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Course Introduction
Introduction to Geography provides students with a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts, themes, and tools used to study the physical and human aspects of the Earth. The course explores topics such as landforms, climate, ecosystems, population, culture, urban development, and global interdependence. Emphasis is placed on spatial analysis, the use of maps and geographic information systems (GIS), and the relationships between people and their environments. By examining both physical and human geography, students gain a foundational understanding of how natural processes and human activities shape the world around us.
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Contemporary Human Geography 3rd Edition by James M. Rubenstein
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Chapter 1: This Is Geography
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Q1) Scholars of the Ancient World
A) had a remarkable knowledge of planetary dimensions.
B) were all convinced that Earth was flat.
C) all lived along the eastern Mediterranean.
D) made maps, but not as accurate as those made in the years 100-500 A.D.
E) practiced philosophy but were not concerned with geography as we know it today.
Answer: A
Q2) ________ helps us find an unfamiliar ________ by comparing its location with a familiar one.
A) Place, situation
B) Situation, place
C) Maps, situation
D) Situation, location
E) Geographers, location
Answer: B
Q3) The frequency of a phenomenon over a given study area is defined as ________. Answer: density
Q4) The extent of a feature's spread over space is defined as ________. Answer: concentration
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Chapter 2: Population and Health
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Q1) Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition is characterized by a high ________ rate.
A) natural increase
B) death
C) life
D) natural decrease
E) longevity
Answer: A
Q2) The ________ is the number of people who are too young or too old to work,compared to the number of people in their productive years.
A) fertility rate
B) poverty level
C) infant mortality rate
D) population pyramid
E) dependency ratio
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Migration
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Q1) Counterurbanization is
A) the move from urban core to suburban areas.
B) due to expanding suburbs.
C) migration to rural areas and small towns.
D) the trend of the elderly retiring to rural locations.
E) decline of the inner-city infrastructure.
Answer: C
Q2) The Brazilian government encouraged interregional migration by
A) making Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo more attractive.
B) dictating optimal locations for factories.
C) clearing the rain forest for agricultural activities in the interior.
D) moving the capital to Brasilia.
E) industrial development on the Atlantic coast.
Answer: D
Q3) Describe the general relationship between population growth and migration.
Answer: Source regions for migrants are generally experiencing population growth and therefore economic hardship.Destination regions are generally later in the demographic transition and have lower population growth.
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Chapter 4: Folk and Popular Culture
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Q1) Lacrosse was adopted by European immigrants
A) who didn't have smooth playing fields to roll balls along.
B) from Iroquois players.
C) working in factories.
D) attending college in the American Northeast.
E) who wanted to invent a new sport.
Q2) Which is <u>not</u> true about social media?
A) Social media have started to play a role in breaking the monopoly of government control over the diffusion of information.
B) Social media are even more difficult for governments to block or sensor as compared to TV or Internet.
C) Social media are saturated globally and not significantly growing.
D) In terms of the percentage of global social media users, the United States is on the decline, but still dominates the most popular twitter positions.
E) According to map 4.8.4, China prefers QZone.
Q3) Why do promoters of popular customs,such as fast-food restaurants,seek to create a uniform landscape appearance?
Q4) Why do leaders of some developing countries fear the loss of folk culture?
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Chapter 5: Languages
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Q1) The origin of English words is dominated by
A) Germanic languages.
B) Romance languages.
C) Greek.
D) Celtic influence.
E) Viking influence.
Q2) Québec has acted to protect the French language by
A) outlawing other languages in public.
B) electing English-speaking leaders.
C) accepting only French-speaking immigrants.
D) having one of the strongest economies in Canada.
E) requiring its use on signs.
Q3) English is part of which language branch?
A) Germanic
B) North Germanic
C) West Germanic
D) Indo-European
E) Austronesian
Q4) Name the world's second largest language family (used by over one-fifth of the world's population).
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Chapter 6: Religions
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Q1) Which Christian denomination is known for an ornate,Byzantine style of church?
A) Jehovah's Witness
B) Protestant
C) Catholic
D) Eastern Orthodox
E) Latter Day Saints
Q2) How has religion been a source of territorial conflict among people?
Q3) Confucianism and Taoism share a cosmogony that
A) the universe is made up of two forces, yin and yang.
B) the universe is made up of one dominant force.
C) God created the universe and people can serve God my making good use the created materials.
D) the creation and destruction of the universe is cyclic.
E) the universe has four aspects: light, darkness, life, and energy.
Q4) Countries that have 80 % or above Christian population are
A) Canada, Brazil, Argentina.
B) Mexico, Chile, Italy.
C) Morocco, Spain, Germany.
D) Columbia, Nigeria, United States.
E) No countries have 80% or above Christian population.
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Chapter 7: Ethnicities
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Q1) African American and Hispanic ethnicities are
A) racially similar.
B) not measured by the U.S. Census.
C) similarly distributed across the United States.
D) never found near one another.
E) both spatially concentrated in neighborhoods within large American cities.
Q2) The Brown v.Board of Education court decision ruled
A) separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.
B) "white flight" was illegal but there was no way to prove a move was motivated by racism.
C) discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants were unconstitutional.
D) separate facilities for blacks and whites were acceptable so long as they were of the same quality.
E) B and D.
Q3) One-half of all Asian Americans live in what U.S.state?
Q4) Describe the key differences between "separate but equal" in the United States and apartheid in South Africa.
Q5) Describe the migration patterns that have shaped the African-American ethnic identity.
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Chapter 8: Political Geography
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Q1) The most populous countries <u>not</u> members of the UN are
A) Taiwan and Kosovo.
B) North and South Korea.
C) Switzerland and Monaco.
D) Monaco and Vatican City.
E) Western Sahara and Morocco.
Q2) The attempt by one country to impose political control over another territory is
A) colonialism.
B) constitutionality.
C) self-determination.
D) sovereignty.
E) suffrage.
Q3) A state with control over its internal affairs has A) centripetal forces.
B) nationality.
C) suffrage.
D) sovereignty.
E) ethnicity.
Q4) Define gerrymandering and explain how it relates to the geographic concept of place.
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Q1) Which of the following regions has the world's highest per capita income?
A) North America
B) East Asia
C) The Middle East
D) Western Europe
E) Russia
Q2) It is important to carefully consider what kind of statistics to use when researching and presenting information.For example,one could claim that great progress has been made in the GNI per capita since 1980 for developing regions by stating that the percent increase is much higher as compared to that of developed countries in the same period.Describe three different statistical ways to present this data (Figure 9.10.3 in the text) and what method you would choose for a research paper.
Q3) Maternal mortality ratio is the number of women who die giving birth per ________ births
A) 1000
B) 10,000
C) 100,000
D) 1,000,000
E) None of the answer choices is correct.
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Chapter 10: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) Which statement correctly describes hunting and gathering?
A) All humans obtained their food this way before the invention of agriculture.
B) It is a form of nomadism.
C) This form of subsistence is still practiced.
D) Hunter gatherers live in small groups.
E) All of these are true.
Q2) An important agricultural hearth is
A) southeast Asia.
B) south and central America.
C) sub-Saharan Africa.
D) northern China.
E) All of these are important agricultural hearths.
Q3) Food consumption varies around the world because of variations in A) level of economic development.
B) physical conditions.
C) cultural preferences.
D) All of these are responsible for variation in food consumption.
Q4) Prior to the invention of agriculture,how did most people obtain their food?
Q5) List the four strategies to address food shortages and identify a limitation of each.
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Q1) Which of the following countries is <u>not</u> one of the top global producers of cotton yarn?
A) China
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) Mexico
E) Argentina
Q2) Europe's largest port in terms of cargo volume is
A) London.
B) Athens.
C) Rotterdam.
D) Hamburg.
E) Antwerp.
Q3) How has the production of cars changed in the last 50 years?
Q4) Should the weakness or strength of unions be determined by industry forces rather than government policies that may encourage either weaker or strong unions? For example,if vast amounts of workers have the impression that they are working in unsafe conditions,shouldn't a strong union be an option to address this?
Q5) Which countries are considered the "BRIC" countries?
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Chapter 12: Services and Settlements
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Q1) World cities are most closely integrated into the global economic system because they
A) are at the center of the flow of information and capital.
B) control the flow of labor and technology.
C) contribute money to local, regional and national candidates for elective officers.
D) are at the heart of the supply chain and make sure goods move freely.
E) are integral to the functioning of democracy.
Q2) The two components of central place theory are
A) range and rank-size rule.
B) rank-size rule and threshold.
C) threshold and market share.
D) market share and range.
E) range and threshold.
Q3) The only Alpha ++ global city in the Americas is
A) Los Angeles.
B) Sao Paulo.
C) Mexico City.
D) New York.
E) Chicago.
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Chapter 13: Urban Patterns
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Q1) Which of the following is the main reason why consumers,businesses,and public services are attracted to the CBD?
A) accessibility
B) congestion
C) cheap rent
D) security and safety
E) variety
Q2) As in the United States,wealthier people in European cities cluster
A) along a sector extending out from the CBD.
B) along major highways.
C) in and around the inner city's historic buildings.
D) in bunches around stadiums and opera houses.
E) along industrial parks and waterways.
Q3) What are some of the characteristics of suburban retail?
Q4) The text discusses limitations of the various urban structure models to explain where different types of people live in a city and suggests combining the models is a better approach.For the use of models in general,teachers often emphasize to students that some models are useful and all models are wrong.Describe what factors would make a combined model produce less than perfect predictions (be wrong to some extent).
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Chapter 14: Resource Issues
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Q1) A condition in which sunlight causes hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides to react in the atmosphere produces
A) acid deposition.
B) chlorofluorocarbon.
C) greenhouse effect.
D) photochemical smog.
E) ammonia.
Q2) Concerns over visual blight are most commonly raised for ________ power.
A) hydroelectric
B) nuclear
C) solar
D) wind
Q3) Before the Industrial Revolution,the most important source of fuel was A) biomass.
B) coal.
C) natural gas.
D) petroleum.
E) alcohol.
Q4) Identify and describe the three principal sources of water pollution.
Q5) What is the difference between a proven reserve and a potential reserve?
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