Geographic Perspectives on Global Issues
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Course Introduction
Geographic Perspectives on Global Issues explores the spatial dimensions of contemporary challenges such as climate change, migration, urbanization, resource distribution, and global inequalities. The course examines how geographic knowledge and tools, including mapping, spatial analysis, and regional case studies, can help in understanding the interconnectedness of environmental, economic, political, and social processes shaping our world. Through critical discussion and real-world examples, students develop analytical skills to evaluate global issues from diverse geographic viewpoints and consider possible solutions for a more sustainable and equitable future.
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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) Car tires have higher transferability than Swiss watches.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The primary requirement for data to be used in Geographic Information Systems is associated to the following question:
A) where.
B) when.
C) why.
D) how.
E) what.
Answer: A
Q3) Absolute space is
A) socioeconomic space.
B) behavioural space.
C) mathematical space.
D) experiential/cultural space.
E) ordinary space.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Changing Global Context
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Q1) In the above map,the darkest shaded regions represent the world's
A) core.
B) periphery.
C) external arenas.
D) hearth areas.
E) wealthiest colonies.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following regions was the last to be colonized by the Europeans?
A) West Africa
B) South America
C) North America
D) Australia and New Zealand
E) Japan
Answer: D
Q3) Understanding commodity chains can help end users understand the conditions under which the things they consume were made.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Population Geography
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Q1) Historical evidence has proved Malthus correct.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) This source of information is used to assess population characteristics such as births,deaths,marriages,divorces,and the incidence of certain infectious diseases.
A) census
B) fertility
C) vital records
D) demography
E) life expectancy
Answer: C
Q3) The more similar the sizes of each cohort on a population's age-sex pyramid,the closer that population's rate of natural increase is to zero.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Population with a low RNI
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: People and Nature
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Q1) Long before the Columbian exchange,Italy was known for its tomatoes,Ireland for its potatoes,and Thailand for its peppers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Australia once had 20,000 square km of wetlands.Now they have none.
A)True
B)False
Q3) With global warming,the rising sea level could realistically flood over half of Bangladesh.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Prevailing views and concepts of nature have remained fairly constant since the Columbian Exchange.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The most important energy source for cooking and heating across Africa is A) fuelwood.
B) natural gas.
Q6) Briefly explain the three ways technology affects the environment.
Q7) Briefly describe the geographical subfield of cultural ecology.
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Chapter 5: Cultural Geographies
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Q1) Pork avoidance is a cultural trait of A) only Muslims. B) only Jews. C) only Hindus.
D) Muslims, Jews, and Hindus. E) Europeans.
Q2) According to actor-network theory (ANT),nonhuman and inanimate things,and not just humans,have A) agency. B) affect.
Q3) World music is an example of declining diversity and the homogenizing of world culture.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Based on the evidence to date,there is not yet a global culture. A)True B)False
Q5) Briefly explain the purpose of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
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Q6) Write an essay discussing a UNESCO world heritage site.
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Chapter 6: Interpreting Places and Landscapes
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Q1) clusters of corporate tower blocks
A)palace of consumption
B)derelict landscape
C)Symbolic Landscape
D)vernacular landscape
E)landscape of power
Q2) Global metropolitanism is valued by anthropologists for its role in the preservation of cultural diversity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Overwhelming ________ is one of the biggest dangers facing successful slow cities.
A) tourism
B) urban sprawl
Q4) ________ is based on the commercial exploitation of the histories of people and places.
A) The heritage industry
B) Place consumption
Q5) Define and describe the field of ethology.
Q6) 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) One of the huge benefits of just-in-time production is that the need for ________ is eliminated.
A) large inventories
B) labour
C) advertising
D) working overtime
E) understanding cultural differences
Q2) The process of cumulative causation
A) was developed by W.W. Rostow.
B) leads to growth in regions affected by the backwash effect.
C) involves a buildup of economic activity based on external economies and localization economies.
D) critiques the core-periphery concept as meaningless in today's economically interdependent world.
E) was developed by David Harvey.
Q3) As the demonstrated by Japan,the resource base of a country determines how well it can do in the world economy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) The global loss of topsoil each year is greater than the amount that is created each year.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Plantations,the Green Revolution,and the agricultural production of biofuels all promote
A) monoculture.
B) local foods.
C) intensive subsistence.
D) food security.
E) food self-sufficiency.
Q3) Subsistence agriculture is characterized by agriculturalists who
A) consume what they produce.
B) farm on swiddens.
C) practice transhumance.
D) reject globalization and monoculture.
E) live on their farms.
Q4) The Community Supported Agriculture movement began in Japan. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Political Geographies
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Q1) A cultural group with a territorial identity is known as a A) nation.
B) province.
C) state.
D) race.
E) class.
Q2) The North/South Divide is used in our text to distinguish
A) North African states from Sub-Saharan states.
B) anti-slavery from pro-slavery states.
C) former colonizers from formerly colonized states.
D) (former) communist from non-communist states.
E) countries above and below the equator.
Q3) Describe the important aspects of the heartland theory and explain to what extent it is still relevant today.
Q4) Most citizens of Canada are affected by three or more levels of government.
A)True
B)False
Q5) While providing some specific examples,present different types of boundaries and explain processes of boundary formation.
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Q6) What does it mean to say that "a nation is an imagined community"?
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Chapter 10: Urbanization
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Q1) The economic success of Hong Kong has encouraged the Chinese government
A) to allow for multiparty elections in Hong Kong in hopes of increasing the wealth.
B) to establish Special Economic Zones in nearby Shenzhen and Zhuhai.
C) to abandon economic sanctions with Taiwan.
D) to invest heavily in the Hong Kong economy at the expense of nearby regions.
E) to consider granting full autonomy for the city.
Q2) The capital of country #45 is
A) Guatemala City.
B) Manila.
C) Portabella.
D) Nutella.
E) New Della.
Q3) Which country has proportionally more people living in urban areas?
A) China
B) Canada
Q4) Though Hong Kong is now part of China,it is separate from the rest of the country by a border to control the movement of goods and people.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: City Spaces: Urban Structure
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Q1) There may be an association between congregation and discrimination.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe and critically evaluate the Modern movement in urban planning.What movements arose to supplant it,and in what ways are they different from the Modern movement and each other?
Q3) The International style drew primarily from the ________ tradition of urban design.
A) Modern
B) Beaux Arts
C) City Beautiful
D) Postmodern
E) Greek
Q4) The dualism of the informal and formal sectors of the economy can be found in world cities.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Residents of the suburbs pay lower bid-rents than people of the CBD.
A)True
B)False
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