Test Bank for McKnight's Physical Geography, 13th Edition by Darrel Hess

Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, 13e (Hess)
Chapter 1 Introduction to Earth

1) Give an example of how our National Parks can be used as laboratories.
Answer: We can study how ecosystems react after disruptions such as wildfires, how changing
climate affects glaciers, and so on.
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: National Parks
Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Remember

2) Why does the National Park Service (NPS) have units that contain wilderness and others,
which are small houses in urban areas?
Answer: The NPS has evolved to protect both natural and historic heritages in that people are
important in the history of places.
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: National Parks
Bloom's Taxonomy: 2. Understand

3) Why is satellite imagery of the Earth at night useful for the study of Physical Geography?
Answer: Satellite imagery is digital and can be manipulated over space and time. The entire
Earth can be laid out as a map but this is impossible from any single vantage point. The satellite
data can be used as a proxy for the study of many phenomena.
Diff: 3
Topic/Section: Images of Earth at Night
Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Remember

4) This law gave U.S. Presidents the power to create national monuments.
A) National Park Service Organic Act
B) Antiquities Act
C) Smoot Hawley Act
D) Yosemite Act
E) Bureau of Land Management Organic Act
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: National Parks
Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Remember

5) This National Park was established as the first one in the world.
A) Rocky Mountain
B) Yellowstone
C) Mammoth Cave
D) Gates of the Arctic
E) Isle Royale
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: National Parks
Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Remember

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,6) The text's map of National Park units shows ________.
A) all of them
B) the three largest of them
C) the ones featured in the textbook
D) all of them in the western United States
E) all of them in the world
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Topic/Section: National Parks
Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Remember

7) The National Parks of the United States include over ________ units.
A) 25
B) 50
C) 100
D) 400
E) 1000
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: National Parks
Bloom's Taxonomy: 2. Understand

8) The National Park system units include all but ________.
A) Yosemite National Park
B) Little Rock Central High School
C) the Gettysburg battlefield of the Civil War
D) a Japanese internment camp in California
E) all of lower Manhattan Island, the original site of New York City
Answer: E
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: National Parks
Bloom's Taxonomy: 2. Understand

9) National Parks units ________.
A) are places your parents shouldn't have dragged you
B) can sometimes be as small as single houses
C) must be at least 10,000 acres in size
D) all contain some wilderness
E) contain both wild areas and places of historic significance
Answer: E
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: National Parks
Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Remember




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,10) Anthropogenic environmental change can be studied using National Parks as laboratories.
"Anthropogenic" means ________.
A) natural
B) sudden
C) mysterious
D) wild
E) human-caused
Answer: E
Diff: 1
Topic/Section: National Parks
Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Remember

11) Why does the textbook use so many metric measurements?
A) The world's scientific community uses the metric system.
B) Americans understand metric measurements better than English system measurements.
C) They are a binary system.
D) They are traditional in physical geography (but now dying out in use).
E) They need to be mentioned often because they have smaller sizes than English units.
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: Numbers and Measurement Systems
Bloom's Taxonomy: 2. Understand

12) Earth's speed of rotation is ________.
A) the same everywhere
B) 0 kph at the Equation
C) fastest at the Equator
D) slowest at the Equator
E) fastest at the poles
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Topic/Section: Earth Movements
Bloom's Taxonomy: 2. Understand

13) The latitude receiving the solar rays at a right angle to the surface is the ________ of the
Sun.
A) rotation
B) altitude
C) declination
D) ephemeris
E) orbital ellipse
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Topic/Section: The Annual March of the Seasons
Bloom's Taxonomy: 2. Understand



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, 14) The solar altitude is the height of the ________ Sun above the horizon at different latitudes.
A) vertical
B) summer
C) winter
D) noon
E) setting
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Topic/Section: The Annual March of the Seasons
Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Remember

15) The Images of Earth at Night page illustrates ________.
A) photographs can be taken at night
B) satellites can measure many human and natural phenomenon
C) one satellite image can show the entire Earth
D) humans are connected one to another
E) satellite "selfies" are now possible
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: Images of Earth at Night
Bloom's Taxonomy: 2. Understand

16) To save energy, ________ was the first country to set clocks forward for daylight savings
time.
A) China
B) French Polynesia
C) Brazil
D) Germany
E) South Africa
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: Daylight-Savings Time
Bloom's Taxonomy: 2. Understand

17) Which of the following is an environmental sphere actually part of one of the other spheres?
A) Cryosphere
B) Lithosphere
C) Hydrosphere
D) Biosphere
E) Atmosphere
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Topic/Section: Earth's Environmental Spheres
Bloom's Taxonomy: 2. Understand




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