Society and Environment Final Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic relationships between human society and the environment. Students will examine how cultural, economic, and political factors shape our interactions with natural systems, and how environmental issues in turn influence social development and global trends. Key topics include sustainability, environmental justice, resource management, and the impacts of environmental policies at local, national, and global levels. By integrating perspectives from social sciences and environmental studies, the course aims to foster a holistic understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved in creating more sustainable and equitable societies.
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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) The tapering off of a process, pattern, or event over a distance is called distance decay.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) 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
Q3) To describe the site of London (in the United Kingdom), a geographer would mention the global economic and political ties of the city.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Globalization and Cultural Geography
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Q1) A personal approach to medicine sees health as encompassing all aspects of a person's life.
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) The heritage industry is sometimes involved in controversy because:
A) people value their heritage.
B) the meaning and value of heritage may vary from group to group.
C) heritage is real: what happened in the past can't be changed.
D) the authenticity of heritage may limit its appeal.
E) important natural sites are not heritage sites.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Population and Migration
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Q1) 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
Q2) If you compared the population pyramid of the Philippines to the United States, you would expect to find:
A) About the same proportion of old people in both countries.
B) A larger proportion of children in the Philippines, but an older average age.
C) A larger proportion of the population is middle aged in the United States.
D) The impact of the baby boom can be seen in both countries.
E) The longer average life expectancy of men is more evident in the United States.
Answer: C
Q3) 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) A language that is no longer taught to children, either in the home or in school, is:
A) a lingua franca
B) an endangered language.
C) an extinct language.
D) a pidgin language.
E) a creole language.
Q2) The assortment of languages in a particular area is:
A) language association.
B) lingua franca.
C) language assortment.
D) linguistic diffusion.
E) linguistic diversity.
Q3) In the United States today, dialects of English have largely disappeared because of television and movies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The hearth of Indo-European languages is in northern Europe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Geographies of Religion
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Q1) Based on number of believers, Hinduism is the world's largest ethnic religion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The fastest growing branch of Christianity today is:
A) Roman Catholic.
B) Orthodox.
C) Mormon.
D) Fundamentalists.
E) Renewalism.
Q3) Resistance to change in the caste system is generally associated with Islamic fundamentalism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The largest ethnic religion in the world is:
A) Judaism.
B) Hinduism.
C) Shintoism.
D) Islam.
E) Christianity.
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Chapter 6: Geographies of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, and
Gender
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Q1) In the modern world:
A) slavery has been eliminated.
B) while not technically slavery, bonded and forced labor remain.
C) human trafficking has been eliminated through international law.
D) most forced labor happens in Europe and North America.
E) laws against child labor assure all children have an opportunity to attend school.
Q2) Your home neighborhood would be considered an ethnoscape if:
A) at least 75 percent of the residents were members of one ethnic group.
B) the neighborhood is described as an ethnic island by the U.S. Census.
C) the landscape of the neighborhood expresses the identity of a particular ethnic group.
D) assimilation has taken place in the area.
E) the neighborhood was built before Civil Rights laws were in effect.
Q3) Racism is an ideology that believes genetic differences among people produce a hierarchy of people.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Political Geography
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Q1) An image, object, or symbol that conveys a political message is known as:
A) colonialism
B) devolution
C) geopolitics
D) political iconography
E) security landscapes
Q2) A supranational organization consists of four or more states that agree to work together for a common economic, military, cultural, or political purpose, or a combination of these.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The attacks of 9/11 changed the world because these events were the first use of terrorism in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the United States, it is constitutional to deliberately create majority-minority electoral districts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Urban Geographies
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Q1) The biased practice of refusing to offer a home loan on the basis of the characteristics of a neighborhood instead of the actual condition of the property being mortgaged or the character of the borrower is called:
A) eminent domain.
B) blockbusting.
C) redlining.
D) urban redevelopment.
E) gentrification.
Q2) A megacity is a metropolitan area with a population of 10 million or more.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The central business district is often found in the suburbs of a city today.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Burgess's model of urban structure incorporates the notion of: A) filtering. B) zoning.
C) sectors.
D) urban realms.
E) hybrid cities.
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Chapter 9: Geographies of Development
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Q1) Rostow's classical model of development called for:
A) a reduction in foreign trade.
B) expansion of agriculture.
C) investment that would allow more manufacturing.
D) multiple approaches to development within a country.
E) creating a sustainable level of development.
Q2) Development is influenced by dependency because:
A) dominant states produce key resources.
B) dependent states lack economic resources and power.
C) international trade tends to benefit states that produce needed agricultural products.
D) wealthy states become dependent on imported goods.
E) lack of workers is a barrier to development in dependent states.
Q3) The human development index score of .965 for a country indicates that most citizens struggle with daily life.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Dependency theory is based on Rostow's Stages of Development.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Changing Geographies of Industry and Services
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Q1) Outsourcing is the transfer of a business activity to a location in another country.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If the process of agglomeration was at work in your hometown, you would expect to see:
A) businesses spread out across the community.
B) the spatial clustering of economic activities in one part of town.
C) the development of Fordist factories.
D) reduced Quaternary activities.
E) the development of commodity changes within the community.
Q3) The Industrial Revolution describes the development of the first manufacturing in the world.
A)True B)False
Q4) Globally, the expansion of service sector employment has significantly increased the employment of women.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 11: Agricultural Geographies
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Q1) 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.
Q2) The focus of mixed crop and livestock farming is animal production, increasingly with the use of feedlots.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many farmers with small land holdings in South and Southeast Asia practice:
A) wet rice farming.
B) plantation agriculture.
C) Pastoralism.
D) smallholder crop and livestock farming.
E) dairy farming.
Q4) In the context of the Green Revolution, the term green refers to the adoption of organic or eco-friendly practices.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Environmental Challenges
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Q1) Economic depletion occurs when the cost of extracting the resource is equal to the economic value of that mineral.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Kyoto Protocol was designed to reduce pollution of the oceans, and has led to an improvement in the quality of ocean waters.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A biomass fuel can be manufactured from used cooking oil or other plant matter.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is not a fossil fuel?
A) oil
B) natural gas
C) coal
D) tar sands
E) uranium
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