CH 1 Key Issue 1

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

• They are taught or studied within the same department in major universities, but only rarely.

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

• They are dedicated primarily to managing national park systems.

• They are focused primarily on managing the world's growing human population.

• They represent a network of academic professionals dedicated primarily to studying coal mining's effects on physical and human systems.

Which of the following does NOT distinguish Geographers from Historians according to Immanuel Kant?

• Geographers organize material spatially while historians organize material chronologically

• Geographers identify the location and explain why human activities are there while historians focus on chronological events at a particular location.

• Geographers ask "where and why" and historians ask "when and why."

• Geographers examine the world as a whole while historians segment the world into regions for easier examination.

• Geographers recognize actions at one location can influence conditions elsewhere while historians examine past actions to explain future actions.

The relationship among people and objects across space is defined as

• scale

• connection

• diffusion

• density

• location

A geographer's spatial analysis would entail

• examining relationships and patterns across the physical distance between two objects.

• confining the analysis to political boundaries.

• restrictive examination of government control of territory.

• examining only physical characteristics of the globe.

• observing conditions only from a planetary and universal scale

Which of the following is NOT true?

• Scale is the relationship between a portion of the earth being studied and the whole earth.

• Space refers to the physical gap between two objects

• Place is a specific point on earth distinguished by specific qualities

• Space and place are the same thing

• Scale may be represented by a city block, a neighborhood, a city boundary or an entire metropolitan. area.

According to the surviving evidence, the first person to write the word geography was

• Aristotle.

• Eratosthenes.

• Strabo.

• Thales of Miletus.

• Thucydides.

The art and science of making maps is

• cardemography

• cartography.

• topography.

• geomorphology.

• geography.

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

• GIS

• GPS

• remote sensing

• USGS

• topographic analysis

Global Positioning Systems reference ________ location.

• relative

• situational

• mathematical

• toponymic

• only military

Greenwich Mean Time is measured from

• 0 degrees latitude.

• 0 degrees longitude

• 90 degrees latitude.

• 180 degrees longitude.

• 90 degrees longitude.