human geography unit 1 review

In 1854, London physician Dr. John Snow mapped the spatial relationship between deaths from the waterborne disease cholera and the locations of water pumps which brought in water directly from tunnels connected to the River Thames. From Snow’s research it was determined that a public water pump had been contaminated by sewage.

What geographic principle explains the significance of Snow’s research?

• As cities remove natural resources from the landscape, those resources become insignificant.

• Once water enters an area of urban land use, that water is no longer considered a natural resource.

• As cities remove natural resources from the landscape, those resources become insignificant.

• Even in areas of urban land use, there is a significant relationship between nature and society

Which of the following questions must be answered in order to identify a functional region?

• What do people call the region?

• What specific characteristic defines a region?

• What area is influenced by a node?

• What languages are spoken in the area?

For centuries, sugar crystals were made from the evaporated juice of sugarcane, a plant grown only in tropical and subtropical climates. In the 1800s, industrial methods were developed to manufacture crystalline sugar from sugar beets. This allowed for large amounts of sugar to be produced in colder, temperate climate zones.

Which of the following geographic concepts best explains the ability of humans to use technology to overcome the limitations of climate and modify the landscape?

• Environmental determinism

• Cultural relativism

• Possibilism

• Contagious diffusion

• Political ecology

Which of the following map scales would be used for the topographic map shown?

• 1:500,000

• 1:24,000

• 1:5,000,000

• 1:250,000

• 1:1,000,000

Based on the geospatial data in the example shown, which combination of technologies provides real-time data to emergency call centers to route police, fire, and ambulance vehicles directly to incidents in the shortest possible travel time?

• Digital radio signals and vehicle call signs

• Social media sites and paper map atlases

• Remote sensing satellites and cellular telephone towers

• Census databases and property tax records

• Geographic information systems and global positioning satellites

Which of the following patterns is evident on the map of population density?

• The Rocky Mountains are more densely populated than the Southwest

• The Great Plains are less densely populated than the Midwest.

• The Pacific Coast is far less populated than the Atlantic Coast of the United States

• Which of the following patterns is evident on the map of population density?

• The Midwest is much more densely populated than the Southeast.

The data presented in the map shown depict

• elevation topographic map

• taxation in a flow-line map

• latitude in a Robinson projection

• longitude in a Mercator projection

• population in a cartogram

In his book My Tears Spoiled My Aim, John Shelton Reed explains the difficulty of defining the American South.

“Where is the South? . . . The South is, to begin with, a concept—and a shared one. It’s an idea that people can talk about, think about, use to orient themselves and each other. People know whether they’re in it or not.”

Based on Reed’s explanation, the South is best described as which kind of region?

• Vernacular

• Functional

• Linguistic

• Formal

• Peripheral

The maps show data most likely collected through

• election results

• informal observation

• satellite imagery

• interviews

• census surveys

Which of the following statements best explains the concept of sustainability?

• Natural resource use should be balanced with the needs of the environment and future generations because many resources are nonrenewable.

• Natural resources will be replaced by technological goods because of concerns that all natural resources will become obsolete within the next generation.

• Natural resources should be used until they become too scarce or too expensive because of the immediate need for human survival.

• Natural resources are the domain of humans because of the ability of humans to take appropriate action for their use without fear of resource depletion.

• Natural resource use should generate economic profits because of the new technologies that make procuring the resources cost effective.