Homework answers / question archive / Question 1 1 / 1 pts Which of the following is the best example of using Geography as a scientific discipline?    Using an atlas to determine the latitude and longitude of a city

Question 1 1 / 1 pts Which of the following is the best example of using Geography as a scientific discipline?    Using an atlas to determine the latitude and longitude of a city

Geography

Share With

---

Question 1

1 / 1 pts

Which of the following is the best example of using Geography as a scientific discipline?

  

Using an atlas to determine the latitude and longitude of a city.

   

Accurately drawing a map of the world by hand.

   

Memorizing 50 states and their capitals.

   

Using a world map showing poverty rates so you know where to help starving people.

 

 

Question 2

1 / 1 pts

Geography is

 

only about drawing maps.

   

memorizing long list of capitals, states, and countries.

   

asking “Where are things” and then trying to find out why they are there.

   

only finding cities and other places using latitude and longitude.

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 3

0 / 1 pts

A positive feedback loop

  

encourages change in the system in one direction only.

   

inhibits change in the system.

   

Systems never experience feedback loops.

   

both encourages and discourages change in the system.

 

 

Question 4

1 / 1 pts

A closed system

  

can unexpectedly change into an open system.

   

exists only in theory or else is artificial and never occurs naturally.

   

can only be entered into from one point within the system.

   

creates its own energy from unknown sources.

 

 

Question 5

1 / 1 pts

Latitude is measured in

  

degrees, minutes, and seconds of arc.

   

All of these answers are correct.

   

miles.

  

kilometers.

 

 

Question 6

1 / 1 pts

Great circles

  

do not cut the Earth evenly in half.

   

All these answers are correct.

   

are used to show true compass direction on a map or globe.

   

show the shortest distance between two points on a map or globe.

 

 

Question 7

1 / 1 pts

In the illustration below, the letter "D" represents which of the seven principle latitudes?

  

North Pole

   

Equator

   

Tropic of Capricorn

   

South Pole

   

Tropical of Cancer

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 8

0 / 1 pts

In the illustration below, the letter "A" represents which of the seven principle latitudes?

  

Tropic of Capricorn

   

South Pole

   

Tropical of Cancer

   

Equator

   

North Pole

 

 

Question 9

1 / 1 pts

As the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun, its axis always

  

tilts at 23 ½ ? from the vertical.

   

points straight up.

   

points at a different place in space as it orbits.

   

points toward the sun.

 

 

Question 10

1 / 1 pts

The hemisphere experiencing summer is receiving mostly ______ rays from the sun.

  

only perpendicular

   

near direct and high angle

   

very low angle oblique

   

tangent