World Regional Geography
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World Regional Geography explores the physical and human characteristics that define the world's regions, examining the interplay between environment, culture, economics, and politics across different parts of the globe. The course provides a broad overview of the major regions, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, focusing on topics such as climate, landforms, population, languages, religions, urbanization, and globalization. Students will gain an understanding of how regional differences and interconnections shape global patterns and current events, enhancing their geographical literacy and appreciation for cultural diversity.
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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) Process is of interest to geographers because
A)the actions that bring about patterns are studied.
B)the regions that are the most important are studied.
C)the equations that are equilateral are examined.
D)the business of taking photographs is taught.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following does not apply to the concept of process?
A)When something starts and when something ends.
B)If some phenomena has a logical progression.
C)When you can't access the appropriate webpage in your browser.
D)Explanations of why process has occurred.
Answer: C
Q3) Geographers call how phenomena are arranged in space
A)Spatial theory.
B)Place interaction.
C)Distance learning.
D)Distribution.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Geography Through the Ages
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Q1) Geography studies the earth in many different ways, but the idea that geography is a 'spatial science' was a main trait of
A)the industrial revolution.
B)the possibilism era.
C)the quantitative revolution.
D)cultural landscape.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is the best example of goods or products spread from the New World to the Old?
A)Apples, horses, and diseases.
B)Peppers, potatoes, and tomatoes.
C)Beer, hops, and wheat.
D)Iron working, steel making and, finally, Automobiles.
Answer: B
Q3) Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth by
A)figuring an angle as a fraction of the total circumference of the Earth.
B)traveling half of the earth and multiplying by 2.
C)observing shadows on the moon through a magnifying glass.
D)meditating in a dark cave.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Population
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Q1) CBR-CDR =
A)RNI.
B)TFR.
C)Doubling time in total population.
D)General ending time of an industrial revolution.
Answer: A
Q2) Over the last 100 years, the city of Las Vegas has taught us that
A)cities in the desert should be abandoned because they cannot last.
B)water provided to desert communities helps them to grow greatly.
C)building large dams is best for industrialized countries.
D)its moist Mediterranean climate has helped it to grow.
Answer: B
Q3) Doubling time is ascertained by
A)subtracting the death rate from the birth rate.
B)multiplying the RNI by infant mortality.
C)inferring that TFR is greater year by year.
D)dividing the RNI by the constant of 70.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Geography of Health and Disease
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Q1) Which is the best example of a pandemic?
A)isolated cases of kidney stones.
B)a local outbreak of Lyme disease.
C)malaria in Somalia and Somaliland.
D)HIV/AIDS being diffused throughout the world.
Q2) Which of the following disease transmissions does not exhibit a vector?
A)one person shaking hands with another and transmitting hepatitis.
B)a mosquito transmitting west Nile virus from one person to another.
C)a raccoon transmitting rabies from another raccoon to a human.
D)a tsetse fly transmitting sleeping sickness from a cow to a chimp.
Q3) Continued climate change could
A)cause more tainted food and drink, increasing disease.
B)cause more types of diseases to be dispersed through populations.
C)cause an excess of smallpox and sleeping sickness.
D)cause more genetically transmitted diseases.
Q4) Today South Sudan has 95% of all reported cases of A)malaria.
B)shistosomiasis.
C)yellow fever.
D)Guinea worm.
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Chapter 5: Migration Flows
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Q1) A remittance is
A)money earned by a migrant.
B)money sent back home by a migrant.
C)money used for health care by a migrant.
D)money used for transportation by a migrant.
Q2) An older woman, for a time, spent her summers in Indianapolis, Indiana, and winters in Bradenton, Florida.We might say her migration was
A)of a guestworker type.
B)of a permanent type.
C)of a cyclical type.
D)of an economic pull factor type.
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 6: Culture and Cultural Landscapes
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Q1) The civilization 'hearth' known for early seed agriculture and the Code of Hammurabi is
A)The Andes hearth in South America.
B)The Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia in the modern Middle East.
C)The East Asia area centering on China.
D)The Scioto River hearth through central Ohio in the U.S.
Q2) Greek revival homes in the U.S.which date from the 1830s
A)Often have round turrets and 'crazy' angles.
B)Are made to look like ancient Greek temples with columns.
C)Have Italianate delicate 'cake icing' decorations.
D)Exhibit rounded or pointed 'Gothic' windows and doors.
Q3) The best example of popular culture would be
A)Watching a satellite TV channel.
B)Eating a traditional Cajun catfish recipe.
C)Wearing a colorful Peruvian poncho.
D)Speaking the remote Gullah accent of the Carolina coast.
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Chapter 7: The Geography of Language
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Q1) Some toponyms such as Independence, Colorado;Liberty, New York;and Freedom, California
A)portray European origins of the settlers.
B)are substrate in influence showing Native American origins.
C)reflect American values and show patriotism on the land.
D)are indicative of agricultural origins of a European grain based system.
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) A basic fact of language is that it is
A)constantly changing in structure and content.
B)rarely changes.
C)alphabets come naturally to both primitive and developed peoples.
D)OK to think someone's accent is 'bad'.
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Chapter 8: The Geography of Religion
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Q1) The enlightenment of Siddhartha in northern India was the origin of A)Hinduism.
B)Buddhism.
C)Judaism.
D)Sikhism.
Q2) The Western (or Wailing) Wall is sacred because A)Jews worship near their ancient temple.
B)Christian Scientists can worship at their megachurch in Boston.
C)Muslims are upset that their mosque was destroyed in Ayodhya.
D)Aztecs found their temple now surrounded by a huge modern city.
Q3) Up to A.D.600 the diffusion of Christianity could be said to be
A)mainly near Israel.
B)mainly near the Mediterranean Sea and Mediterranean Europe.
C)mainly in the Baltic region and in Scandinavia.
D)mainly in the eastern Russian realm and then North America.
Q4) Shintoism is the animistic religion that is found mainly in A)Northern China.
B)Japan.
C)North Korea.
D)Taiwan (the Republic of China).
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Chapter 9: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
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Q1) Which is the best example of an ethnic neighborhood in the U.S.?
A)the traditional walking city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B)the Midwestern suburb of Gahanna near Columbus, Ohio
C)a small area of Puerto Ricans in Wilmington, Delaware
D)an ethnically Scots-Irish farmstead in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
Q2) Feminist geography focuses on
A)the geography of cats and dogs.
B)how gender relationships are spatially organized.
C)how geological structures are less influenced by people.
D)none of the above
Q3) Urban ethnic segregation
A)can be voluntary or forced.
B)is rarely voluntary.
C)is always voluntary.
D)is always forced and unfortunate.
Q4) Regarding membership in an ethnic group
A)the ethnic group itself decides what constitutes membership.
B)culture traits and ethnic traits are nearly the same thing.
C)some ethnic groups are better than others.
D)all of the above.
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Chapter 10: A World of Nations and States
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Q1) The difference between Japan and the United States when referring to each as 'nations' is that
A)Japan is still indebted to the United States for recovery after World War II.
B)the U.S.is now controlled by Japan as Japan now owns most U.S.factories.
C)one's nationality is based on one ethnic group and the other a shared set of ideas.
D)one is a nuclear power and the other is not.
Q2) Which is the best example of a "political unit"?
A)the family
B)a city
C)a married couple
D)a stamp collecting club
Q3) A 'nation-state' occurs when
A)the boundaries of the state mainly coincide with that of the ethnic nation.
B)there is a revolution which changes an empire into a command economy.
C)nations develop into theocracies controlled by religious leaders.
D)you find Arabs all across North Africa and much of the Middle East.
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Chapter 11: Geography of Governance and Representation
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Q1) A Mexican child born in the US to illegal parents
A)cannot become a citizen of the US.
B)can become a citizen if the parents become citizens.
C)automatically becomes a citizen of the US.
D)must return to Mexico and enter through a customs border to become a citizen.
Q2) Sometimes subunits of a country might be based on
A)early settlement patterns during exploration.
B)logical and equitable population subdivision.
C)relatively homogenous ethnic groups.
D)all of the above.
Q3) Belgium's political structure
A)divides it into three linguistic unit.
B)has Flanders in the north and Wallonia in the south.
C)consists of Brussels as a 'bilingual' zone.
D)all of the above.
Q4) Kaliningrad is an 'exclave' of Russia because
A)it is totally surrounded by Moscow.
B)it is totally surrounded by East Germany.
C)it is today part of Poland.
D)it is a piece of Russia totally separate from Russia.
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Chapter 12: Environment and Conservation
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Q1) One important thing to remember about fossil fuels is that
A)once taken from the ground, they cannot be soon replenished.
B)they will be removed from daily use over the next decade.
C)the use of automobiles in the U.S.and Europe has little to do with their use.
D)all of the above.
Q2) In Los Angeles, which of the following is best applied to smog?
A)methane gas production because of large gas seeping landfills
B)industrial waste pollution of water tables
C)chemical reaction of sunlight reacting to human ozone output
D)the fine sediment pollution from surface strip mining of coal
Q3) The earthquake scale based on force of original quake is the ____________ while the scale that measures in terms of shaking is __________________.
A)moment magnitude scale;the Mercalli scale
B)Truman scale;the Richter scale
C)actuality scale;the cognitive movement scale
D)the 2012 scale;the perceptual gradient scale
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Chapter 13: Urbanization and Urban Networks
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Q1) With the development of agriculture, settlements occurred when
A)people settled permanently in one place.
B)people developed many new diseases and could not move.
C)animals could no longer be moved from place to place.
D)migration met obstacles like large rivers or mountains.
Q2) Up until a few thousand years ago, cities
A)did not exist.
B)were only found in Japan and China.
C)clustered in Mexico and Central America only.
D)were always widely spread globally.
Q3) In Chang An, China a city was built based on
A)the combination of circles and triangles drawn on the land.
B)long lots giving access to the local river.
C)squares that were nearly exactly one square mile by one square mile.
D)a well-developed rectilinear pattern.
Q4) Areas of urban development later, around the year AD 0 would have been in A)what is today the Middle East.
B)what is today China.
C)what is today Central and northern South America.
D)what is today Southeast Asia.
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Chapter 14: The Changing Structure of the City
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Q1) The urban morphology of the Latin American city
A)is reversed from the structure of the North American city.
B)is nearly the same as the structure of the North American city.
C)is derived from earlier structures of Native American cities.
D)is not at all related to the structure of European cities.
Q2) In terms of density which would be the highest for the urban area?
A)Hong Kong
B)Beijing
C)London
D)Chicago
Q3) At the center of the city population densities in North American cities generally do what?
A)increase
B)decrease
C)are maintained about the same throughout the city
D)none of the above
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Chapter 15: The Geography of Economic Activity and Agriculture
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Q1) Hunting and gathering, primitive agriculture, and feudalism are together referred to as
A)local economic systems.
B)national economic systems.
C)regional economic systems.
D)global economic systems.
Q2) Imperial economies may
A)allow long distance trade.
B)allow specialization of trade within their borders.
C)have people interacting across great distances.
D)all of the above.
Q3) Subsistence agriculture is
A)based in a global market.
B)based on a regional market mainly in developed countries.
C)agriculture that sustains life at the most basic level.
D)none of the above.
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Chapter 16: Geographies of Production and Consumption
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Q1) 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
Q2) Regarding the Anglo American manufacturing belt today compared to 1900
A)much of the Great Lakes/Midwest core is still intensely industrial.
B)almost none of the Great Lakes region is now industrial.
C)the majority of industry has shifted to Ontario and Quebec in Canada.
D)none of the above.
Q3) Manufacturing is a production chain that
A)delivers finished goods to market.
B)rarely exists outside of the United Kingdom.
C)takes raw materials and transforms them into finished products.
D)binds workers in an unbearable labor environment.
Q4) The development of the steam engine was a main event powering
A)the agricultural revolution.
B)the industrial revolution.
C)agricultural diffusion.
D)none of the above.
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Chapter 17: Distribution and Transportation
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Q1) Cities like Venice, Brujes, and Amsterdam grew rich by placing themselves
A)at the center of good trading networks.
B)at the periphery of continental trade.
C)along major highway networks.
D)in the center of raw material mining regions.
Q2) Which are main activities which require transportation?
A)military, freight, and personal mobility
B)desire, accomplishment, and satisfaction
C)physical fitness, mental health, and social networking
D)none of the above
Q3) 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.
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 18: Development and Geography
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Q1) Though China is a powerhouse today, in 1950 and before
A)it was about on par with Japan in development.
B)its skyscrapers were much taller.
C)its involvement with other HDI countries was much deeper.
D)the disparity between it and Europe was humongous.
Q2) PPP means
A)the Pope's Program of Progress.
B)the Presidential Protectionist Plan.
C)Purchasing Power Parity.
D)Planner's Production Power.
Q3) The human development index
A)adds more technically economic and numerical terms to development.
B)considers race and ethnicity in development.
C)adds in health, education, and welfare data to the development matrix.
D)is not much different that purchase power parity.
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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