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Course Introduction
Human-Environment Interaction explores the dynamic relationships between humans and their surrounding environments, focusing on how human activities both shape and are influenced by natural landscapes, ecosystems, and resources. The course examines patterns of resource use, environmental modification, cultural adaptations, and sustainability challenges across different geographic regions and historical periods. Through case studies and theoretical frameworks, students analyze issues such as climate change, urbanization, agriculture, and conservation, gaining insight into the reciprocal effects of environmental change on societies and vice versa. The course emphasizes critical thinking about future prospects for harmonious and sustainable co-existence between people and the planet.
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Discovering Physical Geography 3rd Edition by Alan F. Arbogast
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
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Q1) Humans are considered part of the
A) atmosphere.
B) lithosphere.
C) hydrosphere.
D) biosphere.
E) none of these.
Answer: D
Q2) How are physical geography and natural hazards related?
Answer: Hazards occur when extreme events result in danger to humans. As the global population grows,increasing numbers of people are moving into areas that are susceptible to extreme natural events such as hurricanes,tornadoes,flooding,earthquakes,and volcanoes.
Q3) This sphere provides the habitat and nutrients for many life-forms as rocks and minerals.
A) atmosphere
B) lithosphere
C) hydrosphere
D) biosphere
E) none of these
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Geographers Tools
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Q1) A latitude of 65º lies in which latitude zone?
A) Arctic latitudes
B) Subarctic latitudes
C) Midlatitudes
D) Subtropical latitudes
E) Equatorial/Tropical latitudes
Answer: B
Q2) The Subtropical latitudes are
A) 0º to 23.5º.
B) 23.5º to 35º.
C) 35º to 55º.
D) 55º to 66.5º.
E) 66.5º to 90º.
Answer: B
Q3) Longitude runs from 0º to 180º.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Earth-Sun Geometry and the Seasons
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Q1) Winter in the Northern Hemisphere occurs when
A) the Earth is near perihelion.
B) the Earth is near aphelion.
C) the Earth is near Vernal Equinox.
D) everywhere on Earth has 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night.
E) the Earth is the farthest from the Sun.
Answer: A
Q2) Winter in the Southern Hemisphere occurs when the Earth is farthest from the Sun.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Traveling east across the International Date Line will return you to the previous day.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Global Energy System
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Q1) Select all of the following that are examples of convection.
A) when you accidentally touch the bottom of a pot that you just boiled water in, the heat you feel from the pot
B) when you are heating water in a pot, water is heated on the bottom and then rises to the top to be replaced by cooler water
C) when you are sitting by a campfire, the heat you feel on your body
D) the heat you feel from the Sun on a hot summer day
E) circulating water through an engine to cool it down and prevent it from overheating
Q2) Radiation is electromagnetic energy that is transmitted in the form of waves.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Nitrogen is inert and of little importance in natural processes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Hotter objects emit shorter wavelength electromagnetic radiation than colder objects.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Global Temperature Patterns
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Q1) Describe the stratosphere,including elevation,composition,and lapse rate.
Q2) The climates of northeast Canada and northeastern Asia are under the influence of A) heavy moisture.
B) significant amounts of latent energy.
C) continentality.
D) maritime effects.
Q3) The mesopause is the layer of the atmosphere located between the mesosphere and the stratosphere.
A)True
B)False
Q4) .Which of the following does not describe water?
A) high specific heat
B) heats quickly
C) radiation penetrates deeply
D) energy transportation
E) high evaporation rate
Q5) The atmosphere on Earth is about 300 miles thick.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Atmospheric Pressure, wind, and Global
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Q1) If you are experiencing winds that are described as "westerlies," the winds are flowing from which direction?
A) north
B) east
C) south
D) west
E) clockwise
Q2) Atmospheric pressure systems in the Midlatitudes generally migrate from __[1]__ to __[2]__.
Answer 1 Choices: north south east west
Answer 2 Choices north south east west
Q3) What is the Coriolis force? What are its effects?
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Chapter 7: Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation
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Q1) What are the four ways for an air mass to rise to the point where precipitation can occur?
Q2) Uplift of air that occurs when large bodies of air meet in a central location.
A) convectional uplift
B) orographic uplift
C) frontal uplift
D) convergent uplift
E) cyclonic uplift
Q3) Cumulonimbus clouds are
A) thin, wispy clouds that develop high in the troposphere.
B) low clouds affiliated with long-term rain or snow events.
C) individual puffy clouds that develop due to convection.
D) low clouds that grow to great heights during short-term, severe storms.
E) layered sheets of clouds that have a thick and dark appearance.
Q4) Relative humidity refers to the maximum amount of water vapor that a definable body of air can hold at a given temperature.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How and when does radiation fog form?
Q6) Which type of uplift will never occur in the state of Florida?
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Chapter 8: Air Masses and Cyclonic Weather Systems
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Q1) Select all of the following statements that are characteristics of tornadoes.
A) The average duration of a tornado is about 15 minutes.
B) Tornadoes are classified on a scale from 0 to 6.
C) Tornadoes can be on the ground for hundreds of kilometers and last for several hours.
D) Tornadoes are measured on the Enhanced Fujita scale.
E) When the tornado becomes clogged with the air it takes in, the funnel strengthens.
Q2) The shockwave created by the incredible __________ of a lightning strike generates sound waves that are heard as thunder.
Q3) For a tornado watch to be changed to a tornado warning,either a tornado has been reported or the radar shows sufficiently hazardous conditions to indicate a tornado.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Just behind a cold front,the air gets warmer.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The cloud type BEST associated with lightning and thunder is the __________.
Q6) Hurricane Katrina reached a maximum of a Category __________ storm.
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Chapter 9: Global Climates and Global Climate Change
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Q1) Meteorological research is important to geography but has little importance to other scientific disciplines.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The climate extending through Canada and Siberia is
A) humid continental mild-summer.
B) subarctic.
C) humid continental hot-summer.
D) tundra.
E) ice cap.
Q3) The Atacama Desert is a hot low-latitude desert climate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The presence of the ITCZ means a tremendous amount of rainfall because of A) frontal uplift.
B) orographic uplift.
C) convectional uplift.
D) convergent uplift.
E) extremely stable air.
Q5) The most widely used climate classification system was developed by
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Chapter 10: Plant Geography
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Q1) The biome along the north coast of North America and Eurasia and coastal Greenland is
A) semi-arid and cold desert.
B) midlatitude grassland.
C) boreal forest.
D) tundra.
E) arctic and alpine ice.
Q2) The removal of trees for economic or agricultural purposes is
A) afforestation.
B) overgrazing.
C) cultural ecology.
D) deforestation.
E) desertification.
Q3) Microscopic plants that grow in the upper part of the ocean where sunlight penetrates are
A) phytoplankton.
B) xerophytes.
C) epiphytes.
D) detritus.
E) ecotones.
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Chapter 11: The Global Distribution and Character of Soils
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Q1) Which of the following are characteristics of mollisols?
A) form through calcification
B) contain mollic epipedons that overlie mineral matter that is more than half saturated with base ions
C) commonly associated with polar regions
D) the most fertile and productive soils
E) associated with grasslands
Q2) Select all of the following reasons that relief is important to soil.
A) Steeper slopes erode more slowly.
B) Erosion due to runoff is more likely in hilly terrain.
C) Soils are thicker on steep slopes.
D) Leaching is promoted in the flatter areas.
E) Material moves from flat areas to steeper areas.
Q3) Soil will develop faster in a cold,dry place than in a warm,wet one.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Vertisols form in clay-rich parent material and tend to behighly localized.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Residual soils form directly above their __________.
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Chapter 12: Earth S Internal Structure, rock Cycle, and Geologic Time
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Q1) Lava cools to form
A) metamorphic rock.
B) inorganic sedimentary rock.
C) clastic sedimentary rock.
D) intrusive igneous rock.
E) extrusive igneous rock.
Q2) The boundary between the crust and the mantle is the asthenosphere.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Magma that has moved vertically upward through a crack in the rock forms a(n)
A) laccolith.
B) batholith.
C) sill.
D) dike.
E) stock.
Q4) The outer core is the dominant cause of the Earth's magnetic field.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) A dark-colored,extrusive igneous rock with a mafic composition is __________.
Q6) An amorphous mass of consolidated mineral matter is a __________.
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Chapter 13: Tectonic Processes and Landforms
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Q1) Hawaii is an example of a hotspot.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A fault associated with divergence is a(n)
A) normal fault.
B) abnormal fault.
C) reverse fault.
D) backward fault.
E) scissor fault.
Q3) The scale used to measure earthquake magnitude is the __________ scale.
Q4) A small, steep-sided volcano that consists of solidified magma fragments and rock debris is a
A) shield cone.
B) composite cone.
C) cinder cone.
D) talus cone.
E) caldera.
Q5) Lake Victoria is at a transform boundary.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Weathering and Mass Movements
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Q1) Limestone is less resistant to physical weathering than shale.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Rotational movement is associated with A) slumps.
B) avalanches.
C) soil creep.
D) debris slide.
E) landslide.
Q3) The Clean Air Act of 1970 has made no difference in the amount of air pollutants released.
A)True
B)False
Q4) .Alternate freezing and thawing of water in rock cracks is the form of weathering called __________.
Q5) A type of mechanical weathering involves plant roots growing into rock cracks and prying the rock apart.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Mechanical weathering is also called __________ weathering.
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Chapter 15: Groundwater and Karst Landscapes
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Q1) During stage three of cave evolution,limestone below the water table dissolves,forming underground caverns.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Upward-pointing rods formed in caves and caverns are called A) open features.
B) water table dissolution.
C) stalactites.
D) stalagmites.
E) columns.
Q3) When the pore spaces between sediment become too small and do not allow water to pass through,the sediment is said to be A) permeable.
B) impermeable.
C) unsaturated.
D) saturated.
E) semipermeable.
Q4) With increasing precipitation,pore spaces fill with hygroscopic water. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Fluvial Systems and Landforms
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Q1) List and describe the four types of drainage patterns associated with fluvial systems.
Q2) What are the three ways sediment can be carried in a stream or river? What are the differences between each?
Q3) The topographic lowering of a stream channel by erosion is called aggradation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An artificial levee is an engineered structure along a river that raises the height of the riverbank and limits flood discharge.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ________ is a term that describes the joining of two streams together.
A) Drainage basin
B) Drainage divide
C) Interfluve
D) Confluence
E) Tributary
Q6) What are some of the impacts urbanization has had on flooding and stream flow? What type of flooding is most common in urban environments?
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Chapter 17: Glacial Geomorphology: Processes and Landforms
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Q1) The process in which large boulders are picked up from the landscape by moving glaciers is called
A) glacial trough.
B) glacial erratic.
C) glacial plucking.
D) glacial striation.
E) glacial tarns.
Q2) This is a streamlined landform created when a glacier deforms previously deposited till.
A) glacial till
B) glacial meltwater
C) glacial drift
D) moraine
E) drumlin
Q3) Glacial erratics are large boulders that have been plucked and transported great distances before being deposited.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the difference between alpine glaciers and continental glaciers?
Q5) Describe the process of converting snow to glacial ice.
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Chapter 18: Arid Landscapes and Eolian Processes
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Q1) What are the prominent features associated with horizontal rock structures in arid environments?
Q2) This type of dune is stabilized by vegetation and often starts as semicircular blowouts that elongate.
A) star
B) dome
C) parabolic
D) reversing
E) barchan
Q3) This desert in Asia is associated with the influence of being a great distance from a large body of water.
A) Sonoran
B) Namib
C) Kalahari
D) Taklimakan
E) Simpson
Q4) List the eight major classes of dunes and explain why each forms the way it does.
Q5) How did the Great Sand Dunes National Monument develop?
Q6) How can desertification be reversed?
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Chapter 19: Coastal Processes and Landforms
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Q1) The transport of sediment by longshore current is called A) swash.
B) backwash.
C) beach drift.
D) longshore drift.
E) littoral drift.
Q2) The nearshore zone that is permanently submerged is called the A) backshore.
B) beach ridge.
C) foreshore.
D) offshore.
E) offshore bar.
Q3) __________ is the combined movement of both longshore drift and beach drift.
A) Longshore current
B) Beach transport
C) Littoral drift
D) Combined flow
E) Swash
Q4) What are spits and baymouth bars? What process are they associated with,and why are they important?
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Chapter 20: Population Growth and Environmental Impacts
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Q1) About ___[Answer1]_[AnswerUnits1]______ people lived in Clark County Nevada (Las Vegas)in the year 1900 and about ___[Answer2]_[AnswerUnits2]________ people lived there in 2000.
Q2) Clearing native vegetation in arid and semi-arid areas typically raises the water table due to a lower interception rate of precipitation and lower transpiration by the missing plants.
A)True B)False
Q3) The first evidence of human agriculture (horticulture)began about __________ years ago.
Q4) The maximum number of people an area can support without degrading the natural,social,cultural,and economic environment is called A) environmental assets. B) sustainable valuing. C) economic competence. D) carrying capacity. E) biosphere control.
Q5) The San Joaquin Valley in California is known as the nation's ____________________.
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