GEOG 150 MIDTERM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026
human geography - Answers study of the spatial relation/pattern/organization of human activity and
of people's relationships with their environment
globalization - Answers process that results in the growing interconnectedness of the world through
economic, environmental, political, and cultural change
causes of globalization - Answers multinational corporations, migration & tourism, and technology
impacts of globalization - Answers placelessness, culture extinction, & acculturation/multiculturalism
placelessness - Answers when a place loses its uniqueness
Place is dynamic, Culture is a process; they are always changing
space-time compression - Answers rate at which places move closer together in travel or
communication times or cost; can create more openness but also less diversity
intersubjective truth
// intersubjectivity - Answers shared meanings among people, derived from their lived experience of
everyday practice
conformal projection - Answers correct shapes of land
equal area projection - Answers accurate area of land in their true proportions
distance decay - Answers rate at which a particular activity or process diminishes with increasing
distance; friction of distance
why place matters - Answers identity; sites of events/legacy of the past
colonialism - Answers the establishment and maintenance of political and legal domination/rule by a
state over a separate, subordinate, and alien society (ex. Manifest Destiny)
capitalism - Answers form of economic and social organization characterized by the profit motive and
control of means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods by private ownership
accumulation of dispossession - Answers colonizers profiting from theft and degradation of the
colonized land
temporal [&/or] spatial fix example - Answers a dam
imperialism - Answers extension of power of a nation through direct/indirect control of the economic
and political life of other territories
hegemony - Answers domination!! of the world economy
World Systems Theory - Answers interdependent countries linked by economic or political
competition; periphery, semi-periphery, and core countries
neocolonialism - Answers economic & political strategies by which core countries indirectly maintain
or extend their influence over other areas & people
changing status - Answers manipulate markets, regulate economies, & create physical & social
infrastructure
commercial imperialism - Answers (giant) corporations growing w/in core countries through
elimination of smaller firms through mergers & takeover
comparative advantage - Answers places & regions specialize in activities where they have the
greatest advantage in productivity relative to other regions (or they have the least disadvantage)
environmental determinism - Answers "human activities are controlled by the environment"
Who provides loans to encourage economic development - Answers the IMF (International Monetary
Fund) and WB (World Bank)
systemic - Answers attributes on a local scale can affect its attributes anywhere else globally (ex. local
CO2 emissions affect atmospheric CO2 levels)
cumulative - Answers accumulation of localized change (ex. depletion of soil nutrients, when
aggregated, reduce global agricultural productivity)
international division of labor - Answers core dominates global trade, technological development, etc
through exploitation of the periphery (specialization of particularly exportation products)
crude birth rate (CBR) - Answers ratio of # of live births per thousand people in the population every
year
crude death rate (CDR) - Answers # of deaths for every thousand people in the population every year
rate of natural increase (RNI) - Answers births minus deaths as a percent
rate of natural decrease - Answers deaths minus births as a percent
total fertility rate (TFR) - Answers average # of births per woman (15-44 years old)
human geography - Answers study of the spatial relation/pattern/organization of human activity and
of people's relationships with their environment
globalization - Answers process that results in the growing interconnectedness of the world through
economic, environmental, political, and cultural change
causes of globalization - Answers multinational corporations, migration & tourism, and technology
impacts of globalization - Answers placelessness, culture extinction, & acculturation/multiculturalism
placelessness - Answers when a place loses its uniqueness
Place is dynamic, Culture is a process; they are always changing
space-time compression - Answers rate at which places move closer together in travel or
communication times or cost; can create more openness but also less diversity
intersubjective truth
// intersubjectivity - Answers shared meanings among people, derived from their lived experience of
everyday practice
conformal projection - Answers correct shapes of land
equal area projection - Answers accurate area of land in their true proportions
distance decay - Answers rate at which a particular activity or process diminishes with increasing
distance; friction of distance
why place matters - Answers identity; sites of events/legacy of the past
colonialism - Answers the establishment and maintenance of political and legal domination/rule by a
state over a separate, subordinate, and alien society (ex. Manifest Destiny)
capitalism - Answers form of economic and social organization characterized by the profit motive and
control of means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods by private ownership
accumulation of dispossession - Answers colonizers profiting from theft and degradation of the
colonized land
temporal [&/or] spatial fix example - Answers a dam
imperialism - Answers extension of power of a nation through direct/indirect control of the economic
and political life of other territories
hegemony - Answers domination!! of the world economy
World Systems Theory - Answers interdependent countries linked by economic or political
competition; periphery, semi-periphery, and core countries
neocolonialism - Answers economic & political strategies by which core countries indirectly maintain
or extend their influence over other areas & people
changing status - Answers manipulate markets, regulate economies, & create physical & social
infrastructure
commercial imperialism - Answers (giant) corporations growing w/in core countries through
elimination of smaller firms through mergers & takeover
comparative advantage - Answers places & regions specialize in activities where they have the
greatest advantage in productivity relative to other regions (or they have the least disadvantage)
environmental determinism - Answers "human activities are controlled by the environment"
Who provides loans to encourage economic development - Answers the IMF (International Monetary
Fund) and WB (World Bank)
systemic - Answers attributes on a local scale can affect its attributes anywhere else globally (ex. local
CO2 emissions affect atmospheric CO2 levels)
cumulative - Answers accumulation of localized change (ex. depletion of soil nutrients, when
aggregated, reduce global agricultural productivity)
international division of labor - Answers core dominates global trade, technological development, etc
through exploitation of the periphery (specialization of particularly exportation products)
crude birth rate (CBR) - Answers ratio of # of live births per thousand people in the population every
year
crude death rate (CDR) - Answers # of deaths for every thousand people in the population every year
rate of natural increase (RNI) - Answers births minus deaths as a percent
rate of natural decrease - Answers deaths minus births as a percent
total fertility rate (TFR) - Answers average # of births per woman (15-44 years old)
