Environmental Geography Review Questions
Course Introduction
Environmental Geography explores the complex relationships between humans and their natural environment, emphasizing spatial patterns and processes that shape the world around us. This course examines topics such as climate change, resource management, land use, biodiversity, and environmental hazards, integrating physical and human geography perspectives. Students learn to analyze and interpret environmental issues using geographic tools and concepts, gaining insights into the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to pressing environmental problems at local, regional, and global scales.
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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) The borders of both formal and perceptual regions tend to be very precise.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Environmental determinism has been criticized by modern geographers as overly simplistic and for failing to consider nonenvironmental factors.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Geographers would describe the fact that the United States imports coffee from Columbia, Brazil, Kenya, and other countries as an example of:
A) complementarity since the United States does not produce much coffee.
B) intervening opportunities since Canada is a closer supplier.
C) transferability since coffee often is damaged in shipping.
D) spatial interaction since coffee is actually shipped both ways.
E) connectivity that is greater than accessibility.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Globalization and Cultural Geography
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Q1) A personal approach to medicine sees health as encompassing all aspects of a person's life.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Some business experts define an MNC as a corporation that derives at least a quarter of its revenue from its foreign operations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The identification of World Heritage sites by the United Nations demonstrates that there truly is a global heritage.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Most parent companies of MNCs are located in North America, Europe, or Japan.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Population and Migration
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Q1) Significant global population growth is associated with the second epidemiological transition that led to reduced deaths from communicable diseases.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) If you compared the population pyramid of the Philippines to the United States, you would expect to find:
A) About the same proportion of old people in both countries.
B) A larger proportion of children in the Philippines, but an older average age.
C) A larger proportion of the population is middle aged in the United States.
D) The impact of the baby boom can be seen in both countries.
E) The longer average life expectancy of men is more evident in the United States.
Answer: C
Q3) If a country reported a sex ratio of 275:100, it is very likely that the country has encouraged immigration of workers without their families.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Geographies of Language
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Q1) You have proposed changing the name of the street on which you live. What is likely to happen?
A) Few will notice, since toponyms frequently change.
B) Groups that identify with the current street name will likely object.
C) Most people don't care about the name of their street.
D) If the proposed name is proper and in standard dialect, it will be approved.
E) New street names have to be introduced gradually.
Q2) A dialect is a variety of a language with a distinctive vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) A language that is used to facilitate trade or business between people who speak different languages is a lingua franca.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Geographies of Religion
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Q1) Resistance to change in the caste system is generally associated with Islamic fundamentalism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Because religion is primarily about values and beliefs, it has little impact on the landscape.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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.
Q4) Pilgrimages to sacred spaces may be important even in religions that do not require pilgrimages.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Geographies of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality,
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Q1) Institutional discrimination and segregation are generally based on racism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The concept of heterolocalism means that:
A) members of an ethnic group live in the same community.
B) a single ethnic group defines certain neighborhoods within a community .
C) members of an ethnic group do not leave their community .
D) members of an ethnic group maintain a shared identity even though they are residentially dispersed.
E) all ethnicities have the same characteristics despite the city they live in.
Q3) The townships that developed in South Africa under apartheid:
A) have become mixed race residential areas.
B) continue to face poverty and are largely slums.
C) have been closed and converted to farm land.
D) are the home to most Afrikaners.
E) still have legally segregated schools and parks.
Q4) Ethnic islands are found in cities while ethnoburbs are found in rural areas.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Political Geography
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Q1) When countries are members of supranational organizations such as the United Nations or the European Union, they:
A) seek to attain their imperialist goals.
B) give up their sovereignty.
C) simply continue a 200- or 300-year tradition of membership.
D) believe they can attain economic, military, or cultural goals by working together.
E) follow the guidelines of the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
Q2) Reapportionment and redistricting are the primary methods used to avoid gerrymandering in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Since the boundary between Bulgaria and Romania follows the Danube River, this boundary is described as:
A) a physiographic boundary.
B) a geometric boundary.
C) an ethnographic boundary.
D) a relic boundary.
E) a territorial sea boundary.
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Chapter 8: Urban Geographies
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Q1) London, New York, Tokyo, and several others are termed alpha world cities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The emergence of edge cities indicates that __________ has a major impact on the shape of cities.
A) government
B) commerce
C) transportation
D) religion
E) education
Q3) A megacity is a metropolitan area with a population of 10 million or more.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The greatest contribution of central place theory to geography has been:
A) providing an explanation for urban primacy.
B) explaining the relationship between city size and city hinterlands.
C) calculation of how to measure the threshold in miles.
D) explaining urban food deserts.
E) explaining the need for urban redevelopment.
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Chapter 9: Geographies of Development
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Structural adjustment programs have the advantage of being locally developed and locally administered development programs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The fundamental goal of the U.N.'s Millennium Development program is to:
A) protect the environment.
B) support sustainable development.
C) increase food production.
D) reduce pollution.
E) reduce poverty.
Q4) Dependency theory is based on Rostow's Stages of Development.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Changing Geographies of Industry and Services
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Q1) If the process of agglomeration was at work in your hometown, you would expect to see:
A) businesses spread out across the community.
B) the spatial clustering of economic activities in one part of town.
C) the development of Fordist factories.
D) reduced Quaternary activities.
E) the development of commodity changes within the community.
Q2) The Industrial Revolution describes the development of the first manufacturing in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 11: Agricultural Geographies
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Q1) Subsistence agriculture is different from commercial farming because subsistence farmers:
A) have larger farms.
B) purchase fewer things to support their farming.
C) sell the majority of what they produce.
D) practice monoculture.
E) rarely farm communally.
Q2) As a result of the third agricultural revolution, modern commercial agriculture often uses monoculture and chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Hunting and gathering:
A) is a common form of agriculture in the United States.
B) was largely replaced by the first agricultural revolution.
C) no longer exists anywhere in the world.
D) began when people settled permanently in one location.
E) does not produce enough food for basic nutrition and survival.
Q4) Very few commercial grain farms actually produce only grain crops.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Environmental Challenges
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Q1) A biomass fuel can be manufactured from used cooking oil or other plant matter.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Though renewable, oil is a versatile energy resource for industrialized countries that have the necessary infrastructure to store, refine, and transport it.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The use of common property resources has observed that:
A) most varieties of ocean fish are caught well below sustainable yields.
B) most trees are sustainably harvested.
C) sustainable yield only applies to renewable resources.
D) consumers cannot secure sustainable harvested lumber.
E) ocean currents make determining sustainable fish catch levels impossible.
Q4) Coal provides both the most abundant energy source and the cleanest fuel to use.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Biodiversity tends to be greatest in the ecosystems of the mid latitude regions.
A)True
B)False
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