Intro to Geography Practice Test 1

Which of the following is a subdiscipline of human geography?
1. Geology
2. Cartography
3. Geomorphology
4. Population Geography
What Greek geographer accurately estimated the earth's circumference in the 2nd century BC?
1. Herodotus
2. Hecataeus
3. Eratosthenes
4. Ptolemy
Geography is a systematic discipline according to Kant
1. True
2. False
Which of the following is NOT a true statement about an academic "discipline":
1. They are taught at the college/university level.
2. They are defined in part by the learned societies (e.g. The Canadian Association of Geographers) to which its practitioners belong.
3. They are defined in part by the academic meetings and journals (e.g. The Canadian Geographer) in which its practioners share their research.
4. A discipline is exactly the same as a "subject".
The initial impact on geography of the Mediterranean world's conversion to Christianity (300-600 CE) was:
1. The encouragement of a more systematic study of the earth.
2. Support for exploration and voyages of discovery.
3. Rejection of "pagan" geographical knowledge that was not based on the teachings of the Christian Bible.
4. Detailed gathering of information of far-away places to promote the Christian religion.
Geography can best be described as being:
1. a physical science
2. a social science
3. both a physical and a social science (integrative)
4. neither a physical nor a social science
Idiographic disciplines:
1. Are all natural sciences
2. Accumulate knowledge by dividing up the world into narrow fields and develop concepts and theories in these areas.
3. Accumulate knowledge by integrating concepts and theories across broad areas or time periods.
4. All end in "-ology"
Greek "geographers" accumulated knowledge about the world by all of the following EXCEPT:
1. Gathering observations from travellers and traders with far off lands
2. Careful observation of the world around them
3. Applying geometrical and mathematical principles to describe it
4. Relying solely on religion and myth
Which way of dividing the world to geographers generally prefer?
1. North/South
2. East/West
3. Core, semi-periphery and periphery
4. More and less developed
Which of the following is not one of Peter Jackson's "key concepts" in Geography?
1. Space and place
2. Scale and connection
3. Proximity and distance
4. Regional geography
What was the first country to establish a university chair (professorship) in Geography?
1. Germany
2. France
3. The United Kingdom
4. Ancient Greece
Why are Europe and Asia considered to be separate continents?
1. Because the Greeks divided their world by the Aegean Sea which separated the two and this view persists up to today
2. Because they are on geologically separate tectonic plates
3. Because they are two large landmasses separated by a wide body of water
4. Because continents are best defined by racial and cultural differences.
What did the "T" represent on a medieval christian T-O map?
1. waterways (the Mediterranean and Black Seas and the Nile River)
2. the three continents
3. the division between heaven, earth and hell
4. the crucifixion of Jesus
Why did Columbus believe he could travel a relatively short distance west to arrive in the East Indies?
1. Because he used the calculations of Eratosthenes to estimate the earth's circumference
2. He was familiar with Ptolemy's estimates that underestimated the size of the Earth and over-estimated the size of Eurasia
3. Because Islamic geographers predicted that this was possible.
After the second World War until 1989, what types of countries were known as the "Third World"?
1. Capitalist democratic countries
2. Communist countries
3. Newly independent former colonies
What third category did Immanuel Wallerstein add to dependency theory's two categories to represent countries dominated by the core which in turn dominate other countries?
1. the core
2. the periphery
3. the semi-periphery
4. the "South"
What has been Oxfam's goal in its "Oxfam Goat" campaign since 2005?
1. to replace destructive beef farming with more sustainable goats
2. to prevent environmental destruction in periphery countries
3. to reduce world poverty by replacing unnecessary consumption in the core with a valuable resource (goats) in the periphery
4. to raise consiousness of be benefits of a vegetarian diet
What does Peter Jackson mean when he discusses geography's "grammar"?
1. an apparently endless list of place-names
2. concepts and theories that help us to make sense of places
3. the way we think about differences and similarities by contrasting geographies of "us" and "them"
4. fair trade in consumer goods
"An area tied together by a common set of linkages or spatial interactions" best describes:
1. A formal region
2. A functional region
3. A vernacular region
4. Cognitive space
In the film "Where's my Goat", where did he find his goats?
1. Zambia
2. Toronto
3. Kenya
4. He found they did not really exist

Intro to Geography Practice Test 1

Multiple-choice exercise