APHG Ch.1.1/1.2

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

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

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

• C) They are dedicated primarily to managing national park systems.

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

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

• A) Geographers organize material spatially while historians organize material chronologically.

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

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

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

3) The relationship among people and objects across space is defined as

• A) scale.

• B) connection.

• C) diffusion.

• D) density.

4) A geographer's spatial analysis would entail

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

• B) confining the analysis to political boundaries.

• C) restrictive examination of government control of territory.

• D) examining only physical characteristics of the globe.

5) Which of the following is NOT true?

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

• B) Space refers to the physical gap between two objects.

• C) Place is a specific point on earth distinguished by specific qualities.

• D) Space and place are the same thing.

6) Which of the following statements is most correct regarding the origins of geography?

• A) Geography was invented as a science in the late eighteenth century.

• B) Physical geography has been studied since ancient times, but human geography was first studied in the twentieth century.

• C) Geography owes its existence to the Renaissance period in Western Europe.

• D) Humans have practiced geography at least since the time of ancient Greek civilization.

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

• A) Aristotle.

• B) Eratosthenes.

• C) Strabo.

• D) Thales of Miletus.

8) The art and science of making maps is

• A) cardemography.

• B) cartography

• C) topography.

• D) geomorphology.

9) Dating back to approximately 6000 BCE, we can judge that

• A) fairly accurate navigational maps could only be produced after the start of the Industrial Revolution.

• B) the first "true" maps appeared because of modern printing presses in the twentieth century.

• C) sailors during the European Renaissance had paper maps that were far more useful to them than were the "stick charts" possessed by Polynesian sailors and fishers.

• D) maps have appeared in many forms in different societies and times, including modern paper maps, GPS in cars, and the urban maps of ancient Turkey.

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

• A) GIS.

• B) GPS.

• C) remote sensing.

• D) USGS.