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Unit 1 APHG Study Material
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Questão 1

Questão
Cognitive images(mental maps) can be based on
Responda
  • visual representations of actual locations, direct experiences, and people's imaginations
  • visual representations of actual locations
  • direct experiences
  • only a direct experience and visual representations of actual locations
  • people's imaginations

Questão 2

Questão
Maps that adjust the size of area units based on the values of the data they depict are called
Responda
  • topographic maps
  • flow-line maps
  • satellite images
  • cartogram maps
  • choropleth maps

Questão 3

Questão
The state of Texas is BEST considered a formal region because
Responda
  • the same state laws apply everywhere in the region
  • religion is the same everywhere in the region
  • transportation systems converge in the major highways of the region
  • only one language is spoken in most of the cities of the region
  • it is a part of the United States

Questão 4

Questão
Relative to lines of latitude near the equator, lines of latitude neat the poles are
Responda
  • shorter
  • More accurate
  • Straighter
  • Longer
  • Wider

Questão 5

Questão
Regarding Chicago, which statement is best describing its relative location
Responda
  • Its location is affected by rail road lines through the central U.S. and transport on the Great Lakes
  • It has a specific latitiude and longitude
  • It is located in the northern hemisphere, northwest of the origin of latitude and longitude
  • It is found north of the Equator and west of the Prime Meridian

Questão 6

Questão
How are a cartogram and a graduated symbol map similar?
Responda
  • Both indicate exact locations of specific data precisely
  • Both display latitude and longitude acurately
  • Both are useful for comparing the physical area of a country
  • Both portray numerical data for comparison between places
  • Both provide a good compromise among distortions of shape, size, direction, and distance

Questão 7

Questão
The Kinshasa Highway, also known as the AIDS Highway, is an informal highway that goes from coast to coast in Africa. This highway has played a significant role in minimizing:
Responda
  • Sense of place
  • Friction of distance
  • Connectivity
  • Distance decay
  • Spatial interaction

Questão 8

Questão
The location of Chicago at 41 degrees 49' N latitude and 87 degrees 37' W longitude is an example of
Responda
  • GPS location
  • Absolute location
  • Intensive location
  • Remote location
  • Relative location

Questão 9

Questão
A hearth is
Responda
  • a region from whcihc a phenomenon originates
  • the perimeter or boundary marked by a regional feature
  • the modification of a culture as a result of contact with a more powerful one
  • the process by which a feature or trend spreads
  • an area defined by one or more distinctive features or trends

Questão 10

Questão
Huricane Katrina's landfall on the United States is an interesting geographic cas study because
Responda
  • the federal government was poorly prepared for the storm and its aftermath
  • its effects are an intersection of human and physcal geography
  • people of all ethnic and racial groups were equally devastated by the storm
  • the damage was largely a result of flooding from rivers and a storm surge, not the winds
  • its winds reached incredible speed near the eye of the hurricane

Questão 11

Questão
Which of the following are forms of expansion diffusion?
Responda
  • relocation and stimulus
  • contagious and eponymous
  • contagious and hierarchical
  • hierarchical and formal
  • economis and relocation

Questão 12

Questão
Friction of distance
Responda
  • is now considered an outdated concept with little current utility
  • is the reflection of only cost overcoming distance
  • is another term for the distance-decay function
  • is usually negligible over distances of less that ten miles
  • is dependent in part upon an individual's cognitive distance

Questão 13

Questão
The statement, "Mexico's location next to the United States has had a great impact on its economic development," suggests that Mexico's economic development is related to its
Responda
  • spatial interaction
  • sense of place
  • situation
  • site
  • cognitive distance

Questão 14

Questão
On the tropical rainforest island of Borneo, some tribes practice slash-and-burn agriculture, while other tribes have chosen to be fishers. This exemplifies
Responda
  • possibilism
  • determinism
  • adoption
  • culturism
  • diffusion

Questão 15

Questão
Hawaii's tropical location, sandy beaches, volcanoes, volcanic soils, and plentiful moisture play an important role in its economic activities. In terms of its relative locaation, these characteristics refer to Hawaii's
Responda
  • space
  • situation
  • place
  • site
  • distance

Questão 16

Questão
An example of a map that is a compromise between an wqual-area and conformal projection is
Responda
  • a satellite image
  • the Mercator projection
  • the Robinsion projecton
  • the sinsusoidal projecton
  • a peace map

Questão 17

Questão
Which of the following are lines of constant value?
Responda
  • cartograms
  • isolines
  • GPS lines
  • smooth lines
  • projection lines

Questão 18

Questão
Spatial association requires geographer to look at the distribution of phenomena
Responda
  • only at a state scale
  • on a global and national scale only
  • on a national, state, and urban(local) scale
  • only on a national scale
  • at a global scale

Questão 19

Questão
The migration of Europeans into the Western Hemisphere included those people introducing Christianity into the Americas, thereby illustrating the process of this type of diffusion.
Responda
  • contagious
  • stimulus
  • relational
  • relocation
  • hierarchical

Questão 20

Questão
Which of the following best describes the site of Mexico City?
Responda
  • the most important financial and political center in Mexico
  • the federal district of Mexico
  • an important node in a global system of flows of goods, information, and people
  • a highland valley and dry lakebed located on a high plateau in southern central Mexico
  • an urban area located aproximately two hours from Houston, Texas, by airplane

Questão 21

Questão
Which of the following is most likely a functional region?
Responda
  • the area of dominance of a church or sect
  • area where people tend to be fans of a particular professional football team
  • the area of dominance of a television station
  • the area that a person regards as a hometown
  • an area where new ideas seem to be circulating the fastest

Questão 22

Questão
An example of a formal region is
Responda
  • the area of France where the Breton language is spoken
  • Dixie
  • an incredibly pleasant mountain
  • the hub and spoke network for a particular airline
  • 100,000 square kilometers

Questão 23

Questão
Of the following, the best example of a functional region is
Responda
  • Chicago
  • the West Coast
  • North America
  • Cajun Country
  • the Corn Belt

Questão 24

Questão
Mormonism is most concentrated in the counties surronding Salt Lake City, Utah, and teh population of Mormons as a percentage of total county population begins to decline the further away from Salt Lake City. This is an example of
Responda
  • time space compression
  • assimilation
  • syncretism
  • distance decay
  • acculturation

Questão 25

Questão
A computer system that stores, organizes, retrives, analyzes, and displays geofraphic data is
Responda
  • USGS
  • remote sensing
  • topographic analysis
  • GIS
  • GPS

Questão 26

Questão
The belief that the physical enviorment is the dominant force shaping cultures and that humankind is essentially a passive product of its physical surrounding is known as
Responda
  • cultural determinism
  • possibilism
  • veganism
  • landscape enviormentalism
  • enviormental determinism

Questão 27

Questão
"The paving of Kinshasa Highway affected every person on earth, and turned out to be one of the most important events of the twentieth century. It has already cost at least 10 million lives, with the likelihood that the ultimate number of human casualties will vastly exceed the deaths in the Second World War" The quote from the Hot Zone reflects a downside of:
Responda
  • location
  • globalization
  • site
  • proximity
  • sense of place

Questão 28

Questão
The people of Siberia domesticated reindeer afer learnin gabout cattle being domesticates by people to their south. This is an example of which type of diffusion?
Responda
  • hierarchical
  • contagious
  • vernacular
  • stimulus
  • relocation

Questão 29

Questão
Which of the following is the largest scale map?
Responda
  • 1: 63,360
  • 1: 24,000
  • 1: 8,000
  • 1: 50,000

Questão 30

Questão
The distortion shown in the image best represents what projection type?
Image:
Mercator (binary/octet-stream)
Responda
  • Conic
  • Peters
  • Mercator
  • Robinson
  • Mollweide

Questão 31

Questão
The brand Under Armour is an example of which type of diffusion?
Responda
  • hierarchical
  • relocation
  • contagious
  • stimulus
  • formal

Questão 32

Questão
The two images reflect what concept of map scale?
Image:
World Regions (binary/octet-stream)
Responda
  • aggregation
  • simplification
  • map choice
  • scale of analysis
  • ratio of distance

Questão 33

Questão
Though we often talk about the 'South', speak of 'southern hospitality' and mention that people have southern accents
Responda
  • the south is nto very different from the north
  • the south does not generally include Georgia or Florida
  • the south, as a region, is very difficult to define
  • today Michigan and Wisconsin are included in the region

Questão 34

Questão
The image represents:
Image:
Ebola (binary/octet-stream)
Responda
  • epidemic
  • human-environment interactions
  • pandemic
  • location theory
  • sequent occupance

Questão 35

Questão
Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 brought their religious beliefs and practices to the new areas in which they settled. This is a case of
Responda
  • contagious diffusion
  • relocation diffusion
  • hierarchical diffusion
  • expansion diffusion
  • relational diffusion

Questão 36

Questão
While at opposite ends of the emotional spectrum, a joke spreading quickly throughout an office and cholers claiming a victim from every household in a village are both examples of which type of diffusion?
Responda
  • hierarchical
  • vernacular
  • relocation
  • contact
  • contagious

Questão 37

Questão
One way that possibilism differs from enviormental determinism is that it emphasizes:
Responda
  • culture
  • history
  • regions
  • trade
  • climate

Questão 38

Questão
Distance decay implies that
Responda
  • short distances erode hierarchical diffusion
  • long-distance interactions are more likely that short-distance interactions
  • long distances erode hierarchical diffusion
  • carrying fruit for a long distance causes it to rot
  • short-distance interactions are more likely than long-distance interactons

Questão 39

Questão
A mental map is a good way to represent what type of region?
Responda
  • vernacular region
  • political region
  • economic region
  • formal region
  • functional region

Questão 40

Questão
As geographers use the term, scale tells us
Responda
  • the length of a degree of longitude along different parallels
  • the intrinsic character of the object or area studied
  • the relationship between earth distance and map distance
  • the smoothness of a snake or fish
  • the weight of a given commodity

Questão 41

Questão
The arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth's surface is
Responda
  • spatial analysis
  • dispersal
  • spatial association
  • distribution
  • regional dissociation

Questão 42

Questão
Which of the following correctly lists the four main properties of maps?
Responda
  • area, direction, latitude, longitude
  • the USA, China, Africa, and New Zealand
  • area, shape, distance, direction
  • conformality, equivalence, direction, symbols
  • equivalence, shape, latitude, longitude

Questão 43

Questão
The projection used during the Cold War to exaggerate the Communist threat by distorting the areas of countries at high latitudes
Responda
  • the Stalin projection
  • the Robinson projecton
  • cartogram
  • the Mercator projection
  • Goode's Homolosine projection

Questão 44

Questão
A map projection may distort a continent, making it appear stretched in some areas and smashed in others in order to
Responda
  • depict accurately the shape of that same continent
  • distort the shapes of other continents
  • distort the distances and relatice sizes of countries and continents
  • depict accurately the physical area of a country or continent
  • depict a map that accurately represents a globe in every detail

Questão 45

Questão
This image is a desire line map recording the daily volume of daily work trips within the San Francisco Bay area to the Silicon Valley employment node. What is best represented by this?
Responda
  • density
  • distance
  • site
  • time-space compression
  • spatial interaction

Questão 46

Questão
Which state has seen the largest amount of population increase 2000-2010?
Image:
Nevada (binary/octet-stream)
Responda
  • Florida
  • Nevada
  • Texas
  • Arizona
  • California

Questão 47

Questão
Which of the following provides a strong relationship between land and water areas in the world and does not distort countries at high latitudes?
Responda
  • Robinson projection
  • Mercator projection
  • Mollweide projection
  • Van Der Grinten projection
  • All maps distort at high latitudes

Questão 48

Questão
It is believed that a certain plant was domesticated in 2 different parts of the world, at 2 different times, by 2 cultures that never had contact with each other. The domestication of this plant can be considered a case of
Responda
  • contagious diffusion
  • independent invention
  • relocation diffusion
  • nodal interaction
  • plant plagiarism

Questão 49

Questão
The primary source of diffusion today is
Responda
  • the internet
  • political elections
  • global business
  • snitches
  • missionary work

Questão 50

Questão
Spatial interaction is affected by
Responda
  • the physical enviornment, the cultural lanscapr, and the interchange potential of places
  • distance, accessibility, and connectivity
  • mobility, economics, and anticipation
  • shaking hands, high-fiving, and hugging
  • absolute location, spatial parameters, and network design

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