Environmental Geography Question Bank

Course Introduction

Environmental Geography explores the complex interactions between humans and their natural environment, focusing on how physical systems such as climate, landforms, water, and ecosystems both influence and are influenced by human activities. The course examines topics like resource management, environmental change, sustainability, and the spatial patterns of environmental issues at local, regional, and global scales. Through the integration of scientific principles and geographic approaches, students gain a comprehensive understanding of current environmental challenges and the tools used to analyze and address them.

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World Regions in Global Context Peoples Places and Environments 5th Edition by Sallie

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A. Marston

Chapter 1: World Regions in Global Context

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Q1) In 2011,the overall global life expectancy for both men and women was:

A)72

B)68

C)80

D)55

E)70

Answer: E

Q2) Which of the following can the Theory of Plate Tectonics not explain?

A)why earthquakes occur

B)the locations and origins of volcanoes

C)the evident relocation of major landmasses in the past

D)the locations and origins of mountains

E)atmospheric circulation

Answer: E

Q3) Continental climates are typically dry and often have long cold winters.

A)True

B)False

Answer: True

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Chapter 2: Europe

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Q1) During what period did innovations in technology and business bring Europe into a new merchant capitalist economy?

A)9th-10th century

B)11th-12th century

C)13th-14th century

D)15th-16th century

E)19th-20th century

Answer: D

Q2) In the 1990s,the most extreme example of ethnic cleansing occurred in the ________ region.

A)Kosovo

B)Serbia

C)Croatia

D)Latvia

E)Estonia

Answer: A

Q3) Northwestern Europe is dominated by midlatitude climates.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

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Chapter 3:

Transcaucasus

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Q1) Dissident or banned literature produced through systems of clandestine printing and distribution is called:

A)propaganda

B)samizdat publications

C)gosplans publications

D)glasnost publications

E)mafiyas publications

Answer: B

Q2) The Aral Sea is located mostly in which country?

A)Russia

B)Estonia

C)Ukraine

D)Kazakhstan

E)Belarus

Answer: D

Q3) Most Chechens are Sunni Muslims.

A)True

B)False

Answer: True

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Chapter 4: Middle East and North Africa

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Q1) Which of the following countries was never colonized by Europe?

A)Libya

B)Turkey

C)Algeria

D)Morocco

E)Libya,Turkey,Algeria,and Morocco were all colonized by Europe.

Q2) After being part of the Ottoman Empire,Algeria became a possession of this country.

A)Great Britain

B)Portugal

C)France

D)United Kingdom

E)none of these

Q3) What are Pastoralists?

A)herders

B)farmers

C)traveling merchants

D)missionaries

E)none of these

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Chapter 5: Sub-Saharan Africa

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Q1) ________ is famous for diamonds in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A)Nigeria

B)South Africa

C)Zimbabwe

D)Kenya

E)none of these

Q2) Which one of the following diseases is caused by the tsetse fly?

A)malaria

B)sleeping sickness

C)ebola fever

D)bilharzia

E)none of these

Q3) The best estimate of the number of living languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa is:

A)10

B)200 to 300

C)less than 200

D)about 100

E)about 1,000

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Chapter 6: The United States and Canada

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Q1) ________ is a formerly glaciated landscape that contains fertile soils and an abundance of lakes and rivers.

A)The Canadian Shield

B)The Interior Lowlands

C)The Great Plains

D)Gulf-Atlantic Coastal Plain

E)none of these

Q2) The major landform feature of the eastern United States and Canada is:

A)Gulf-Coastal Plain

B)Interior Lowlands

C)Interior Highlands

D)Appalachian Mountains

E)Rocky Mountains

Q3) Most of the agricultural productivity of the United States and Canada is concentrated in which two physiographic regions?

A)Coastal Ranges and Intermontane Basin and Plateau

B)Coastal Ranges and Great Plains

C)Gulf-Atlantic Coastal Plain and Great Plains

D)Interior Highlands and Interior Lowlands

E)Interior Lowlands and Great Plains

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Chapter 7: Latin America and the Caribbean

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Q1) The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement made by Pope Alexander VI in 1494 to divide the world between ________ and ________ along a north-south line 1100 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.

A)Spain/France

B)Spain/Portugal

C)Portugal/Great Britain

D)Portugal/France

E)France/Great Britain

Q2) Brazil is a major exporter of ethanol.

A)True

B)False

Q3) A favelas is a Brazilian term for an informal settlement that grows up around an urban core.

A)True

B)False

Q4) Brazil is one of the primary exporters of drugs to the United States.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 8: East Asia

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Q1) The belief that the physical attributes of places can be analyzed and manipulated to improve the flow of cosmic energy that binds all living things is called:

A)feng shui

B)Confucianism

C)Shintoism

D)pinyin

E)manga

Q2) The ________ is the dominant group in China.

A)Hui

B)Han

C)Manchu

D)Wu

E)none of these

Q3) Japanese print cartoon books are called:

A)Anime

B)Manga

C)Pokemon

D)feng shui

E)hutongs

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Chapter 9: South Asia

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Q1) Tree cover created or retained by human beings is called a(n)________ forest.

A)Terrace

B)Jati

C)Transhumance

D)Naxalite

E)Anthropogenic

Q2) What is a system of kinship groupings that is reinforced by language,region and occupation?

A)Caste

B)Raj

C)Mujahideen

D)Muhajir

E)none of these

Q3) All of these are mostly Muslim countries,except:

A)Afghanistan

B)Sri Lanka

C)Maldives

D)Bangladesh

E)none of these

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Chapter 10: Southeast Asia

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Q1) What is the main illegal product being produced in Southeast Asia's "Golden Triangle"?

A)opium

B)methamphetamine

C)coca

D)Both opium and methamphetamine

E)Both opium and coca

Q2) The deepest deep-sea trench in the world is the:

A)Tonga Trench

B)Philippine Trench

C)Japan Trench

D)Manila Trench

E)Mariana Trench

Q3) By the late 1990s,this country was providing more than half the world's tropical hardwoods.

A)Borneo

B)Burma

C)Thailand

D)Vietnam

E)Malaysia

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Q1) Between who was the Treaty of Waitangi made?

A)Zulu/Dutch

B)Maori/British

C)Aborigines/British

D)Polynesians/French

E)none of these

Q2) Most people in Oceania speak:

A)English

B)French

C)Papuan

D)Spanish

E)Dutch

Q3) The Maori welcome ceremonies that include pressing noses together are called:

A)moko

B)haka

C)hongi

D)wharenui

E)corrohoree

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