Exam 1: Introduction to Human Geography

The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called:

Baseball is a cultural trait adopted by the Japanese.

Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact of the drainage of part of the Florida Everglades?

Nineteenth Century American English contains words that are Dutch,Native American,Spanish,French and German.Most of this growth of the language was the product of:

Diffusion which proceeds through the levels of an urban hierarchy,from largest to smallest places,is hierarchical diffusion.

Much of Kenya's income comes from:

Geographers study the spatial aspects of phenomena.

The study of human cultures and their ability to adapt and exist within a particular physical environment is called:

Analyze and explain perceptual geography from two personal perspectives: the mental map of your activity spaces and the map of your preferred place of residence in the United States.

Most of the one billion malnourished people in the world:

Cholera vaccines exist,but the problem is that:

Differentiate between a formal and functional region.Describe the functional region associated with a nearby metropolitan center.

The cultural landscape of Dares Salaam is a composite of several different culture groups which have administered the place.British policy stimulated the development of a district of 3 to 4 story apartments reminiscent of:

A good example of a formal region would be a:

The study of landforms,climates,and environmental change is referred to as physical geography.

The branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms,climate,soils and vegetation of the Earth is:

The world's cultures live in spatial isolation and show little change that is the result of interaction and diffusion.

By the time the last great cholera pandemic began in 1865,people knew to take precautions against _____ and ended the great waves of cholera

The cause of cholera was deduced by mapping the spatial relationship between the use of particular London public wells and the incidence of cholera infection.

The mental map you have of places you routinely visit is a map of your: