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APHUG Chapter 1 Quiz

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the science of mapmaking called?

a)

Cartography

b)

Geography

c)

Projection

d)

Chromatography

e)

Seismography

2.

Which person coined the term "geography"

a)

Ptolemy

b)

Carl Sauer

c)

Eratosthenes

d)

Pei Xiu

e)

Muhammed al-Idrisi

3.

What are the different ways to represent a map scale?

a)

Ratio/Fraction

b)

Graphic

c)

Written

d)

Options A,B, and C

e)

None of the Above

4.

What is the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map called?

a)

Prediction

b)

Estimation

c)

Flattening

d)

Projection

e)

Distortion

5.

Which of the following are things that a projection can distort?

a)

Direction

b)

Distance

c)

Relative Size

d)

Shape

e)

All of the Above

6.

What is the advantage of the Mercator Projection?

a)

Distorts distance very little

b)

Distorts shape very little

c)

Distorts relative size very little

d)

Distorts direction very little

e)

Maintains size of the oceans

7.

What is the name of the meridian that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England?

a)

Parallel

b)

Latitude

c)

Longitude

d)

Grid

e)

Prime Meridian

8.

What is the name of the line drawn that mostly follows 180 degrees longitude?

a)

International Date Line

b)

Equator

c)

Prime Meridian

d)

Greenwich Line

e)

Line of Universal Time

9.

Which of the following is the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite?

a)

Geographic Information Science

b)

Global Positioning System

c)

Remote Sensing

d)

Mashup

e)

Distanced Geography

10.

What is the benefit of the Robinson Projection?

a)

Distorting relative size very little

b)

Distorting shape very little

c)

Distorting distance very little

d)

Displaying information across the oceans

e)

Distorting direction very little

11.

What is a specific point on Earth with a particular characteristic?

a)

Site

b)

Place

c)

Location

d)

Situation

e)

Toponym

12.

Which of the following are ways through which toponyms are derived?

a)

After a person

b)

After the origin of its settlers

c)

From features of the physical landscape

d)

Through the Board of Geographical Names

e)

All of the above

13.

Which of the following are ways to describe a location?

a)

Site

b)

Situation

c)

Population

d)

A and B

e)

None of the above

14.

What is an area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics?

a)

Region

b)

Place

c)

Location

d)

Landscape

e)

Culture

15.

Who said the following quote:

"Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the result."

a)

Jean Brunhes

b)

Paul Vidal de la Blanche

c)

Carl Sauer

d)

Robert Platt

e)

None of the above

16.

What is an area within which everyone shares one or more common trait/characteristic?

a)

Formal Region

b)

Functional Region

c)

Vernacular Region

d)

Mental Map

e)

Cultural Landscape

17.

What is a region organized around a single focal point?

a)

Formal Region

b)

Functional Region

c)

Perceptual Region

d)

Mind Map

e)

Cultural Landscape

18.

What is an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity?

a)

Formal Region

b)

Functional Region

c)

Perceptual Region

d)

Mind Map

e)

Cultural Landscape

19.

What is the main thing geographers study when studying culture?

a)

Works produced by talented individuals

b)

What people care about

c)

Spatial Association

d)

What people take care of

e)

Both B and D

20.

What is the concept that different conclusions may be reached concerning a region's characteristics, depending on the scale?

a)

Scale-Based Ambiguity

b)

Spatial association

c)

Observational Expansion

d)

Size-Change Distinction

e)

None of the above

21.

What is the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole?

a)

Scale

b)

Size

c)

Distance Comparison

d)

Area Expansion

e)

Relative Juxtaposition

22.

What is a rapid increase in the value of houses followed by a rapid decrease?

a)

Erratic econo-realtorship

b)

Housing Bubble

c)

Later

d)

Recessive Architectural Value

e)

Globalization

23.

What is an organization that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries?

a)

Global Business

b)

Transnational Corporation

c)

Worldwide Bureau

d)

International Agency

e)

Intercontinental Institution

24.

What is the force or process that involves the entire world and results in the making of something worldwide in scope?

a)

International Diffusion

b)

Widespread Alliance

c)

Globalization

d)

Worldwide Agreements

e)

None of the Above

25.

What is the physical gap or interval between two objects called?

a)

Separation

b)

Farness

c)

Distance

d)

Space

e)

Remoteness

26.

What is the frequency with which something occurs in space?

a)

Concentration

b)

Amount

c)

Quantity

d)

Size

e)

Density

27.

Which of the following is a property of distribution?

a)

Density

b)

Concentration

c)

Pattern

d)

All of the Above

e)

None of the Above

28.

Which of the following are ways to describe concentration?

a)

Clustered

b)

Erratic

c)

Dispersed

d)

A and C

e)

None of the Above

29.

What is a place from which an innovation originates?

a)

Source

b)

Hearth

c)

Birthplace

d)

Root

e)

Derivation

30.

What are the different types of diffusion?

a)

Hierarchial

b)

Contagious

c)

Stimulus

d)

None of the Above

e)

A,B, and C

31.

What are the key differences between renewable and nonrenewable resource?

a)

Renewable resources are produced faster than they are consumed, while nonrenewable resources are the opposite

b)

Renewable resources are naturally occurring while nonrenewable resources are man-made

c)

Renewable resources aren't sustainable, while nonrenewable resources are

d)

Renewable resources can't be misused, while nonrenwable resources can.

e)

Renewable resources can be misused, while nonrenewable resources can't.

32.

What is the usage of Earth's resources in a way to ensure availability?

a)

Rationing

b)

Sustainability

c)

Limitation

d)

Apportionment

e)

Allocation

33.

Which of the following systems of Earth are abiotic?

a)

Atmospher

b)

Biosphere

c)

Lithosphere

d)

Hydrosphere

e)

A, B, and C

34.

What is the system that divides the world into 5 major climate regions?

a)

Sauer System

b)

Humboldt Classification

c)

Koppen System

d)

Ritter Organization

e)

de la Blanche Structure

35.

Which of the following people pioneered environmental determinism?

a)

Carl Ritter

b)

Alexander von Humboldt

c)

Carl Sauer

d)

A and B

e)

None of the Above

36.

What is the idea that the physical environment may have some limit on humans, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment?

a)

Possiblism

b)

Environmental Determinism

c)

Adaptability

d)

Naturalization

e)

Acclimation

37.

What is a piece of land that is created by draining water from an area?

a)

Levee

b)

Polder

c)

Sewer

d)

Swamp

e)

Floodgate

38.

What causes soil destruction?

a)

Pesticides

b)

Erosion

c)

Aridity

d)

Depletion of nutrients

e)

B and D

39.

What is the geographic study of human-environment relationships called?

a)

Symbiosis

b)

Analysis

c)

Zoology

d)

Cultural Ecology

e)

Environmentalism

40.

What is the view that the value of nature does not derive from human needs and interests but from the act that every plant and animal living on Earth has a right to exist?

a)

Preservation

b)

Conservation

c)

Environmentalism

d)

Green Movement

e)

Natural Value

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