative location changed markedly in 1959 because:

A) Lake Michigan shrank
B) O'Hare international airport opened
C) the St. Lawrence Seaway was opened
D) new railroads were completed

Question 29

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

Question 30

Of the 12 major perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada identified by Zelinsky,the one that is unlike any of the others is:

A) Southwest
B) New England
C) Middle Atlantic
D) the South

Question 31

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

A) cultural taste
B) poor transport systems
C) cultural barriers
D) psychological barriers

Question 32

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

Question 33

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)

Question 34

Hagerstrand emphasized that culture hearths should be viewed in the context of ______ as well as space.

A) time
B) location
C) innovations
D) population

Question 35

The physical location of a place using the Earth latitude-longitude grid is properly called the:

A) relative location
B) absolute location
C) referenced location
D) grid plan

Question 36

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) distance decay
D) cultural repulsion

Question 37

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

Question 38

The coordinates of absolute location are useful mainly in determining exact:

A) distance
B) directions
C) distance and directions
D) elevations

Question 39

Except for South and Southeast Asia,which ocean influences the moistest areas of the world?

A) Pacific
B) Indian
C) Arctic
D) Atlantic

Question 40

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

Question 41

Baseball is a cultural trait adopted by the Japanese.

Question 42

Discuss the difference between absolute and relative location. What is the absolute location of your college or university? How would you describe the relative location of the town or city where your college is located?

Question 43

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

Question 44

Details of the distribution of wealth within the United States are a feature typical of maps of Gross National Product at the global scale.

Question 45

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

Question 46

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.

Question 47

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

Question 48

Discuss the problems that "geographic illiteracy" can present to a country such as the United States in the Twenty-First Century. Give examples of the need for geographic knowledge in diverse areas such as international politics,domestic politics,economics,and popular culture.

Question 49

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

Question 50

Geographers study the spatial aspects of phenomena. This is similar to historians who study the temporal aspects of phenomena.

Question 51

Functional regions are the product of interaction and movement.

Question 52

Nineteenth Century American English contains words that are Dutch,Native American,Spanish,French and German. Most of this growth of the language was the product of:

A) multi-cultural curriculum in the schools
B) international broadcast media
C) a fashion for including exotic words
D) relocation diffusion of various groups

Question 53

The diffusion of Birkenstock shoes or of new styles of music tend to be examples of:

A) independent adoption
B) contagious diffusion
C) hierarchical diffusion
D) stimulus invention

Question 54

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

Question 55

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

Question 56

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

A) relocation diffusion
B) hierarchical diffusion
C) stimulus diffusion
D) expansion diffusion

Question 57

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

Question 58

Migration of individuals is not a form of diffusion.

Question 59

Activity spaces refer to neighborhood playgrounds in large cities.

Question 60

A city's relative location can change over time.

Question 61

Discuss mental 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.

Question 62

What is a functional region and how does it differ from a formal region? Discuss the functional region associated with a nearby metropolitan center-describe movement,communication and interaction between the metro area and its surrounding region.

Question 63

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.).

Question 64

The South region of the United States,it is argued,persists as a region which is different from other U.S.regions. Identify some of the material and nonmaterial cultural attribute associated with this region. Discuss possible boundaries of the region and 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.

Question 65

Briefly describe the difference between expansion and relocation diffusion. Give several example of each.