GEOG 150 - CHAPTER 2 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026

GEOG 150 - CHAPTER 2 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026 The increasing connectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change is what we mean by a. time-space convergence. b. spatial diffusion. c. world regions. d. globalization. e. distance-decay. - Answers d Which of the following is NOT one of the critical and interdependent "three Es" of sustainable development? a. social equity b. environment c. economy d. entrepreneurialism - Answers d The core-periphery framework for explaining the world-system is based on geographic divisions that have emerged as a result of a. private economic competition. b. competition between states. c. competition between political perspectives. d. competition between religious groups. e. both private economic competition and competition between states. - Answers e While people and societies do, indeed, respond to the opportunities and constraints of their physical environments, ________ takes this to a simplistic, and often racist, extreme by claiming that people's physical, social and economic development and behavior are fundamentally the result of their physical environments. a. ecological determinism b. environmental determinism c. masculinism d. egocentrism e. ethnocentrism - Answers b A global commodity chain is the network of linkages describing a. products—from its production origins to final consumption. b. manufacturing plants—from shutting down in the core to opening in the periphery. c. transnational companies—the links between headquarters and their retail outlets. d. international loans—from initial application to final project. e. cultural trends—from its origins in the periphery to diffusion to the core. - Answers a Semiperipheral regions a. are geographically located between core regions and peripheral regions. b. currently include Japan and Scandinavia. c. often exploit peripheral regions. d. will eventually evolve to become core regions. - Answers c With the emergence of the world-system in the 16th century, European ________ reshaped the world. a. comparative advantages b. sports c. languages d. transnational corporations e. merchant capitalism - Answers e To help understand and visualize the extent and intensity of the human impact on the earth, some scientists use the concept of the human (or ecological) a. convergence. b. footprint. c. analysis. d. settlement. e. region. - Answers b Globalization a. is less relevant now than ten years ago. b. began in the early 1960s. c. has resulted in increasingly great international economic integration. d. has decreased interdependence. - Answers c The concept of import substitution is best characterized as a. purchasing imported goods to replace locally produced goods. b. changing suppliers of imported goods. c. exporting and importing the same type of product. d. manufacturing goods that had previously been imported or available through trading. - Answers d Until the Industrial Revolution of the late 1700s, the volume and velocity of world trade were constrained by technologies limited to those based on a. oil, plastics and roads. b. human labor and animal power. c. wood, wind and water. d. coal, steel and rail. - Answers c The global scope and activity of the global financial system has been made possible in large part by a. the global decline of communism. b. the strength of the U.S. dollar. c. policies of the World Bank. d. new information technologies. - Answers d Colonialism always results in ________ domination of a foreign society by the colonizing power. a. political b. legal c. cultural d. religious e. both political and legal - Answers e Faced with problems associated with the law of diminishing returns, world-empires characteristically ________ in order to feed and provide for their populations. a. colonized nearby lands b. established trade relations with countries having comparative advantages c. imported slave labor d. regularly invented new technologies e. promoted import substitution - Answers a Globalization of the last 3-4 decades is characterized by a significant increase in all of the following except a. the importance of local communities and national governments. b. the influence of transnational rules and organizations. c. the expansion and intensification of linkages and flows of capital, people, goods, ideas and cultures across national borders. d. the transnational scope of global economic and cultural activities. e. both the influence of transnational rules and organization and the importance of local communities and national governments. - Answers a The core regions of the modern world-system a. dominate world trade. b. became core regions by refusing to engage in imperialism. c. are primarily in the southern hemisphere. d. tend to have low per-capita incomes. e. both dominate world trade and tend to have low per-capita incomes. - Answers a According to Knox and Marston, globalization of the last 25 years is linked to all of the following except a. new international division of labor. b. internationalization of finance. c. emergence of new technology systems. d. growth and homogenization of consumer markets. e. end of neocolonialism. - Answers e Neocolonialism a. is not connected with transnational corporations. b. has been supplanted by globalization. c. is generally not considered exploitative. d. allows core states to maintain significant influence over periphery states. e. has been supplanted by globalization and is generally not considered exploitative. - Answers d Plantations established to exploit labor and resources in the periphery are geared toward a. staple crops like corn and potatoes. b. industrial crops like hemp, flax and sunflowers. c. high value crops like indigo, sugar and cocoa. d. mixed fruits and vegetables like tomatoes and apples. e. both staple crops like corn and potatoes and high value crops like indigo, sugar, and cocoa. - Answers c