Geographical Perspectives
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Geographical Perspectives is a comprehensive course that introduces students to the fundamental concepts, theories, and tools used in the study of geography. Through the exploration of both physical and human geography, the course examines the interactions between people, environments, and places across different scales. Students engage with topics such as climate, landforms, population distribution, cultural landscapes, urbanization, globalization, and environmental challenges. By applying spatial thinking and geographic inquiry, learners develop an informed understanding of how geographical factors shape contemporary issues and influence global interconnections.
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Introduction to Contemporary Geography 1st Edition by James M. Rubenstein
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Chapter 1: Thinking Geographically
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Q1) Another name for a functional region is a nodal region.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) London, UK is on the Prime Meridian. Using the 90 degrees West longitude for Chicago, what is the time in London if Chicago's time is 8 AM?
A) 3 AM
B) 2 PM
C) Noon
D) Midnight
E) 5 PM
Answer: B
Q3) Azimuthal projections are well-suited for smaller areas and are used for most of the city maps.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
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Q1) What is radiation and what role does it play in the transfer of energy in the atmosphere?
Answer: Radiation is the most important process of heat transfer, which is a type of energy exchange in the environment. As energy from the Sun passes through the atmosphere, some wavelengths are absorbed, warming the atmosphere, while others pass through or are reflected, either to be absorbed elsewhere or to travel back into space. Clouds play a major role in reflecting energy back to space and in this way atmospheric moisture and weather processes can significantly affect the energy budget.
Different materials absorb heat at different levels. When this stored heat is released, an object cools. The ability of an object to store heat depends on what it is made of. These are referred to as greenhouse gases.
About half of the solar radiation that reaches Earth is absorbed by the surface and the rest is either absorbed in the atmosphere or reflected back to space. The gases in the atmosphere allow much of the incoming shortwave energy to pass through, but a few gases-called greenhouse gases-absorb outgoing longwave radiation. All of the energy absorbed from the Sun-whether it reached the surface or was absorbed or reflected in the atmosphere-is eventually re-radiated back to space.
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Chapter 3: Landforms
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Q1) Despite their rigidity rocks bend and fold but when stressed far enough, they fracture along cracks called:
A) fractures
B) faults
C) plate boundaries
D) epicenter
E) center of stress
Answer: B
Q2) In an earthquake, the point on the surface directly above the focus is the epicenter.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The most recent glacial advance reached its maximum around ________ ago.
A) 800,000 years ago
B) 400,000 years
C) 100,000 years
D) 50,000 years
E) 20,000 years
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Biosphere
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Q1) What major factors do we attribute soil properties to? Explain each factor.
Q2) Excess water evaporated into the atmosphere over the oceans is carried by wind over land areas, where it condenses into clouds and falls as precipitation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true of the Mississippi delta?
A) It is a vast area of over 50,000 km2, largely consisting of wetlands near sea level
B) It is vast area of over 100,000 km2, largely consisting of gorges and canyons
C) It is a small area of about 2,000 km2 consisting largely of wetlands
D) It is ever changing based on the temperature of the river's water and the number of fish species
E) None of answer choices are correct.
Q4) Through evolution, plants that have adapted their life forms, physiological characteristics, and reproductive mechanisms that allow them to succeed in particular environments have survived.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How different is the food chain from the food web?
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Chapter 5: Population
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Q1) A ________ is a bar graph that displays a country's population by age and gender.
A) population pyramid
B) population graph
C) demographic transition
D) demographic graph
E) population ratio
Q2) Whereas Chile is in stage 2 of the demographic transition, Cape Verde and Denmark are both in the third stage.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The infant mortality rate (IMR) is the annual number of ________.
A) deaths of infants under 5 years of age, compared with total live births
B) deaths of infants under 1 year of age, compared with total live births.
C) serious illnesses of infants under 1 year of age, compared with total live births.
D) serious illnesses of infants under 5 years of age, compared with total live births.
E) children under the age of 5 who die from teenage births
Q4) What is population density and what are the different ways it can be measured?
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Chapter 6: Migration
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Q1) It is estimated that about five percent of the civilian workforce, or ________, are undocumented immigrants employed in the United States
A) 10 million
B) 8 million
C) 5 million
D) 3 million
E) 2 million
Q2) How is interregional migration different from intraregional migration?
Q3) The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that there were ________ unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in 2010.
A) 22 million
B) 15.7 million
C) 11.2 million
D) 7.8 million
E) 3.8 million
Q4) Brain drain is the loss of highly skilled professionals from rich countries to poor countries.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Languages and Religion
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Q1) English is an official language in ________, more than any other language, and is the predominant language in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
A) 21 countries
B) 36 countries
C) 54 countries
D) 76 countries
E) 88 countries
Q2) The founder of Buddhism is ________ who was born about 563 B.C. in Lumbin, in present-day Nepal.
A) Sidhartha Gautama
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Ahmed Ghulam
D) Muhammad ibn Abdallah
E) Guru Namak
Q3) Switzerland has four official languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are ethnic religions and discuss some of them.
Q5) What is Islam and what are the main branches of Islam?
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Chapter 8: Political Geography
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Q1) Armenian is a nationality but not an ethnicity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What international treaties govern Antarctica and Outer Space?
Q3) Looking at Figure 8.5.1, China is depicted as having an anocratic government.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Historically, frontiers rather than boundaries separated many states.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The U.S. government's use of the term nationality identifies citizens of the United States of America who were born in the country but excludes those who immigrated and later became citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea defines the High Seas as those parts of the oceans or seas including territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zones.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Development
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Q1) According to the UN, a country where only a few people have high incomes, college degrees, and good health care would have a lower IHDI than a country where differences in income, level of education, and access to health care are minimal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) To measure the level of development of every country, the UN created the Poverty Incline Index (PII).
A)True
B)False
Q3) How is access to knowledge or education important to development?
Q4) On average, developed countries spend about $________ annually per capita on health care.
A) 25,000
B) 18,000
C) 14,000
D) 8,000
E) 4,000
Q5) What are the ways in which national incomes are measured?
Q6) Discuss the role of access to health care in development.
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Chapter 10: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) Which of the following countries produce the most wine?
A) Canada
B) Australia
C) Mexico
D) Denmark
E) India
Q2) It is believed that the first domestication of crops and animals coincided with ________.
A) climate change
B) scarcity of deer
C) overpopulation
D) deforestation
E) outbreak of disease
Q3) Looking at Figure 10.2.8, which of the following countries get the highest percentage of their protein from meat?
A) South Africa
B) India
C) Russia
D) China
E) Egypt
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Chapter 11: Industry
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Q1) In the early years of the Industrial Revolution, multistory factories were constructed in the countryside because of the availability of cheap land.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following countries is not one of the top global producers of cotton yarn?
A) China
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) Mexico
E) Argentina
Q3) Textiles are assembled into four main types of products. Which of the following is not one of the four major uses?
A) garments
B) home products
C) carpets
D) industrial uses
E) construction materials
Q4) What is a break-of-bulk point?
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Chapter 12: Services and Settlements
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Q1) Headquarters of large corporations are clustered in world cities, and shares of these corporations are bought and sold on the stock exchanges located in world cities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Geographers use ________ to represent market areas because of their geometric properties, compared with those of circles and squares.
A) octagons
B) hexagons
C) pentagons
D) triangles
E) heptagons
Q3) Permanent settlements existed prior to the beginning of recorded history around ________ years ago.
A) 10,000
B) 1,000
C) 200,000
D) 24,000
E) 5,000
Q4) Discuss the phenomenon of global urbanization.
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Chapter 13: Urban Patterns
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Q1) Gentrification is the process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the chief reasons why people are attracted to the suburbs?
A) A detached single-family dwelling rather than a row house or apartment
B) A yard surrounding the house for children to play
C) Space to park several cars at no cost
D) Protection from inner-city crime and congestion
E) Access to well-constructed houses with unique architectural designs like fireplaces and wood trim
Q3) Approximately ________ percent of Americans live in urbanized areas.
A) 90
B) 70
C) 50
D) 40
E) 30
Q4) Briefly describe the characteristics of the concentric zone model.
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Chapter 14: Resources
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Q1) In the United States, wetlands, formerly called swamps, used to be seen in negative terms as places with no positive values.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Canada is the world's chief producer of rare earth minerals, which are used for a wide variety of purposes including chemical processes and electronics applications.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Globally, the world's ratio of reserves to annual production for oil, gas, and coal are currently:
A) 51, 57, and 125 years respectively
B) 11, 17, and 75 years respectively
C) 125, 154, and 51 years respectively
D) 51, 125, and 57 years respectively
E) 125, 51, and 57 years respectively
Q4) What factors define a society's natural resources?
Q5) Briefly discuss trends in natural gas and coal usage around the world.
Q6) Briefly discuss the problem of wastewater.
Q7) What are the main components of urban air pollution?
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