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Question 1:

The Greeks defined three concepts of scale, which describe the relationship between locations and the interconnectedness of places. These three concepts were ________.
a) chorography, cosmography, and teleology
b) geography, chorography, and teleology
c) chorography, geography, and topography
d) cosmography, chorography, and topography
e) cosmography, topography, and cartography

Question 2:

The concepts of latitude and longitude, which help describe the grids in maps, were developed by the ________.
a) European civilization
b) Islamic civilization
c) Greek civilization
d) Chinese civilization
e) Mesopotamian civilization

Question 3:

One serious difficulty that early mapmakers encountered in drawing accurate maps was ________.
a) the lack of printing press
b) having to represent a sphere on a flat surface
c) describing the relationship between humans and their physical surroundings
d) integrating the principles of Chinese descriptive geography
e) All of the above.

Question 4:

Geography is the study of ________.
a) human activities as they relate to their physical environment
b) the influence of the physical environment on humans
c) the human landscape
d) what it means for different people to live in a certain place
e) All of the above.

Question 5:

The first formalized definition of geography was developed in the seventeenth century by ________.
a) Gerardus Mercator
b) Bernhardus Varenius
c) Alexander von Humboldt
d) Carl Ritter
e) Friedrich Ratzel

Question 6:

Three main approaches in contemporary human geography include ________.
a) regional studies, spatial analysis, and the landscape approach
b) spatial analysis, physical geography, and the landscape approach
c) chorology, regional studies, and the landscape approach
d) regional studies, chorology, and spatial analysis
e) physical geography, spatial analysis, and chorology

Question 7:

Geography has contributed to ________.
a) exploration
b) political expansion
c) an understanding that human activities are connected to their environment
d) understanding human lifestyles
e) All of the above.

Question 8:

Contemporary regional geography ________.
a) is concerned with regions as settings or locales for human activity
b) explains the location of geographic facts
c) explains the ways in which regions reflect the characteristics of the societies occupying them
d) argues forcefully for geography as the study of regions
e) Both a and c.

Question 9:

The cause of the radical change from geographers being concerned with exploration, mapping, and description to being concerned with the ways humans and nature relate was ________.
a) the work of Immanuel Kant
b) the establishment of geography as an academic discipline
c) the work of Humboldt and Ritter
d) the ability to project a sphere onto a flat surface
e) Both b and c.

Question 10:

________ is/are central to contemporary spatial analysis.
a) Humanist and Marxist perspectives
b) Quantitative approaches and techniques
c) Possibilism
d) Environmental determinism
e) Political, cultural, and social approaches

Higher Education

Human Geography 8e: Chapter 1