Economic Geography
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Course Introduction
Economic Geography explores the spatial aspects of economies, examining how physical location, natural resources, infrastructure, and cultural factors shape the development, distribution, and organization of economic activities across the globe. The course investigates patterns of production, trade, and consumption at local, regional, and global scales, analyzing the roles of industries, labor markets, urbanization, globalization, and technological change in shaping economic landscapes. Through geographic tools and theoretical frameworks, students gain insights into issues such as regional disparities, resource allocation, supply chain networks, and the impacts of economic policies on societies and environments.
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Globalization and Diversity Geography of a Changing World 4th Edition by Lester Rowntree
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Chapter 1: Globalization and Diversity
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Q1) According to your text's authors,globalization is the most fundamental reorganization of our planet's social and economic structures since which of the following events?
A) Ice Age
B) Demographic Transition
C) Industrial Revolution
D) World War II
E) the Renaissance
Answer: C
Q2) What does a total fertility rate (TFR)that is less than 2.1 indicate?
A) that a population is not growing naturally
B) that a population is growing slowly
C) that a population is growing quickly
D) that a population has reached its peak
E) A TFR that is less than 2.1 has no particular significance.
Answer: A
Q3) Architecture is an example of a material dimension of culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Changing Global Environment
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Q1) About half of the tropical forests that are lost each year are found in Southeast Asia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Cattle species originally bred to survive in the hot weather of replace with: India are now raised on grassland pastures created worldwide by converting tropical forests and savannas into rangeland.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) About half of the tropical forests that are lost each year are located in what part of the world?
A) Amazon Basin of South America
B) Southeast Asia
C) tropical Africa
D) the Caribbean
E) Oceania
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: North America
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Q1) More than 50 percent of air pollutants in North America are generated in China and Mexico.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Natural gas is the most abundant fossil fuel in the Unites States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The economic base of North America is based almost entirely on agriculture and manufacturing.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) The railroad had very little influence on settlement patterns in North America.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Latin America
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Q1) What is the major reason for the preference for urban life in Latin America?
A) The indigenous peoples of Latin America left a legacy of urban life.
B) Governments provide tax breaks for city dwellers.
C) Under the colonial rule of Spain and Portugal, people living in cities had higher social status and greater economic opportunity.
D) The cost of farmland is very high.
E) The governments of Latin America prohibit living outside of cities as a way to limit urban sprawl.
Q2) Which European country had a territorial conflict with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in the early 1980s?
A) Spain
B) Portugal
C) Germany
D) France
E) the United Kingdom
Q3) What are the specific steps that Curitiba,the capital of Brazil's Parana state,has taken to plan its growth in a more environmentally friendly fashion?
Q4) Describe the major geologic forces that have shaped Latin America.
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Chapter 5: The Caribbean
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Q1) The initiative designed to launch rapid industrialization in Puerto Rico was called Operation Bootstrap.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The most common number of crops grown under the plantation system of agriculture was one.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Maroon societies were composed of wealthy Caribbean landowners.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The rimland of the Caribbean is the coastal zone of the mainland,beginning with Belize and extending along the coast of Central America to northern South America.
A)True
B)False
Q5) As a U.S.citizen on vacation in the Caribbean,you are LEAST likely to visit Cuba.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q1) The population of Sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by A) a relatively low percentage of children under the age of 15.
B) a doubling time of just over 100 years.
C) large families.
D) low infant mortality rates.
E) low rate of natural increase.
Q2) The deadliest ethnic and political conflict in the region has been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,where about 5.4 million people died.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Female traders in West Africa have considerable political and economic power. A)True
B)False
Q4) In 1991,the government of Somalia disintegrated,and the territory has been in civil war ever since.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the issue of aid versus investment in SSA.Discuss the issue of debt relief.What role do these play in African economies?
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Chapter 7: Southwest Asia and North Africa
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Q1) The Tigris River and Euphrates River are most closely associated with the Maghreb.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the official language of Israel?
A) Yiddish
B) English
C) Arabic
D) Hebrew
E) Persian
Q3) People making a pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca)and Medinah must travel to which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) Israel
C) Egypt
D) Jordan
E) Iraq
Q4) Iraq contains approximately 26 percent of the world's known oil reserves.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Europe
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Q1) Although Kosovo had enjoyed differing degrees of autonomy within the former Yugoslavia,this autonomy was withdrawn by Belgrade in 1990 to protect the Serb minority population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Ottoman Empire expanded its borders almost to the gates of what European city in the middle of the 16th century?
A) Rome, Italy
B) Paris, France
C) Vienna, Austria
D) Berlin, Germany
E) London, England
Q3) Probably the most striking characteristic of Europe's demography is
A) that almost 40 percent of the population is illiterate.
B) the continued 10 percent more women than men in most of the countries.
C) the high rural population.
D) youthfulness of its population.
E) the lack of natural growth.
Q4) Discuss the characteristics and location of Europe's three major climates.
Q5) List and Explain the four factors that explain Europe's environmental diversity.
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Chapter 9: The Russian Domain
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Q1) Who were the original founders of Russia?
A) northward moving hunters from Ukraine
B) eastward moving pastoralists from Estonia
C) westward moving Mongolians on horseback
D) Chinese nomadic farmers
E) southward moving warriors from Sweden
Q2) What is the primary reason why European Russia has a higher population than Asian Russia?
A) Asian Russia lost much of its population in World War II.
B) European Russia is better suited for agriculture.
C) Communist government policies forced millions to move to European Russia from Asian Russia.
D) Devastating diseases killed off much of the population of Asian Russia.
E) European Russia has historically had an extremely low death rate.
Q3) Briefly discuss the efforts at privatization of the Russian economy after the breakdown of the Soviet Union.
Q4) The dominant climate type in the Russian Domain is mild midlatitude.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe and explain the overall population distribution in the Russian Region.
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Chapter 10: Central Asia
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Q1) Which natural resource is of potentially great importance to economic development in Central Asia?
A) bananas
B) uranium
C) diamonds
D) timber
E) oil
Q2) Kazakhstan's population in the agricultural lands of the north
A) is highly concentrated near the border of Russia.
B) lives primarily in the cities of the northern region.
C) is relatively evenly spaced throughout the region.
D) has declined to nearly zero over the past three decades.
E) has been migrating to the south in the past decade.
Q3) Kazakhstan is the most developed country in Central Asia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Briefly discuss the following:
- Transhumance
- Alluvial fans
- Pastoralism
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Chapter 11: East Asia
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Q1) In the 1990s,North Korea had the most laissez-faire economy of East Asia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Confucianism held that people should be judged on the basis of their behavior and education,rather than family backgrounds.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which country of East Asia has the greatest linguistic diversity?
A) Taiwan
B) China
C) Japan
D) Korea
E) Hong Kong
Q4) Which country has the highest population in both East Asia and the world?
A) Japan
B) China
C) North Korea
D) South Korea
E) Taiwan
Q5) Compare and contrast the Chinese and Japanese/Korean City Systems.
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Chapter 12: South Asia
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Q1) Write an essay in which you discuss the patterns of urbanization in three South Asian cities.What accounts for regional differences in such characteristics as population,function,and location of these urban areas?
Q2) South Asia is likely to experience the following effects of climate change,EXCEPT
A) large areas of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta in Bangladesh will be inundated.
B) as many as 7 million people could be displaced from coastal areas.
C) as Himalayan glaciers retreat, water flow into the Indus-Ganges Plain will be reduced.
D) South Asia is at such a low elevation that 50% of its land area will be under water.
E) increasingly violent storms could increase flooding and soil erosion.
Q3) What trend is threatening the survival of the Zoroastrian community?
A) intermarriage and low fertility
B) persecution by Sikhs
C) environmental devastation in their homeland of Bhutan
D) the abandonment of the belief system for Hinduism
E) emigration from the region in search of economic opportunity
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Chapter 13: Southeast Asia
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Q1) Vietnam is the most urbanized country in Southeast Asia,and is 100 percent urbanized.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What country of Southeast Asia is the most highly urbanized?
A) Burma
B) Singapore
C) Vietnam
D) the Philippines
E) Cambodia
Q3) The first Europeans to arrive in Southeast Asia were the Dutch.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "Insular" Southeast Asia refers to which of the following locations?
A) countries located on peninsulas
B) countries located on islands
C) countries located on mainland Southeast Asia
D) countries located on mountains
E) countries located in the interior regions of a continent
Q5) Discuss the monsoon climates of Southeast Asia.
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Chapter 14: Australia and Oceania
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Q1) What is the cultural origin of the majority of Australia's population?
A) the Aboriginal population
B) France
C) Spain
D) Britain
E) South Asia
Q2) What are the important sectors of Australia's economy?
Q3) Which country of the region of Australia and Oceania signed the Kyoto Protocol in 2007,leaving the U.S.as the only industrialized country that has not signed the agreement?
A) Australia
B) Fiji
C) New Zealand
D) Palau
E) Samoa
Q4) Indo-Fijians dominate the commercial life on the island of Fiji.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the evolution of an island in Oceania from magma welling up at a hot spot through the atoll stage.
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