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Chapter 1 - A Geographer's World TEST - 2013
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Geographers look at the world
a. by studying cities first.
b. at the local, regional, and global levels.
c. by studying only its physical features.
d. as separate regions with no effect on each other.
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2. A geographer's tools include
a. maps and globes.
b. satellite images.
c. notebooks and tape recorders.
d. All of the above
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3. The two main branches of geography are
a. regional and local.
b. cartography and meteorology.
c. the study of water and the study of landforms.
d. physical geography and human geography.
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4. A social science is a field that studies people and
a. geography.
c. their environment.
b. their relationships.
d. the landscapes they create.
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5. Which of the following questions might a geographer studying at a local level ask?
a. Which products does a country export?
b. What languages do people speak in South America?
c. How do people in a town or community live?
d. What features make up a physical region?
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6. Globes can show
a. specific information about a place, such as languages spoken or street names.
b. a flat representation of Earth's surface.
c. the world as it really is.
d. more information than maps.
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7. Which of the following is not one of the five themes of geography?
a. Movement
c. Place
b. Regions
d. Environment
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8. Your street address describes
a. absolute location.
b. relative location.
c. your environment.
d. your society.
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9. Which of the following would a human geographer study?
a. soils and plants
c. weather and climate
b. maps and globes
d. economics and politics
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10. Geography is considered a social science because it
a. deals with people and how they live.
b. can be studied using numbers.
c. uses satellite imaging.
d. is studied in all countries of the world.
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11. The study of weather and its causes is
a. geography.
b. hydrology.
c. meteorology.
d. cartography.
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12. Which theme of geography describes features that make a site unique?
a. Human-Environment Interaction
c. Place
b. Movement
d. Location
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13. Which of the following is a scientific question that a geographer might ask?
a. Why do people from Mexico speak Spanish?
b. What caused the Rocky Mountains to form?
c. Why did the government of Afghanistan recently change?
d. All of the above
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14. Why do people who live in North Africa speak Arabic? This is an example of a question related to
a. climate patterns.
c. social science.
b. the physical world.
d. cartography.
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15. Geographers who study social science
a. visit places and talk to the people who live there.
b. take measurements in the wild.
c. analyze environmental data.
d. study satellite images.
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16. Geographers divide the world into regions
a. to compare different places.
b. because it is required by the national geography standards.
c. because regions are clearly defined.
d. to slow down worldwide trade.
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17. The Rocky Mountains are a region defined by
a. human characteristics.
b. physical characteristics.
c. historical characteristics.
d. language and religious characteristics.
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18. A geographer who studies roads and routes is dealing with the theme of
a. Movement.
c. Physical Systems.
b. Human-Environment Interaction.
d. Location.
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19. Questions about why rivers flow in a certain direction are part of
a. physical geography.
c. meteorology.
b. human geography.
d. social science.
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20. A physical geographer might
a. survey the types of jobs that people have.
b. study economics and politics of a region.
c. survey the types of fish in a lake.
d. interview people about their religion.
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21. A human geographer might conduct research on
a. what crops people are growing in an area.
b. the types of wildlife in a forest.
c. climate patterns over an ocean.
d. All of the above
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22. Economic geography is the study of
a. how people live in cities.
b. making maps.
c. how people make and spend money.
d. how people communicate.
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23. The study of cities and how people live in them is
a. economic geography.
c. physical geography.
b. urban geography.
d. cartography.
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24. A hydrologist might study
a. rainfall patterns.
b. how people move from place to place.
c. how tornadoes form.
d. the history of a group of people.
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25. An example of a region is
a. the Americas.
b. San Francisco’s Chinatown.
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c. Scandinavia.
d. All of the above
26. In order to study the world on a global level, geographers might examine
a. how events and ideas from one region affect people in other regions.
b. the type of transportation people use in a community.
c. how well a country’s government is working.
d. the types of jobs that people have in a state.
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True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true(A) or false(B).
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27. Geography is both a science and social science.
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28. Geographers divide the world into two regions based on latitude and longitude.
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29. Showing the round Earth on flat maps will distort some details.
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30. Landforms, bodies of water, and the foods people eat are all aspects of human geography.
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31. Everything geographers study can be measured in numbers.
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