Quiz Table
Question
Answer
Letter
Questions and Answer Options
1.- Pattison
Answer 1
1.
The "classic" article by Pattison was written in what year?
a.
1909
b.
1959
c.
1989
d.
1964
2. - Pattison
Answer 2
:
2.
What is the present day name of the University William Patterson represented in the article "The Four Traditions of Geography"?
Answer:
3. - Pattison
Answer 3
3.
According to the Pattison reading, what was a common theme of attempts to define Geography in the first half of the 20th century?
a.
definintions were too narrow and singularly focused
b.
they too often excluded human geography
c.
they too often excluded physical geography
d.
most of the definitions were not concerned with location patterns
4. - Pattison
Answer 4
4.
Which theory is mentioned under the category of "Spatial Tradtion"?
a.
Theory of Evolution
b.
Central Place Theory
c.
Von Thunen Model
d.
Theory of relativity
5. - Pattison
Answer 5
5.
What does the word "idiographic", associated with the areal tradtion mean?
a.
of signs and symbols
b.
descriptive, especially of the unique
c.
of laws or general concepts
d.
it’s the same as 'nomothetic'
6. - Pattison
Answer 6
6
One of Pattison's traditions, found Geographers trying to explain to rise and fall of Empires based on environmental causes. Which of the traditions included this type of Geography?
a.
Spatial Tradition
b.
Area-Studies
c.
Man-Land
d.
Earth Science
7. - Pattison
Answer 7
7.
Pattison suggests that the reaction to the environmentalism movement was found among those who saw humans as:
a.
cultural historians
b.
modifiers of the earth
c.
helpless victims of the earth's wrath
d.
all of these
8.- Pattison
Answer 8
8
Of the four traditions, only one tradition has a "subject". The others are 'approaches' to a subject. Which tradition is it?
a.
Spatial Tradition
b.
Area-Studies
c.
Man-Land
d.
Earth Science
9. - Massey
Answer 9
9.
What did environmental determinists believe human character and social organization was a product of?
a.
the physical environment
b.
economic laws
c.
biological evolution
d.
all of these
10.- Massey
Answer 10
10.
Massey claimed that ____________________ often degenerated into an essentially descriptive and untheorized collection of facts.
a.
economic geography
b.
systematic geography
c.
cultural geography
d.
regional geography
11.- Massey
Answer 11
11.
The focus in regional geography is (or was) on __________
a.
uniqueness, specificity
b.
the weather and climate of a region
c.
commonalities among all places
d.
laws that govern the relationships within a region.
12.- Massey
Answer 12
12.
In the 1960s, regional geography gave way to the "quantiative revolution" which attempted to make geography more:
a.
historic
b.
behavioralistic
c.
humanistic
d.
scientific
13. - Massey
Answer 13
13.
In the 1970s, "space" was declared itself a:
a.
answer to the pressing questions of the era.
b.
social construct (an idea)
c.
a separate entitity, worth study by itself.
d.
dead proposition
14.- Massey
Answer 14
14.
Massey suggests that much of the "radical geography" of the 1970s was really just mapping:
a.
radicals
b.
liberals
c.
crime
d.
poverty
15.- Massey
Answer 15
15.
Massey argues that spatial distributions are not just the result of social processes, but also ______________.
a.
irrelevant to the study of sociology.
b.
irrelevant to the study of history
c.
increasingly easy to find, thanks to GIS.
d.
part of the explanation.
16. - Massey
Answer 16
16.
What industry is dominant in a colliery town?
a.
auto manufacturing
b.
paper making
c.
textiling
d.
coal mining
17. - Massey
Answer 17
17.
Which of the following is included in Massey's definition of "the spatial"
a.
distance and movement
b.
place
c.
symbolism
d.
all of these
18. - Massey
Answer 18
18.
Massey argues that nature and what is natural is, like space, a:
a.
permanent phenomena
b.
unchanging idea
c.
social construction
d.
all of these
19. - Massey
Answer 19
19.
Massey argues that though it is important to link the specific to the general, it is necessary to reassert the existence, explicability and the significance of the ___________.
a.
particular
b.
general
c.
phenomenolgical
d.
environmental.
20. -Dobson
Answer 20
20 .
What phrase did J. Rowland Illick use to describe geography?
a.
Geography is what geographers do
b.
Geography answers "why do people do what they do where they do it".
c.
Geography is the science of place
d.
Geography tells us "the why of where".
21. -Dobson
Answer 21
21.
When does author Dobson suggest that geography was "purged" in the United States?
a.
1566
b.
1492
c.
1850s
d.
1948
22. -Dobson
Answer 22
22.
According to author Dobson the _______________ was responsible for drafting Wilson's famous "fourteen points"?
a.
Association of American Geographers
b.
International Political Scientists Union
c.
American Geographical Society
d.
The UN commission on Peace and Security
23. -Dobson
Answer 23
23.
About what percent of declared specialities in geography are cultural, social and economic?
a.
47 percent
b.
25 percent
c.
10 percent
d.
90 percent
24. -Dobson
Answer 24
24.
What does Dobson suggest we, as geographers, should do to help educate people about what geography is?
a.
"Say the word"
b.
Tell everyone geography is to space what history is to time.
c.
Insist that schools all have geography and GIS in them.
d.
All of these
25. -Dobson
Answer 25
25.
Bonus Question: What company's website was hosting Dr. Dobson's essay?
a.
I.B.M computers
b.
Hewlett-Packard
c.
E.S.R.I.
d.
N.A.S.A.
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