GEOG 150 - CHAPTER 6 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026
children had to spend more time gathering firewood, they missed more school - Answers How were
children affected when a Sudanese village changed from subsistence farming to cash-crop cultivation?
historians work with written documents - Answers Geographers work with landscapes in ways similar
to the way that _______.
consumption - Answers What is the most central element of postmodernity?
spaces and places - Answers Territoriality helps helps us understand how rules, laws and the exercise
of power have become associated with
node - Answers In somebody's cognitive image of the United States, it is least likely that the
Mississippi River is a(n)
the Pentagon - Answers The best example of a landscape of power as discussed in our text is
proxemics - Answers A study of the social and cultural meanings that people give to personal space -
for example, how near or distant you like to sit near others in class - is known as
topophilia - Answers The longing and ongoing attachments that a migrant may have to her home land
is an example of
an individual's - Answers The humanistic approach in geography emphasizes ________ values,
meanings, intentions and behaviors.
semiotics - Answers Reading, writing and recognizing signs and symbols (such as those that are
written into landscapes) is known as
semiotics - Answers A university or college is very concerned with how prospective students react
when they are on campus for a visit. Thus, even if they do not fully recognize it, the school is very
aware of the importance of
Vulgaria - Answers An SUV in a high-end suburban megachurch parking lot, surrounded by box stores
is a classic landscape most likely seen in
ordinary landscape - Answers The trailer park and the suburb are examples of
role reversal - Answers Globalization in the form of the new production of irrigated cash crops
brought this change to the rural Sudanese village studied by geographer Cindi Katz:
landscape as text - Answers holds that some people actively shape the landscape
semiotics - Answers The practice of writing and reading signs is called
post modernity - Answers Most observers of cultural change think that we now live in the age of
representative of a desirable lifestyle - Answers During the 1970s and 1980s, advertising strategies
began shifting towards presenting products as
degenerative utopias - Answers David Harvey calls inauthentic "historic" settings based on a mix of
stereotypes and questionable historical realities - such as fake cowboy towns and recreations of old
Venice -
restaurants - Answers According to our text, ________ have emerged as significant cultural sites in
the trend toward the consumption of experiences, the accumulation of symbolic goods, and place-
making.
Cindi Katz - Answers women who researchs with Sudan w/ 10 year olds to discover how they aquired
environmental knowledge
territoriality - Answers refers to the persistent attachment of individuals or ppls to a specific
location/territory
ethology - Answers the scientific study of the formation and evolution of human coustums and beliefs
proxemics - Answers the study of the social and cultural meanings that ppl give to personal space
(towel on the beach, seat in classroom)
lifeworld - Answers the taken-for-granted pattern and context through which ppl conduct their day-
to-day lives w/o having to make it an object of consious attenetion
"structure of feeling" - Answers a sociocultural fram of reference generated amoung ppl as a result of
the experience and memories that they associate with a particular place
paths - Answers the channels along which they and others move (ex: streets, walkways, transit lines,
canals)
edges - Answers barriers that seperate one area from another (ex: shorelines, walls, railroad tracks)
districts - Answers areas with an identifiable character (physical or cultural) that ppl mentally "enter"
and "leave (ex: a business district or an ethnic neighborhood)
nodes - Answers strategic points & foci for travel (street corners, traffic junction, city squares)
children had to spend more time gathering firewood, they missed more school - Answers How were
children affected when a Sudanese village changed from subsistence farming to cash-crop cultivation?
historians work with written documents - Answers Geographers work with landscapes in ways similar
to the way that _______.
consumption - Answers What is the most central element of postmodernity?
spaces and places - Answers Territoriality helps helps us understand how rules, laws and the exercise
of power have become associated with
node - Answers In somebody's cognitive image of the United States, it is least likely that the
Mississippi River is a(n)
the Pentagon - Answers The best example of a landscape of power as discussed in our text is
proxemics - Answers A study of the social and cultural meanings that people give to personal space -
for example, how near or distant you like to sit near others in class - is known as
topophilia - Answers The longing and ongoing attachments that a migrant may have to her home land
is an example of
an individual's - Answers The humanistic approach in geography emphasizes ________ values,
meanings, intentions and behaviors.
semiotics - Answers Reading, writing and recognizing signs and symbols (such as those that are
written into landscapes) is known as
semiotics - Answers A university or college is very concerned with how prospective students react
when they are on campus for a visit. Thus, even if they do not fully recognize it, the school is very
aware of the importance of
Vulgaria - Answers An SUV in a high-end suburban megachurch parking lot, surrounded by box stores
is a classic landscape most likely seen in
ordinary landscape - Answers The trailer park and the suburb are examples of
role reversal - Answers Globalization in the form of the new production of irrigated cash crops
brought this change to the rural Sudanese village studied by geographer Cindi Katz:
landscape as text - Answers holds that some people actively shape the landscape
semiotics - Answers The practice of writing and reading signs is called
post modernity - Answers Most observers of cultural change think that we now live in the age of
representative of a desirable lifestyle - Answers During the 1970s and 1980s, advertising strategies
began shifting towards presenting products as
degenerative utopias - Answers David Harvey calls inauthentic "historic" settings based on a mix of
stereotypes and questionable historical realities - such as fake cowboy towns and recreations of old
Venice -
restaurants - Answers According to our text, ________ have emerged as significant cultural sites in
the trend toward the consumption of experiences, the accumulation of symbolic goods, and place-
making.
Cindi Katz - Answers women who researchs with Sudan w/ 10 year olds to discover how they aquired
environmental knowledge
territoriality - Answers refers to the persistent attachment of individuals or ppls to a specific
location/territory
ethology - Answers the scientific study of the formation and evolution of human coustums and beliefs
proxemics - Answers the study of the social and cultural meanings that ppl give to personal space
(towel on the beach, seat in classroom)
lifeworld - Answers the taken-for-granted pattern and context through which ppl conduct their day-
to-day lives w/o having to make it an object of consious attenetion
"structure of feeling" - Answers a sociocultural fram of reference generated amoung ppl as a result of
the experience and memories that they associate with a particular place
paths - Answers the channels along which they and others move (ex: streets, walkways, transit lines,
canals)
edges - Answers barriers that seperate one area from another (ex: shorelines, walls, railroad tracks)
districts - Answers areas with an identifiable character (physical or cultural) that ppl mentally "enter"
and "leave (ex: a business district or an ethnic neighborhood)
nodes - Answers strategic points & foci for travel (street corners, traffic junction, city squares)
