Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
3.
4.
C. hierarchy
*C. hinterland
5.
A functional region:
*A. includes a core of activity and the surrounding hinterland
B. is defined on the basis of some variable, such as the area where corn is
grown
C. is located in Italy and served with spaghetti sauce
D. is found in and around Romania
E. is the same as a homogeneous region
Introduction
Page 1
7.
8.
Regions at Scale
10. Which cartographic device, when deployed on a map, will tell you its
scale?
A. point symbol
B. legend
*C. representative fraction
D. map projection
E. latitude
11. A large scale map shows:
*A. a small area
B. a large area
C. there is no relationship between the scale on a map and the size of the area
shown
D. an unbalanced area
E. a great deal of weight
12. The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is known as:
A. the map legend
*B. a map scale
C. a point symbol
D. A or B above
E. a functional region
13. Which of the following statements concerning map scale is false?
A. The fractional scale 1:1,000,000 means one inch on the map represents
one million inches
on the ground.
Introduction
Page 2
B. If the linear scale of a map is twice another, its areal representation is four
times larger.
C. To represent a large area on a small map, a small scale is used.
D. Larger scale maps allow for greater detail in depicting regions and
subregions.
*E. A map with the fractional scale 1:103,000,000 has a larger scale than one
of 1:1,000,000.
Introduction
Page 3
C. Eurasia
Introduction
Page 4
Introduction
Page 5
Introduction
Page 6
Introduction
Page 7
Realms of Population
32. Which of the following is not one of the worlds three largest
population concentrations?
A. South Asia
B. Europe
*C. eastern Africa
D. East Asia
33. Which of the following major rivers is not associated with one of the
worlds great population clusters?
*A. Mississippi
B. Huang (Yellow)
C. Indus
D. Ganges
E. Chang Jiang
34. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
A. Although China and India have tremendously large populations, both
countries still have
extensive areas nearly devoid of permanent population.
*B. More than one-fourth of the worlds population presently resides in India.
C. Megalopolis includes all cities in the U.S. urban complex from Boston to
Washington.
D. The two largest population clusters are shrinking.
E. All of the above are correct.
35. The large cluster of population in the northeastern United States is
Introduction
Page 8
known as:
A. metropolitan
D. a cartogram
Introduction
*B. megalopolis
E. the San-San corridor
C. a transition zone
Page 9
36. In 1999, more than ____ percent of the worlds population lived in
urban areas.
*A. 40
B. 60
C. 15
D. 10
E. 90
37. A map which uses a special transformation so that the areas of states
reflect population size is called a(n):
*A. cartogram
B. iconography
C. subduction
D. dot map
E. state model
Patterns of Development
41. The second world:
A. is comprised of UDCs only
B. is comprised of the poorest countries
C. is the capitalist world
D. contains countries considered by the World Bank to be candidates for
economic slow down
*E. is the socialist world
42. The World Bank divides the world into four groups. Which of the
following is not one of those groups?
A. high income countries B. upper middle income countries
C. lower middle income countries
D. low income countries *E. urbanized countries
Introduction
Page 10
Global Interaction
49. The gradual reduction of regional contrasts resulting from increasing
cultural, economic, political, and other types of exchanges is known
as:
A. regional disparities
B. cores
C. peripheries
D. advantages
*E. globalization
50. Iconography is:
A. a feature of globalization
symbols and traditions of a region
Introduction
Page 11
technique
D. the opposite of the spatial perspective
representative of the central business district throughout the world
Introduction
E.
Page 12
________________________________________________________
_
Introduction
World Regional Geography
True-False
Geographic Perspectives
1.
3.
Transition zones mark the place where geographic realms meet. (T)
4.
5.
6.
7.
Relative location has less relevance in geography than absolute location. (F)
8.
Introduction
Page 13
Regions at Scale
9.
Map scale is the ratio of the distance between two places on a map and the
actual distance between those two places on the Earths surface. (T)
Realms of Population
22. Megalopolis is a multi-metropolitan agglomeration in the eastern United States.
(T)
23. The worlds population is now almost 4 billion in total size, and is expected to
be about 4.2 billion by the year 2010. (F)
Page 14
Introduction
24. Southeast Asia does not rank among the worlds four largest population
agglomerations. (T)
1 The great majority of the people of East Asia are concentrated in the
great cities including Beijing (Peking) and Shanghai. (F)
26. The three largest population agglomerations in the world today all lie on
a single landmass: Eurasia. (T)
27. More than 50 percent of the worlds population now resides in urban
areas. (F)
Introduction
Page 15
Patterns of Development
30. UDC refers to underdeveloped countries. (T)
31. In UDCs, families spend a large portion of their income on food. (T)
32. First world countries are capitalist countries. (T)
33. The gap between advantaged and disadvantaged states in the world is
growing. (T)
34. Colonies were places from which European powers obtained raw
materials and to which they sold finished products. (T)
Matching
39. A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or
more phenomena (A)
40. The dissolving and downward transport of soil nutrients by percolating
water (C)
41. Poor, have-not, or disadvantaged countries (D)
42. A type of region marked by movement in or out of a node (B)
43. The language of geography (E)
A. formal
B. functional
C. leaching
D. UDCs
E. maps
44. India (B)
45. China (E)
46. Worlds largest country in area (A)
Fill Ins
49. The ___________ region, also known as the nodal region, is marked not by
an internal sameness, but by its dynamic internal structuring.
(Functional)
50. Uniform cultural regions characterized by internal homogeneity are
classified as _____ regions. (Formal)
51. The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is known as
that maps ______. (Scale)
52. Desert and steppe climates belong to the Kppen-Geiger class included
under the letter ______. (B)
53. The worlds population is approximately _____ billion in size. (6)
54. The realm consisting of two of the largest urbanized and industrialized
countries is ___. (North America)
55. The largest country in population size of the South Asian realm is ______.
(India)
56. The art and science of making and interpreting maps is called _________.
(Cartography)