Introduction to Human Geography
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Course Introduction
Introduction to Human Geography explores the spatial aspects of human existence, examining how people interact with, perceive, and alter their environments. The course covers major themes such as population distribution, cultural landscapes, urban development, economic activities, and globalization. Students will gain an understanding of how cultural, political, and economic processes influence the worlds diverse regions and learn to analyze patterns and relationships between humans and their surroundings using geographic tools and concepts.
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Human Geography 1st Edition by Jon Malinowski
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Chapter 1: Major Geographic Concepts
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Q1) An individual's activity space around their home can logically be seen as
A)a formal (or uniform) region.
B)a functional region.
C)a perceptual or vernacular region.
D)a nebular region.
Answer: B
Q2) Formal (or uniform) regions are areas which have
A)one or more characteristics in common through the area.
B)characteristics based on the central function of the entire area.
C)movement and fluctuate in size and shape.
D)linear proportions usually along coastlines of some type.
Answer: A
Q3) A site is the immediate environment of a place while situation deals with A)the general surroundings of a place.
B)the rock beneath the place.
C)cultural diffusion.
D)Euclidean space.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Geography Through the Ages
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Q1) Muslim and Chinese thinkers tried to understand geographic and physical processes like
A)How one can navigate using wind patterns.
B)How atmospheric pressure leads to changes in weather.
C)How migration is the result of push and pull factors.
D)How mountains erode and the effects of water on landscape.
Answer: D
Q2) Cultural geography today often focuses on theories while in the late 1800s and early 1900s
A)post-modernism was popular.
B)post-structuralism was popular.
C)local absolutism was dominant.
D)exploration and environmental determinism were often seen.
Answer: D
Q3) Many of the studies of Carl O.Sauer, at UC Berkeley
A)Emphasized travel and observation.
B)Stressed changes in processes and landscape over time.
C)was based in teleology, the idea that God is the center of all knowledge.
D)focused on the diffusion of ideas.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Population
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Q1) World population did not begin to rise rapidly until
A)The year 0 by the Christian calendar.
B)About the year 1,000, or the middle ages.
C)a logarithmic rise about 1970.
D)the beginning of the new millennium in 2000.
Answer: C
Q2) China's population
A)is about the same in size and characteristics to Japan's.
B)is found on the main island in isolated lowlands around the mountainous interior.
C)is in an area fed by the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, thus is very agricultural.
D)is growing the slowest of any country in the world.
Answer: C
Q3) In the demographic transition the greatest growth is found in
A)Stage 1.
B)Stage 2.
C)Stage 3.
D)Stage 4.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Geography of Health and Disease
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Q1) The belief that a man can be cured of HIV by having sex with a virgin woman is an example of which factor in the triangle of human ecology?
A)population.
B)habitat.
C)urbanity.
D)behavior.
Q2) The practice of polygyny in parts of Africa is important because
A)many animals might be affected by the polygyny worm.
B)its association with Love Canal's syndrome is undeniable.
C)HIV/AIDS can be transmitted to women and then to many children.
D)cattle can be readily infected, and so can milk and dairy products.
Q3) Population can affect disease in the sense that
A)older European populations get diseases not often found in Africa.
B)people living in swampy mosquito areas may be prone to particular sicknesses.
C)one riding in a car to work may be healthier than the person walking in open air.
D)if you crash while riding your motorcycle your wounds will likely get infected.
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Chapter 5: Migration Flows
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Q1) When people of Irish ancestry first came to the United States
A)they found the best jobs, because they were among the earliest groups.
B)they were often treated poorly because they were minority Catholics among Protestants.
C)they tended to move westward faster than other groups.
D)they were always model citizens as they recognized the sacrifices that come with migration.
Q2) Regarding having children and the possibility of migration
A)having children often keeps people fixed in one place.
B)young children tend to move around while parents stay fixed in place.
C)families are more likely to move to new jobs just before or after a child is born.
D)youngish families rarely move.
Q3) Regarding migration decisions, behavioral geographers might say that
A)your behavior in migration choice depends mainly upon economics.
B)people mainly move to find new jobs.
C)people's perceptions and values may be the most important reasons for migration.
D)all of the above would be considered by a behavioral geographer.
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Chapter 6: Culture and Cultural Landscapes
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Q1) The fact that many people in the United States drink Coca-Cola, watch professional basketball, use the Internet, and drive automobiles is representative of A)cultural diffusion.
B)cultural assimilation.
C)cultural reasoning.
D)cultural convergence.
Q2) The origins of groups of culture complexes are called A)culture hearths.
B)epicenters.
C)the earth's core.
D)none of the above.
Q3) A culture's ideological subsystem contains culture and value elements called A)mentifacts.
B)geofacts.
C)artifacts.
D)none of the above.
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Chapter 7: The Geography of Language
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Q1) Gullah, spoken on the coastal islands of South Carolina and Georgia
A)is an Indo-European language based on Slovak.
B)is a Native American language of the Amerind family.
C)is of the Niger-Congo family of African descent.
D)is basically a pidgin English with many African loan words.
Q2) Yonkers, Peekskill, Catskill, the Bronx, and Staten Island are all place names in New York
A)with Basque origins.
B)with English origins.
C)with Swedish origins.
D)with Dutch origins.
Q3) The widest spoken lingua franca in the world is
A)Russian.
B)English.
C)Chinese.
D)Swahili.
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Chapter 8: The Geography of Religion
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Q1) Shintoism is the animistic religion that is found mainly in
A)Northern China.
B)Japan.
C)North Korea.
D)Taiwan (the Republic of China).
Q2) The Theravada tradition of Buddhism
A)spread eastward and southward from its core in the Ganges basin in India.
B)spread westward toward the original Hindu core in Anatolia (Turkey).
C)spread northward into China and Mongolia.
D)spread southwestward through islands and to Madagascar.
Q3) Most religions follow some kind of sacred writing-or scripture.The Hindu sacred stories are called
A)the Old Testament.
B)the Book of Mormon.
C)the Torah.
D)the Vedas.
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Chapter 9: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
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Q1) Urban ethnic segregation
A)can be voluntary or forced.
B)is rarely voluntary.
C)is always voluntary.
D)is always forced and unfortunate.
Q2) Children of immigrants to a new country
A)often reject the new culture.
B)will usually return to the origin country (or homeland).
C)become more assimilated than their parents.
D)all of the above.
Q3) In Urumqi in western China, Chinese officials fear that which will be an ethnic problem?
A)that Taiwan will take control of the city
B)that it will become another 'special autonomous region' like Macau or Hong Kong
C)that Islamic fundamentalism will surge
D)that language isolate Basque and Caucasic groups will hold more influence
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Chapter 10: A World of Nations and States
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Q1) The purpose of designated 'Euroregions' is to
A)deemphasize cultural commonalities between states.
B)emphasize river use between states.
C)show how it is useless to think areas of many states cannot get along with other states.
D)emphasize cultural-economic integration among unlike regions between countries.
Q2) Why might the state of Israel not always be seen as 'legitimate'?
A)because 20 countries do not officially recognize it as a state
B)because the U.S.and most European countries do not recognize it as a state
C)Israel is too developed and industrialized for others to recognize it as a state
D)Israel is dominantly Muslim, so many do not understand its reason for being
Q3) Regarding political boundaries and other geo-political situations, de jure means _________________ while de facto means ______________.
A)'by law';'in fact'.
B)'by day';'by night'.
C)'alert';'relaxed'.
D)'policed';'un regulated'.
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Chapter 11: Geography of Governance and Representation
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Q1) Reasons for sub-dividing territory into administrative regions are
A)health, welfare, and healthcare access.
B)food, drink, and service provision regions.
C)efficiency, flexibility and degrees of responsiveness.
D)design, printing, and publishing processes.
Q2) One special region found in the United States and established for indigenous peoples
A)is autonomous politically.
B)is an urban enclave.
C)is the reservation.
D)is industrially sound.
Q3) Eventually, the Soviet Union's 15 republics broke up into individual states.This process can be referred to as
A)installation.
B)devolution.
C)evolution.
D)obstinacy.
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Chapter 12: Environment and Conservation
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Q1) The creation of the Three Gorges Dam in China created a reservoir
A)375 miles long.
B)that is now vastly polluted.
C)about the size of Lake Michigan in the Great Lakes.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Over thirty years the Aral Sea has
A)doubled in size because of increased regional snow meltoff.
B)stayed the same size despite great changes in water influx.
C)lost 90 percent of its water because of excessive irrigation 'theft'.
D)slightly decreased in size because governments have added water.
Q3) Great growth of cities, like Las Vegas and Phoenix in western dry environments epitomizes issues relating to A)earthquake causation.
B)water diversion.
C)behavior modification.
D)landscape ignorance.
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Chapter 13: Urbanization and Urban Networks
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Q1) Agglomeration activities
A)allow cities to focus heavily on different types of functions.
B)make cities stick together like glue.
C)tend to develop city states, breaking cities away from larger political units.
D)are politically more appealing to conservative presidential candidates.
Q2) Though the city of Akron, Ohio was once king in the tire industry much of that has ceased to exist and the city is now trying to diversify and focus on polymers.This shows that
A)cities may shift their functions over time according to need.
B)all cities move gradually from more industrial pursuits to more service oriented ones.
C)most cities will always have a focus on automobile parts or production.
D)once the function of a city is set, it cannot change to some other function.
Q3) The first area to develop cities was
A)the Indus River Valley.
B)China.
C)the Fertile Crescent region, or Sumeria.
D)the Aztec region of Central America.
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Chapter 14: The Changing Structure of the City
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Q1) The center of the traditional walking city, like Philadelphia in 1780,
A)would focus on suburban interstate highways.
B)would focus on downtown skyscrapers.
C)would focus exclusively on the port.
D)would focus on tram and street car routes away from the city.
Q2) In analyzing land values away from a city center the most important element increasing land value would be A)rent.
B)residential land.
C)retail use.
D)commercial office use.
Q3) Cities in Europe and Japan have
A)higher levels of centralized government control.
B)lower densities.
C)higher rates of crime.
D)lower numbers of wealthy people.
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Chapter 15: The Geography of Economic Activity and Agriculture
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Q1) With the entry of humans into the Americas some 30,000 years ago
A)animals became more numerous.
B)small animals were able to feed off of the seeds that the humans brought.
C)many large animals were hunted into extinction.
D)there was no significant change in wildlife at this time.
Q2) When we say GNP "per capita", this phrase means A)per household
B)per person
C)on average
D)the sum value
Q3) Most indications are that modern agriculture in Europe was an extension of agriculture that was originally in A)the Americas.
B)the central Russian plain.
C)vegetative planting in central Europe.
D)the Fertile Crescent.
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Chapter 16: Geographies of Production and Consumption
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Q1) Steam engines ultimately drove which of the following which also drove the industrial revolution?
A)crop winnowing and harvesting
B)textile production and railway engines
C)house and tenement construction
D)road and highway development
Q2) Which were not factors in Britain being the center of the Industrial Revolution?
A)locations near excellent transport on the Great Lakes
B)the transport centers of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
C)the great European centrality of the capital of London
D)availability of raw materials and Britain as already wealthy
Q3) The global economies today are
A)shifting toward Asia.
B)still dominantly centered in the west.
C)upcoming in Brazil.
D)all of the above.
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Chapter 17: Distribution and Transportation
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Q1) Since about 1900 the growth of retail chains has seen
A)average store size decreasing.
B)normal prices increasing.
C)stores like Wal-Mart which can take up several acres.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Albert Gallatin
A)was the first U.S.politician to develop protectionist transport policies.
B)planned some of the first transport routes into the U.S.interior.
C)personally built major roads from California eastward.
D)all of the above.
Q3) An oil embargo was enacted on the United States by OPEC countries
A)in 1932.
B)in 1948.
C)in 1974.
D)on September 11, 2001.
Q4) When considering the construction of malls, we must remember that
A)the new malls being built are often multi-storied.
B)they are often being demolished and rebuilt in other areas.
C)they are rarely being built these days-and are often demolished.
D)Wal-Marts are usually at the center of new enclosed malls.
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Chapter 18: Development and Geography
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Q1) When Marco Polo visited China from Venice he
A)generally could not bear the poverty he encountered.
B)denigrated the leadership and political system there.
C)wrote extensively about the wealth of the country.
D)swore he would never return because of the low health standards.
Q2) Core refers to those areas of the world that
A)have the most potent and influential agriculture.
B)have the best culture.
C)have the worst industrial productivity.
D)have the most control over economic capital.
Q3) The World Systems Perspective views development through analysis of A)relations between first and third world countries.
B)later countries and regions to industrialize.
C)as a global system as a whole.
D)early developing countries setting the unchangeable stage for later ones.
Q4) Sustainable development attempts to
A)deplete all countries of their raw materials as quickly as possible.
B)reconcile economic advancement with environmental protection.
C)build up exports of higher level third world countries.
D)magnify the HDI of African countries in particular.
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