Question 1

In political ecology, the vulnerability of households to environmental hazards can often be linked to what?

Accepted Answer

A)  corporate profitability 
B)  deforestation 
C)  irregular food supply 
D)  drought 
A)  corporate profitability 
B)  deforestation 
C)  irregular food supply 
D)  drought A

Question 2

Why is the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans in 2005 NOT considered a natural disaster by the text?

Accepted Answer

A)  Its levees were adequately built and maintained, but the storm was just too strong. 
B)  Local environment was satisfactorily managed, maintaining protective marshlands. 
C)  Its navigation canal was inappropriate infrastructure and worsened inland flooding. 
D)  The most vulnerable local citizens had the best emergency response in the city. 
A)  Its levees were adequately built and maintained, but the storm was just too strong. 
B)  Local environment was satisfactorily managed, maintaining protective marshlands. 
C)  Its navigation canal was inappropriate infrastructure and worsened inland flooding. 
D)  The most vulnerable local citizens had the best emergency response in the city. C

Question 3

What term describes the complicated text that tells us who has power, as well as how and why that power is wielded?

Accepted Answer

A)  culture 
B)  landscape 
C)  national identity 
D)  history 
A)  culture 
B)  landscape 
C)  national identity 
D)  history B

Question 4

What is often reflected most in complicated landscape texts?

Accepted Answer

A)  dominant culture 
B)  labor processes 
C)  alternative culture 
D)  personal memories 
A)  dominant culture 
B)  labor processes 
C)  alternative culture 
D)  personal memories

Question 5

As incomes _____, the priority placed on environmental quality _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  decrease; increases 
B)  increase; decreases 
C)  decrease; decreases 
D)  increase; increases 
A)  decrease; increases 
B)  increase; decreases 
C)  decrease; decreases 
D)  increase; increases

Question 6

What was the context whereby particularities of place as spiritual significance were replaced by the generality of market space?

Accepted Answer

A)  commodified agriculture 
B)  urban industrialization 
C)  hunter-gatherer societies 
D)  colonialism 
A)  commodified agriculture 
B)  urban industrialization 
C)  hunter-gatherer societies 
D)  colonialism

Question 7

When people began to grow more food to sell rather than for sustenance, a shift in the idea of land as _____ to land as _____ occurred.

Accepted Answer

A)  a sustainable commodity; a vehicle for growth 
B)  fertile nature; degraded environment 
C)  a source of meaning and identity; a commodity 
D)  free and accessible to all; private and inaccessible 
A)  a sustainable commodity; a vehicle for growth 
B)  fertile nature; degraded environment 
C)  a source of meaning and identity; a commodity 
D)  free and accessible to all; private and inaccessible

Question 8

Erle Ellis and colleagues argue that we are now in a new geological age called _____________, which indicates the profound and fundamental restructuring caused by human agency.

Accepted Answer

A)  Holocene 
B)  Pleistocene 
C)  Miocene 
D)  Anthropocene 
A)  Holocene 
B)  Pleistocene 
C)  Miocene 
D)  Anthropocene

Question 9

What is considered perhaps the most influential factor in the cause of global warming?

Accepted Answer

A)  heavy use of fossil fuels 
B)  deforestation 
C)  deteriorating air quality 
D)  desertification 
A)  heavy use of fossil fuels 
B)  deforestation 
C)  deteriorating air quality 
D)  desertification

Question 10

What or whom do the Iroquois refer to when they say the "Three Sisters?"

Accepted Answer

A)  corn, beans, and squash 
B)  sun, moon, and stars 
C)  Earth, water, air 
D)  plants, animals, and land 
A)  corn, beans, and squash 
B)  sun, moon, and stars 
C)  Earth, water, air 
D)  plants, animals, and land

Question 11

What is NOT true about the impact of hazards and disasters?

Accepted Answer

A)  Disasters do not affect everyone equally. 
B)  Disasters kill more women than men. 
C)  Disasters kill more men than women. 
D)  Disasters kill more poor people than wealthy. 
A)  Disasters do not affect everyone equally. 
B)  Disasters kill more women than men. 
C)  Disasters kill more men than women. 
D)  Disasters kill more poor people than wealthy.

Question 12

What is commodified agriculture?

Accepted Answer

A)  land as a source for meaning 
B)  growing crops for sustenance 
C)  land as a resource for people 
D)  growing crops for income 
A)  land as a source for meaning 
B)  growing crops for sustenance 
C)  land as a resource for people 
D)  growing crops for income

Question 13

What type of social grouping was most connected to the environment as a living organism filled with sustenance, spiritual meaning, and cosmological significance?

Accepted Answer

A)  hunter-gatherers 
B)  agriculturalists 
C)  city-dwellers 
D)  human sacrifices 
A)  hunter-gatherers 
B)  agriculturalists 
C)  city-dwellers 
D)  human sacrifices

Question 14

What example best illustrates how environments are socially constructed as people and groups give meaning to spaces and places, as well as how built environments change over time?

Accepted Answer

A)  Green spaces increase peoples' self-reported levels of physical and mental health. 
B)  In Tunis, the French built the central avenue, which was renamed for each political era. 
C)  Social environments and contexts often have specific behaviors and dress encoded. 
D)  In dense public urban spaces, people are less likely to help another person in distress. 
A)  Green spaces increase peoples' self-reported levels of physical and mental health. 
B)  In Tunis, the French built the central avenue, which was renamed for each political era. 
C)  Social environments and contexts often have specific behaviors and dress encoded. 
D)  In dense public urban spaces, people are less likely to help another person in distress.

Question 15

What term describes an area of study that looks at the relationships between socioeconomic factors and environmental factors?

Accepted Answer

A)  social environment 
B)  political geography 
C)  political ecology 
D)  economic ecology 
A)  social environment 
B)  political geography 
C)  political ecology 
D)  economic ecology

Question 16

What is rewilding?

Accepted Answer

A)  Identify core reserves 
B)  reintroduction of predators 
C)  creation of migratory corridors 
D)  all of these 
A)  Identify core reserves 
B)  reintroduction of predators 
C)  creation of migratory corridors 
D)  all of these

Question 17

In the Arctic, what is causing the opening of new shipping routes, easier access to natural resources, and the opportunity to project a military presence?

Accepted Answer

A)  geopolitical alliances 
B)  natural hazards 
C)  regional breakdown 
D)  climate change 
A)  geopolitical alliances 
B)  natural hazards 
C)  regional breakdown 
D)  climate change

Question 18

What is the environment?

Accepted Answer

A)  A source of economic opportunity 
B)  A background to individual and collective lives 
C)  A repository of meaning that affects human activity 
D)  all of these 
A)  A source of economic opportunity 
B)  A background to individual and collective lives 
C)  A repository of meaning that affects human activity 
D)  all of these

Question 19

What was found to cause land use changes in Colombia from 1500-2000?

Accepted Answer

A)  invasive species 
B)  political and economic change 
C)  an El Niño phenomenon 
D)  cultural and social change 
A)  invasive species 
B)  political and economic change 
C)  an El Niño phenomenon 
D)  cultural and social change

Question 20

What led to the shift from sacred space to productive space?

Accepted Answer

A)  changes to hunting-gathering way of life 
B)  a willingness to sacrifice 
C)  multi-crop farming on the same field 
D)  rituals that impacted fertility of the land 
A)  changes to hunting-gathering way of life 
B)  a willingness to sacrifice 
C)  multi-crop farming on the same field 
D)  rituals that impacted fertility of the land

In political ecology, the vulnerability of households to environmental hazards can often be linked to what?

Why is the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans in 2005 NOT considered a natural disaster by the text?

What term describes the complicated text that tells us who has power, as well as how and why that power is wielded?

What is often reflected most in complicated landscape texts?

As incomes _, the priority placed on environmental quality _.

What was the context whereby particularities of place as spiritual significance were replaced by the generality of market space?

When people began to grow more food to sell rather than for sustenance, a shift in the idea of land as _ to land as _ occurred.

Erle Ellis and colleagues argue that we are now in a new geological age called _____________, which indicates the profound and fundamental restructuring caused by human agency.

What is considered perhaps the most influential factor in the cause of global warming?

What or whom do the Iroquois refer to when they say the "Three Sisters?"

What is NOT true about the impact of hazards and disasters?

What is commodified agriculture?

What type of social grouping was most connected to the environment as a living organism filled with sustenance, spiritual meaning, and cosmological significance?

What example best illustrates how environments are socially constructed as people and groups give meaning to spaces and places, as well as how built environments change over time?

What term describes an area of study that looks at the relationships between socioeconomic factors and environmental factors?

What is rewilding?

In the Arctic, what is causing the opening of new shipping routes, easier access to natural resources, and the opportunity to project a military presence?

What is the environment?

What was found to cause land use changes in Colombia from 1500-2000?

What led to the shift from sacred space to productive space?

The Home Planet

The Nature of Geography

Population Dynamics

Population and Food

Population and Resources

The Geography of Three Economic Sectors

The Economic Geography of Uneven Development

The Geography of Population

The Geography of Religion

The Geography of Language

Creating a Global Economy

The Global Geography of Culture

World Orders

The Nation-State

The Urban Transformation

Networks of Cities

The Internal Structure of the City

Filters

Exam 6: People and the Environment

In political ecology, the vulnerability of households to environmental hazards can often be linked to what?

Why is the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans in 2005 NOT considered a natural disaster by the text?

What term describes the complicated text that tells us who has power, as well as how and why that power is wielded?

What is often reflected most in complicated landscape texts?

As incomes _____, the priority placed on environmental quality _____.

What was the context whereby particularities of place as spiritual significance were replaced by the generality of market space?

When people began to grow more food to sell rather than for sustenance, a shift in the idea of land as _____ to land as _____ occurred.

Erle Ellis and colleagues argue that we are now in a new geological age called _____________, which indicates the profound and fundamental restructuring caused by human agency.

What is considered perhaps the most influential factor in the cause of global warming?

What or whom do the Iroquois refer to when they say the "Three Sisters?"

What is NOT true about the impact of hazards and disasters?

What is commodified agriculture?

What type of social grouping was most connected to the environment as a living organism filled with sustenance, spiritual meaning, and cosmological significance?

What example best illustrates how environments are socially constructed as people and groups give meaning to spaces and places, as well as how built environments change over time?

What term describes an area of study that looks at the relationships between socioeconomic factors and environmental factors?

What is rewilding?

In the Arctic, what is causing the opening of new shipping routes, easier access to natural resources, and the opportunity to project a military presence?

What is the environment?

What was found to cause land use changes in Colombia from 1500-2000?

What led to the shift from sacred space to productive space?

The Home Planet

The Nature of Geography

Population Dynamics

Population and Food

Population and Resources

The Geography of Three Economic Sectors

The Economic Geography of Uneven Development

The Geography of Population

The Geography of Religion

The Geography of Language

Creating a Global Economy

The Global Geography of Culture

World Orders

The Nation-State

The Urban Transformation

Networks of Cities

The Internal Structure of the City

Filters

As incomes _, the priority placed on environmental quality _.

When people began to grow more food to sell rather than for sustenance, a shift in the idea of land as _ to land as _ occurred.