Human Geography Chapter 1 Quiz

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Question 1:

The Greeks defined the following concepts of scale, which describe the relationship between locations and the interconnectedness of places:
a) chorography, cosmography, teleology
b) geography, chorography, teleology
c) chorography, geography, topography
d) cosmography, chorography, topography

Question 2:

The concept of latitude and longitude, which describe the grids in maps, were developed by ________.
a) European civilization
b) Islamic civilization
c) Greek civilization

Question 3:

What was one serious difficulty early mapmakers encountered in drawing accurate maps?
a) The lack of a printing press
b) How to represent a sphere on a flat surface
c) Describing the relationship between humans and their physical surroundings
d) All of the above.

Question 4:

Geography is the study of ________.
a) human activities as they relate to their physical environment
b) the influence of the physical environment on humans
c) the human landscape
d) All of the above.

Question 5:

The first formalized definition of geography was developed in the seventeenth century by ________.
a) Gerardus Mercator
b) Bernhardus Varenius
c) Alexander von Humboldt
d) Friedrich Ratzel

Question 6:

Three main approaches in contemporary human geography include:
a) regional studies, spatial analysis, and a landscape approach
b) spatial analysis, physical geography, landscape approach
c) chorology, regional studies, and the landscape approach
d) regional studies, chorology and spatial analysis

Question 7:

Geography has contributed to ________.
a) exploration
b) facilitation of political expansion
c) an understanding that human activities are connected to their environment
d) All of the above.

Question 8:

Contemporary regional geography ________.
a) is a concern with regions as settings or locales for human activity
b) explains the location of geographic facts
c) explains the ways in which regions reflect the characteristics of the occupying society
d) Both a and c.

Question 9:

What is the cause of the radical change from geographers being concerned with exploration, mapping, and description towards a concern with creating an understanding of the ways humans and nature relate?
a) The writings of Immanuel Kant
b) The establishment of geography as an academic discipline
c) The writings of Humboldt and Ritter
d) The ability to project a sphere onto a flat surface
e) Both b and c.

Question 10:

Contemporary spatial geography incorporates ________.
a) Humanist and Marxist perspectives
b) quantitative approaches and techniques
c) possibilism
d) environmental determinism

Question 11:

The first geography department was established in ________.
a) France
b) Australia
c) Canada
d) Prussia

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