WorksheetsCH 1 Key Issue 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 50mins
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.
