Cultural Geography
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Course Introduction
Cultural Geography examines the spatial aspects of human cultures, exploring how cultural practices, beliefs, and identities shape and are shaped by the physical landscape. The course investigates topics such as language, religion, ethnicity, and social norms, analyzing how these elements influence patterns of human settlement, urbanization, and interaction on both local and global scales. Emphasis is placed on understanding cultural diffusion, cultural landscapes, and the ways in which cultural diversity and globalization affect the world's geographic regions. Through case studies and spatial analysis, students gain insight into the complex relationship between people, place, and environment.
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Introduction to Contemporary Geography 1st Edition by James M. Rubenstein
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Chapter 1: Thinking Geographically
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Q1) The level of detail and the amount of area covered on a map depends on the ________, which is the relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth.
A) map shape
B) map scale
C) map projection
D) map legend
E) none of the above
Answer: B
Q2) The Prime Meridian and the International Date Line are the same location.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The biosphere is made up of portions of all the other three Earth systems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
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Q1) The change in temperature that results from expansion or contraction of rising or sinking air is part of the ________ process
A) albedo
B) adiabatic
C) donvection
D) inverse lapse
E) advection
Answer: B
Q2) In these zones, high solar elevation angles occur throughout the year, and this makes ________ consistently warm.
A) the tropics
B) the prime meridian
C) windward sides of mountains
D) midlatitudes
E) the jet stream
Answer: A
Q3) The vernal equinox occurs in March in the Northern Hemisphere.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Landforms
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Q1) Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky was formed by the chemical weathering of ________.
A) iron oxide
B) sulphur dioxide
C) calcium carbonate
D) carbonic acid
E) shale
Answer: C
Q2) ________ weathering occurs when there is a change in the minerals that compose rocks when they are exposed to air and water.
A) Chemical
B) Physical
C) Biological
D) Natural
E) Isostatic
Answer: A
Q3) The Himalayan Mountains was formed by transform movement between two plates.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Biosphere
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Q1) Which of the following is true of the the law of conservation of energy?
A) Energy is not created nor destroyed except with the addition of oxygen
B) Energy is not created or destroyed under ordinary conditions, but it may be changed from one form to another
C) Matter may be changed from one form to another under ordinary conditions but cannot be created or destroyed, except in nuclear reactions
D) Matter can only be created with the addition of oxygen
E) None of the answer choices are correct.
Q2) Briefly describe the hydrologic cycle.
Q3) How different is the food chain from the food web?
Q4) How are humans affecting the phosphorus cycle?
Q5) Desertification, a process by which semiarid vegetation and soil become more desert-like as a result of human use, has occurred in semiarid lands around the world.
A)True B)False
Q6) Nitrogen fixation occurs by both natural and human processes.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 5: Population
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Q1) The number of people supported by a unit area of arable land is called the physiological density.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ________ is the number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years.
A) youth bulge
B) workforce
C) workforce load
D) dependency ratio
E) debt burden
Q3) What is Crude Death Rate? Give an example of how to calculate the CDR.
Q4) According to the UN, if the current TFR of 2.5 remains unchanged, world population would reach 16 billion in 2050.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A third of the word's population lives in East Asia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Migration
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Q1) International migration has increased considerably in recent decades as:
A) environmental issues dominate the news
B) economic disparities grow narrow between wealthy and poor regions
C) economic disparities grow between wealthy and poor regions
D) political unrest increases in Africa
E) globalization brings television to people's homes in China and India
Q2) The United States does not use immigration caps to limit the number of persons coming from di erent countries.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The political causes of forced migration are typically ________.
A) armed con ict or discrimination
B) rigged elections
C) one party rule and a strong leader
D) famine and deforestation
E) mutual distrust by rival clans
Q4) Briefly examine the role of tourism in the global economy.
Q5) Briefly discuss global migration trends in recent decades.
Q6) Explain the political causes of forced migration in recent years.
Q7) What are selective immigration policies?
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Chapter 7: Languages and Religion
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Q1) Hinduism does not have a central authority or a single holy book, so each adherent selects suitable rituals.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In which of the following countries are French and English the official languages?
A) Canada
B) Mexico
C) Australia
D) France
E) Ivory Coast
Q3) What is a creolized language?
Q4) What are ethnic religions and discuss some of them.
Q5) What are the main branches of Christianity?
Q6) With 1.3 billion followers, Islam is the world largest religion.
A)True
B)False
Q7) What is a language and how does a language family differ from a language branch and language group?
Q8) What is a lingua franca?
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Chapter 8: Political Geography
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Q1) Saddam Hussein, the leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, was killed by a U.S. SEAL team in Pakistan.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the sovereignty of Kosovo, Taiwan, and Western Sahara.
Q3) Resenting discrimination and neglect by the national government, groups in Darfur launched a rebellion in 2003 against the Arab-dominated Khartoum government.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following countries is a perforated state?
A) Nigeria
B) Kosovo
C) Italy
D) Germany
E) Canada
Q5) Fragmented states have other state territories within them.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain centripetal forces with special reference to nationalism.
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Chapter 9: Development
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Q1) The U.S. government gives about 2.2 percent of its GNI to foreign aid and European countries average a good bit more, approximately 5.5 percent.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is true today of the developed world?
A) Developed countries are hard-pressed to maintain their current levels of public assistance
B) In the last two years, most developed countries have increased their social safety nets
C) In the past, slow economic growth did not permit rich countries to finance generous programs
D) In recent years economic growth has increased, whereas the percentage of people needing public assistance has decreased
E) None of the above is true
Q3) Compare and contrast the economic structures of developed and developing countries.
Q4) What is structural adjustment program and what are some of the criticisms against it?
Q5) What is Gender Inequality Index and how is it measured?
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Chapter 10: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) Meat accounts for approximately one-third of all protein intake in developed countries, compared to approximately ________ in developing ones.
A) one-tenth
B) one-eighth
C) one-fifth
D) one-quarter
E) one-half
Q2) Geographers and other scientists agree that agriculture originated in multiple hearths around the world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In which of the following regions is shifting cultivation a prominent form of agriculture?
A) South Asia
B) East Asia
C) North Africa
D) Sub-Saharan Africa
E) Central America
Q4) What is terroir and what role does it play in the characteristics of food?
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Chapter 11: Industry
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Q1) What are site factors and why are they important?
Q2) Which of the following regions in the United States is the country's largest center for clothing and textile production?
A) Southern California (the Los Angeles region)
B) New England (the Boston region)
C) Middle Atlantic (New York City and its near suburbs)
D) Western Great Lakes (the Chicago region)
E) Southern Florida (the Miami region)
Q3) During the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. steel industry concentrated around ________ in an area proximate to iron-ore and coal mines.
A) Chicago
B) Boston
C) Pittsburgh
D) Cleveland
E) Buffalo
Q4) What is a break-of-bulk point?
Q5) Which countries are considered the "BRIC" countries?
Q6) What is just-in-time delivery? And what are some of the advantages and disadvantages?
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Chapter 12: Services and Settlements
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Q1) According to the primate city rule, the largest settlement has:
A) about the same size as the second ranking settlement
B) slightly more people than the second ranking settlement
C) more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement
D) about four times the population of the second ranking settlement
E) about ten times the population of the second ranking settlement
Q2) The process by which the population of urban settlements grows is known as migration.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How does the concept of threshold help a business decide on the right location?
Q4) According to market area analysis, range and threshold are the two least important factors in deciding on the probable profitability of a business.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The threshold of a service is the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Urban Patterns
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Q1) The modern suburb is segregated in two ways: by class (wealth, size of housing, and location) and by a separation from manufacturing and industrial activities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Briefly describe the multiple nuclei model for the internal social structure of cities.
Q3) Geographers Griffin and Ford show that in Latin American cities wealthy people:
A) push out from the center in a well-defined elite residential sector
B) push into the center in a well-defined elite residential sector
C) have always lived exclusively in the center
D) have always lived in the peripheries away from the center
E) abhor the city center because of the high marginal tax rates
Q4) Cities in developing countries have been shrinking as millions of people emigrate out in search of work.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are some of the characteristics of suburban retail?
Q6) Explain the concept of annexation.
Q7) What is a metropolitan statistical area?
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Chapter 14: Resources
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Q1) Canada is the world's chief producer of rare earth minerals, which are used for a wide variety of purposes including chemical processes and electronics applications.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Generally, mineral deposits are uniformly distributed around the world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ________ is the use and management of natural resources such as wildlife, water, air, and minerals to meet human needs, including food, medicine, and recreation.
A) Preservation
B) Conservation
C) Exploitation
D) Management
E) Development
Q4) Government regulators are often forbidden from taking market principles into account when deciding how to manage resources.
A)True
B)False
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