Cultural Geography
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Course Introduction
Cultural Geography explores the relationship between culture and space, examining how cultural practices, beliefs, and identities influence the ways people interact with and shape their environments. The course covers key concepts such as cultural landscapes, diffusion, globalization, language, religion, ethnicity, and the spatial dynamics of power and identity. By analyzing examples from various regions and scales, students gain insight into how social, political, and economic processes construct and transform places, and how cultural patterns impact both local and global communities.
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Visualizing Human Geography 2nd Edition by Alyson L. Greiner
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Chapter 1: What Is Human Geography?
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Q1) A person in New York City is likely to observe a new trend or fashion style before a person in a small city in Oklahoma.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Geographers increasingly prefer to use GIS rather than a traditional map because:
A) GIS can link data, reveal spatial relationships and display them.
B) GIS does not require georeferenced data.
C) GIS does not require computer hardware and software.
D) maps generally show more cultural bias than does GIS.
E) maps tend to have more errors than GIS.
Answer: A
Q3) Human geography is the branch of geography that:
A) makes maps.
B) focuses on environmental dynamics.
C) explores the nature-culture dualism.
D) considers the spatial impacts of social dynamics.
E) investigates energy and ecosystems.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Globalization and Cultural Geography
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Q1) From a geographic standpoint, what is the result of the bridging of the local and global scales to create what is sometimes called the local-global nexus?
A) polarization
B) glocalization
C) homogenization
D) neolocalism
E) commodification
Answer: B
Q2) In discussing development opportunities for a region, social capital refers to:
A) investments in social services such as education and health clinics.
B) foreign capital that is provided by social service and other nonprofit groups.
C) opportunities for development, such as creating jobs for unemployed workers.
D) a form of sustainable development.
E) social ties and networks within a community that can help the community develop.
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Population and Migration
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Q1) The crude birth rate is:
A) The average number of births per 1000 persons in an area.
B) The percentage of women who are pregnant at the present time.
C) The difference between fertility and mortality.
D) Affected by the arithmetic density, but not the physiographic density.
E) Determined by biological factors, not social or cultural values.
Answer: A
Q2) Postponing marriage and practicing sexual restraint are examples of:
A) Positive checks
B) Preventive checks
C) Population ecology
D) Anti-natalist policy
E) Pro-natalist policy
Answer: B
Q3) A rise in the proportion of deaths from lifestyle related factors has been observed in high income countries, but not in low income countries.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Geographies of Language
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Q1) A dialect is a variety of a language with a distinctive vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) People want to change place names because of the powerful statement the name of a place makes about identity and political power.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many African countries along with India and Pakistan have linguistic diversity index scores of over .75. This means that:
A) there is a high likelihood that two randomly selected residents could not speak to each other.
B) more than 75% of the people speak the standard dialect.
C) creolization has occurred.
D) there are relatively few languages used in the country.
E) more than one language family is present in the country.
Q4) The hearth of Indo-European languages is in northern Europe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Geographies of Religion
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Q1) If there is a difference in the location of the hearth area of a religion as compared to the area of its current practice, a geographer might conclude:
A) this is clear evidence of an ethnic religion.
B) this could be associated with a new universalizing religion.
C) a diaspora may have taken place centuries ago.
D) the hearth area was incorrectly identified.
E) there were barriers to the diffusion of the religion.
Q2) Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam all developed in the same Semitic hearth area.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Buddhism is different from Christianity because:
A) Buddhism has two branches but Christianity has five branches.
B) Christians do not practice burial of the dead.
C) Buddhism developed as an effort to reform Hinduism.
D) Buddhism does not allow monks.
E) Christianity is about 700 years older than Buddhism.
Q4) Jerusalem contains sacred spaces for Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Geographies of Identity: Race, Ethnicity,
Sexuality, and Gender
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Q1) The gradual loss of the cultural traits, beliefs, and practices that distinguish immigrant ethnic groups and their members is:
A) assimilation.
B) pluralism.
C) heterolocalism
D) blockbusting.
E) cultural relativism.
Q2) While many ethnic neighborhoods result from the desire to live near other members of an ethnic group, ghettos are more likely involuntary settlements.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When scholars argue that race is a social construction, not a biological fact, they believe:
A) race is concept that is created and given meaning by a society.
B) race is something that is easily categorized.
C) physical traits in people can easily fit into formal regions.
D) there is a natural order of beings in the world.
E) intolerance is based on experienced differences.
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Chapter 7: Political Geography
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Q1) A nation is a sizable group of people with shared political aspirations whose collective identity is rooted in a common history, heritage, and attachment to a specific territory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An image, object, or symbol that conveys a political message is known as:
A) colonialism
B) devolution
C) geopolitics
D) political iconography
E) security landscapes
Q3) Reapportionment and redistricting are the primary methods used to avoid gerrymandering in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) To be a state of the world requires acceptance by other states.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Urban Geographies
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Q1) You are most likely to find a specialized service or a unique product in a city near the top of the urban hierarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Eminent domain is:
A) when affluent people purchase deteriorated buildings in low-income neighborhoods in order to restore or renovate them.
B) the biased practice of refusing to offer a home loan on the basis of the characteristics of a neighborhood instead of the actual conditions of the property being mortgaged.
C) using scare tactics and panic selling to promote the rapid transition of a neighborhood from one ethnic or racial group to another.
D) the process of renovating a section of the city by destroying dilapidated structures and rebuilding on the site.
E) the authority of a government to take private property when doing so serves the public's interests.
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Chapter 9: Geographies of Development
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Q1) Most geographers no longer use sociodemographic and environmental measures of development because:
A) economic measures are more accurate.
B) the literacy rate has little impact on future development.
C) almost everyone now has access to safe drinking water already.
D) sustainable development is no longer a U.N. goal.
E) actually, socio demographic and environmental measures can help identify development challenges.
Q2) Income inequality is associated with a lower incidence of poverty, which in turn, can deter investment and development.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Gini coefficient for income inequality in Brazil is 59.3. This means that:
A) Brazil has one of the most equitable income distributions in the world.
B) Brazil has 59 % of the wealth of South America.
C) Brazil has a more equitable distribution of income than the world as a whole.
D) Brazil has poor people, but does not have extreme poverty.
E) Brazil is a more developed country.
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Chapter 10: Changing Geographies of Industry and Services
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Q1) Staple theory argues that primary resource production will positively affect a region if:
A) the primary material is exported.
B) forward and backward linkages develop locally.
C) the primary product is needed around the world.
D) the region had only one staple resource.
E) commodity dependency increased over time.
Q2) The manufacturer who produced the shirt you just purchased used the just-in-time delivery method. This means that:
A) the shirt probably arrived in the store within the last few days since it wasn't on clearance.
B) to be able to meet demand quickly, the manufacturer probably has a large warehouse of supplies.
C) the manufacturer ordered supplies in smaller quantities as needed.
D) production of the shirt was in limited quantities and styles.
E) the shirt was produced by a modern factory in the United States.
Q3) Primary industries are industries that extract natural resources from the earth.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Agricultural Geographies
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Q1) Plantation agriculture is the type of farming that produces most of the vegetables you eat.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In recent years, U.S. corn production has increased because:
A) Americans are eating more corn.
B) exports of corn have increased.
C) corn is being grown to make ethanol.
D) corn is needed for animal feed.
E) other crops can no longer be produced due to soil erosion.
Q3) In the context of the Green Revolution, the term green refers to the adoption of organic or eco-friendly practices.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Shifting cultivation is:
A) sometimes found in the United States when farmers practice crop rotation.
B) considered to be the most environmentally damaging form of agriculture.
C) commonly found in Brazil and several African countries.
D) changing as farmers sell more of what they produce.
E) practiced in regions where grasslands make cultivation of the soil easy.
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Chapter 12: Environmental Challenges
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Q1) The Kyoto Protocol was designed to reduce pollution of the oceans, and has led to an improvement in the quality of ocean waters.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The use of solar panels and photovoltaic cells to capture solar energy is:
A) an example of passive solar collection.
B) an example of active solar collection.
C) an example of using nonrenewable energy.
D) capable of producing about 20 % of the energy needed in the United States.
E) more productive than wind power on a global scale.
Q3) Nuclear energy produced with uranium is probably not a solution to long-term energy issues since:
A) uranium cannot be stockpiled.
B) nuclear energy does generate significant air pollution.
C) nuclear energy cannot effectively replace oil used in transportation.
D) military needs will limit supplies of uranium for energy purposes.
E) mountain top removal is opposed by regulators.
Q4) A biomass fuel can be manufactured from used cooking oil or other plant matter.
A)True
B)False
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