Exploring Human Geography in World News

2. 1. Which term describes the phenomenon that “the copies are more important and realistic than their originals”?

• Virtual mobility

• Absent presence

• Hyper-reality

• Representation

2. Which term refers to “particular groupings of people that have been violently forced to leave their homeland, because they are racially, ethnically, or religiously different from those in power”?

• Refugee

• Internally dispersed population

• Tourist

• Diaspora

4. 3.Which country is NOT a key player in the geopolitics of the Arctic?

• USA

• China

• Norway

• Germany

4.Which development approach believes that “the underdevelopment of Southern countries is a result of their internal problems (e.g. political corruption, lack of technologies and knowledge)”?

• Structuralism

• Dependency theories

• Modernization

• Neoliberalism

5. Where is the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous migration routes in the world?

• Between Mexico and the USA

• Between Panama and Colombia

• Between Honduras and Guatemala

• Between Venezuela and Guyana

6. Which one is NOT the strategy to practice reflectivity in human geography?

• Positionality

• Autoethnography

• Mindfulness

• Intertextuality

10. 7. Which concept denotes “the exercise of state power over people and territory; that power is recognized by other states and codified by international law”?

• Nationalism

•    Sovereignty

• Nation-state

• Governance

8.Which one is the focus of geographical studies on ‘space’?

• Space as a form of resistance.

• The interrelated nature of social and spatial phenomena.

• The co-construction of people and place.

• All of the above.

9.Which way of thinking local-global relations reflects the idea that “the local is global, and the global is local”?

• The world as mosaic

• The world as network

• The world as system

• The world as circle

10.Which statement about ‘identity’ is NOT supported by human geographers?

• Identity is socially constructed.

• Identity is plural.

• Identity is fixed.

•   Identity is relational (i.e. in relation to other people).