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Chapter 01 Testbank: Introduction to Human Geography
Multiple Choice
1. Which of these South American countries has the highest percent of undernourished population?
a) Argentina
b) Peru
c) Bolivia
d) Chile
Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
2. Most of the one billion malnourished people in the world:
a) have little power
b) have little money
c) are women or children
d) all of these choices are correct.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
3. Two countries with very high percentages of arable land are:
a) the United States and South Africa.
b) Colombia and Togo.
c) India and Ukraine
d) Egypt and Mongolia
Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..
4. Much of Kenya’s income comes from:
a) oil
b) coffee and tea production
c) iron ore
d) tourism
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1 Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..
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,5. Which of the following countries has the lowest percentage of arable land?
a) Bangladesh
b) India
c) Poland
d) Norway
Ans: D
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
6. The type of process increases interactions deepens relationships and heightens interdependence
regardless of national boundaries.
a) spatial
b) nationalizing
c) ecological
d) globalization
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
7. Human geographers focus on:
a) how people make places.
b) how we organize space as a society.
c) how we interact with each other in places and across space.
d) all of these choices are correct.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
8. The branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms, climate, soils and vegetation of the Earth
is:
a) cultural geography
b) human geography
c) physical geography
d) biogeography
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
9. The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows:
a) the arrangement and organization of things on the surface to the Earth
b) the history of an area
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,c) human activity only
d) the political impact of boundaries
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
10. Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in:
a) China
b) India
c) Afghanistan
d) Indonesia
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
11. By the time the last great cholera pandemic began in 1865, people knew to take precautions against
_____ and ended the great waves of cholera.
a) traveling in groups
b) contaminated water
c) eating canned food
d) improper disposal of garbage
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
12. Outbreaks of cholera in Yemen in 2016 infected an estimated
a) 1 million people.
b) 500,000 people.
c) 250,000 people.
d) 100,000 people.
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..
13. Cholera vaccines exist, but the problem is that:
a) they are costly and have limited effectiveness
b) they have serious side effects and can be deadly
c) many people refuse to take them
d) many people may not know the vaccine is available
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
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,Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
14. Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact of the drainage of part of the Florida
Everglades?
a) human-environment
b) movement
c) place
d) location
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
15. _________________ refers to the infusing of a locality with meaning and emotion.
a) Regionalization
b) Human-environment interaction
c) Sense of place
d) Location theory
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
16. The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network
is referred to as:
a) spatial interaction.
b) movement.
c) landscape.
d) connectivity.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
17. Geographer Carl O. Sauer is most closely connected with:
a) natural landscape
b) cultural landscape
c) regional geography
d) location theory
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
.
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,18. In their study on students’ perceptions of place, Gould and White found that
a) students would prefer to live near the Rocky Mountains.
b) students would prefer to live in Utah over California.
c) students have no place preferences.
d) students have a strong bias for their home region.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
19. The cultural landscape of Dar es Salaam is a composite of several different culture groups which have
administered the place. British policy stimulated the development of a district of 3 to 4 story apartments
reminiscent of:
a) London
b) Bombay
c) Nairobi
d) Paris
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
.
20. Latitude and longitude are most useful in determining:
a) relative location
b) topography
c) absolute location
d) elevations
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
21. The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called:
a) absolute location
b) site
c) relative location
d) index of placeness
Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms:
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
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,22. Chicago’s relative location has changed over time with:
a) the building of new railroads.
b) the opening of O’Hare international airport.
c) the construction of Interstate Highways system.
d) all of these choices are correct.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
23. The mental map you have of places you routinely visit is a map of your:
a) neighborhood.
b) inner world.
c) region.
d) activity spaces.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
24. Which of the following regions generally receives the most precipitation?
a) North Africa
b) Southwest Asia
c) Eastern Europe
d) Southeast Asia
Ans: D
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
25. The concern of geography with space puts _________ at the center of its agenda.
a) patterns
b) distance
c) scale
d) places
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: knowledge
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
26. A good example of a formal region would be a:
a) region surrounding a manufacturing complex
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,b) city and its surrounding region
c) region of similar language
d) region showing the migration to a central location
Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
27. A good example of a functional region would be:
a) a city and its surrounding region
b) region where everyone speaks French
c) region where farming practices are the same
d) region of a similar climate
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..
28. The cultural geographer Wilbur Zelinsky approached the task of defining and delimiting the
perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada by analyzing:
a) results from thousands of personal interviews.
b) results of census data.
c) contents of hundreds of telephone directories of metropolitan areas.
d) data of social workers.
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..
29. Of the 12 major perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada identified by Zelinsky,
the one that has changed markedly since the Civil Rights era is:
a) Southwest.
b) New England.
c) Middle Atlantic.
d) the South.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..
30. Culture is a subject also studied by:
a) archaeologists.
b) anthropologists.
c) geologists.
d) psychologists.
Ans: B
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Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in human geography.
31. Cultural geographers identify a single element of normal practice (e.g. cattle herding)
as:
a) a culture trait.
b) a cultural peculiarity.
c) a culture region.
d) a cultural heritage.
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in Human Geography.
32. A cultural complex is defined as:
a) a single trait spread over a geographic region.
b) a discrete combination of traits, for example Masaai cattle herding.
c) several groups sharing the same trait.
d) several groups occupying the same region.
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in Human Geography..
33. The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge and skills from their place of origin to other areas
where they are adopted is called:
a) diffusion.
b) adjustment.
c) spreading.
d) cultural invasion.
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in Human Geography..
34. Hagerstrand emphasized that culture hearths should be viewed in the context of space and:
a) time.
b) location.
c) innovations.
d) population.
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in human geography.
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,Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture, 12th Edition
Chapter 01 Testbank: Introduction to Human Geography
Multiple Choice
1. Which of these South American countries has the highest percent of undernourished population?
a) Argentina
b) Peru
c) Bolivia
d) Chile
Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
2. Most of the one billion malnourished people in the world:
a) have little power
b) have little money
c) are women or children
d) all of these choices are correct.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
3. Two countries with very high percentages of arable land are:
a) the United States and South Africa.
b) Colombia and Togo.
c) India and Ukraine
d) Egypt and Mongolia
Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..
4. Much of Kenya’s income comes from:
a) oil
b) coffee and tea production
c) iron ore
d) tourism
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1 Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..
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,5. Which of the following countries has the lowest percentage of arable land?
a) Bangladesh
b) India
c) Poland
d) Norway
Ans: D
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
6. The type of process increases interactions deepens relationships and heightens interdependence
regardless of national boundaries.
a) spatial
b) nationalizing
c) ecological
d) globalization
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
7. Human geographers focus on:
a) how people make places.
b) how we organize space as a society.
c) how we interact with each other in places and across space.
d) all of these choices are correct.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
8. The branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms, climate, soils and vegetation of the Earth
is:
a) cultural geography
b) human geography
c) physical geography
d) biogeography
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
9. The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows:
a) the arrangement and organization of things on the surface to the Earth
b) the history of an area
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,c) human activity only
d) the political impact of boundaries
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
10. Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in:
a) China
b) India
c) Afghanistan
d) Indonesia
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
11. By the time the last great cholera pandemic began in 1865, people knew to take precautions against
_____ and ended the great waves of cholera.
a) traveling in groups
b) contaminated water
c) eating canned food
d) improper disposal of garbage
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
12. Outbreaks of cholera in Yemen in 2016 infected an estimated
a) 1 million people.
b) 500,000 people.
c) 250,000 people.
d) 100,000 people.
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..
13. Cholera vaccines exist, but the problem is that:
a) they are costly and have limited effectiveness
b) they have serious side effects and can be deadly
c) many people refuse to take them
d) many people may not know the vaccine is available
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Test Bank
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,Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.
14. Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact of the drainage of part of the Florida
Everglades?
a) human-environment
b) movement
c) place
d) location
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
15. _________________ refers to the infusing of a locality with meaning and emotion.
a) Regionalization
b) Human-environment interaction
c) Sense of place
d) Location theory
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
16. The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network
is referred to as:
a) spatial interaction.
b) movement.
c) landscape.
d) connectivity.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
17. Geographer Carl O. Sauer is most closely connected with:
a) natural landscape
b) cultural landscape
c) regional geography
d) location theory
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
.
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,18. In their study on students’ perceptions of place, Gould and White found that
a) students would prefer to live near the Rocky Mountains.
b) students would prefer to live in Utah over California.
c) students have no place preferences.
d) students have a strong bias for their home region.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
19. The cultural landscape of Dar es Salaam is a composite of several different culture groups which have
administered the place. British policy stimulated the development of a district of 3 to 4 story apartments
reminiscent of:
a) London
b) Bombay
c) Nairobi
d) Paris
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
.
20. Latitude and longitude are most useful in determining:
a) relative location
b) topography
c) absolute location
d) elevations
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
21. The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called:
a) absolute location
b) site
c) relative location
d) index of placeness
Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms:
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
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,22. Chicago’s relative location has changed over time with:
a) the building of new railroads.
b) the opening of O’Hare international airport.
c) the construction of Interstate Highways system.
d) all of these choices are correct.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
23. The mental map you have of places you routinely visit is a map of your:
a) neighborhood.
b) inner world.
c) region.
d) activity spaces.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
24. Which of the following regions generally receives the most precipitation?
a) North Africa
b) Southwest Asia
c) Eastern Europe
d) Southeast Asia
Ans: D
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
25. The concern of geography with space puts _________ at the center of its agenda.
a) patterns
b) distance
c) scale
d) places
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: knowledge
Learning Objective 1.3: Identify types of maps and examine the role maps play in understanding the
world.
26. A good example of a formal region would be a:
a) region surrounding a manufacturing complex
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,b) city and its surrounding region
c) region of similar language
d) region showing the migration to a central location
Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
27. A good example of a functional region would be:
a) a city and its surrounding region
b) region where everyone speaks French
c) region where farming practices are the same
d) region of a similar climate
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..
28. The cultural geographer Wilbur Zelinsky approached the task of defining and delimiting the
perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada by analyzing:
a) results from thousands of personal interviews.
b) results of census data.
c) contents of hundreds of telephone directories of metropolitan areas.
d) data of social workers.
Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..
29. Of the 12 major perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada identified by Zelinsky,
the one that has changed markedly since the Civil Rights era is:
a) Southwest.
b) New England.
c) Middle Atlantic.
d) the South.
Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts..
30. Culture is a subject also studied by:
a) archaeologists.
b) anthropologists.
c) geologists.
d) psychologists.
Ans: B
Test Bank
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, Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in human geography.
31. Cultural geographers identify a single element of normal practice (e.g. cattle herding)
as:
a) a culture trait.
b) a cultural peculiarity.
c) a culture region.
d) a cultural heritage.
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in Human Geography.
32. A cultural complex is defined as:
a) a single trait spread over a geographic region.
b) a discrete combination of traits, for example Masaai cattle herding.
c) several groups sharing the same trait.
d) several groups occupying the same region.
Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in Human Geography..
33. The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge and skills from their place of origin to other areas
where they are adopted is called:
a) diffusion.
b) adjustment.
c) spreading.
d) cultural invasion.
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in Human Geography..
34. Hagerstrand emphasized that culture hearths should be viewed in the context of space and:
a) time.
b) location.
c) innovations.
d) population.
Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.4: Describe how culture influences patterns and processes in human geography.
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