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Geography - Intro
Intro chapter for extra-credit quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Geography is united by a perspective to all it's fields. This perspective is the ______________ perspective. | Spatial |
| A classification system is known as a: | Taxonomy |
| The area around a city is known as its: | Hinterland |
| In regional geography, relative location: | Is more meaningful and practical than absolute location |
| A region arranged around a central urban core is known as a: | Functional Region |
| A function region: | includes a core of activity and the surrounding hinterland |
| Which of the following statements is incorrect | Functional regions are generally more static and immobile than formal regions. |
| The difference between “formal” and “functional” regions is: | The nature of the unifying properties: static homogeneity vs. functional cohesion |
| All regions have all of the following except: | Homogeneity |
| Which cartographic device, when deployed on a map, will tell you its scale? | Representative fraction |
| A large scale map shows: | A small area |
| The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is known as: | a map scale |
| Which of the following statements concerning map scale is false? | A map with the fractional scale 1:103,000,000 has a larger scale than one of 1:1,000,000. |
| Which of the following statements is incorrect? | The smaller the representative fraction the larger the scale of the map |
| Wegener's supercontinent is known as: | Pangaea |
| Complicating the possibility of global warming is the possibility of: | Glaciation |
| Water covers about _____ % of the Earth's surface. | 70 |
| The process by which water circulates from the oceans to the landmasses is known as: | Hydrologic cycle |
| The process by which water returns to the atmosphere is known as: | Evapotranspiration |
| Which of the following statements is true? | Rainfall is least dependable in the drier portions of the world. |
| In the eastern hemisphere, the mountain chains generally run in a(n) direction. | East-west |
| Which of the following statements about “A” climates is incorrect? | In the Af climate, precipitation rates increase suddenly due to the arrival of the monsoons. |
| Rainfall patterns in humid tropical (A) climates are characterized by all but: | Principally nighttime rainfall in rainforest (Af) areas, reducing evapotranspiration |
| Savanna environments belong to the general climate type known as: | Humid equatorial |
| Which of the following environmental types is grouped with the B climates? | Steppe |
| The Mediterranean climate is classified under which of the following Köppen‑Geiger letters? | C |
| Which of the following statements about “B” climate is incorrect? | B climates only occur in the low latitudes |
| Which of the following statements about “D” climates is incorrect? | D climates are more common in the Southern Hemisphere than the Northern Hemisphere. |
| The prevailing climatic type in the southeastern United States, Western Europe, southern Brazil and northern Argentina, south coastal South Africa and Australia, eastern China and southern Japan is the mid-latitude or: | humid temperate |
| Which of the following statements is incorrect? | Most cultural traits are inherited. |
| Which statement below best characterizes the concept of culture? | Learned patterns of thought and behavior characteristic of a population or society. |
| Which of the following is not one of the world’s three largest population concentrations? | eastern Africa |
| Which of the following major rivers is not associated with one of the world’s great population clusters? | Mississippi |
| Which of the following statements is incorrect? | More than one-fourth of the world’s population presently resides in India. |
| The large cluster of population in the northeastern United States is known as: | megalopolis |
| In 1999, more than ____ percent of the world’s population lived in urban areas. | 40 |
| A map which uses a special transformation so that the areas of states reflect population size is called a(n): | cartogram |
| The system used in the United States to divide land is known as the: | Township and Range system |
| States first began to develop: | In areas where cities could begin to command their hinterlands |
| The European state model includes all of the following except: | a high level of urbanization |
| The second world: | is the socialist world |
| The World Bank divides the world into four groups. Which of the following is not one of those groups? | urbanized countries |
| Which of the following is not contained within the European realm? | the old Russian portion of the Soviet Union |
| Which of the following countries constitutes a geographic realm in its entirety? | Russia |
| The islands of the Caribbean Sea belong to which of the following realms: | Middle America |
| Which of the following regions is not located in the Southwest Asia/North Africa realm? | the Ganges Valley |
| The gradual reduction of regional contrasts resulting from increasing cultural, economic, political, and other types of exchanges is known as: | Globalization |
| Which of the following is a systematic subfield of geography? | urban geography |
| The two perspectives on geography are: | regional and systematic |
| Geography is concerned with providing a spatial perspective on the world. | True |
| A classification system is known as a taxonomy. | True |
| Transition zones mark the place where geographic realms meet. | True |
| A region marked by homogeneity is known as a formal region. | True |
| Besides location, a region must also have area. | True |
| A region need not possess the geographic property of location. (F) | False |
| Relative location has less relevance in geography than absolute location. | False |
| A region arranged around a central urban core is known as a functional region. | True |
| Map scale is the ratio of the distance between two places on a map and the actual distance between those two places on the Earth’s surface. | True |
| A small scale map shows a large area. | True |
| Alfred Wegener developed the hypothesis of continental drift. | True |
| Pangaea is the name of Wegener’s supercontinent. | True |
| Deserts are found on the western sides of the continents. | True |
| The D climates are humid cold climates. | True |
| More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is ocean. | True |
| In the Köppen‑Geiger scheme, the world's drier climates are largely grouped under the letter A. | False |
| In general, the eastern coasts of continents in tropical and mid-latitude zones receive relatively high precipitation. | True |
| Highland (H) climates closely resemble the cold polar (E) climates. | True |
| Culture is totally genetically predetermined; it is completely instinctive. | False |
| Carl O. Sauer developed a school of cultural geography that had the concept of cultural landscape as its focus. | True |
| A cultural landscape consists of a composite of human imprints on the surface of the Earth. | True |
| Megalopolis is a multi-metropolitan agglomeration in the eastern United States. | True |
| The world’s population is now almost 4 billion in total size, and is expected to be about 4.2 billion by the year 2010. | False |
| Southeast Asia does not rank among the world’s four largest population agglomerations. | True |
| The great majority of the people of East Asia are concentrated in the great cities including Beijing (Peking) and Shanghai. | False |
| The three largest population agglomerations in the world today all lie on a single landmass: Eurasia. | True |
| More than 50 percent of the world’s population now resides in urban areas. | False |
| The European state model is gaining ground in the aftermath of the collapsed colonial and communist empires. | True |
| A state constitutes a political region. | True |
| Middle and South America together are sometimes called “Latin” America. | True |
| The islands of the Caribbean Sea belong to the South American realm. | False |
| Australia is included as part of the same region as Indonesia because of the cultural similarities. | False |
| The Subsaharan African realm includes the entire continent of Africa. | False |
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