Exam 1: Introduction

The Holocene is the name of the most recent glaciation.

The modern state emerged during the height of Greek civilization.

The prevailing mid-latitude climatic type in the southeastern United States,Western Europe,southern Brazil,northern Argentina,and eastern China,is the _______________.

Carl Sauer developed a school of cultural geography centered on the concept of cultural landscape.

Which of the following is a systematic subfield of geography?

All regions possess all of the following EXCEPT ____________.

Map scale is the ratio of the distance between two places on a map and the actual distance between those two places on the Earth's surface.

Wegener's supercontinent is known as ____________.

Figure G-8 shows that the English language belongs to the language family.

A region organized around a central urban core is known as a functional region.

Savanna environments belong to the general climate type known as _____________.

Which of these countries is NOT considered a high-income economy,as classified by the World Bank in Figure G-11?

Which water body is surrounded by the geologically active Ring of Fire?

In the Köppen-Geiger scheme,the world's drier climates are largely grouped under the letter A.

Population density refers to the number of persons per unit area.

Wladimir Köppen developed the hypothesis of continental drift.

Besides location,a region must also possess areal extent.

The ___ region,also known as a spatial system,is marked not by an internal sameness,but by its dynamic internal structuring.

The large cluster of population in South Asia is focused on the ______ River Basin.

Which of the following statements concerning map scale is false?