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Environmental Studies Test Preparation
Environmental Studies examines the complex interactions between humans and the natural environment, integrating scientific, social, cultural, and policy perspectives to address contemporary environmental issues. This course covers foundational topics such as ecology, biodiversity, climate change, natural resource management, and environmental ethics. Students will explore the causes and consequences of environmental problems, investigate sustainable solutions, and develop critical thinking skills to make informed decisions regarding environmental stewardship. Through interdisciplinary approaches, case studies, and practical applications, the course prepares students to engage with pressing environmental challenges at local, national, and global levels.
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Human Geography Places and Regions in Global Context Updated 5th Canadian Edition by Paul
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Chapter 1: Geography Matters
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Q1) Friction of distance
A) is usually negligible over distances of less than 15 kilometres.
B) is dependent in part upon an individual's cognitive distance.
C) is now considered an outdated concept with little current utility.
D) is another term for the distance-decay function.
E) is when a car experiences friction from the road it is travelling on.
Answer: B
Q2) Geographers warn that GIS can be used to help create a surveillance society in which people are judged by A) where they live.
B) lifestyle and beliefs.
Answer: A
Q3) The first law of geography is that "Everything is related to everything else,but near things are more related than are distant things."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Which line indicates the Tropic of Cancer?
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Changing Global Context
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Q1) The Silk Road provided the main east-west trade route between
A) Europe and India.
B) Europe and China.
Answer: B
Q2) According to the UNDP,the poorest 20 percent of the world's population accounted for what percent of world income?
A) 0.5 percent
B) 1 percent
C) 2.5 percent
D) 3 percent
E) 4.5 percent
Answer: B
Q3) Agricultural hearths
A)Britain, France, Germany
B)Fertile Crescent, South Asian Floodplains, Tehuacan Valley
C)Subsaharan Africa, Central America, Southeast Asia
D)Europe, Japan, North America
E)Egypt, China, Byzantium
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Population Geography
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Q1) Population with a low RNI
Answer: B
Q2) Approximately 60 percent of the massive inflow of immigrants from the British Isles to Canada between 1815 and 1865 were from A) southern England.
B) Ireland.
C) England and Scotland.
D) Scotland.
E) England and Wales.
Answer: B
Q3) Since 1851,a full census of the entire Canadian population has occurred every A) year.
B) two years.
C) five years.
D) ten years.
E) twenty years.
Answer: D
Q4) Elderly population
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: People and Nature
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Q1) This country is the biggest producer of wind energy worldwide.
A) India
B) Iceland
C) the United States
D) China
E) Germany
Q2) Peak Oil refers to
A) when half of the world's known oil reserves have been extracted.
B) energy efficient fuel made from biomass.
C) the Petroleum Exporting Association of Krasnoyarsk - a Russian challenger to OPEC.
D) a clean oil alternative developed by Estonian Paavo Peak and produced from forest waste products.
E) oil prices peaking worldwide.
Q3) Nuclear energy as a source of energy
A) is more common in the periphery than in the core.
B) was more popular in core countries in the 1960s than now.
C) produces no significant waste by-products.
D) was banned by the French government in the mid-1990s.
E) is a leading cause of air pollution.
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Chapter 5: Cultural Geographies
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Q1) Hip-hop is a good example of folk culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Saudi Arabia shares a border with which of the following countries?
A) Iran
B) Iraq
C) Mongolia
D) Pakistan
E) Sri Lanka
Q3) Rites of passage are limited to the world's peripheral places and traditional peoples.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Hinduism
A)evolved from Hinduism
B)lowlands in the subcontinent of India
C)first monotheistic religion
D)means "submission"
E)has the greatest number of converts in the core countries
F)based on a saviour who lived, died, and was resurrected
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Chapter 6: Interpreting Places and Landscapes
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Q1) Semiotics brings together a sign "reader" and a sign "writer."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Landscapes and place-making in which economic and scientific reason and progress are emphasized,are characteristics of
A) modernity.
B) postmodernity.
C) enlightenment.
D) fast cities.
E) cosmopolitanism.
Q3) your annoyance when somebody sits in the seat you have been using all semester,even though there are no "assigned" seats.
A)topophilia
B)proxemics
C)ethology
D)semiotics
Q4) Discuss and evaluate how globalization has reinforced and extended the commonalities of places.
Q5) What does it mean to say that places are socially constructed?
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Chapter 7: Geographies of Economic Development
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Q1) economically diversified
A)Core countries
B)Peripheral countries
Q2) Creative destruction refers to the withdrawal of ________ from declining areas and activities for use in new areas and activities.
A) capital
B) building materials
C) culture
D) political ideas
E) creativity
Q3) Creative destruction is motivated by a desire for higher profits.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Technology systems
A) contain interrelated transportation, production, and energy technologies.
B) tend to last for several decades.
C) are eventually replaced by more sophisticated systems.
D) shift the balance of advantages between regions.
E) all of the above
Q5) Identify and describe the purpose of offshore financial centres.
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Chapter 8: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) In contrast to conventional agro-food systems,alternative food networks
A) operate under the logic of sustainable development.
B) have cheap food as the primary goal.
C) attempt to remove the uncertainties and risks of nature from food production.
D) emphasize monoculture.
E) encourage the use of the latest a chemical fertilizers and genetically modified seeds.
Q2) People that espouse the "fundamental right to pleasure and responsibility to protect the heritage of food,tradition and culture that make this pleasure possible" are more likely
A) members of the slow food movement.
B) proponents of the Borlaug hypothesis.
Q3) Some have criticized the Green Revolution for increasing social inequalities in targeted countries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Green Revolution is so named because it is environmentally sustainable.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Write an essay weighing the pros and cons of biopharming.
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Chapter 9: Political Geographies
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Q1) Antarctica
A) is owned by the United Nations.
B) has a small but thriving native population.
C) is the coldest place in the Northern Hemisphere.
D) has most of its territory segmented into claims by various states.
E) holds little potential for any development.
Q2) This continent is a particularly eloquent illustration of ill-designed boundaries following decolonization.
A) Africa
B) East Asia
C) South America
D) Oceania
E) Antarctica
Q3) The idea of the nation-state as a sovereign body controlling space dates from medieval times.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What does it mean to say that "a nation is an imagined community"?
Q5) What are the aspects and issues associated with the "new world order"?
Q6) Why was the International Criminal Court (ICC)formed and what is its role?
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Chapter 10: Urbanization
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Q1) European planning and construction of cities in the colonies was based on
A) European concepts and practices.
B) local environments and climate.
C) local cultures and preferences.
D) capitalist democratic principles.
E) building up local political and economic capacities.
Q2) Squatter settlements refer to residential housing
A) serving as transitional housing for recent immigrants to the city.
B) that takes place beyond the city limits.
C) on land neither owned or rented by its occupants.
D) in massive, multi-story, government-supported apartment blocks.
E) that emerges with reurbanization.
Q3) By 1400,long-distance trading in Europe
A) dealt primarily with luxury goods.
B) dealt primarily with energy resources.
C) was dominated by Paris.
D) centered on port cities.
E) was minimal compared to trade with China and Spanish colonies.
Q4) Present and briefly explain the various important functions of world cities.Outline the historical evolution of this set of cities.
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Chapter 11: City Spaces: Urban Structure
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Q1) Discuss the historical evolution of planned urban design in the West from the Beaux Arts movement through the International movement,giving the details of and influences on each movement.
Q2) Generally,as the accessibility of a location increases,its utility decreases.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In an idealized city,the center is the point of maximum utility where bid-rents are highest.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The territorial and residential clustering of specific groups of people is known as A) concentration. B) segregation. C) congregation.
D) community.
E) neighbourhood.
Q5) Describe the concept of dualism within peripheral metropolises.
Q6) What is typically found in the central business district and zone in transition of a large city?
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