1: What is physical geography?
It’s a subfield of geography that tries to understand Earth’s physical layout
It’s a subfield of geography that tries to understand physics in the Earth
It’s a study of the physical nature of all things
It’s said to be a link between human geography and environmental geography
Both B and C
2: Which of the following statements about historiography are true?
Historiography is the study of the way history is written today and the way history was written in the past.
Historiographers often study the author and his position in society as well as the kind of history being written at the time.
Usually, the purpose of historiography is to realize the bias of a historical work.
All of the above statements are true.
None of the statements are true.
3: Anti-globalization is also known as ____________________.
Global Justice
Globalism
Isolation
All of the bove
None of the above
4: Cultural anthropology in the United States was influenced greatly by the ready availability of ________ societies as ethnographic subjects.
Eskimos
Japanese-Americans
Native Americans
None of the above
All of the above
5: What two kinds of geography is environmental geography said to link? (Choose the best answer.)
Historical and Contemporary
Geological and Hydrological
Human Geographical and Physical
Environmental Geographical and Historical
Historiographical
6: _________ geography focuses on geography as an Earth science, while _________ geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with various environments.
Human, Physical
Social, Physical
Physical, Social
Physical, Human
None of the above
7: What word generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance?
Society
Norms
Culture
Anthropology
None of the above
8: _________ has increased dramatically from almost no nation with universal suffrage in 1900 to 62.5% of all nations in 2000.
Globalization
Democracy
Women’s Rights
Historiography
None of the above
9: Large societies often have ___________, or groups of people with distinct sets of behavior and beliefs that differentiate them from a larger culture of which they are a part.
Sects
Subcultures
Cults
None of the above
All of the above
10: What is geography? (Choose the best answer.)
The study of the earth
The study of the location of both human and physical aspects of the earth
The mapping of cultures on the earth
Both B and C
Both A and B
11: ______________is an umbrella term for a complex series of economic, social, technological, and political changes seen as increasing interdependence and interaction between people and companies in disparate locations.
Globalization
Interdisciplinary
Culture
None of the above
All of the above
12: ___________ is systematically collected information about the past.
Anthropology
History
Culture
Society
None of the above.
13: According to the KOF index, the world's most globalized country is the USA, followed by
Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and China
Sweden, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Luxembourg
The United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, China
Canada, the United Kingdom, China, Luxembourg
None of the above
14: The ________ are the first known culture to actively explore geography as a science and philosophy.
Greeks
Romans
Mayans
Native Americans
None of the above
15: Which statement is true about history?
In the 20th century, the division between history and prehistory became problematic.
There are differing views for the definition of when history begins
Historians obtain information about the past from various kinds of sources, including written or printed records, coins or other artifacts, buildings and monuments, and interviews (oral history).
All of the above statements are true
None of the above statements are true
16: According to this course, the Bible verse that BEST describes the reason to study other cultures in God’s Kingdom is:
Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king. (-1 Peter 2:17)
Love your neighbor as yourself. (- Mark 12:31, Romans 13:9, Luke 10:27….)
For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body�whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free�and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. (- 1 Corinthians 12:13)
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. (-Colossians 3:15)
All of them
17: Anthropology is:
the study of natural history
the study of humankind
the scientific method
none of the above
All of the above
18: Which is a property of languages?
Languages consist of a set of symbols.
They often conform to a rough grammar, or system of rules, used to manipulate the symbols.
The symbols are often arbitrary.
All of the above ARE properties of languages.
None of the above.
19: _____________ is the study of the Earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity.
History
Anthropology
Geography
None of the above
All of the above
20: The hypothesis that states that there is a relationship between the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it is called the:
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis
Linguistic-Cultural Relationship
All of the above
None of the above
21: Which of the following is NOT one of the four elements that are "passed on from generation to generation by learning alone"?
values
technology
institutions
artifacts
none of the above
22: The word culture refers to:
the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society
the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs
the way of life for an entire society
All of the above
None of the above
23: The term country (i.e. The United States) has to do with what? (Choose the best answer.)
Geographical
Physical Geographical
Human Geographical
Environmental Geographical
Historiographical
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