GEOG 200 Read & Interact Chapter 1
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What product of geography proved critical to understanding and tracking the
spread of the virus that causes COVID-19?
Multiple choice question.
Contact tracing
Virus testing
Maps
correct
Satellites
The field of geography is defined as the ______.
Multiple choice question.
location of cities and rivers around the world.
Reason: Geography is more about understanding place, not just location.
aspects of a particular culture.
Reason: This definition is too narrow.
physical and cultural spatial patterns and how they evolve through time.
correct
natural processes affecting the Earth's surface.
Reason: This definition is too narrow.
The structure of geography as the study of both the physical and cultural aspects of place was developed by early ______ geographers.
Multiple choice question.
Viking
British
Greek
correct
American
Match the two major branches of geography with their main focus of study.
Physical
Physical Drop zone Focus on the natural environment: landforms, climate, vegetation, etc. correct Toggle Button Unavailable.
Focus on the natural environment: landforms, climate, vegetation, etc.
Human
Human Drop zone Focus on people, culture, religion, cities, etc. correct Toggle Button Unavailable.
Focus on people, culture, religion, cities, etc.
What disciple would be best at determining the optimum location for a new business?
Multiple choice question.
Geology
Human geography
correct
Physical geography
Sociology
Maps of how many people were suffering with COVID-19 in different areas were useful for ______. (Select all that apply).
Multiple select question.
tracking the spread of the virus
correct
determining potential exposure risk
correct
understanding how individuals responded to exposure to the virus
determining how fast the virus was mutating
A core concept in geography is that of ______: understanding how natural and
human phenomena are distributed on the Earth's surface.
Multiple choice question.
spatial patterns
correct
geographical history
plate tectonics
absolute location
Geography
is the study of physical and cultural spatial patterns and how they evolve through time. (Enter only one word per blank.)
The term
geography
comes from the Greek words
geo
, meaning the
earth
and
graphein
, meaning to
write
Which of the following is true about the term scale
as used by geographers?
Multiple choice question.
Scale implies the degree of generalization represented by an area of study or
by a map.
Scale is used to describe the relationship between the size of an area on a map and the actual size of the mapped area on the surface of the Earth.
All of the answers provided are correct.
correct
Scale is used to describe the size of a unit of study.
Two major subdisciplines of geography are
Human
geography, the study of people,
and
physical geography, the study of the natural environment. (Enter only one word per blank.)
Which of the following are examples of the physical characteristics that describe the natural landscape of a place? (Select all that apply.)
Multiple select question.
Agricultural activity
Climate
correct
Slope steepness
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correct
Population density
Mineral resources
______ is the only discipline concerned with understanding why and how both physical and cultural phenomena differ from place to place on the surface of the Earth.
Multiple choice question.
Sociology
Economics
Geology
Geography
Which of the following is not an example of how the attributes of a place can change.
Multiple choice question.
The changing of the seasons
correct
The expansion of a city
Climate change over time
The removal of rain forest to make room for agriculture
The erosion of mountains over geologic time
Geographers believe that recognizing
spatial
patterns is the essential starting point for understanding how people live on and shape the Earth's surface. (Enter only one word per blank.)
Relationship between any two places is stronger the closer they are to each other. This is known as ______.
Multiple choice question.
Tobler's First Law of Geography
correct
Humboldt's Law of Distance
the inverse distance rule
distance decrease
A place's ______ is precisely determined by the use of an accepted system of coordinates.
Multiple choice question.
latitude and longitude
location
relative location
absolute location
The term
scale
refers to both the size of a unit studied and the relationship between an area on a map and the actual size of the mapped area on the surface of
the Earth. (Enter only one word per blank.)
True or false: No two places on the surface of the Earth can be exactly the same.
True false question.
True correct
The physical characteristics of a place, such as its climate, are called the ______ landscape.
Multiple choice question.
cultural
natural
correct
climatic
economic
True or false: The physical environment in which we live is eternal and unchanging.
True false question.
True
Reason: This statement is false. The physical environment has been changing over geologic time.
False correct
Reason: This statement is false. The physical environment has been changing over geologic time.
Which of the following statements is true?
Multiple choice question.
Geography consists of a group of completely distinct fields of study. There is little connection between them.
Although geography consists of a number of distinct fields of study, they are in fact closely related and interconnected.
correct
Human geography does not affect physical geography.
Geography is the study of where objects are located on the surface of the Earth.
Select the statements that help describe Tobler's First Law of Geography? (Select all that apply.)
Multiple select question.
In a spatial sense, everything is related to everything else.
correct
Relationships between two places are stronger when they are near one another.
correct
Sites are more important to people than locations.
Relative locations are more important to people than absolute locations.
The identification of place by a precise and accepted system of coordinates is know as its
absolute
location. (Enter only one word per blank.)
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The absolute location as well as the precise mix of
physical
and
cultural
characteristics of place are unique, meaning that no two places on the surface of the Earth can be exactly the same.
Location, place, relationships, movement, and regions are known as the five ______ themes of geography.
Multiple choice question.
conceptual
functional
basic
fundamental
True or false: Geographic analysis techniques such as mapping are only useful for studying physical systems.
True false question.
True
Reason: The statement is false. Techniques of geographic analysis are applied in all fields of geography.
Falsecorrect
Reason: The statement is false. Techniques of geographic analysis are applied in all fields of geography.
Which of the following is not one of the five fundamental themes of geography?
Multiple choice question.
Place
Regions
Movement
Location
Relationships within places
Making maps