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Urban Geography
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Urban Geography examines the spatial processes and patterns that shape cities and metropolitan regions around the world. The course explores the evolution and structure of urban areas, considering economic, social, political, and environmental factors influencing urban development. Key topics include urbanization, land use, segregation, transportation, housing, and the impacts of globalization on urban life. Students analyze case studies to understand urban challenges such as inequality, sustainability, and governance, while gaining insights into the planning and management of urban spaces in diverse contexts.
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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) Which statement best describes the relationship between remote sensing and GIS?
A) A GIS is used to create remotely sensed images.
B) Remotely sensed images can be used in a GIS.
C) Remote sensing is another term for GIS.
D) There is no relationship.
E) The letters in GIS stand for "remote sensing" in French.
Answer: B
Q2) To whom might globalization represent a threat? Name a group and explain why.
Answer: Globalization might represent a threat to local small businesses. As larger multinational corporations expand their reach and influence through globalization, they often have the resources to undercut smaller local businesses, leading to their closure. This can result in a loss of jobs and economic instability in local communities. Additionally, the homogenization of products and services that often comes with globalization can lead to a loss of cultural diversity and traditional practices, further threatening the livelihoods of local businesses and communities.
Q3) Geographers draw two types of lines (or arc)on maps to indicate location.The lines (or arcs)drawn between the North and South Poles are known as ________.The circles drawn parallel to the Equator are known as ________.
Answer: meridians (or lines of longitude); parallels (or lines of latitude)
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Chapter 2: Population and Health
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Q1) Which stage of the demographic transition cannot be found anywhere in the world today?
A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
Answer: A
Q2) Which stage of the epidemiological transition is known as the stage of "delayed degenerative diseases"?
A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Migration
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
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) The main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to A) preserve folk cultures, by increasing awareness of their uniqueness.
B) stimulate the diffusion of folk cultures around the world.
C) increase the similarity of social customs in different locations.
D) have little effect on the diffusion of social customs.
E) slow the rate of change.
Q2) According to map 4.8.4,which countries changed their social media preference to Facebook between 2009 and 2012?
A) Brazil, India, and Mexico
B) Russia, India, and South Africa
C) Brazil, Australia, and India
D) Canada, Germany, England
E) England, Egypt, Argentina
Q3) A taboo against pork is a characteristic of
A) Judaism and Islam.
B) Judaism and Buddhism.
C) Christianity and Buddhism.
D) Christianity and Hinduism.
E) Islam and Hinduism.
Q4) What are some of the negative impacts of the diffusion of popular customs?
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Chapter 5: Languages
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Q1) The main difference between languages in the same family,branch,or group is how A) recently in time the languages were once the same.
B) closely the speakers of each language live to each other.
C) similar the cultures of the speakers of each language are.
D) All of the above
Q2) A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a A) dialect.
B) language branch.
C) language family.
D) language group.
E) language root.
Q3) Who were the Kurgans and how may they have been important to the geography of language?
Q4) What geographic factor accounts for the fact that both Americans and the British speak English?
Q5) Why do people in different regions of the United States speak English differently?
Q6) Name the world's largest language family (used by nearly half of the world's population).
Q7) How may have people from Anatolia been important to the geography of language?
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Chapter 6: Religions
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Q1) Unlike other universalizing religions,Buddhism
A) remained concentrated in one region of the world.
B) was not begun by an individual founder.
C) was founded in China.
D) worships more than one god.
E) diffused primarily by colonization.
Q2) The largest religious affiliation in the United States is
A) Roman Catholic.
B) Evangelical Protestant.
C) Mormon.
D) Mainline Protestant.
E) Historically Black Protestant.
Q3) Which of the following is currently the most important religion in the homeland of the man who founded it?
A) Bahá'í
B) Christianity
C) Hinduism
D) Islam
E) Shintoism
Q4) How has religion been a source of territorial conflict among people?
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Chapter 7: Ethnicities
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Q1) Sudan has seen ethnic conflict in all but which of the following regions?
A) Darfur
B) South Sudan
C) the eastern front with Eritrea
D) Khartoum
Q2) The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics conducts the official census differently as compared to the way the U.S Bureau of the Census conducts the U.S.official census by asking Brazilians to
A) identify themselves as belonging to one of five so-called races.
B) take DNA tests.
C) identify themselves as belonging to one of five ethnicities.
D) identify themselves by region.
E) only count the head of the household.
Q3) What was apartheid?
A) the dialect of Dutch which is spoken in South Africa
B) South Africa's governmental system
C) the existence of landlocked states in southern Africa
D) the geographic separation of races in South Africa
E) the kinship system of Sub-Saharan Africa
Q4) Define the term "balkanization."
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Chapter 8: Political Geography
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Q1) The United States and Canada share
A) a physical boundary between the countries that is 1300 miles long.
B) a 1300 mile long mountain boundary.
C) two geometric boundaries, one that runs along the 49 degree north latitude, and the other between Alaska and Canada.
D) a religious boundary with mostly protestants on the U.S. side.
E) cultural boundary, English and Spanish on the U.S. side, French and English on the Canada side.
Q2) Australia,Canada,and India were all ________ of England in 1914.
A) allies
B) colonial possessions
C) enemies
D) former colonies
E) states
Q3) A territory tied to a state rather than being completely independent is a
A) nation.
B) state.
C) nation-state.
D) colony.
E) patron-state.
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Chapter 9: Development
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Q1) The U.S.government allocates approximately ________ percent of its GNI to foreign aid.
A) 12
B) 7
C) 2
D) 1
E) 0.2
Q2) Which of the following is true of a country with its inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI)lower than the HDI?
A) The country has a well-balanced approach to development.
B) More women than men have advanced degrees.
C) Only a few people have higher incomes and access to good health care.
D) Democracy is very well entrenched in the country.
E) The military is in control of the country.
Q3) Compare and contrast the economic structures of developed and developing countries.
Q4) What are the ways in which national incomes are measured?
Q5) Discuss the role of access to health care in development.
Q6) What is the World Trade Organization and what are some of the criticisms against it?
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Chapter 10: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) The United States has a very ________ percentage of farmers similarly to other ________ countries.A small number of farmers can feed many people in part because of the propensity of ________.
A) high, developing, farmers
B) low, developed, machinery
C) low, democratic, subsidized farming
D) high, northern hemisphere, subsidized farming
E) high, developed, genetically modified crops
Q2) Undernourishment is most severe in
A) south Asia.
B) east Asia.
C) Latin America.
D) sub-Saharan Africa.
E) eastern Europe.
Q3) What agriculture hearth did domesticated coffee emerge from?
A) Latin America
B) Southeast Asia
C) Sub-Saharan Africa
D) East Asia
E) Central Asia
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Chapter 11: Industry
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Q1) Which of the following is true of manufacturing jobs in the U.S.?
A) They have been shifting within the United States from the North and East to the South and West.
B) They have been shifting within the United States from the South and West to the North and East.
C) They have been shifting within the United States from the West and East to the South and North.
D) They have been shifting within the United States from the East and West to the North.
E) They have been shifting within the United States from the North and West to the East.
Q2) The shift of world manufacturing to new industrial regions can be seen most clearly in the manufacture of
A) steel.
B) prefab housing.
C) beverages.
D) canned foods.
E) pharmaceuticals.
Q3) What are some of the interregional shifts in manufacturing in the United States?
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Chapter 12: Services and Settlements
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Q1) What are the characteristics of a clustered rural settlement?
Q2) Originally called Byzantium,and now known as Istanbul,________ became the world's largest settlement after the decline of Rome,and remained the largest settlement for most of the next 1,000 years.
A) Baghdad
B) Tehran
C) Damascus
D) Constantinople
E) Mecca
Q3) What information would you seek if McDonald's asked you to do research on identifying the best location for a franchise in a given area?
Q4) Geographers can estimate the ________ by using the ZIP codes of credit-card customers.
A) market share
B) threshold
C) range
D) number of post offices
E) profitability
Q5) Discuss the phenomena of global urbanization.
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Chapter 13: Urban Patterns
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Q1) In developing countries,as in Europe,
A) care is taken to make sure no poor person lives in the suburbs.
B) there is no discernible urban pattern.
C) the wealthy are accommodated in the outer rings, whereas the poor live near the center of cities as well as in a sector extending from the center.
D) the poor are accommodated in the outer rings, whereas the wealthy live near the center of cities as well as in a sector extending from the center.
E) care is taken so no poor person lives in the inner city.
Q2) Atlanta is encircled by highway I-285.Which urban structure model would be the most appropriate to understand the relation of the highway to the urban area?
A) concentric zone model
B) urban model
C) peripheral model
D) multiple nuclei model
E) sector model
Q3) Briefly describe the characteristics of the concentric zone model.
Q4) Compare colonial and post-colonial Latin American cities.
Q5) What is a metropolitan statistical area?
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Chapter 14: Resource Issues
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Q1) What has caused Earth's temperature to increase an average of 1 degree C in the last 100 years?
Q2) Developed countries have primarily converted from biomass fuel to
A) solar energy.
B) fossil fuels.
C) wind energy.
D) renewable energy.
E) animate power.
Q3) Referring to (Figure 14.7.2 in the text),North America uses ________ water per capita than any other region of the world.(Figure 14.7.3 in the text) provides insight that this is primarily due to ________.
A) less; industrial usage
B) much more; industrial usage
C) much more; agriculture
D) less; agriculture
E) much more; municipal usage
Q4) The text discusses the practice that some states in the U.S.find it economically justified to export waste to other states.Do you find this practice ethical? Justify your answer in terms of the exporting and importing states.
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