Department of Geography

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GIS Day Quiz Bowl

• Department of Geography
• University of Oklahoma

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• Example
• Which of the following cities is the capital of
  China?
• Manila
• Bangkok
• Beijing
• Correct answer c

3

• Name the fruit that is the chief agricultural
  export from lowland Central America
• Apples
• Bananas
• Pineapples

4

• B

5

• Most of Mexico is found in what U.S. time zone?
• Central
• Mountain
• Pacific

6

• A

7

• Name the one Great Lake that is located entirely
  in the U.S
• Huron
• Michigan
• Superior

8

• B

9

• Which of the following was NEVER a land bridge
  during the Pleistocene?
• Gibraltar
• the English Channel
• the Strait of Malacca

10

• A

11

• Which country is properly matched to the European
  country of which it was once a colony?
• Tanganyika Germany
• Iraq France
• Brazil - Spain

12

• A

13

• Which of the following cities was among the
  world's ten biggest cities in both 1925 and 2000?
• Paris
• Moscow
• Shanghai

14

• C

15

• In which of the following countries does
  population continue to grow?
• Japan
• Italy
• Norway

16

• C

17

• A datum is
• a set of parameters and control points used to
  define the three-dimensional shape of the Earth
  and from which planar coordinates are derived.
• the horizontal direction of a vector, measured
  clockwise in degrees of rotation from the
  positive y-axis, for example, degrees on a
  compass.
• in cartography, the spatial relationships between
  connecting or adjacent features.

18

• A

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• The following map projection is an example of
• a Mercator map projection.
• a Sinusoidal map projection.
• a Robinson map projection.

20

• C

21

• The following is an example of a.
• Choropleth map
• Shaded relief map
• Semivariogram map

22

• A

23

• Who developed 'Central Place Theory' (used in
  economic geography)?
• Edward Ullman
• Walter Christaller
• Carl Sauer

24

• B

25

• Yi-fu Tuan coined which phrase, meaning 'love of
  place'?
• Topophilia
• Toponym
• Hinterland

26

• A

27

• Which country is not part of MERCOSUR?
• Paraguay
• Brazil
• Chile

28

• C

29

• Who stated the following
• The cultural landscape is fashioned from a
  natural landscape by a culture
• group. Culture is the agent, the natural area
  is the medium, the cultural
• landscape is the result."
• Carl O. Sauer
• Johann-Heinrich von Thünen
• Alexander von Humboldt

30

• A

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• Coffee is native to which continent?
• South America
• Africa
• Asia

32

• B

33

• The Peru or Humboldt Current
• causes the El Niño effect.
• helps explain the location of vast guano
  deposits.
• brings warm waters to the Pacific coast of South
  America.

34

• B

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• Which of the following GIS pioneer didn't work in
  the Harvard Graphic Lab?
• Jack Dangermand
• Nick Chrisman
• Roger Tomlinson

36

• C

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• Which of the following statement is correct?
• The geographic coordinate system (i.e. lat/long)
  is best for transportation analysis.
• The UTM coordinate system is best for continental
  mapping.
• The stateplane coordinate system has better
  spatial accuracy than the UTM system.

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• C

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• Which of the following statement is correct?
• GIS data are scaleless.
• GIS data are accurate.
• GIS data are based on points, lines, and polygons.

40

• A

41

• Which of the following countries is the world's
  largest per capita consumer of wine?
• Australia
• France
• Hungary

42

• B

43

• The most recent expansion of the European Union
  increased the number of member states to which of
  the following
• 25
• 15
• 9

44

• A

45

• Some examples of Romance languages are
• Icelandic, English, Dutch
• German, Swedish, Danish
• Spanish, French, Portuguese

46

• C

47

• The first hurricane ever reported in the South
  Atlantic struck which country on March 28, 2004?
• Argentina
• Brazil
• Chile

48

• B

49

• What Great Plains state are you stuck in if
  you're out of gas in Gas?
• Oklahoma
• Kansas
• Nebraska

50

• B

51

• How many other states border Oklahoma?
• Four
• Five
• Six

52

• C

53

• Approximately what percentage of the Earths
  water is fresh?
• 3 percent
• 8 percent
• 14 percent

54

• A

55

• What country boasts the world's oldest active
  brewery, dating back to 1040 AD?
• Italy
• Germany
• France

56

• B

57

• Earths human population is about
• Two billion
• Four billion
• Six billion

58

• C

59

• Which two Japanese cities were hit by the first
  atomic bombs?
• Tokyo and Kyoto
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Nagoya and Kobe

60

• B

61

• Bhopal figured in the news in 1984 because
• it was the site of a summit of non-aligned
  nations
• India's prime minister was assassinated there
• a factory released a cloud of cyanide gas that
  killed thousands

62

• C