Norton, Ninth Edition: Chapter 01

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Question 1:

Geography from the Greeks onward has had ________ components.
a) physical
b) human
c) environmental
d) regional
e) Both A and B

Question 2:

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

Question 3:

________ was one serious difficulty early mapmakers encountered in drawing accurate maps.
a) The lack of a printing press
b) How to represent a sphere on a flat surface
c) Describing the relationship between humans and their physical surroundings
d) An unmet consensus of regional boundaries
e) All of the above

Question 4:

________ focused on human geography, or what he termed anthropogeography.
a) Carl Ritter
b) Alexander von Humboldt
c) Vidal
d) Friedrich Ratzel
e) Griffith Taylor

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) Friedrich Ratzel
e) Immanuel Kant

Question 6:

________ is the view that human activities are controlled by the physical environment.
a) Environmental determinism
b) Spatial analysis
c) Regional geography
d) Chorology
e) Landschaftskunde

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 occupying society
d) was denounced in geography in the 1970s
e) Both A and C

Question 9:

The first North American department of geography was established in ________.
a) Salem
b) New York
c) Toronto
d) Montreal
e) Chicago

Question 10:

Spatial analysis incorporates ________.
a) Humanist and Marxist perspectives
b) quantitative approaches and techniques
c) possibilism
d) environmental determinism
e) simple description in regional studies

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Norton, Ninth Edition: Chapter 01