GEOGRAPHY 1 (HUMAN GEOGRAPHY) QUIZ 3

Cultural Ecology: Integrating Culture and Environment

INSTRUCTIONS: Read and answer the following items carefully. Shade the letter of the
correct answer in your ZipGrade answer sheet.
The quiz that you are about to take is TEXT-DEPENDENT, meaning the items are constructed
based from the readings that have been provided and assigned to you. Specifically, the main text
is THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE An Introduction to HUMAN GEOGRAPHY by Rubenstein.
1. What is the geographic study of a. Alexander von Humboldt
human-environment relationships known b. Carl Ritter
as? c. Ellsworth Huntington
d. Friedrich Ratzel
a. Human Geography
b. Cultural Ecology 5. Modern geographers reject
c. Environmental Science environmental determinism in favor of
d. Anthropology what concept?
2. Who were the nineteenth-century a. Cultural anthropology
German geographers that urged human b. Possibilism
geographers to adopt scientific inquiry c. Social determinism
methods? d. Natural science
a. Alexander von Humboldt and Charles 6. How do people endow the physical
Darwin environment with cultural values
b. Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Ritter according to possibilism?
c. Carl Ritter and Johann Wolfgang von
a. By adapting to any environment without
Goethe
changes
d. Friedrich Ratzel and Ellen Churchill
b. By preserving the natural state of the
Semple
environment
3. According to Humboldt and Ritter, c. By disregarding the environment
what important goal of human d. By regarding it as a collection of
geographers is to discover? resources
a. Specific laws for each region 7. Which biome covers areas where trees
b. General laws do not form a continuous canopy allowing
c. Cultural norms grass to grow?
d. Historical events
a. Desert biome
4. Which early American geographer b. Grassland biome
argued that climate was a major c. Forest biome
determinant of civilization? d. Savanna biome

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8. What does the U.S. Comprehensive Soil a. Both regions have implemented similar
Classification System divide global soil modifications
types into? b. The Netherlands has not been modified
c. South Florida has fewer modifications
a. Five orders
d. The Netherlands has implemented more
b. Ten orders
sensitive modifications
c. Twelve orders
d. Fifteen orders 14. How do people prefer living on flatter
land according to the text?
9. Relief, as used in geography, measures
the extent to which an area is: a. It allows for more vegetation
b. It is better suited for agriculture
a. Flat or hilly
c. It has higher precipitation levels
b. Urban or rural
d. It is more scenic
c. Forested or barren
d. Cold or warm 15. What is the main concern of
geographers regarding the use of modern
10. Which geographic science helps to
technology to modify the environment?
explain the distribution of people based
on Earth's landforms? a. Depleting scarce environmental resources
b. Enhancing natural habitats
a. Geopolitics
c. Increasing biodiversity
b. Geology
d. Promoting sustainable practices
c. Geomorphology
d. Oceanography 16. Which of the following is an
unintended consequence of the
11. What man-made structures did the
modifications in South Florida?
Dutch develop to prevent flooding in the
Netherlands? a. Increased wildlife population
b. Improved water quality
a. Tunnels
c. Threats to native plants and animals
b. Bridges
d. Preservation of natural habitats
c. Polders and dikes
d. Canals 17. How have people modified the fragile
landscape of South Florida's barrier
12. What environmental consequence did
islands and the Everglades?
the modifications in South Florida have,
specifically in the Everglades? a. Built sensitive structures
b. Acted in a way that harms the
a. Reduced agriculture
environment
b. Enhanced biodiversity
c. Increased biodiversity
c. Depleted nutrients
d. Restored natural balance
d. Threatened native vegetation and animals
18. What are the main causes of
13. How have humans modified regions
destruction to soil as mentioned in the
such as the Netherlands and South
assessment?
Florida differently when it comes to the
environment?

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a. Flooding
b. Pollution
c. Erosion and nutrient depletion
d. Deforestation
19. How do geographers use topographic
maps to study a locality's relief?
a. By monitoring wildlife
b. By measuring population density
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c. By analyzing elevation differences
d. By predicting climate changes
20. What human action can deplete scarce
environmental resources according to the
text?
a. Improving soil quality
b. Conserving water
c. Insensitive modifications
d. Planting more trees
Answer Key
1. b. Cultural Ecology
2. b. Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Ritter
3. b. General laws
4. c. Ellsworth Huntington
5. b. Possibilism
6. d. By regarding it as a collection of resources
7. b. Grassland biome
8. c. Twelve orders
9. a. Flat or hilly
10. c. Geomorphology
11. c. Polders and dikes
12. d. Threatened native vegetation and animals
13. d. The Netherlands has implemented more sensitive modifications
14. b. It is better suited for agriculture
15. a. Depleting scarce environmental resources
16. c. Threats to native plants and animals
17. b. Acted in a way that harms the environment
18. c. Erosion and nutrient depletion
19. c. By analyzing elevation differences
20. c. Insensitive modifications

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