1. The chapter states that there are two MAIN areas of study in geography. They are
a) human geography and economic geography.
b) physical geography and political geography.
2. When the Roman Empire fell, much knowledge was lost, including geographical
scholarship, but some was preserved. Who did the book say preserved it?
a) The Greeks
d) The Europeans
3. What are the three main components of a geographical way of thinking?
a) Era, place, and level of development
4. Which of the following is a type of location used by geographers?
a) Absolute location
b) Nominal location
5. What do we call the type of geographical analysis that determines a location’s exact
coordinates according to latitude and longitude?
a) Mathematical location
b) Real location
6. The study of flows—the movement of people, resources, and ideas—is called
c) spatial organization.
d) spatial recognition.
7. A regional analysis of the financial activity focused on Zurich is an example of
a) a formal region.
d) a spatial region.
8. To better understand the nature of the issues facing Iraq, a geographer might point out
that there are separate and distinct communities of people within the country. Speaking of
the Iraqi people as a whole, therefore, is not as accurate as speaking of the Shi’a Arabs in
the South, the Sunni Kurds in the North, and the Sunni Arabs in the center of the country.
This type of clarification is called
a) a spatial analysis
d) None of these is correct
9. Which of the following is NOT an example of a transition zone discussed in the book?
a) Turkey, between the Middle East and Europe
d) Pakistan and India, between Asia and the Middle East
10. “Resource” refers to
a) any raw material found in a region.
d) a geographical concept of environment.
11. Which of the following is/are short-term renewable resources?
a) Tidal power
d) All of these are correct.
12. Which of the following is/are nonrenewable resources?
a) Fossil fuels
b) Plastic
13. When examining the correlation between human agency and the environment,
geographers currently think the best description of this relationship is that
c) an environment exerts a controlling influence over the people who live within it and
determines how they live.
d) None of these is correct.
14. A map can be
a) a tool of mathematical precision.
b) a form of communication.
15. Maps interpret the size and location of land and ocean masses differently, which can
cause distortion in distance, direction, shape, or area. Two maps that differ in any of these
ways are said to have different
a) optics.
d) None of these is correct.
16. In what ways have maps been used to manipulate opinion or stir emotions among a
group of people?
a) Propaganda efforts
b) Distortion of factual geography