Exploring Human Geography in World News

1.     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

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

• Virtual mobility

• Absent presence

• Hyper-reality

• Representation

3. 3.Which of the following is NOT a reason for the underdevelopment of DR Congo?

• Resource curse

• Geographical location

• Corruption

• Militia and armed groups

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

• USA

• Canada

• Norway

• Japan

5.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

6.Which statement about Kurds is false?

• It is the largest nation without a state.

• Most of its population are living in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Lebanon.

• The Iraqi Kurdistan is more economically prosperous than the rest of Iraq.

• The Kurdish people have fought for a nation-state of their own for over a century.

7.Which country is not currently under war?

• Sudan

• Ukraine

• Myanmar

• Haiti

8.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

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

• Positionality

• Autoethnography

• Mindfulness

• Intertextuality

10. 10. 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