[pic] College of Natural Sciences Course Final Exam

GEO/215 Geography

Exam Instruction: You must respond to the 5 questions posted below. Please support your responses with reading materials or points from class discussions from the entire 5 weeks of class. Each question should include a 200-250 word response. This exam is worth 15 points.

1. How does human culture affect geography? Which cultures do you believe have had the most significant influence on geography? I would have to say that humans affect geography greatly because as we tend to live on this earth we adapt and change things where we go. Some of these changes tend to have great affects to the earth and to others who share the earth with us. We tend to cut forest down which has an affect on green gasses put into the atmosphere, we make other changes which is starting to affect global warming and making natural disasters stronger which is affecting where we live. I do now believe that human culture has the most significant influence on geography because of the way we have been altering things throughout history though we think were making it better for ourselves there is always some consequences to deal with but we don’t realize it until further down the road by that time its sometimes too late.

2. What are at least three geographic or cultural factors that would stop one country’s culture from spreading and mixing into another country’s culture? Provide a solution for each factor identified. I think that one factor that would change or stop one countries culture from spreading would have to be traveling, if no one was traveling to the country the culture would never be learned or spread from country to