Unit 1: Thinking Geographically: practice

Question 1

A survey asked residents of each district whether they live in "the Valley." The map shows the share who said yes. What does the map suggest about the Valley as a region?

Question 2

The map shows software firms per 100,000 residents in the districts of Region Z. Which description best fits the pattern?

Question 3

Table of internet access. Country Q as a whole: 10.0 million households, 71 percent with access. Northern province: 4.0 million households, 92 percent. Central province: 3.0 million, 74 percent. Southern province: 3.0 million, 41 percent.
Area	Households (millions)	Households with internet access (%)
Country Q	10.0	71
Northern province	4.0	92
Central province	3.0	74
Southern province	3.0	41

The table shows internet access in Country Q and in each of its three provinces. What do the data show about scales of analysis?

Question 4

General world maps often use the Robinson projection because it

Question 5

A map that joins points of equal elevation or equal temperature with lines is

Question 6

On a cartogram of world population, each country is drawn at a size proportional to its population. Compared with a standard world map, such a cartogram shows

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of qualitative geographic data gathered in the field?

Question 8

After each census, state legislatures in the United States use the new population counts mainly to

Question 9

Which statement describes the relative location of a town?

Question 10

Money that migrants working in one country send to relatives in another country is an example of which spatial concept?

Question 11

In Region X, farmhouses are spread across the countryside, each standing alone on its own fields. In Region Y, farmhouses are grouped together in villages. The pattern in Region X is

Question 12

Atlases often draw the boundaries of the region called the Middle East differently. The best explanation is that

Question 13

A world map of life expectancy shows Country X with one moderate value. A map of the same data by county inside Country X shows large gaps between urban and rural counties. This shows that

Question 14

A student says, "A world map is a large-scale map because it covers a large area." Which correction is accurate?

Question 15

On a map drawn at a scale of 1:50,000, two schools are 4 centimeters apart. How far apart are they on the ground?

A merchant's diary, 1850

A merchant traveling by river in 1850 wrote the entry below about a town he visited.

"The town lies on the east bank, where the river can first be crossed on foot. Warehouses crowd the landing, and on market days farmers arrive with grain and cattle from villages a full day's ride away."

Question 16

As a source of geographic information, the diary entry is best described as

Question 17

The description of farmers arriving from villages a day's ride away best illustrates which spatial concept?

Customers of Store S by distance

The chart shows how many residents per 1,000 shopped at Store S last year, by distance from the store.

Question 18

Which concept is best illustrated by the pattern in the chart?

Question 19

The area from which Store S draws its customers is best described as

A view of climate and society

The passage below is written in the style of some geography books of the late 1800s.

"The heat and steady rains of the tropics drain the energy of all who live there. Such a climate can never produce inventive peoples or great industry; only the bracing cold of the temperate lands builds the vigor that progress demands."

Question 20

The passage expresses which idea about the relationship between people and the environment?

Question 21

A geographer who holds the view called possibilism would respond to the passage that