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WorksheetsGEOG 105
Total questions: 113
Worksheet time: 57mins
In 1919, the largest long-distance telegraph and telephone office was occupied by:
AT&T and Western Union
Western Union
neither
AT&T
The first successful transatlantic communications using telegraph cables took place between
Newfoundland and Ireland
the US and Great Britain
Japan and China
the US and Greenlad
The first major use of the electromechanical tabulator was for:
medical records
business accounting
railroad fares
census tabulation
Telephone connections in the US began in the ________, before spreading ________ throughout the twentieth century.
south, northbound
west coast, eastward
east coast, westward
north, southward
The first two-way telephone call made in the US was between:
Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts
New York City and New Jersey
Los Angeles and Berkeley
Chicago and St. Louis
The first internet message was sent between:
NYU and Columbia University
UC Berkeley and UCLA
University of Chicago and Harvard
UCLA and Stanford
In the client-server model, messages from devices are routed through _____ before reaching their destination.
servers
clients
modeling systems
peer-to-peer networks
The first regional internet connections were routed through facilities called:
Cellular Tower Operators
Network Access Points
Regional Internet Hubs
Server Client Nodes
The physical ‘backbone’ of data routes across the world is called the
Network Access Lines
Internet
Telecommunications network
World Wide Web
The first international connection with Arpanet was with:
University College of London
the Sorbonne
the University of Edinburgh
Oxford University
The first undersea telegraph cables were laid in the:
Tigris River
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
The first post office appeared in:
Japan
British India
The US
The UK
The first government agency to use telegraphs in the US was the:
Police Department
Fire Department
Post Office
Transportation Authority
The oldest known road networks led into and out of:
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Stonehenge
Timbuktu
In networks, the centralized points that connections run through are called:
edges
connectors
vectors
nodes
The first packet switching node was:
Network Access Point
Interface Message Processor
Transmission Network Source
Cloud Server Farm
The High Performance Computing Act (1991) provided funding to private firms to build:
Server farms
Storage facilities
Network Access Points
End offices
The type of packet switching that sends messages across the internet in sequential order is called:
Correction-Oriented
Bi-correctional
Correctional
Correctionless
In Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, IP defines how packets of information are:
devices
addressed
broken down
reassembled
The World Wide Web refers to the:
the hardware that makes internet searches possible
the original telegraph cables
physical infrastructure that transfers data
the content that is accessed through the internet via applications
The digital divide manifests itself:
Between countries
Within countries
Within cities
all of the above
The disparity in ownership of digital devices is referred to as unequal access to:
educational inequality
information communications technologies (ICT)
broadband disparity
computer literacy
The digital divide can cause uneven access to:
broadband
knowledge
devices
infrastructure
The notion that information technology will lead to economic inequality across nations is called the ____ thesis:
sanctification
normalization
stratification
notification
The notion that information technology will lead to economic equality across nations is called the ____ thesis:
stratification
sanctification
normalization
notification
In addition to devices, the digital divide refers to unevenly distributed:
devices
infrastructure
broadband
knowledge
all of the above
The _____ thesis argues that information technology can help remote areas overcome distance.
normalization
stratification
sanctification
notification
Poverty has a _____ effect on a country’s ability to use the internet for economic growth:
negative
positive
neutral
all of the above
Valuable knowledge is often called _______, which is increasingly acquired through the internet.
stratification
computer illiteracy
human capital
normalization
Cellular phones are increasingly helpful in places where there are no:
people
plant life
mobile devices
landlines
Advocates of the stratification thesis argue that being locked out of the global information economy will make countries:
richer
politically corrupt
poorer
productive
The geography of universities deeply affects geographic distributions of ------, which is essential to knowledge-based industries.
populations
Traffic
Agriculture
Human Capital
The ______ of sub-Saharan Africans own mobile phones.
Minority
Majority
Exclusively wealthy
Exclusively poor
Poverty _____ one's ability to capitalize on digital technology to the full exent.
Improves
Has no relation to
Hides
Hinders
Disparities in broadband networks within countries manifest most sharply across _____ divides
State
International
Regional
City Level
In cities, smart phones are increasingly important for:
Transportation
Shopping
Parking
All of the above
The most basic forms of computer literacy are gained during:
College
Everyday use of electronics
Work
Reading
Higher education _____ one's ability to capitalize on digital technology to the full extent.
Improves
Has no relation to
Hides
HInders
One aspect of the digital divide that is often overlooked is an uneven distribution of:
Infrastructure
Desire
Interest
Culture
Using mobile phones as a measure of the digital divide can be methodologically faulty because:
Not all mobile phones are smart phones
The batteries are small
People hide their browsing history
People might prefer tablets
Cities are expanding faster in
Wealthy countries
Nonwealthy countries
rural areas
neither
The rapid spread of people with digital devices is sometimes called the:
Internet of People
Internet of Things
The People’s Internet
The People’s Things
The largest concentration of smart devices is in:
Wealthy countries
Nonwealthy countries
rural areas
neither
There are _____ smart devices under a service plan than people:
less
an equal amount
more
None
Government datasets are being made increasingly accessible through:
Surveillance
Open Data Portals
GDPR
Public speeches
______ have dramatically changed the way citizens issue grievances to their governments:
Social networking applications
Internet of Things
The Digital Divide
Data Shadows
The internet makes interactions between public officials and their constituents:
less direct
more party based
more direct
more indirect
_____ is commonly identified as a benefit of geosurveillance devices.
Privacy
Political rights
Resource optimization
Convenience
The profusion of location-aware devices such as global positioning systems make surveillance:
more labor-intensive
more expensive
less constant
less expensive
______ are the data that users produce by interacting with digital devices.
Data structure
Data footprint
Data shadow
Data derivative
______ are the categories assigned to users based on their interactions with digital devices.
Data footprint
Data derivative
Data shadow
Data structure
Open Data Portals provide citizens with access to:
Surveillance monitors
Government funds
Data privacy rights
Government Datasets
Cities in nonwealthy countries are expanding _____ than in wealthy countries.
Faster
slower
no differently
less
The dramatic increase of locational data from geospatial technology such as global positioning systems ____ the ability to monitor human behavior:
Decreases
Narrows
Restricts
Expands
Before GPS, surveillance was:
Less labor-intensive
More constant
More labor-intensive
Less expensive
There are more mobiles in:
United Nations countries
Northern countries
Nonwealthy countries
Wealthy countries
The data that you generate through using electronics are sometimes called:
Data shadows
Data footprints
Data derivatives
Data structures
Categories assigned to people based on their online activity are sometimes called:
Data structures
Data shadows
Data footprints
Data derivatives
Advocates of smart cities argue that they allow citizens more avenues of:
Housing availablity
Population growth
Public participation
Public Revenue
The Internet of Things represents the spread of _____
People communicating via digital devices
People communicating with digital devices
Digital devices communicating with digital devices
People communicating with people
_____ is commonly identified as a detriment of geosurveillance devices.
Public safety
Efficiency
Privacy Invasion
Political rights
A simple definition of “power” as used in political geography is
making the maps that create places.
having military or police control.
the ability to get what you want.
controlling what other people do.
Which of the following is defined as having the authority to use violence as a means of demonstrating power?
territoriality
state
nation
territory
Which of the following is not an example of territory?
the University of Illinois campus
downtown Champaign, IL
a gated community
the state of Illinois
In the end, territoriality is backed up or made legitimate by
the state.
the individual.
the community.
the nation.
The system used by the state to divide up land and set official property boundaries in the early years of the U.S. was known as
surveying.
cadastral mapping.
metes-and-bounds.
Why was the Public Land Survey System used to map the interior of the U.S.?
The Spanish had already established it in California and Texas.
It was too hard to use the metes-and-bounds system at a distance.
Meridians and baselines had already been established across the continent.
It was easier to use with GPS devices.
The territory that was most clearly established by the PLSS was the
municipality.
acre.
county
township.
Informal settlements are more common in developing countries because they often lack
territoriality.
territory.
cadastral maps.
GIS
The U.S. supported the cadastral mapping of Lesotho with the expectation that it would help
private developers increase their land value.
Lesotho meet the Millennium Development goals.
produce more food for the region.
remove individuals’ ability to control their own territory.
The cadastral mapping of Lesotho through GPS is an example of
territory.
uncertainty.
territoriality.
vagueness
The location of gambling is regulated because
there are secondary effects like deliberately losing sporting events.
gambling addiction can be a serious social problem.
gambling is a profitable activity that can produce tax dollars.
all of the above
Why does it matter where online gambling takes place?
to know where you can go if you want to gamble
it doesn’t matter
to know which state’s or country’s laws apply
Redistricting for the U.S. House refers to the process by which districts are redrawn if a state adds or loses enough population for the total number of districts to change. This happens every
time a state’s governor wants it to.
five years.
ten years.
year.
Which of the following is not a requirement of districts within a specific state?
having an equal percentage of white voters
being roughly the same size in terms of population
being contiguous, not disconnected
not having a weird, elongated shape
Why has the U.S. regularly carried out a Census ever since the country was founded?
to ensure that members of the Senate are fairly apportioned by population
to reapportion members of the House of Representatives as the population moves around
to determine how much economic activity takes place in each state
to make sure that each state gets back from the federal government the tax money it puts in
The concept of gerrymandering dates back to
the development of GIS in the 1970s.
the development of GPS in the 1990s.
the early 1800s in New England.
the late 1700s in France.
Gerrymandering is a prime example of
an ecological fallacy.
spatial autocorrelation.
uncertainty and vagueness.
the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem.
Let’s say that there’s a small Hispanic population in a Midwestern city, clustered so they’re mostly within the same district. If the state’s legislative boundaries are redrawn so that half of that population is in one district and half is in another, that would be an example of
stacking.
packing.
cracking.
What if the boundaries are drawn so that the entire Hispanic population of the city is within one district? That would be
stacking.
packing
cracking.
A metes-and-bounds system of land mapping is based in part on
Natural features such as trees and rivers
A regular grid system that covered the whole U.S.
GPS
Remote sensing
Compared to the rest of the world, the U.S. allows _____ free access to federally-produced geospatial data
More
less
about the same
Which geospatial technology has made it easier to carry out gerrymandering?
GIS, because it allows for greater precision
GPS. because it allows for greater accuracy
Remote sensing because it results in less uncertainty
Cartography, because it results in fewer errors
Political geography asks us to look at how _____ is/are a part of the landscapes that we see
Power
Cultural difference
Elections
Physical processes
In the early U.S., _____ were developed under the _____ system.
cadastral maps; metes-and-bounds
cadastral maps; public land survery
Geoids; metes-and-bounds
Geoids; public land survey
The regular grid system that shapes the Midwestern landscape is due to the
Public Land Survey System
Metes-and-bounds system
GPS
Completely flat terrain
If a district is redrawn to include equal numbers of people from group A, which generally has voter turnout rate of 60%, and group B, with an average rate of 30%, this an example of
Stacking
Cracking
Packing
Geospatial data produced by which government is generally provided for free?
U.S. federal government
U.S. state governments
French national government
Chinese national government
The main advantage of the Public Land Survey System was that it
Made it easier for settlers to buy land without actually going there first
Cover the entire US instead of only the original 13 colonies
Created counties that allowed for more local government control
Didn't rely on natural features as marking points.
A cadastre consists of two parts, the cadastral map and the cadastral ____.
TItle
Territory
System
Tenure
Most studies on relations between digital technology and space focus on:
urban space
natural environments
physical space
virtual space
Early geographic work on the effects of digital technology on space focused on _____, or the abstract spaces in which interactions occur.
outer space
geometrical space
cyberspace
national space
The majority of studies in geography on digital technology _____ on how users interact with electronic devices
ignore
focus on
criticize
none of the above
‘Technical’ approaches to using geospatial technology to manage e-waste often incorporate:
Cartography
GIS
LiDR
remote sensing
Typical ____ approaches to managing e-waste often focus on the entire life cycle of digital devices:
human geographic
geodesic
technical
spatial statistical analysis
__________ are often used to help determine waste facility locations to optimize waste disposal.
GPS
Spatial theory
Remote sensing devices
GIS
One proposed way of dealing with e-waste is called _______, which involves electronics producers paying a fee for disposal.
data transparency
data dumping
extended producer responsibility
trade regulation
___________ involves apprising consumers of the materials used in electronic devices.
Eco-labeling
Extended consumer responsibility
Digital tagging
Extended producer responsibility
Teaching ordinary electronics users how to refurbish devices is one way of _____ their mass production discussed in the lecture.
increasing
decreasing
accelerating
expanding
Some advocacy groups who attempt to curb e-waste have recommended banning:
Producing more electronics
The use of electronics in some countries
Making electronics devices smaller
International trade of used electronics
The rapid spread of Open Data Portals leads to _____, or the increased ability of ordinary citizens to produce or obtain data from government administrators
Data footprints
Data democratization
Data shadows
Data waves
The lecture discusses how _____ are often used to find the quickest route for sanitation vehicles to reach waste facilities
Aerial photography
Landsat imagery
GIS
GPS
Most studies in geography on digital technology focus on how _____ interact with electronic devices
Distributors
Retailers
Producers
Consumers
_____ have compelled many international agencies to intervene in the informal jobs that have emerged around e-waste
Health Hazards
Profts
Electronics companies
Sanitation unions
Many of the first geographers who explore effects of digital technology on space focused on _____, or the abstract spaces in which interactions occur
Geometrical space
Outer space
National space
Cyberspace
GIS are often used to find the _____ for sanitation vehicles to reach waste facilities
Heaviest trash
Longest route
Quickest route
Lightest trash
Technical approaches to using geospatial technology to manage e-waste often incorporate:
GUS
remote sensing
Cartography
LiDR
Health risks have compelled many international agencies to ____ the informal jobs that have emerged around e-waste
Regulate
Tax
Remove
Typical 'human geographic' approaches to handling e-waste often focus on the _____ on digital devices:
Production process
Everyday use
End of life
Entire life cycle
Teaching users how to _____ devices is one way of stemming their mass production discussed in the lecture
Properly disposed of
Refurbish
Invent
Hide
One proposed way of managing e-waste is called _____. This involves electronics producers paying a fee for disposal
Data transparency
Trade regulation
Extended Producer Responsibilty
Data Dumping
Most work on relations between digital technology and space focus on:
Urban Space
Virtual Space
Physical Space
Natural environments
Most geographers who focus on the physical dimension of digital technology draw attention to:
Physical infrastructures
Microphysics
Raw materials
Natural Environments
