Chapter 2: Point of Departure: Planet Earth

Which country addressed population growth through the one-child policy

China

Which ancient scholar wrote the texts Geography and Almagestas an effort to map the world in a system of degrees that measured distances from the equator?

Claudius Ptolemy

The world's largest refugee camp is located in ______

Dadaab, Kenya

Which scholar first theorized about the tragedy of the commons?

Garret Hardin

According to current estimates, in which two countries do the majority of the 780 million people suffering from hunger live?

India and China

Which of the following are some probable factors that explain why population growth rates are the highest among the world's poorest countries?

Lack of education among women about birth control and the high cultural value placed on having large families

What concept centers upon the conflict inherent in the idea that growth of the world's population increases geometrically whereas the production of food can only increase arithmetically?

Malthusian dilemma

What is undernourishment?

The dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum dietary energy requirement for maintaining a healthy lifestyle

Which international organization is a key actor in emergency food aid response?

United Nations World Food Programme

The depiction of physical and human-made borders is better known as ______

cartography

Which of the following factors limit the distribution of food aid?

displacement of people in need, rising costs, war and conflict

People are often displaced from their homes due to ______

economic pressures, conflict and war, and natural disasters

The situation that exists when people lack service access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food is known as ______

food insecurity

The study of the earth and its characteristics is known as ______

geography

A natural asset of the earth that is available to all is better known as ______

global commons

Which of the following are examples of geographic information system technologies?

global positioning systems and Google Earth

The discipline of geography is generally divided into two branches: physical geography and ______

human geography

Which of the following has a negative effect on food production?

natural disasters and war and conflict

Which alternative energy resource was once popular with the United States, Japan, and parts of Europe but has seen decreasing support due to concerns about its safety and potentially severe human and environmental impacts?

nuclear energy

All of the following factors affect the cost of food except for ______

nutritional quality

What type of maps shows the locations of resources and trade routes?

politcal maps

All of the following are ways in which humans contribute to the environmental tragedy except for ______

pollination

What widely known concept was the subject of the Bruntland Commission's 1987 report Our Common Future?

sustainable development

Deforestation is ______

the destruction of forest areas due to human actions or environmental factors

What is physical geography?

the study of the earth and its resources

All of the following are examples of the tragedy of the commons except for the ______.

traffic congestion on major highways