Environmental Geography Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Environmental Geography explores the complex interactions between humans and their natural environment, examining how physical landscapes, climate systems, and ecosystems both influence and are transformed by human activities. The course surveys key concepts such as resource management, environmental hazards, land use change, and sustainability, highlighting global and regional case studies. Students will analyze spatial patterns and processes shaping the worlds environments, assess the impacts of environmental issues such as deforestation, pollution, and climate change, and consider strategies for promoting sustainable development. Through lectures, discussions, and practical exercises, learners gain a comprehensive understanding of the geographical dimensions of contemporary environmental challenges.
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Contemporary Human Geography 2nd Edition by James M. Rubenstein
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Chapter 1: Thinking Geographically
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Q1) The study of how humans and the environment interact is called
A) environmental determinism.
B) cultural ecology.
C) cultural diffusion.
D) natural science.
Answer: B
Q2) In making a map,cartographers must strike a balance between
A) functional and formal regions.
B) vernacular and distributional concepts.
C) the amount of land and the level of detail displayed.
D) cylindrical and conic projections.
E) regions and locations.
Answer: C
Q3) The state of Texas is best considered a formal region because A) only one language is spoken everywhere in the region.
B) the same state laws apply everywhere in the region.
C) the climate is the same everywhere in the region.
D) it is a part of the United States.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Population
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Q1) The epidemiological transition focuses on distinctive ________ at different stages of the demographic transition.
A) patterns of growth
B) causes of death
C) rates of growth
D) life expectancies
E) fertility rates
Answer: B
Q2) Country X has a crude birth rate of 40 and a crude death rate of 15,while Country Y has a crude birth rate of 20 and a crude death rate of 9.Which country has a higher natural increase rate?
A) Country X
B) Country Y
C) The rate is the same in both countries.
D) The rate depends on total population, so it can't be computed from this information.
E) The rate depends on immigration, so it can't be computed from this information.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Migration
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Q1) Migration to the United States declined during the 1920s primarily because of A) economic depression in the United States.
B) forced migration after World War I.
C) the imposition of quota laws.
D) declining demand for industrial workers.
E) declining demand for domestic workers.
Answer: C
Q2) Migration to the United States declined in the 1920s as a result of new laws.What did these laws do?
Answer: set quotas based on the immigration background of current citizens
Q3) During the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries,immigration to the United States was mostly from Europe.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The most common environmental push factor is too much or too little water. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Folk and Popular Culture
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Q1) Food taboos usually derive from unique elements of the physical environment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The frequent repetition of an act,to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people is a
A) custom.
B) popular culture.
C) habit.
D) taboo.
E) character trait.
Q3) Which statement best captures the conflicts between folk and popular culture?
A) Folk culture is threatened by popular culture more than the reverse.
B) Popular culture is threatened by folk culture more than the reverse.
C) Folk and popular culture represent equal threats to one another.
D) Folk traditions may produce more uniform landscapes.
E) Globalization promotes diverse food preferences.
Q4) What is one of the major differences in the origin of popular music compared to folk music?
Q5) In what ways do folk cultures respond differently than popular cultures to variations in the local physical environment?
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Chapter 5: Language
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Q1) A language's survival depends on
A) its similarity to other languages.
B) the ease foreign speakers have in learning it.
C) its existence on a small island.
D) the political and military strength of its speakers.
E) the homogenization of its dialects.
Q2) Hebrew is an example of an extinct language.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Basque is a good example of a(n)
A) language family.
B) language group.
C) lingua franca.
D) isolated language.
Q4) The second-largest language family is
A) Indo-European.
B) Sino-Tibetan.
C) Afro-Asiatic.
D) Austronesian.
E) Dravidian.
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Chapter 6: Religion
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Q1) Of the following religious branches,which one has a single living authority who speaks for the entire branch?
A) Eastern Orthodoxy
B) Theravada Buddhism
C) Shaktism
D) Roman Catholicism
E) Protestantism
Q2) Christianity diffused contagiously through
A) the travels of missionaries.
B) the conversion of Emperor Constantine.
C) daily contact between believers and nonbelievers.
D) diffusion through India to Indonesia.
E) merchants traveling to China in the first century.
Q3) Why is Judaism considered an ethnic religion?
Q4) The conflict in Northern Ireland is geographically represented by
A) spatial segregation of religious groups in the capital.
B) the physical landscape creating a division from southern Ireland.
C) long barriers and police checkpoints.
D) street signs in two languages, depending on the dominance of each language.
E) the creation of a demilitarized zone along the border.
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Chapter 7: Ethnicity
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Q1) Explain the origins of one recent genocide in Sudan.
Q2) Persians are the largest ethnic group that adheres to Shiite Islam.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How is ethnicity different from nationality?
Q4) Western Asia is
A) larger than eastern Asia.
B) ethnically composed of Iraqis, Iranians, Pakistanis, and Afghans.
C) also known as the Middle East.
D) ethnically homogenous because it is more than 90% Muslim.
E) very ethnically diverse.
Q5) One-half of all Asian Americans live in what U.S.state?
Q6) This map displays the distribution of what ethnicity in the United States?
A) Hispanic
B) African American
C) Asian American
D) American Indian
E) European
Q7) How might the ethnic makeup of Iraq present challenges to political stability there?
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Chapter 8: Political Geography
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Q1) How can terrorism be difficult to distinguish from other acts of violence,such as war?
Q2) The process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power is called
A) gerrymandering.
B) stacking votes.
C) hanging chads.
D) redlining.
E) blockbusting.
Q3) Taiwan is a member of the United Nations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By 1914,most of Latin America
A) was under the colonial control of Spain and Portugal.
B) was part of the Protectorate of Mexico.
C) had formed independent states.
D) had converted to Protestantism.
E) was being colonized in the search for gold and other riches.
Q5) Why are many countries moving from unitary to federal forms of government?
Q6) Discuss the development of the modern concept of the state.
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Chapter 9: Development
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Q1) Created by the UN in 1980,this is an indicator of the level of development for each country.It combines income,literacy,education,and life expectancy.
A) Human Development Index (HDI)
B) Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
C) Gini Coefficient (GC)
D) Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
E) Development Level Indicator (DLI)
Q2) To promote development,poor countries typically follow one of two models.Briefly describe them.
Q3) The Gender Inequality Index in East Asia is comparable to that of developed regions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following regions has the world's highest per capita income?
A) North America
B) East Asia
C) The Middle East
D) Western Europe
E) Russia
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Chapter 10: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) What is the distinctive type of agriculture practiced in the dry lands of less developed countries?
Q2) How is plantation agriculture different from other forms of commercial agriculture?
Q3) Which of the following is not an important plantation crop?
A) tobacco
B) sugarcane
C) rice
D) coffee
E) rubber
Q4) Hunting and gathering is still practiced by some societies today.
A)True
B)False
Q5) There is consensus among scientists that hunters/gatherers converted to agriculture because of the domestication of animals roughly 12,000 years ago.
A)True
B)False
Q6) List the four strategies to address food shortages and identify a limitation of each.
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Chapter 11: Industry
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Q1) The textile and apparel industry accounts for about 6 percent of the dollar value of world manufacturing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Looking at Figure 11.4.4,which of the following countries had the highest steel production in 1980?
A) Argentina
B) Russia
C) China
D) United States
E) Brazil
Q3) This is Russia's second largest city,specializing in shipbuilding and other industries serving Russia's navy and ports in the Baltic Sea.
A) Moscow
B) St. Petersburg
C) Volgograd
D) Vladivostok
E) Kiev
Q4) What are site factors and why are they important?
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Chapter 12: Services and Settlements
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Q1) A central place is a market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Settlements in the United States can be classified by their type of basic activity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the global economy,developed countries specialize in two distinctive types of business services: offshore financial services and back-office functions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the U.S.,manufacturing centers are generally clustered mostly in the A) old northeastern manufacturing belt.
B) deep South.
C) the Midwest.
D) along the Mississippi River.
E) along the Mississippi Delta.
Q5) What is rank-size distribution of settlement and why is that important?
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Chapter 13: Urban Patterns
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Q1) What are some of the characteristics of suburban retail?
Q2) Approximately 70 percent of Americans live in urbanized areas,including about 30 percent in central cities and 40 percent in surrounding jurisdictions. A)True B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the limitations of the three models on the internal social structure of the city?
A) The models are too simple and fail to consider the variety of reasons that lead people to select particular residential locations.
B) The three models are all based entirely on conditions in the U.S.
C) Critics question their relevance to contemporary urban patterns in the United States and in other countries.
D) Models are simplifications, and we must remember that not everyone with the same characteristics will live in the same neighborhood.
E) The models all assume that over time, cities will evolve to accommodate critical changes in demography and adapt to the growing needs of the urban poor.
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Chapter 14: Resource Issues
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Q1) Americans recycle more solid waste than they throw away.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain why the disposal of hazardous waste is especially difficult.
Q3) A substance in the physical environment that has value to human beings is
A) energy.
B) a reserve.
C) a resource.
D) power.
E) a mineral.
Q4) Which of the following is a pollutant at the regional scale?
A) carbon dioxide
B) carbon monoxide
C) sulfur oxides
D) particulates
E) chlorofluorocarbons
Q5) Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere 1,000 years ago were higher than they are now.
A)True
B)False
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