GEOG 150 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

GEOG 150 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 Political ecologists emphasize a) Environmental and resource policy b) The impact of globalization on resource trade c) Traditional groups' involvement in the political process d) Environmental ethics and the ethics of resource use e) The impact of political and economic forces on local cultures and resource use - Answers E Whereas environmental preservationists advocate that certain habitats, species, and resources should be off-limits and left entirely alone, conservation approaches encourage a) Rights for animals, trees, and landscapes equal to those given humans b) A return to "natural" lifestyles like those lived by Native Americans c) Re-creation and reclamation of natural landscapes d) Exploitation of natural resources e) Respectful and sustainable use of natural resources - Answers E To ecofeminists, ________ is the center of today's environmental problems. a) Cultural ecology b) Patriarchy c) Political ecology d) Romanticism - Answers B One conceptual theory (i.e. I= PAT) for understanding the factors contributing to environmental impacts relates them to a) Technological level b) Population size c) Level of affluence d) Technological level, level of affluence, and population size e) Technological level and the level of influence - Answers D Which of the following is NOT evidence of global climate change? a) Increasing atmospheric CO2 b) Rising global average temperature c) Disappearing Arctic sea ice d) Rising sea level e) Disappearing rainforests - Answers E Which of the following environmental philosophies is currently the most conventional? a) Conservation b) Ecofeminism c) Preservation d) Environmental Ethics e) Deep Ecology - Answers A The region with the greatest number of urban areas vulnerable to sea level rise is a) Europe b) Australia c) South America d) Africa e) Southeast Asia - Answers E The idea that "nature is a social creation" means that a) The physical world and its resources were made for human use b) Humans have built the physical world and its landscapes--nothing is natural c) God created the earth in six days d) The evolutionary process concluded with the emergence of humans e)The physical world means different things to different people at different times - Answers E Human adaptations to and uses of the natural environment a) Began with the Industrial Revolution b) Almost never result in pollution or environmental degradation c) Occur in only hearth areas--many regions of the world remain pristine and untouched by human activity d) No longer occur with globalization of the late 20th century e) Have been occurring for hundreds and thousands of yars - Answers E The foundations of the U.S. environmental movement of the 20th century are drawn from the ideas of a) Teddy Roosevelt b) Sally Marston c) Carl Sauer d) Karl Marx e) George Perkins Marsh - Answers E Global temperature increases over the last century have been greatest a) Across the Southern Hemisphere b) Over the world's deserts c) At the Arctic d) Over the world's seas e) Around the Equator - Answers C Henry David Thoreau a) Is often credited as the originator of U.S. ecological philosophy b) Founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society c) Stressed man's domination over nature d) Denounced Gifford Pinchot and transcendentalism e) Was Amish - Answers A Which of the following energy resources is renewable? a) Uranium b) Oil c) Hydropower d) Plutonium e) Coal - Answers C International efforts to protect biodiversity have included efforts to halt "bioprospecting," the corporate practice of a) Replacing traditional and native species of plants with crops for export b) Intentionally reducing the varieties of fruits and vegetables found in the grocery store c) Exploiting indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants for commercial purposes d) Overharvesting non-traditional crops like hemp and seaweed from public areas - Answers C Which of the following is most influential in anticipating a population's impact on nature? a) Its gender balance b) Its affluence c) Its resource base d) Its prevailing religious beliefs e) Both its gender balance and its resource base - Answers B Vandana Shiva is most well-known for a) Her symbolic power as Hindu god of the environment, agricultural lands and food production b) Her position as being the first person from the world's periphery to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency c) Founding Greenpeace d) Her work protecting environmental diversity & sustainability through such things as organic farming, fair trade and the use and preservation of native seeds e) Identifying the benefits of safe agricultural pesticides and genetically modified plants and animals - Answers D The contemporary view of nature dominant in the United States is most strongly linked to the a) Judeo-Christian tradition, in which nature is to be dominated or tamed by Man b) North American Indian tradition, which emphasized the interrelatedness of the natural world c) Transcendental poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, who encouraged a mystical and spiritual alternative to the primitive and savage life d) Romantic philosophies of Henry David Thoreau, in which all creatures have divine qualities--humans are not exceptional - Answers A The 1992 Earth Summit was concerned primarily with this type of issue. a) Population growth b) Global environmental issues c) The status of women d) Water pollution - Answers B T or F Preservation, deep ecology, and ecofeminism are radical environmental perspectives found only in the core. - Answers False The environmental justice movement emphasizes the disproportional burdens that the _________ face from the negative consequences of economic development. a) Poor b) Core c) Periphery d) Rich e) Middle-class - Answers A Which of the following has NOT been used to create social identities and/or power differences among groups? a) Gender b) Sexuality c) Racialization d) Ethnicity e) All of these have been the basis for identity and power differences - Answers E The concept of transgender and non-conformity to conventional notions of male and female gender is based on a person's a) Ethnicity b) Self-identity c) Heredity d) Biology e) Self-identity and heredity - Answers B From a biological standpoint, race does not exist. Practically, however, the term has come to refer to a) Differences between people based on skin color and other physical characteristics b) The places of certain ethnic groups, such as the Chinese in a "Chinatown" c) Differences between people as determined by intelligence tests d) Differences in cultures and practice - Answers A _________ help(s) cultural geographers think about how the material world possess the power to affect humans a) The "Internet of Things" b) ANT and NRT c) Americanization and Globalization d) Cultural Systems e) Affects and Emotions - Answers B The "shared set of meanings" of culture generally refers to a) Family values b) Religious practices c) Ideas about gender roles d) Historical understandings e) All of the above - Answers E A human geographer studying gender issues would most likely study a) Prostitution in and around red-light districts b) The international sex-trade c) Fashions and attitudes of homosexuals d) Pink spending e) Men's compared to women's salaries - Answers E According to Carl Sauer, a cultural landscape a) Exists prior to human habitation of the given landscape b) Is an old-fashioned concept with limited use by contemporary geographers c) Results from the action of a cultural group within and on a landscape d) Need not require a natural landscape - Answers C Carl Sauer, H.C. Darby, and Paul Vidal de la Blache placed _______ at the heart and center of their studies of human-environment interactions. a) Economics and politics b) Cultural landscapes c) Language and religion d) Natural landscapes e) Climatological factors - Answers B T or F Cultural landscapes precede natural landscapes. - Answers False The idea of an emerging, homogenous global culture is based on the perception of a pervasive a) Hybridization b) Wal-Maritization c) Cultural nationalism d) Materialism e) Americanization - Answers E In the creation of cultural landscapes, culture is a) Static and fixes historic landscapes b) Determined by the landscape c) "Superorganic" and determines unique landscapes d) Fictional and receives meaning from the books, films, and music written about it e) Dynamic and evolves with changing landscapes - Answers E To human geographers, which of the following statements is NOT true? Culture a) Is lived through the materials and symbolic practices of everyday life b) Is based on our genetic inheritance c) Is a shared set of meanings d) Can be transformed by forces internal and external to particular groups e) Includes values, beliefs, practices, language, identities - Answers B Cultural nationalism -- the belief that a nation shares a common culture -- is most likely to be prominent in a) An empire like the British or Russian Empires b) A diverse country of immigrants like the United States c) A region like Scotland, Kurdistan, or Quebec with an ethno-linguistically homogenous population d) A former colony like Nigeria or India composed of ethno-linguistic and religious groups - Answers C Cultural geography a) Is concerned only with material culture b) Was denounced for its racist and upper-class bias by Carl Sauer c) Is no longer relevant because the world has become homogenous d) Explores the interaction of culture with space, place, and landscape - Answers D Whereas race is a problematic way of differentiating human beings based on physical characteristics such as skin color, ________ creates difference out of cultural traits and complexes a) Class b) Ethnicity c) Gender d) Racism e) Cultural nationalism - Answers B The images that come to mind when we think of a place, any place, like Tucson, Arizona, or Damascus, Syria are known as our