Question 1

What is NOT one of the turns or critiques concerned with getting away from the domination of objectivity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Subaltern geographies 
B)  Humanist critique 
C)  Postmodernism 
D)  Quantitative turn 
A)  Subaltern geographies 
B)  Humanist critique 
C)  Postmodernism 
D)  Quantitative turn D

Question 2

What term describes the situation that Geographer Andrew Lawson revealed in a set of maps showing how minority and low-income children in South Carolina were more likely to live in areas with lead-contaminated soils?

Accepted Answer

A)  Disease mapping 
B)  Environmental racism 
C)  Geographic profiling 
D)  Health inequality 
A)  Disease mapping 
B)  Environmental racism 
C)  Geographic profiling 
D)  Health inequality B

Question 3

What is NOT an aspect of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?

Accepted Answer

A)  Spatial database 
B)  Data manipulation 
C)  Spatial manipulation 
D)  Data representation 
A)  Spatial database 
B)  Data manipulation 
C)  Spatial manipulation 
D)  Data representation C

Question 4

What is NOT one of the essential spatial categories that are used in geography?

Accepted Answer

A)  Density 
B)  Location 
C)  Movement 
D)  Surface 
A)  Density 
B)  Location 
C)  Movement 
D)  Surface

Question 5

What type of map shows the geographic distributions of measurements that were taken from observations made during Alexander von Humboldt's expeditions?

Accepted Answer

A)  Conic 
B)  Isothermal 
C)  Cosmographic 
D)  Latitude and longitude 
A)  Conic 
B)  Isothermal 
C)  Cosmographic 
D)  Latitude and longitude

Question 6

What is Tobler's Law?

Accepted Answer

A)  The observation that climate conditions create culture. 
B)  Near things are more related than things far away. 
C)  Criminal activity is place-specific and close to home. 
D)  Geopolitical strategies should support statecraft. 
A)  The observation that climate conditions create culture. 
B)  Near things are more related than things far away. 
C)  Criminal activity is place-specific and close to home. 
D)  Geopolitical strategies should support statecraft.

Question 7

David Harvey argued for a new approach to the city, seeing it as an important element that mediates and expresses social processes. What term is used to describe major shifts of understanding in scholarship?

Accepted Answer

A)  Geographic profiling 
B)  Epistemological break 
C)  Anarcho-communist 
D)  Geographical imagination 
A)  Geographic profiling 
B)  Epistemological break 
C)  Anarcho-communist 
D)  Geographical imagination

Question 8

What statement is the best example of the more socially sensitive environmentalism that is found in modern Geography?

Accepted Answer

A)  Rise and fall of ancient civilizations had nothing to do with changing environment. 
B)  Due to the Tropics' extremely hot conditions, social conflict is more common. 
C)  Technological advances can eliminate environmental impacts on human societies. 
D)  Social change is embedded and embodied in environmental relations. 
A)  Rise and fall of ancient civilizations had nothing to do with changing environment. 
B)  Due to the Tropics' extremely hot conditions, social conflict is more common. 
C)  Technological advances can eliminate environmental impacts on human societies. 
D)  Social change is embedded and embodied in environmental relations.

Question 9

Which cosmographer accurately measured the circumference of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mercator 
B)  Eratosthenes 
C)  Ptolemy 
D)  Humboldt 
A)  Mercator 
B)  Eratosthenes 
C)  Ptolemy 
D)  Humboldt

Question 10

What is NOT an example of "moral statistics" from the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Crime incidence 
B)  Poverty 
C)  Educational instruction 
D)  Disease 
A)  Crime incidence 
B)  Poverty 
C)  Educational instruction 
D)  Disease

Question 11

What is TRUE about the shift from cosmography to geography?

Accepted Answer

A)  Over the past 500 years Geography strengthened its cosmographic focus. 
B)  Early cosmographers/geographers were never interested in magic or alchemy. 
C)  Over the past 500 years Geography diverged from its cosmographic focus. 
D)  Early cosmographers/geographers pursued science and theology concurrently. 
A)  Over the past 500 years Geography strengthened its cosmographic focus. 
B)  Early cosmographers/geographers were never interested in magic or alchemy. 
C)  Over the past 500 years Geography diverged from its cosmographic focus. 
D)  Early cosmographers/geographers pursued science and theology concurrently.

Question 12

Which cosmographer made several contributions to cartography and map projections?

Accepted Answer

A)  Euclid 
B)  Humboldt 
C)  Ptolemy 
D)  Picard 
A)  Euclid 
B)  Humboldt 
C)  Ptolemy 
D)  Picard

Question 13

Who is considered the last of the cosmographers and the first modern geographer?

Accepted Answer

A)  Alexander von Humboldt 
B)  John Dee 
C)  Gerard Mercator 
D)  Jean Picard 
A)  Alexander von Humboldt 
B)  John Dee 
C)  Gerard Mercator 
D)  Jean Picard

Question 14

Review the following list: Times Square; New York State; Northeast USA; North America. What term is representative of all items in the list?

Accepted Answer

A)  Space 
B)  Territory 
C)  Place 
D)  Diffusion 
A)  Space 
B)  Territory 
C)  Place 
D)  Diffusion

Question 15

What example represents how geographic tools have become democratized and opened up?

Accepted Answer

A)  A national intelligence team uses drones to collect aerial imagery of ISIL-held lands. 
B)  US disaster relief volunteers publicly post real-time data of a flooded city in India. 
C)  A multinational corporation creates a map of its global supply chain as a marketing item. 
D)  Diffusion data of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico was not publicized by federal agencies. 
A)  A national intelligence team uses drones to collect aerial imagery of ISIL-held lands. 
B)  US disaster relief volunteers publicly post real-time data of a flooded city in India. 
C)  A multinational corporation creates a map of its global supply chain as a marketing item. 
D)  Diffusion data of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico was not publicized by federal agencies.

Question 16

What term represents the assumption that criminal activity is place-specific and that typically criminals stay close to home?

Accepted Answer

A)  Psychological profiling 
B)  Relative space 
C)  Geographic profiling 
D)  Environmental racism 
A)  Psychological profiling 
B)  Relative space 
C)  Geographic profiling 
D)  Environmental racism

Question 17

What geographic concept is interested in the social connections, political arrangements, and economic conditions that structure places and spaces?

Accepted Answer

A)  Absolute location 
B)  Latitude and longitude 
C)  Relative location 
D)  Geographic profiling 
A)  Absolute location 
B)  Latitude and longitude 
C)  Relative location 
D)  Geographic profiling

Question 18

In what historical/geographic context did the use of mapping to analyze the spread of disease occur?

Accepted Answer

A)  Industrial cities 
B)  International migration 
C)  Agricultural communities 
D)  Scientific expeditions 
A)  Industrial cities 
B)  International migration 
C)  Agricultural communities 
D)  Scientific expeditions

Question 19

What organization successfully lobbied the Illinois State Legislature to pass a bill of child labor laws and compulsory education laws, which became the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hull House 
B)  National Child Labor Committee 
C)  ACLU 
D)  The Juvenile Protective Association 
A)  Hull House 
B)  National Child Labor Committee 
C)  ACLU 
D)  The Juvenile Protective Association

Question 20

Sir Halfred Mackinder has been attributed for saying that Geography is an aid to statecraft. What statement best explains his meaning?

Accepted Answer

A)  Geography should not be intimately connected to the interests of powerful groups. 
B)  Producing geographical knowledge is loosely connected to national economic interests. 
C)  Geography could help frame geopolitical strategies for the nation-state. 
D)  He developed a heartland theory that argues that whoever ruled Britain ruled the world. 
A)  Geography should not be intimately connected to the interests of powerful groups. 
B)  Producing geographical knowledge is loosely connected to national economic interests. 
C)  Geography could help frame geopolitical strategies for the nation-state. 
D)  He developed a heartland theory that argues that whoever ruled Britain ruled the world.

What is NOT one of the turns or critiques concerned with getting away from the domination of objectivity?

What term describes the situation that Geographer Andrew Lawson revealed in a set of maps showing how minority and low-income children in South Carolina were more likely to live in areas with lead-contaminated soils?

What is NOT an aspect of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?

What is NOT one of the essential spatial categories that are used in geography?

What type of map shows the geographic distributions of measurements that were taken from observations made during Alexander von Humboldt's expeditions?

What is Tobler's Law?

David Harvey argued for a new approach to the city, seeing it as an important element that mediates and expresses social processes. What term is used to describe major shifts of understanding in scholarship?

What statement is the best example of the more socially sensitive environmentalism that is found in modern Geography?

Which cosmographer accurately measured the circumference of the Earth?

What is NOT an example of "moral statistics" from the 19^th century?

What is TRUE about the shift from cosmography to geography?

Which cosmographer made several contributions to cartography and map projections?

Who is considered the last of the cosmographers and the first modern geographer?

Review the following list: Times Square; New York State; Northeast USA; North America. What term is representative of all items in the list?

What example represents how geographic tools have become democratized and opened up?

What term represents the assumption that criminal activity is place-specific and that typically criminals stay close to home?

What geographic concept is interested in the social connections, political arrangements, and economic conditions that structure places and spaces?

In what historical/geographic context did the use of mapping to analyze the spread of disease occur?

What organization successfully lobbied the Illinois State Legislature to pass a bill of child labor laws and compulsory education laws, which became the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916?

Sir Halfred Mackinder has been attributed for saying that Geography is an aid to statecraft. What statement best explains his meaning?

The Home Planet

Population Dynamics

Population and Food

Population and Resources

People and the Environment

The Geography of Three Economic Sectors

The Economic Geography of Uneven Development

The Geography of Population

The Geography of Religion

The Geography of Language

Creating a Global Economy

The Global Geography of Culture

World Orders

The Nation-State

The Urban Transformation

Networks of Cities

The Internal Structure of the City

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Exam 2: The Nature of Geography

What is NOT one of the turns or critiques concerned with getting away from the domination of objectivity?

What term describes the situation that Geographer Andrew Lawson revealed in a set of maps showing how minority and low-income children in South Carolina were more likely to live in areas with lead-contaminated soils?

What is NOT an aspect of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?

What is NOT one of the essential spatial categories that are used in geography?

What type of map shows the geographic distributions of measurements that were taken from observations made during Alexander von Humboldt's expeditions?

What is Tobler's Law?

David Harvey argued for a new approach to the city, seeing it as an important element that mediates and expresses social processes. What term is used to describe major shifts of understanding in scholarship?

What statement is the best example of the more socially sensitive environmentalism that is found in modern Geography?

Which cosmographer accurately measured the circumference of the Earth?

What is NOT an example of "moral statistics" from the 19th century?

What is TRUE about the shift from cosmography to geography?

Which cosmographer made several contributions to cartography and map projections?

Who is considered the last of the cosmographers and the first modern geographer?

Review the following list: Times Square; New York State; Northeast USA; North America. What term is representative of all items in the list?

What example represents how geographic tools have become democratized and opened up?

What term represents the assumption that criminal activity is place-specific and that typically criminals stay close to home?

What geographic concept is interested in the social connections, political arrangements, and economic conditions that structure places and spaces?

In what historical/geographic context did the use of mapping to analyze the spread of disease occur?

What organization successfully lobbied the Illinois State Legislature to pass a bill of child labor laws and compulsory education laws, which became the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916?

Sir Halfred Mackinder has been attributed for saying that Geography is an aid to statecraft. What statement best explains his meaning?

The Home Planet

Population Dynamics

Population and Food

Population and Resources

People and the Environment

The Geography of Three Economic Sectors

The Economic Geography of Uneven Development

The Geography of Population

The Geography of Religion

The Geography of Language

Creating a Global Economy

The Global Geography of Culture

World Orders

The Nation-State

The Urban Transformation

Networks of Cities

The Internal Structure of the City

Filters

What is NOT an example of "moral statistics" from the 19^th century?