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Cultural Geography
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Cultural Geography examines the ways in which culture encompassing beliefs, practices, languages, customs, and social norms shapes and is shaped by the physical landscapes and environments around the world. This course explores how human activities and cultural expressions such as religion, ethnicity, urbanization, and globalization influence the organization of space, place, and identity. Students will analyze patterns of cultural diffusion and spatial distribution, consider issues related to cultural diversity and change, and evaluate the relationships between culture and environments at local, national, and global scales. Through case studies, maps, and interactive projects, students gain a deeper understanding of the dynamic interactions between people and the places they inhabit.
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Human Geography People Place and Culture 9th Edition by Erin H. Fouberg
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Geography
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Q1) Human geographers focus _____________
A) on how people make places.
B) on how we organize space a society.
C) on how we interact with each other in places and across space.
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Two countries with very high percentages of arable land are:
A) the United States and South Africa.
B) Colombia and Togo.
C) Rwanda and Poland
D) Russia and India.
Answer: C
Q3) A good example of a formal region would be a:
A) region surrounding a manufacturing complex
B) city and its surrounding region
C) region of similar language
D) region showing the migration to a central location
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Population
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Q1) Replacement rate,the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration,requires a total fertility of
A) 10.
B) 2.1.
C) 3.5.
D) 5.
Answer: B
Q2) Before 1750 death rates in Europe probably averaged 35 per 1000,but by 1850 the death rate was about 16 per 1000. This meant that in 1750 the doubling time was on the order of 150 years but by 1850 it was only ______ years.
A) 50
B) 75
C) 35
D) 20
Answer: C
Q3) More than half of the world's entire population is concentrated in East Asia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Migration
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Q1) Of the 10,000 inhabitants of the Caribbean island Montserrat,7,000 have left the island and the remaining 3,000 have moved to the north coast of the island because of A) hurricanes.
B) the collapse of the banana economy.
C) volcanic eruptions.
D) civil war.
Answer: C
Q2) All of the following stimulated migration: Hurricane Katrina,the eruption of Sourfriere Hills Volcano,and the Irish famine of the 1840's.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the identified types of movement creates your activity space?
A) periodic
B) migratory
C) cyclic
D) emigration
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Local Culture, Popular Culture, and Cultural Landscapes
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Q1) A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a community and who share experience,customs,and traits are referred to as a
A) local culture.
B) popular culture.
C) folk.
D) material cultural group.
Q2) Notting Hill Festival (London)was appropriated by West Indian migrants to express their cultural distinctiveness. This is an example of assimilation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ________________ culture is conceived as small,incorporating a homogeneous population,typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits.
A) Material
B) Popular
C) Folk
D) Local
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Chapter 5: Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
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Q1) Discuss the development of a Chinatown in Mexicali,Mexico. How has this Chinatown changed over time?
Q2) Ethnicity is a dynamic phenomena and ethnic identity (e.g.Swiss-American ethnicity)is greatly affected by
A) racial genetics.
B) scale and place.
C) religion and language.
D) attitude and prejudice.
Q3) Dowry killing came to the attention of the public after it was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Gross National Income does not include:
A) work done by rural women in less developed countries.
B) work done by women in maquiladoras.
C) work done by unmarried women.
D) work done by state-employed women.
Q5) Discuss,from a geographical perspective,the social and spatial dynamics of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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Chapter 6: Language
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Q1) Leopoldville,Congo becomes Kinshasa and Salisbury,Zimbabwe becomes Harare.These are examples of
A) colonial toponyms.
B) descriptive toponyms.
C) migration effects.
D) post-colonial toponyms.
Q2) In an attempt to deal with linguistic as well as cultural diversity,many former African colonies have taken as their official language
A) the most widely-spoken indigenous language.
B) an Austronesian and therefore neutral language.
C) the language of the former colonial power.
D) an invented language with no historical connections.
Q3) Mandarin,the language in and around the Chinese capital Beijing,was chosen as the standardized form of Chinese for the whole country.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Japan is an example of a monolingual state.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Religion
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Q1) The youngest major religion is A) Hinduism.
B) Judaism.
C) Islam.
D) Christianity.
Q2) Christianity is an example of a polytheistic religion.
A)True B)False
Q3) Buddhism is today a fragmented religion. List some of its branches,their location,and their basic beliefs.
Q4) Islamic architecture borrowed from the Romans to create a distinctive architectural style.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Choose a world religion and discuss its place of origin,its modes and routes of spread,and its current pattern of distribution.
Q6) Hindu landscape features focused on water are associated with ritual bathing. A)True B)False
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Chapter 8: Political Geography
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Q1) Which is an example of an allocational boundary dispute?
A) dispute over the interpretation of boundary treaty terminology
B) dispute over boundaries not covered by a treaty (e.g. Yemen-Saudi Arabia)
C) dispute over the function of a boundary with regard to migration
D) dispute over rights to resources (e.g. oil, water) crossed by international boundaries
Q2) The Peace of Westphalia is the seminal moment in the emergence of the European state.This marked the end of ________________
A) WW I.
B) the Thirty Years War.
C) the Napoleonic Wars.
D) the War of the Roses.
Q3) Which country has experienced violent devolution?
A) Yugoslavia
B) Ukraine
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Lithuania
Q4) Discuss supranationalism in general terms. How has the European Union developed as a supranational entity? What do you think the future development of the European Union will be like?
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Chapter 9: Urban Geography
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Q1) In core area cities the practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the raising of housing values and a social change in neighborhoods is called
A) public housing.
B) gentrification.
C) white flight.
D) urban renewal.
Q2) The core of a city is called the
A) central city.
B) exurb.
C) urban zone.
D) central business district (CBD).
Q3) The very early developing agricultural societies were
A) divided according to amount of land possessed.
B) ruled by an elite.
C) egalitarian.
D) dominated by larger urban centers.
Q4) Urban sprawl is closely associated with rapid urban population growth. A)True
B)False
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Q1) Even if the Gross National Product (GNP)index is used to measure the well-being of a country,it will fail to show ______________
A) growth in secondary industries (manufacturing).
B) the distribution of wealth.
C) growth within tertiary industries (services).
D) growth within primary industries (mining, forestry, agriculture, fishing).
Q2) Discuss several types of barriers to development. What can governments do to remove those barriers?
Q3) The word "development" implies ___________
A) progress.
B) colonialism.
C) lowering of wages through mechanization.
D) technology.
Q4) ____________ is the only country in the western hemisphere with a dependency ration over 85.
A) Haiti
B) Brazil
C) Mexico
D) Guatemala
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Chapter 11: Agriculture
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Q1) Which of the following agricultural activities is widespread in the northeastern U.S.and northwestern Europe?
A) dairying
B) cotton growing
C) citrus production
D) sugar beet production
Q2) The U.S.township-and-range land division scheme was devised in the 1950s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Much of the cotton purchased by the United Kingdom,Western Europe,and Japan is grown in ____________
A) Egypt.
B) the United States.
C) India.
D) Sudan.
Q4) The expansion of crop production for export in Latin America has increasingly marginalized subsistence farmers.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The first power source of the Industrial Revolution was ________________
A) foot pedals and running water.
B) steam engines.
C) electricity.
D) windmills.
Q2) China's "Pittsburgh" is ______________
A) Shenyang.
B) Shanghai.
C) Hong Kong.
D) Beijing.
Q3) People working in the ___________ sector of economic activity tend to have high levels of specialized knowledge or technical skills.
A) quaternary
B) tertiary
C) secondary
D) primary
Q4) Technopoles locate near major universities and centers of research and development.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Human Environment
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Q1) A tsunami's waves result from ______________
A) tidal conditions.
B) high storm winds called "tsunamis."
C) earthquake displacement of the seafloor.
D) periodic floods.
Q2) Mortality risk from natural disaster is greatest in developed countries.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Climatologist-geographer Alfred Wegener used his spatial view of the world to develop the theory of _______________
A) relativity.
B) the hydrologic cycle.
C) continental drift.
D) Earth rotation.
Q4) During the Pleistocene period,the planet was in a deep freeze.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Oil is a finite resource.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Globalization and the Geography of Networks
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Q1) Media corporations which integrate ownership in a variety of points along the production and consumption chain are examples of
A) vertical integration.
B) television networks.
C) longitudinal cooperation.
D) Monopolies.
Q2) Media's power as information gatekeepers has been undercut by
A) local television stations and newspapers.
B) Web logs on the Internet.
C) a decline in newspaper subscription.
D) growth in functional illiteracy.
Q3) The World Bank,IMF and WTO are seen as carrying out the Washington Consensus.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following cities established a "local currency" in an effort to avoid globalized currencies?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Minneapolis, Minnesota
C) Berkeley, California
D) Atlanta, Georgia
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