world reg geog

All maps are distorted in area size or direction or both. They are all inaccurate

true

formal region

(at least) culture/physical trait incomen

Which of the following refers to situations in which two areas are in relationship with one another (through trade, for example), and one area is developing at the expense of the other?

Dualism

Political scientists outlined four hegemons between 1500 and 2000. Select the correct match of country and century below.

Spain—1500s; the Netherlands—1600s; Great Britain—1700s and 1800s; and the United States—1900s

Relative locations of places are shown on what type of map?

Thematic

Globalization of the world's people and places began about:

1500

The world's population today is just over ___ billion

7

Most developed countries are located in the Northern Hemisphere. Which of the following are notable exceptions?

Australia and New Zealand

Which of the following is a good example of a country that moved from the periphery to the semperiphery as it increasingly engaged in manufacturing and became a major global exporter, as exemplified by the heavy freight traffic in Hong Kong Harbor?

China

There were two waves of colonialism between 1500 and 1975. Which of the following is not true of the first wave (1500-1825)?

Economies were focused on tourism.

The physical context of the earth refers to:

Environment

What does the term Scramble for Africa refer to?

European powers arbitrarily divided the world's second-largest continent among themselves.

According to world system theorists, Rostow's stages of economic growth will occur, thanks to a set of exploitative relationships between more developed and least developed

False ?

What fueled the second wave of colonization in the second half of the nineteenth century?

Industrialization

The common second language used in government, commerce, and higher education in many multi-cultural societies is known as what?

Lingua franca

In the article "A View of Geography" Tuan refers to the practice of scapulimancy used by which group of native Americans?

None of the above

A region that people may imagine to exist, such as "Dixie," is a

Perceptual

Which of the following is not consistent with strong globalization?

States (countries) play an increasingly significant role in world trade.

colombian triangle

The Columbian Exchange transported plants, animals, diseases, technologies, and people one continent to another. Crops like tobacco, tomatoes, potatoes, corn, cacao, peanuts, and pumpkins went from the Americas to rest of the world. ... The triangular trade was the trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Through examining mental maps, geographers gain a sense of how people understand their locality and how a particular place functions in the larger context.

True

As a percentage of GNI, which of the following countries contributes the most total dollars in foreign aid?

US

In 1945, following the world wars, this organization had 51 member countries; in 2015, membership has grown to 193 members.

United Nations (UN)

The perception of place refers to a way people construct their ideas about:

What a place is like

Approximately, how many landlocked countries are in the world?

above 40

As a country or area develops, the nature of the economy changes or progresses through a series of stages. Select the correct order of these stages.

agricultural, industrial, service

functional region

area that has shared political,economic, or social purpose

Geographers often describe the nature of economies in terms of primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities. Which of the following is not part of primary activities?

automotive manufacturing

vernacular/perceptual region

based on what an individual sees

What is the cheapest method to transport heavy goods and materials?

by sea

_________ is the subdiscipline of geography concerned with the construction of maps

cartography

What is the leading fair trade product?

coffee

expansion diffusion

contagious diffusion ideas/innovating spread from earth to nearby by place/people first

Although people in remote locations have gained connection through Internet access and mobile phone usage, there is a notable gap between the average bandwidth and accessibility, creating what is referred to as the:

digital divide

Geographers went through their own period where they used environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth. What is this set of theories called?

environmental determinism

Landlocked countries face particular exporting problems because both time and money are required to cross country borders, making transportation:

expensive

A climate region of the world is a ________________ region.

formal

study of people,place,envi, and SPACE

geography

strong globalization

global economy has emerged since 1970 signif. different from what existed previously states(countries) increasing irrelevent in today world trade market all important not constrained by state govt leads to more free market approach

relocation diffusion

people move and take ideas/innovations from homeland w/ them

thematic map

shows relative location,

Today, geographers no longer espouse environmental determinism, seeing it as a vast oversimplification of the world.

true?

According to a 2008 European Commission study, what percentage of the world's population is more than two days travel time from a city of 50,000 people or more?

10 percent

The influence of human behavior on earth since the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s is so significant that it constitutes a new geological era called the

Anthropocene

A public school district in the United States is a _________________ region.

Functional

Which of the following is a term often used by geographers to describe the dominance of one state on the global stage?

Hegemon

What tool assesses life expectancy, literacy, years of schooling, and per capita GDP?

Human Development Index (HDI)

There are two basic types of maps: thematic maps and ______________ maps.

Reference

Multiple regions exist within a large area such as Africa (West Africa, East Africa, etc.). This is an example of the importance of _____________ in the study of regions.

Scale

The first wave of colonialism was sparked by these European colonial powers.

Spain and Portugal

_____________ means considering and understanding the context of what is going on in the world.

Thinking geographically

In the article "A View of Geography" Tuan argues physical geographers are only interested in studying the parts of the physical environment which affect humans.

True

The terraced rice fields of Ifugao Province in the Philippines is an example of

cultural landscape

Which of the following is not consistent with weak globalization?

emerged since the 1970s

Transportation networks may be intentionally designed to:

enhance connectivity for some communities while marginalizing others

envitermentel determinsism

envi determined culture

environmental possibilism

envi gives many possibilities, locals get to chose how to deal w/ it

By informal agreement, the president of the World Bank is always a European and the president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is always an American.

false

Economic growth always leads to broad-based improvements in the human condition.

false

There is basically one way to correctly regionalize the world in geography textbooks.

false

Wealth generated by economic growth is usually spread across a population evenly.

false

Geographers often describe the nature of economies in terms of primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities. Which of the following is not part of secondary activities?

fishing

What is an area of land distinguished by either cultural or physical traits or criteria?

formal region

Which of the following describes the process of heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country boundaries?

globalization

The process of a company adapting its product to meet the demands of local culture is known as:

glocalization

Several components in the atmosphere are responsible for the greenhouse effect, including water vapor, methane, ozone, nitrous oxides, carbon dioxide, and other trace gases. Collectively, these are known as:

greenhouse gases

Research in new regional geography sees regions as:

human constructs

The two major fields of study within geography are physical geography and _____________.

human geography

hierarchical diffusion

idea/innovations spread from most important place to next most important places, skipping over people/places in between

The effects of global climate change will be distributed unevenly across the planet. Which of the following is not a factor contributing to the vulnerability of a group of people?

level of education

weak globalization

long standing process dating back to time where systems of exchange become global

One method of finding absolute location on a map is by using:

longitude and latitude

The 45-degree line of the ______ curve represents perfect equality, where equal portions of the population control equal amounts of income.

lorenz

What does MAUP stand for?

modifiable areal unit problem

Which of the following was not a driving force behind the Bretton Woods conference?

national defense

tools of geography

photographs, maps, satellite image, fieldwork

Interpreting the impact of tectonic activity on the landforms of East Africa would probably be the work of a ______________ geographer.

physical

toponym

place nae ex: thousand oaks implies many oaks

A major obstacle that developing countries often face is the problem of being stuck as a producer of raw materials, or stuck in an economy dominated by the _______ sector.

primary

Understanding the context behind the transmission of AIDS in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America is using a _____________approach.

regional

reference map

show location of place/geographic features- road map, convey absolute location

Local factors have a significant influence on a place; two geographic terms that describe these local factors are:

site and situation

We often perceive regions to exist even though we have never been to them. A strong example of regional perception in the United States is:

the South

context

the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.

Which of the following describes the process that accelerates the experience of time and reduces the significance of distance in information technology networks?

time-space compression