Geographical Perspectives
Final Exam
Course Introduction
Geographical Perspectives explores the spatial relationships and interactions that shape our world, focusing on the physical and human processes that influence environments, cultures, and societies. The course examines key concepts such as place, location, scale, and region, and applies critical thinking to topics like globalization, urbanization, environmental change, and resource management. Through analyzing case studies and employing various geographical tools and methods, students gain an understanding of the dynamic connections between people and their environments and the ways in which geographical knowledge can inform decision-making in a rapidly changing world.
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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) Assuming that the joke you told at lunch today was something that you heard someone say at a party last weekend, what type of diffusion is operating:
A) relocation diffusion.
B) contagious diffusion.
C) hierarchical diffusion.
D) stimulus diffusion.
E) ordinary diffusion.
Answer: B
Q2) Geographers increasingly prefer to use GIS rather than a traditional map because:
A) GIS can link data, reveal spatial relationships and display them.
B) GIS does not require georeferenced data.
C) GIS does not require computer hardware and software.
D) maps generally show more cultural bias than does GIS.
E) maps tend to have more errors than GIS.
Answer: A
Q3) The borders of both formal and perceptual regions tend to be very precise.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Globalization and Cultural Geography
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Q1) The use of feng shui to locate new buildings such as those at Hong Kong Disneyland requires extensive scientific research.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Geographers study vernacular architecture to provide insights on human knowledge of and use of space.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following is true about local knowledge?
A) Local knowledge is now available in written and electronic forms.
B) Local knowledge was discovered soon after an area was settled, and changes little since then.
C) Local knowledge is generally quite unified and widely shared in a community.
D) Local knowledge is fundamentally derived from the everyday activities of residents.
E) European colonizers quickly recognized the value of local knowledge.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Population and Migration
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Q1) 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
Q2) A country with a high crude death rate is less developed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) A person who is described as participating in counterurbanization would:
A) move to the suburbs from the central city.
B) be an international migrant and also a rural out-migrant.
C) be looking for a place for retirement living.
D) include rural to urban migrants in Africa moving back to rural areas.
E) most likely be a female internally displaced person.
Answer: D
Q4) The warm subtropical climate of Florida is always a pull factor in migration.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Geographies of Language
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Q1) An isogloss is a line that marks a boundary of word usage.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the United States today, dialects of English have largely disappeared because of television and movies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many African countries along with India and Pakistan have linguistic diversity index scores of over .75. This means that:
A) there is a high likelihood that two randomly selected residents could not speak to each other.
B) more than 75% of the people speak the standard dialect.
C) creolization has occurred.
D) there are relatively few languages used in the country.
E) more than one language family is present in the country.
Q4) A dialect is a variety of a language with a distinctive vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Geographies of Religion
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Q1) Because religion is primarily about values and beliefs, it has little impact on the landscape.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Judaism is one of the world's oldest religions, and an example of an ethnic religion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Of the religions that developed in the Indic hearth, the oldest is probably:
A) Buddhism.
B) Sikhism.
C) Islam.
D) Hinduism.
E) Protestantism.
Q4) Based on number of believers, Hinduism is the world's largest ethnic religion.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam all developed in the same Semitic hearth area.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Geographies of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, and
Gender
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Q1) 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.
Q2) People who do not fit the heterosexual norm often have difficulty in public spaces because:
A) people are either male or female in their identity and biology.
B) public spaces are open to everyone, but heterosexual norms may dominate.
C) the gender gap is widening.
D) more women are active in the labor force in the United States.
E) gender roles have changed in many countries.
Q3) Institutional discrimination and segregation are generally based on racism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ethnic cleansing is the effort of a government to force the removal of an ethnic group from an area.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Political Geography
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Q1) In the United States, it is constitutional to deliberately create majority-minority electoral districts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most of the countries of the world are:
A) nation-states.
B) nation-states in name only since they have competing political parties.
C) multi-national states to some degree.
D) multi-national states because they exhibit nationalism.
E) still colonies since imperialism remains active.
Q3) Reapportionment and redistricting are the primary methods used to avoid gerrymandering in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The security landscape of modern society is illustrated with well-marked highways and easily read traffic signs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Urban Geographies
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Q1) The hinterland of a city is the trade area served by that central place.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Unlike North American cities, European cities are likely to:
A) be more friendly to pedestrians and bicycles
B) lack suburban development.
C) have more than one central business district.
D) have more slum development in central areas because they are older cities.
E) have more privately owned homes rather than apartments.
Q3) A city that exhibits a mixture of indigenous, colonial, and globalizing influences is known as a(n):
A) European city.
B) Islamic city.
C) colonial city.
D) edge city.
E) hybrid city.
Q4) One of the forces of urban centralization is the agglomeration of businesses.
A)True
B)False
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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) Purchasing power parity is used to study development because it reduces the effect of differences in currency values and the impact of changing exchange rates.
A)True
B)False
Q3) World-system theory, if applied to the modern world, would argue that:
A) virtually all of the world is part of the connected global system.
B) core states are declining in number.
C) peripheral regions are the areas that are still colonies.
D) semi-peripheral regions have very labor-intensive industries.
E) there has been very little change in the status of Africa and Latin America since 1970.
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Chapter 10: Changing Geographies of Industry and Services
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Q1) Postindustrial societies are characterized by high levels of urbanization and reliance on information and communication technologies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Outsourcing is the transfer of a business activity to a location in another country.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The local cost of labor and energy are considered site factors that affect the location of industries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One of the worst indicators of a knowledge-based economy is the amount spent on research and development (R&D).
A)True
B)False
Q5) Primary industries are industries that extract natural resources from the earth. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Agricultural Geographies
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Q1) The focus of mixed crop and livestock farming is animal production, increasingly with the use of feedlots.
A)True B)False
Q2) Plantation agriculture is the type of farming that produces most of the vegetables you eat.
A)True B)False
Q3) A farmer in the Mediterranean region is most likely to produce:
A) corn and wheat.
B) dairy products.
C) a mix of livestock, grains, and tree crops.
D) rice.
E) coffee and tea, along with berries.
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 12: Environmental Challenges
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Q1) Coal provides both the most abundant energy source and the cleanest fuel to use.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The air we breathe, national parks, and outer space are considered open access resources.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The greenhouse effect describes a natural process that uses solar radiation to warm the Earth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Biodiversity tends to be greatest in the ecosystems of the mid latitude regions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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.
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