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Geography is
a) knowing where countries are and what their capitals are.
b) knowing physical landforms such as bays, deserts, and tundras.
c) being able to synthesize the natural/physical world and human activity.
d) all of these.
Which of these are not tools of geographers?
a) alien maps.
b) satellite imagery.
c) interviewing indigenous communities.
d) historical research.
Which of these is considered the father of geography?
a) ibn Battuta
b) Eratosthenes
c) Marco Polo
d) Harm de Blij
Absolute location
a) consists of information such as latitude and longitude and elevation.
b) tells us where a place is in relation to other places.
c) is often useful when giving directions to a normal person.
d) often changes with the physical landscape.
Which of these is not one of the five themes of geography?
a) location
b) place
c) human-environment interaction
d) finding your car keys
Which of these is not one of the six essential elements of geography?
a) physical systems
b) human systems
c) environment and society
d) textbooks and websites
Of the countries with data, the European country with the lowest percentage of post-toilet handwashers is
a) France.
b) the UK.
c) the Netherlands.
d) Germany.
The most common computer-based geography technology is
a) Alexa.
b) GIS.
c) Playstation 5.
d) Galaxy S20.
Which of these is not one of the common distortion problems with maps?
a) area (how big places are)
b) direction (which way to go to get from one place to another)
c) distance (how far apart places are)
d) sound (how loud places are)
Which of these is the largest scale?
a) 1:1
b) 1:5
c) 1:200
d) 1:5000000
Raw materials are most often produced in the
a) core
b) periphery
c) semi-periphery
d) hauptstadt
Finished consumer goods
a) are generally produced in core areas and flow to the periphery.
b) are widely produced in all areas.
c) are just as likely to be produced in the core as the periphery.
d) are generally produced in the periphery and flow to the core areas.
Development in nations
a) can be measured in any number of ways, from income to literacy to healthcare and many others.
b) most often depends on military spending.
c) has a universally defined set of measurement criteria.
d) seems to be random.
Gross Domestic Product is a measure of
a) the total value of the officially recorded goods and services produced by those from a country in a given year.
b) the total value of the officially recorded goods and services produced by those in a country in a given year.
c) a measure of the monetary worth of what is produced within a country plus income received from investments outside a country.
d) the total value of both recorded and unrecorded goods and services produced by those from a country in a given year.
Generally speaking,
a) the higher-numbered an economic sector is, the more development it indicates.
b) the lower-numbered an economic sector is, the more development it indicates.
c) there is no relationship between economic sectors and national development.
d) economic sectors aren't real.
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