Unit 1 check
Unit 1 check: Thinking Geographically
10 questions from 7 lessons in Unit 1. Answer each one, and if you miss, follow the link back to where it is taught, then try again. Your score counts first tries.
Question 1 · from 1.1 · Sort it
Each card describes a map. Tap a card, then the type of map it describes.
Reference map
Thematic map
Question 2 · from 1.2 · Match
Match each geospatial technology to the task it does.
Question 3 · from 1.3 · Decide and justify
A hypothetical national forestry agency must find where trees are being cut illegally across a huge, remote forest that spans three provinces. Which data should it rely on?
Which reason supports your answer?
Question 4 · from 1.4 · Decide and justify
Hypothetical towns Ardel and Bransk have the same population, and each is 50 km by road from City Q, the region's shopping center. Ardel's road is a new expressway, a 35-minute drive. Bransk's is a winding mountain road, a 90-minute drive. Which town would you expect to send more shopping trips to City Q for each resident?
Which reason supports your answer?
Question 5 · from 1.5 · Match
Match each idea about people and the environment to the observation from a hypothetical region that shows it.
Question 6 · from 1.6 · Select all
Hypothetical Country K's national report says the average farm in the country grew larger over ten years. Which two questions could a geographer answer only with data at a more local scale than the national one? Select two.
Select 2 answers, then check.
Setup for question 7
A geographer collected three kinds of data for six hypothetical districts, A to F, along a highway running east from the capital of hypothetical Country K. District A is closest to the capital and District F is farthest. All numbers are made up.
| District | Distance from the capital (km) | Speak Language L at home (%) | Workers who commute to the capital (%) | Residents who say they live in the Valley (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 15 | 88 | 64 | 81 |
| B | 35 | 76 | 41 | 77 |
| C | 60 | 62 | 22 | 70 |
| D | 90 | 47 | 9 | 52 |
| E | 120 | 31 | 4 | 31 |
| F | 150 | 15 | 1 | 12 |
Question 7 · from 1.7 · Multiple choice
The geographer draws three regions from the table, one for each of the last three columns, counting a district as inside a region when its value in that column is above 50 percent. Which statement best describes the three regions?
Question 8 · from 1.1 · Match
Each statement tells a visitor where a hypothetical clinic is from a school. Match each term to the statement it describes.
Question 9 · from 1.2 · Multiple choice
A geographer wants to know where hypothetical Country K's government will allow new factories to be built over the next ten years. Which written source would give that spatial information most directly?
Question 10 · from 1.3 · Put it in order
A hypothetical supermarket company uses census data to choose a site for a new store. Put the events in the order they happen, from the data to the last effect.
0 of 10 answered.