Deck 1: Introduction

Question 1

The prevailing mid-latitude climatic type in the southeastern United States,Western Europe,southern Brazil,northern Argentina,and eastern China,is the _______________.

A) humid cold
B) semiarid moderate
C) humid temperate
D) dry winter tundra
E) dry summer savanna

Answer 1

C

Question 2

According to the figure below,which location has the least amount of volcanic activity?

A) the United States
B) South America
C) Subsaharan Africa
D) East Asia
E) Australia

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Wegener's supercontinent is known as ____________.

A) Tectonica
B) Atlantis
C) Eurasia
D) Pangaea
E) Wegneria

Answer 3

D

Question 4

All regions possess all of the following EXCEPT ____________.

A) absolute location
B) area
C) homogeneity
D) boundaries
E) relative location

Question 5

Which of the following statements concerning map scale is false?

A) The fractional scale 1:1,000,000 means one inch on the map represents one million inches on the ground.
B) If the linear scale of a map is twice another, its areal representation is four times larger.
C) To represent a large area on a small map, a small scale is used.
D) Larger-scale maps allow for greater detail in depicting regions and subregions.
E) A map with the fractional scale 1:103,000,000 has a larger scale than one of 1:1,000,000.

Question 6

A large-scale map shows _______________.

A) a small area
B) a large area
C) no relationship between the scale on a map and the size of the area shown
D) an unbalanced area
E) the entire world

Question 7

The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is known as the ____________.

A) map legend
B) map scale
C) map revolution
D) cartographic rule
E) purpose of the map

Question 8

Which of the following statements about the A climates is INCORRECT?

A) They are referred to as humid equatorial climates.
B) They are characterized by heavy precipitation and high year-round temperatures.
C) In the Af climate, precipitation rates increase suddenly due to the arrival of the wet monsoon.
D) The Aw subtype is identified as savanna.
E) They include monsoon climates.

Question 9

The area that surrounds and is served by a city is known as its _____________.

A) periphery
B) formal region
C) hinterland
D) core
E) relative location

Question 10

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A) Regions marked by internal homogeneity are classified as formal regions.
B) Regions conceptualized as "spatial systems" are collectively identified as functional regions.
C) A country likely constitutes a formal political region because within its boundaries certain conditions of nationality, law, and political tradition prevail.
D) Functional regions are generally more static and internally immobile than formal regions.
E) Functional regions have a core and a periphery.

Question 11

Savanna environments belong to the general climate type known as _____________.

A) dry
B) humid cold
C) humid temperate
D) humid equatorial
E) polar

Question 12

The hypothesis of ________ involves the breakup of a supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions of years ago.

A) volcanic eruption
B) earthquake formation
C) continental drift
D) tectonic ring firing
E) natural hazardification

Question 13

A functional region _______________.

A) is defined on the basis of some variable, such as the area where wheat is grown
B) is exemplified by a city and its hinterland
C) is also known as a formal region
D) has a transition zone at its center
E) is the same as a uniform region

Question 14

Which of the following is the process whereby the sun's radiation is trapped in the Earth's atmosphere.

A) desertification
B) continental drift
C) interglaciation
D) greenhouse effect
E) There is no such effect.

Question 15

In Figure G-2,which of the maps has the largest scale?

A) Map A
B) Map B
C) Map C
D) Map D
E) They all have the same scale.

Question 16

In regional geography,relative location _______________.

A) is more meaningful and practical than absolute location
B) refers to the latitude of a place
C) refers to the longitudinal position of a place
D) can only be found using a GIS
E) is a type of transition zone

Question 17

Which water body is surrounded by the geologically active Ring of Fire?

A) the North American Great Lakes
B) the Arctic Ocean
C) the Atlantic Ocean
D) the Pacific Ocean
E) the Gulf of Mexico

Question 18

The difference between formal and functional regions is _____________________.

A) the nature of the unifying properties: static homogeneity versus functional cohesion
B) the area involved: Formal areas are very large, while functional areas are smaller
C) the formal region is urban in nature, whereas the functional region is rural
D) the age of the regions: The functional region is normally much older than the formal region
E) the formal region characterizes the non-Western world, whereas the functional region is typically European or North American

Question 19

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A) Desertification occurs only on the Eurasian landmass.
B) The climate type of the southwestern United States is similar to that of southwestern Africa.
C) The term climate refers to the immediate state of the atmosphere.
D) Alfred Wegener derived the theory of climatic regions.
E) We are currently in the post-Holocene geologic epoch.

Question 20

The current interglacial period is known as the _____________.

A) Wisconsinan
B) Wegnerian
C) Pleistocene
D) Little Ice Age
E) Holocene

Question 21

The World Bank ranks countries within four groups.Which of the following is NOT one of those groups?

A) high-income countries
B) upper-middle-income countries
C) lower-middle-income countries
D) middle-income countries
E) low-income countries

Question 22

Desertification in Subsaharan Africa would MOST likely be enhanced by winds blowing from the:

A) East
B) Southeast
C)South
D) Northeast
E) Southwest

Question 23

Figure G-10 shows that is the most dominant religion in the northern part of Africa:

A) Shia Islam
B) Sunni Islam
C) Traditional and Shamanist faiths
D) Roman Catholicism
E) Hinduism

Question 24

Effects of glaciation would be LEAST prevalent upon

A) The shape of landmasses
B) Inland bodies of water
C) The growth of cities
D) Sea levels
E) Human migration

Question 25

Which of the following realms contains one of the top three population clusters but lies entirely outside of the Global Core according to Figure G-12:

A) Europe
B) North America
C) East Asia
D) South Asia
E) Austral Realm

Question 26

Friction between which two tectonic plates is likely to have caused the earthquake in Nepal in Spring,2015?

A) African and Arabian
B) Indian and Eurasian
C) South American and Nazca
D)Pacific and Australian
E) North American and Pacific

Question 27

Which of these countries is NOT considered a high-income economy,as classified by the World Bank in Figure G-11?

A) the United States
B) Canada
C) China
D) Japan
E) Australia

Question 28

According to Figure G-5,which U.S.city was NOT covered by glaciers during the Pleistocene?

A) Seattle
B) Omaha
C) Cincinnati
D) Denver
E) New York City

Question 29

Which of the following statements about the Global Core is INCORRECT?

A) It was formed before the 20ᵗʰ century
B) It is a good example of a functional region
C) It now contains Canada, Germany, Japan, and China
D) It is a component of an international spatial-economic system
E) It is subservient to the Global Periphery

Question 30

Which of the following is NOT an example of globalization?

A) McDonald's expansion into China
B) FIFA (International Federation of Association Football)
C) the worldwide dominance of English
D) Japanese cars assembled in Thailand
E) tariffs imposed on foreign automobiles

Question 31

Which of the following is a systematic subfield of geography?

A) regional geography
B) cartography
C) Geographic Information Science (GIS)
D) cultural geography
E) geology

Question 32

An index of regional disparity would be useful for examining _________________.

A) economic differences between different regions of a country
B) political differences between functional and formal regions
C) climatic differences between core and periphery
D) similarities among African and Asian countries
E) differences between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres

Question 33

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A) China now has more people living in cities than in rural areas.
B) East Asia's population is projected to remain larger than South Asia's for the rest of this century.
C) The eastern North American population cluster is only about one-fourth the size of Europe's.
D) The world's three largest population clusters are all located on the Eurasian landmass.
E) Europe's population is predominantly urban.

Question 34

States first began to develop _____________________.

A) in areas where cities could begin to command their hinterlands
B) in open areas between empires
C) in nineteenth-century Europe
D) in areas where boundaries had already been drawn by royal decree
E) They have always existed.

Question 35

Which country is NOT located within one of the world's three largest population clusters:

A) South Korea
B) the United States
C) Pakistan
D) France
E) China

Question 36

The European state model includes all of the following except ______________.

A) a population governed from a capital city
B) a clearly and legally defined territory
C) a representative government
D) a high level of urbanization
E) a concept developed during the seventeenth century in Europe.

Question 37

The large cluster of population in South Asia is focused on the ______ River Basin.

A) Yellow
B) Amazon
C) Nile
D) Ganges
E) Yangzi

Question 38

Figure G-8 shows that the English language belongs to the language family.

A) Indo-European
B) Altaic
C) Dravidian
D) Amerindian
E) Uralic

Question 39

The gradual reduction of regional contrasts resulting from increasing cultural,economic,political and other types of exchanges is known as ______________.

A) regional disparity
B) regional equalization
C) world flattening
D) the European trade model
E) globalization

Question 40

Which of the following major rivers is NOT associated with one of the world's great population clusters?

A) Mississippi
B) Huang (Yellow)
C) Rhine
D) Ganges
E) Chang Jiang (Yangzi)

Question 41

In land area,Russia is the largest nation on earth.

Question 42

In the Köppen-Geiger scheme,the world's drier climates are largely grouped under the letter A.

Question 43

The D climates are humid cold climates.

Question 44

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.

Question 45

The Holocene is the name of the most recent glaciation.

Question 46

Pangaea is the name of Wegener's supercontinent.

Question 47

A world map is a small-scale map.

Question 48

Geography is concerned with providing a spatial perspective on the world.

Question 49

Weather is a momentary phenomenon,whereas climate refers to atmospheric conditions over the entire period for which records are available.

Question 50

Relative location has far less relevance in human geography than absolute location.

Question 51

A region organized around a central urban core is known as a functional region.

Question 52

Besides location,a region must also possess areal extent.

Question 53

Population density refers to the number of persons per unit area.

Question 54

Wladimir Köppen developed the hypothesis of continental drift.

Question 55

A region need not possess the geographic property of relative location.

Question 56

Transition zones often mark the places where geographic realms meet.

Question 57

A region marked by homogeneity is known as a functional region.

Question 58

A mental map shows an area committed to a person's memory.

Question 59

Cartography is the new science of making maps with computers.

Question 60

To find a city street,a small-scale map should be used.

Question 61

The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is known as that map's ___.

Question 62

The modern state emerged during the height of Greek civilization.

Question 63

China now has more people living in cities than in rural areas.

Question 64

Carl Sauer developed a school of cultural geography centered on the concept of cultural landscape.

Question 65

The ___ region,also known as a spatial system,is marked not by an internal sameness,but by its dynamic internal structuring.

Question 66

Uniform cultural regions characterized by internal homogeneity are classified as ___ regions.

Question 67

The Subsaharan African realm does not rank among the world's four largest population clusters.

Question 68

From Figure G-7 it appears that the eastern half of China is more densely populated than the western half.

Question 69

Desert and steppe climates belong to the Köppen-Geiger climate type identified by the letter ___.

Question 70

A map of the entire world is a _______-scale map.

Question 71

The world population growth rate has recently been slowing down.

Question 72

Countries of large territorial size are usually more powerful than smaller countries.

Question 73

The rate of urbanization increase is the same in every geographic realm.

Question 74

The world's population is currently estimated to recently have passed 10 billion in total size.

Question 75

Topical and systematic geography are synonymous.

Question 76

The goal of the World Trade Organization is to lower all remaining trade barriers.

Question 77

Globalization impacts only those in the Global Periphery.

Question 78

Culture is predetermined by the natural environment.

Question 79

A cultural landscape is created from a natural landscape by a cultural group.

Question 80

Africa is the most densely populated continent.