Exam Prep Testbank The Humanized Environment Ch13

Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture, 12^th Edition

Chapter 13 Testbank: The Humanized Environment

Multiple Choice

1. A tsunami’s waves result from

a. tidal conditions.

b. high storm winds called “tsunamis.”

c. earthquake displacement of the seafloor.

d. periodic floods.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

2. The plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific plate are called the _____________, a tectonically active region of volcanoes and earthquakes.

a. Pacific Ring

b. Volcanic Arc

c. Zone of Activity

d. Ring of Fire

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

3. A ______________ forms where a denser oceanic plate descends under less dense continental plate.

a. volcano

b. hydrologic cycle

c. subduction zone

d. continental drift

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

4. Where tectonic plates diverge, magma moves to the surface from the upper mantle, creating new crust and volcanic activity in a process called

a. eruption

b. subduction

c. convergence

d. seafloor spreading

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

5. ____________ are seismic sea waves that result from an underwater earthquake or volcano.

a. Deserts

b. Tsunamis

c. Ice caps

d. Magma

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

6. What percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?

a. 90

b. 70

c. 50

d. 20

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

7. Through ___________, plants take in carbon dioxide from the air, water, and sunlight and produce oxygen, which humans need to breathe.

a. subduction

b. photosynthesis

c. respiration

d. osmosis

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

8. About _____ percent of Earth’s water is saltwater.

1. 97.5
2. 95
3. 90
4. 91.5

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

9. During periods of ____________, more water is in the form of ice in glaciers at higher latitudes and elevations.

1. soil formation
2. sedimentation
3. glaciation
4. warming

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

10. With no warning system, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 killed more than ____________ people.

1. 90,000
2. 150,000.
3. 30,000.
4. 230,000

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

11. A _____________ happens when excessive rain or melt water from snow overflows rivers, fills dry riverbeds, and causes a rapid rise in water levels.

1. tsunami
2. flash flood
3. mudslide
4. reservoir

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

12. In the current era, almost _____ percent of freshwater is in glaciers and ice caps.

a. 69

b. 30

c. 1.2

d. 20

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

13. The _________________ is the current geologic time period when humans are the dominant influence on climate and environment.

1. Pliocene
2. Anthropocene
3. Holocene
4. Miocene

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

14. ___________ is the ways people use land resources for specific purposes.

1. Water use
2. Land use
3. Resource extraction
4. Land cover

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

15. _______________ refers to what is on the ground, such as grasses, trees, or pavement.

1. Land use
2. Growing area
3. Land cover
4. Earth

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

16. _____________________ uses significant capital investments, including in fertilizer, pesticides, and machinery, relative to the amount of land farmed.

a. Subsistence agriculture

b. Intensive agriculture

c. Animal husbandry

d. Aquaculture

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

17. The destruction of vast tracts of forest, typically cause by clearing forestland for agriculture or livestock use, is called _________________.

1. salinization
2. desertification
3. deforestation
4. glaciation

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

18. Palm oil production is having the biggest impact on __________________.

1. Thailand
2. Australia
3. Malaysia and Papua New Guinea
4. Indonesia and Malaysia

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

19. Resources that are replenished as they are being used are ______________________.

1. nonrenewable resources
2. renewable resources
3. human resources
4. mineral resources

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

20. Resources that are present in finite quantities are ____________________.

1. nonrenewable resources
2. renewable resources
3. water resources
4. human resources

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

21. About _____ percent of the plastic used by humans ends up in the ocean each year, and the amount is compounding quickly.

1. 25
2. 50
3. 15
4. 10

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

22. ___________________ is the biggest of the garbage gyres and forms around the high-pressure cell in the northern Pacific Ocean.

1. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
2. The mid-latitude gyre
3. The Midway Atoll
4. The subtropical gyre

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

23. The _________________ does not consider the norms of water in arid regions of the world.

1. jet stream shift.
2. hydrologic cycle.
3. cyclonic system shift.
4. upper air circulation.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

24. The __________________ better accounts for human water use and the built environment than the hydrologic cycle, which leaves out the role of humans.

1. precipitation model
2. global water system diagram
3. hydrologic cycle
4. law of water conservation

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

25. One of the great ecological disasters of the twentieth century occurred in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and involves the

1. Black Sea.
2. Lake Baikal.
3. Aral Sea.
4. Caspian Sea.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how climate change is impacting human-environment interactions.

26. Increasingly, people in many areas

1. are unsure of sustainable supplies of water.
2. are sure of plentiful supplies of water.
3. rely on water only from streams and rivers.
4. receive their water only from bottled sources.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective: Explain how climate change is impacting human-environment interactions.

27. Geographers have found that countries facing growing water concerns tend toward _____________ instead of political violence.

1. corruption
2. civil protest
3. cooperation
4. conflict

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how climate change is impacting human-environment interactions.

28. Which of the following is not one of the key “greenhouse” gasses?

1. carbon dioxide
2. methane
3. nitrous oxides
4. ozone

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective: Explain how climate change is impacting human-environment interactions.

29. _________________ is one method used to reach natural gas deposits in shale.

1. Water drilling
2. Hydraulic fracking
3. Offshore drilling
4. Liquefaction

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

30. In Inner Mongolia, China, the extraction of rare earth elements at the Bayan Obo mine alone accounts for _____ percent of the world’s supply.

1. 50
2. 60
3. 40
4. 20

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how climate change is impacting human-environment interactions.

31. __________________ are examples of actions that cause environmental stress.

a. The cutting of forests and emitting of pollutants into the atmosphere

b. Mountain top mining and the dumping of garbage into the ocean

c. The damming of rivers and cutting of canals

d. all of the above

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

32. The highest densities of coal and oil burning, which causes acid rain, are associated with large concentrations of heavy manufacturing, such as those in

1. Western Europe and the United States.
2. coastal South America and Asia.
3. Eastern Europe and East Asia.
4. the Southern Hemisphere.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

33. Forests affect the atmosphere through their role in (the)

1. global warming.
2. production of CO2.
3. desertification.
4. oxygen cycle.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

34. A major motivator for deforestation in Indonesia is the production of ___________.

1. cattle
2. coconut oil
3. palm oil
4. sugar cane

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

35. Between 2000 and 2013, _____ percent of all human caused greenhouse gases released into Earth’s atmosphere came from tropical deforestation.

1. 10
2. 15
3. 5
4. 25

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

36. The United States is the most prolific producer of solid waste. Studies estimate that the U.S. produces about ____ pounds of solid waste per person per day.

1. 2.5
2. 4.87
3. 3.5
4. 7.3

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

37. ______________ is the variety of plants and animals on Earth or in a specific area.

1. Habitat
2. Biodiversity
3. Ecology

d. Botany

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

38. Countries negotiated the ________________ in 1989, a treaty designed to regulate global waste export.

a) Waste Alliance

b) Kyoto Protocol

c) Paris Accord

d) Basel Convention

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

39. ___________ describes a field of study that considers the roles of political economics, power, and history in shaping human environmental interactions.

a) Geopolitics

b) Politics

c) Political ecology

d) Economics

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

40. About __________liters of water are required to produce one kilogram of beef.

a) 100

b) 1,000

c) 15,000

d) 150,000

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

41. _____________ make a far greater demand on the Earth’s resources than most.

a. Semi-peripheral countries

b. Core countries

c. Peripheral countries

d. All countries

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

42. Residents of the eastern United States face economic loss risks and natural disasters in what form?

a. drought

b. hydrological

c. geophysical

d. drought and/or geophysical

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

43. The _________________ is the impact a person or country has on the environment.

a. ecological imprint

b. carbon imprint

c. water imprint

d. cultural imprint

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

44. “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” is how the 1987 Brundtland Report defined:

1. sustainable development
2. the New Green Deal
3. political ecology
4. the green revolution

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

45. The political map

a. does not reflect the geography of environmental issues

b. reflects how environmental issues do not cross borders

c. shows the impact of humans on the environment

d. does not reflect the location of countries in relation to one another

Difficulty: Hard

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

46. Until 2018, China imported more than _____ percent of the world’s waste.

a. 90

b. 30

c. 50

d. 70

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

47. A European country that banned plastic bags in response to China’s waste ban included

1. Germany.
2. Italy.
3. England.
4. Belgium.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

48 Waste on Mt. Everest is significantly impacting ______________ for locals.

1. health
2. soil quality
3. water quality
4. air quality

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

49. The Basel Convention

a. addresses US-Japan trade imbalances.

b. addresses Japan-European trade imbalances.

c. addresses Asian deforestation.

d. addresses global waste export.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

50. In 2017, which countries had per capita emissions of carbon dioxide of less than one metric ton?

a) United States and Australia

b) New Zealand and Sudan

c) United Kingdom and Japan

d) Somalia and Kenya

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain how climate change is impacting human-environment interactions.

True or False

51. The Earth’s environment has been changed little throughout the past 15,000 years.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective: Identify the ways that humans impact earth through land use, water use, and resource extraction.

52. A natural hazard becomes a natural disaster when it causes damage and loss of life.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

53. A natural disaster map highlights the places in the world most susceptible to natural disasters.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

54. The Earth’s lithosphere is broken into approximately 15 major plates and several minor plates.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Comprehension

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

55. Tsunamis are seismic sea waves that result from an underwater earthquake or volcano.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

56. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale occurred along a subduction zone off the coast of Japan.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

57. About 97.5 percent of Earth’s water is saltwater.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

58. The U.S., European Union and Japan export solid waste to countries in Africa, South and Middle America, and East Asia.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

59. About a dozen states in the United States, mostly on the east coast, have reached capacity in their sanitary landfills.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

60. Mortality risk from natural disaster is greatest in developed countries.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain what natural hazards are and how natural hazards can become natural disasters.

61. Oil is a finite resource.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

62. Modes of transportation represent some of the most important technological advances, with profound environmental impact, in human history.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

63. A majority of rare earth elements today are found in China.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Knowledge

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

64. When it comes to environmental change, population numbers alone do not have the same meaning in all places.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

65. In the world today, there are many international policy-making bodies with significant authority over multinational environmental spaces.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Application

Learning Objective: Explain how climate change is impacting human-environment interactions.

Essay

66. Discuss the diffusion of plastic waste globally. What can we learn about human pressure on the environment and core-periphery relations?

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

67. One of the effects of global warming and environmental change is a shift in precipitation patterns and amounts; most of the latter would probably be a reduction in annual totals. Based on your knowledge of your home area or regions, what do you think would be the result of such a shift on life in your home region?

Difficulty: Hard

Blooms: Synthesis

Learning Objective: Explain how climate change is impacting human-environment interactions.

68. List some of the causes of deforestation. Analyze the implications of this destruction. What could humanity lose when the rain forests are gone?

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

69. Explain some of the trends in global biodiversity been in the past few centuries? Identify the causes of loss of biodiversity and analyze some potential implications.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

70. Analyze and discuss some of the reasons that many environmental problems are now considered global rather simply regional or local in nature, citing several examples.

Difficulty: Medium

Blooms: Analysis

Learning Objective: Explain how human consumption is changing the scale of human impact and challenging sustainability.

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