Test Bank for The Cultural Landscape, 14th Edition by James M. Rubenstein

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Chapter 1 This Is Geography
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1) Human geography can best be defined as
A) a tool to study factors such as site, place, location, region, and communication.
B) humans in medieval times creating maps to travel between villages.
C) the identification of the when and why of important human events.
D) the study of where people and activities are on Earth and why they are found there.
E) a social science concerned with Earth's physical features.
Answer: D
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Section: 1.1: Why Is Geography a Science?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1.1: Summarize geography's basic concepts.
National Geography Std.: 4: The physical and human characteristics of places
Global Science Standard: 5: Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of science on society

2) The relationship among people and objects across the barrier of space is defined as
A) scale.
B) connection.
C) diffusion.
D) density.
E) location.
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Section: 1.1: Why Is Geography a Science?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1.1: Summarize geography's basic concepts.
National Geography Std.: 4: The physical and human characteristics of places
Global Science Standard: 5: Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of science on society

3) According to the surviving evidence, the first person to write the word geography was
A) Aristotle.
B) Eratosthenes.
C) Strabo.
D) Thales of Miletus.
E) Thucydides.
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Section: 1.1: Why Is Geography a Science?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1.3: Explain the development of the science of geography.
National Geography Std.: 17: How to apply geography to interpret the past
Global Science Standard: 7: Demonstrate the ability to make connections between concepts
across Geography


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,4) According to Immanuel Kant, the most important distinction between the disciplines of
geography and history is
A) the type and source of material being studied.
B) the reasons why certain historical events occur.
C) location. The choice of how best to research human behavior and activities.
D) time. Both Geographers and Historians ask "why" but Geographers want to know "where?"
and Historians want to know "when?"
E) whether relationships are strong or weak between historic and geographic events.
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Section: 1.1: Why Is Geography a Science?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1.3: Explain the development of the science of geography.
National Geography Std.: 4: The physical and human characteristics of places
Global Science Standard: 5: Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of science on society

5) Geographers are interested in the relationships between locations on Earth, which include
A) regions, places, and connections.
B) scale, regions, and space.
C) maps, space, and scale.
D) scale, space, and connection.
E) local, global, and regional.
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Section: 1.1: Why Is Geography a Science?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1.1: Summarize geography's basic concepts.
National Geography Std.: 4: The physical and human characteristics of places
Global Science Standard: 5: Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of science on society

6) Which of the following concepts is true in human geography?
A) Location is the relationship between a portion of the Earth being studied and the whole Earth.
B) Connection refers to the physical gap between two objects.
C) Place is a specific point on Earth distinguished by specific qualities.
D) Commonly used words such as space and place are the same thing.
E) A region may be represented by a city block, a neighborhood, a city boundary, or an entire
metropolitan area.
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Section: 1.1: Why Is Geography a Science?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1.1: Summarize geography's basic concepts.
National Geography Std.: 4: The physical and human characteristics of places
Global Science Standard: 5: Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of science on society




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, 7) Which of the following statements is most correct regarding the origins of geography?
A) Geography was invented as a science in the late eighteenth century.
B) Physical geography has been studied since ancient times, but human geography was first
studied in the twentieth century.
C) Geography owes its existence to the Renaissance period in Western Europe.
D) The science of geography has prehistoric roots.
E) Human geography was not practiced until powerful computers capable of mapping detailed
information were invented.
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Section: 1.1: Why Is Geography a Science?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1.3: Explain the development of the science of geography.
National Geography Std.: 17: How to apply geography to interpret the past
Global Science Standard: 5: Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of science on society

8) The art and science of making maps is
A) demography.
B) cartography.
C) topography.
D) geomorphology.
E) geography.
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Section: 1.1: Why Is Geography a Science?
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1.2: Identify geography's principal contemporary mapping tools.
National Geography Std.: 1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and
technologies to acquire, process, and report information
Global Science Standard: 1: Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of scientific
inquiry




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