Exam 3: Geography and Spatial Analysis

From which discipline did geography most directly emerge in American universities?

The "geography of power" has run a straight line from north to south for 4,000 years.

Which country has the biggest deposits of oil:

Cases of domestic pets dying and cases of humans getting sick from bites by Bufo marinus have been reported for years in Florida.

Of the various related bodies of knowledge, to which is geography closest in content?

Which culture was destroyed by the climatological and oceanic event known as El Nino?

For what purpose was Bufo marinus introduced into rural Florida in the 1940s?

Approximately twelve billion humans live on the face of the Earth today.

Karl Haushofer is considered the father of geography.

The foreign policy of which country best illustrates the effect of geography on policy?

Identify those factors relevant as geographic contributors to national power:

The xenophobia often attributed to the Russian character results most directly from:

If the Ukraine is blessed in some ways geographically, it would have to be in its:

The status of geography as a discipline is considerably higher among fellow social scientists today than was the case at the end of World War II.

The Mercator Projection map works well as a navigational tool but has shortcomings as a symbolic representation of the size of the world's major land masses.

Which tool led to solving the spread of London's nineteenth-century cholera epidemic?

The English language was brought to Britain by the:

Nauru's source of ecological wealth consisted of:

De-colonization is the only significant reason for large increases in the number of countries in the world since World War II.

The last Ice Age occurred about 100,000 years ago. The next one is predicted for 100,000 years in the Earth's future.