Chapter 1 Test Eastern Geography Mod

Your street address describes

• absolute location

• your society

• your enviroment

• relative location

Globes can show

• a flat representation of the Earth's surface

• the world as it really is

• 
  The phases of the moon.

• 
  specific information about a place such as street names

The studies of cities and how people live in them is

• Mountain formation

• River systems

• Urban geography

• Climate patterns

The Rocky Mountains are a region defined by

• physical characteristics

• language characteristics

• human charcteristics

• religious characteristics

Which of the following would a human geographer study?

• weather and climate

• soils and plants

• maps and globes

• 
  economics and politics

Questions about why rivers flow in a certain direction are part of

• physical geography

• meteorology

• human geography

• social science

Economic geography is the study of

• the impact of climate

• how people live in cities

• making maps

• how people make and spend money

Common needs of all humans are food, water, and

• tools

• 
  shelter

• money

• 
  land

Which of the following is an essential element of geography

• latitude

• movement

• relative location

• 
  uses of geography

Geographers look at the world

• by studying cities first

• by studying physical features only

• at the local, regional, and global levels

• as separate regions with no effect on each other