AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY CHAPTER 1 MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Which of the following statements is most correct regarding the origins of geography? A. Geography was invented as a science in the late 18th century. B. Physical geography has been studied since ancient times but human geography was first studied in the 20th century. C. Geographers owes its existence to the Renaissance period in western Europe. D. Humans have practice similar geography at least since time of ancient Greek civilization. E. Human geography was not practice until powerful computers capable of mapping detail information were invented. CORRECT ANSWER D. humans have practice geography at least since the time of ancient Greek civilization. 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 CORRECT ANSWER B. Eratosthenes What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common? A. They are taught or studied within the same department in major universities, but only rarely. B. They're concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do. C. They are deadly dedicated primarily to managing national parks systems. D. They are focused primarily on managing the worlds growing human population. E. They represent a network of academic professionals dedicated primarily to studying coal mining's effects on physical and human systems. CORRECT ANSWER B. they are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do. Scale is: A. The system used by geographers to transfer locations from a globe to a map. B. The spread of a phenomenon over a given area. C. The difference in elevation between two points in an area. D. The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on landscape. E. The ratio of the largest to smallest areas on a map.