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Geog 202 TAMU Smith Exam 1What evidence in human behavior demonstrates a geographic sense? - answer
Children’s inclination to explore their environment
Which is true about human's geographic sense? - answer We are descendants of early
humans who understood their environment
What does it mean to "see" rather than "look"? - answer Seeing requires developing
sharp observational skills
The criteria used to define a region are - answer The contents of a territory must be
unified in some way by either a function or genetic process
How do geographers try to understand landscape forms - answeras related to each
other
The term that geographers use to refer to the origin of a civilization is - answerHearth
Contemporary world regional geography refers to - answerThe study of areas in their
compositeness and complexity
What role does curiosity play in early humans' interaction with the environment? -
answerCuriosity motivated learning about their immediate environment which helped
them to survive
Civilization refers to a single way of life that defines how humans ought to live according
to a European standard.T/F - answerFalse
Anahuac, located in a high mountain valley became the core of New Spain, also known
as Mexico T/F - answerTrue
A chain or cluster of many islands is referred to as a/an - answerArchipelago
The New World extends from - answerThe United States of America to the tip of South
America
After the 1700s, the majority of the Caribbean population were black slaves. T/F -
answerTrue
Prohibition created an incentive for North Americans to vacation in Hispaniola. T/F -
answerFalse
, The low and level topography of this area makes it a distinct geographical region -
answerThe Bahamas
The city of Tenochtitlan was the core of Aztec Mexico and was located in the lower
tropical region of the Tierra Caliente T/F - answerTrue
What were salient features that drew people northward to the Gran Chichimeca region?
- answerThe Eastern and Western Sierra Madre
The Altitudinal zonation of the valley of Mexico is described as: - answerThe Tierra
Caliente
What is a defining difference between the Mayan and Aztec civilizations that the
Spanish encountered? - answerWhile the Mayan appeared to be a civilization on the
decline, the Aztec stone cities gave the impression of a thriving civilization
The geography of U.S. empire can be characterized by - answerA concentration of
power and privilege in a particular place
The core of The United States never moved location - answerTrue
The general pattern of air circulation of South America comes from the northeast and
southeast and meets at the - answerEquatorial belt
A primate city refers to the country's leading city as - answerDisproportionately large
The Atlantic slope is the hearth and core of The United Sates because the region
provides rich agricultural lands T/F - answerFalse, the lands were not fertile
A "forward capital" refers to a ___ and the name of Brazil's "forward capital" is -
answerA nation's capital that is moved closer to its expansion frontier; Brasilia
An example representing the sphere of American Empire is - answerThe South
The two main tributaries of the Mississippi are the Ohio River and the ______, which
drains the _______ in the west. - answerMissouri River; Rocky Mountains
The city of Cuzco was the core of Incan civilization. Its influence diffused outward ___ -
answerBetween the two cordilleras, northward and southward
Geographic sense - answeracquainted with some portion of the face of the Earth,
seeing instead of looking, observing eye
Salient feature - answerLatin for "salire" or leap out. Features that have a significance to
the land surrounding it, that contributes in an important way, it is the center of the land
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