Test Bank for Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture, 12th Edition by Erin H. Fouberg

Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture, 12th Edition
Chapter 01 Testbank: Introduction to Human Geography


Multiple Choice


1. Which of these South American countries has the highest percent of undernourished population?
a) Argentina
b) Peru
c) Bolivia
d) Chile

Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


2. Most of the one billion malnourished people in the world:
a) have little power
b) have little money
c) are women or children
d) all of these choices are correct.

Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


3. Two countries with very high percentages of arable land are:
a) the United States and South Africa.
b) Colombia and Togo.
c) India and Ukraine
d) Egypt and Mongolia

Ans: C
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Analysis
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..


4. Much of Kenya’s income comes from:
a) oil
b) coffee and tea production
c) iron ore
d) tourism

Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1 Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..

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,5. Which of the following countries has the lowest percentage of arable land?
a) Bangladesh
b) India
c) Poland
d) Norway

Ans: D
Difficulty: Medium
Blooms: Application
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


6. The type of process increases interactions deepens relationships and heightens interdependence
regardless of national boundaries.
a) spatial
b) nationalizing
c) ecological
d) globalization

Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


7. Human geographers focus on:
a) how people make places.
b) how we organize space as a society.
c) how we interact with each other in places and across space.
d) all of these choices are correct.

Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


8. The branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms, climate, soils and vegetation of the Earth
is:
a) cultural geography
b) human geography
c) physical geography
d) biogeography

Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


9. The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows:
a) the arrangement and organization of things on the surface to the Earth
b) the history of an area
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,c) human activity only
d) the political impact of boundaries

Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


10. Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in:
a) China
b) India
c) Afghanistan
d) Indonesia

Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


11. By the time the last great cholera pandemic began in 1865, people knew to take precautions against
_____ and ended the great waves of cholera.
a) traveling in groups
b) contaminated water
c) eating canned food
d) improper disposal of garbage

Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


12. Outbreaks of cholera in Yemen in 2016 infected an estimated
a) 1 million people.
b) 500,000 people.
c) 250,000 people.
d) 100,000 people.

Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically..


13. Cholera vaccines exist, but the problem is that:
a) they are costly and have limited effectiveness
b) they have serious side effects and can be deadly
c) many people refuse to take them
d) many people may not know the vaccine is available

Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
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, Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.1: Define human geography and describe the value of thinking geographically.


14. Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact of the drainage of part of the Florida
Everglades?
a) human-environment
b) movement
c) place
d) location

Ans: A
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Comprehension
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.


15. _________________ refers to the infusing of a locality with meaning and emotion.
a) Regionalization
b) Human-environment interaction
c) Sense of place
d) Location theory

Ans: C
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.



16. The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network
is referred to as:
a) spatial interaction.
b) movement.
c) landscape.
d) connectivity.

Ans: D
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.

17. Geographer Carl O. Sauer is most closely connected with:
a) natural landscape
b) cultural landscape
c) regional geography
d) location theory

Ans: B
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Knowledge
Learning Objective 1.2: Identify and explain geography’s core concepts.
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