What made it possible to live in the Sunbelt comfortably?

better living conditions - Air conditioning

Ellsworth Huntington is an environmental determinist - he belives

Tropics (hot) produce lazy uneducated people

Which is a way China has controlled its population growth?

all are control devices of Chinese government

which is NOT an example of Houston's situation?

Houston is located at 29.7604° N, 95.3698° W

why are all map projections distorted?

round can't be made flat without distortion

Which is NOT one of Ravenstein's laws?

the number of people moving into area always = those leaving

largest to smallest religions

Christian, Islam, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh

son preference & female infanticide are common

The diagram shows which?

low fertility & mortality in stage 4

Who are the Angles & Normans?

Conquered England & spread language

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1
What made it possible to live in the Sunbelt comfortably?
better medicine
better living conditions - Air conditioning
better air transport
better roads
2
Why is English the most important language in North America?
France beat England in New World
war
Spanish colonialism
British colonialism
3
Hindus adopted McDonald's but not the beef hamburger is an example of
hierarchical diffusion
stimulus diffusion
reverse hierarchical diffusion
relocation diffusion
4
major Sub-Saharan language
Niger-Congo
Nilo-Saharan
Afro-Asiatic
Altaic
5
Ellsworth Huntington is an environmental determinist - he belives
people in tropical zones achieve more
climate has no impact on human ability
Tropics (hot) produce lazy uneducated people
people in the tropical (hot) zones are more productive
6
successive groups conquer an area and bring their culture to the region
sequent occupance
conformal occupance
repeated decay
successive culture
7
Within the US - after WWII - people have moved from
N to S & E to W
Midwest to S & E to N
N to S & W to E
S to N & E to W
8
highest CBR?
Zimbabwe
USA
Indonesia
China
9
religions that borrow from each other & the past are ___
complex
ecumenical
secular
syncretic
10
what is it?
Mollwiede
Robinson
Mercator
Goode's Interrupted Homosoline
11
Which is a way China has controlled its population growth?
free health care & incentives
all are control devices of Chinese government
sterilization & late marriage
heavy use of contraceptives
12
NOT true?
LDC
Stage 4 of DTM
low literacy rates for women & poor
very little need for immigrant / migrant workers in future
13
Which taboo is matched correctly?
Hinduism - no cow
Buddhism & Islam - no shellfhish
Roman Catholic - no alcohol
Judaism - no pork, no fish
14
Main job type in a MDC
quaternary
tertiary
primary
secondary
15
A revived language
Hebrew
Swahili
Persian
Serbo-Croatian
16
jobs that touch the natural resource
quaternary
secondary
tertiary
primary
17
which is NOT an example of Houston's situation?
Houston is an international port
Houston is connected to Dallas by the interstate HWY system
Houston is located at 29.7604° N, 95.3698° W
Houston's main industry is oil & gas
18
why are all map projections distorted?
earth is not a perfect sphere
round can't be made flat without distortion
latitude lines are shorter than longitude lines
parallels & meridians don't cross at straight lines
19
which is NOT a culture hearth?
Xian River Valley
Nile River Valley
Indus River Valley
Mesopotamia
20
Cause of the Lebanese civil war
Shia blew up Sunni plane
majority religion changed
France started it
ethnic groups put together that dislike each other
21
which is NOT near or at negative population growth?
Russia
Italy
Germany
UK
22
which is an ethnic religion
Islam
Judaism
Sikh
Christianity
23
Seeing a culture through the eyes of the people who live that way
ethnocentrism
assimilation
cultural appropriation
cultural relativism
24
Which is NOT Abrahamic
Buddhism
Christian
Judaism
Islam
25
Spread of which religion?
Buddhism
Islam
Confucianism
Taoism
26
Which is NOT a pillar sustainability
environment
government
economic
social
27
Which is NOT true of the population pyramid
Brazil
may need migrant workers in the future
MDC
negative population growth
28
Which is NOT one of Ravenstein's laws?
most migrants move short distances
most international migrants are single individuals
the number of people moving into area always = those leaving
rural is more likely than urban to move
29
largest to smallest religions
Christian, Buddhist, Islam, Sikh, Hindu
Islam, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Taoist
Christian, Islam, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh
Christian, Hindu, Islam, Judaism, Mormon
30
major language branch of Latin America
Spanish
Romance
Altaic
Indo-European
31
Age-Sex diagram below is a (an)
army base
college
day care center
retirement community
32
region without defined borders and based on commonly held ideas about a place
formal
perceptual
functional
33
In which part of the US are Baptists clustered?
S & SE
N & NE
Midwest
S & SW
34
Main type of job in a NIC
primary - farming
tertiary - service
secondary - manufacturing
quatenary - new knowledge
35
Gender ratio 120:100
120 is number of females
son preference & female infanticide are common
most likely in the US
large # of males won't find wives
36
what is it?
dot density map
proportional symbol
cartogram
cartogram
37
Brazil, China, Indonesia, India, and Mexico are examples of
NIC
MDC
LDC
38
The diagram shows which?
low fertility & mortality in stage 4
increasing mortality in stage 2
very low fertility in stage 1
low fertility rates in stage 2
39
please stop having babies
anti natal
post natal
neo natal
pro natal
40
How does pop culture threaten folk culture
encourages homogeneous lifestyle
technology
pushing the advancement of folk culture
encourages ethnic religions
41
Spread of which religion?
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
42
written language
literary tradition
literacy rate
lingua franca
Bible
43
Who are the Angles & Normans?
founding groups of the Indo-European language family
Sedentary farmers that spread the West German language
warrior farmers from near the Black Sea
Conquered England & spread language
44
which has the highest IMR?
China
Zimbabwe
Venezuela
Iceland
45
Major language branch of North Africa & SW Asia
Bantu
Hebrew
Afro-Asiatic
Arabic
46
migration characteristics vary with the demographic transition model
Thomas Malthus
Ellsworth Huntington
Wilbur Zelinsky
Ernst Ravenstein
47
Most immigrants in 1910 came from ___; today from ____
Germany / Syria
Germany / Mexico
England / Syria
England / Mexico
48
what is it?
distance decay
barriers to diffusion
DTM
acculturation
49
The most widespread language family in the world
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Romance
English
50
Which is NOT true of this population pyramid?
low literacy rate
Poor country
LDC
low infant mortality rate
51
spread of folk culture
contagious
stimulus
hierarchical
relocation
52
which is NOT a cultural landscape?
Muslims praying at Mecca
Mississippi River Delta and its tributaries
Jews praying at the Wailing Wall
man walking in a park
53
Thomas Malthus says food grows ____ & pop growth grows ____
cultural / ethnic
linear (arithmetic) /geometric (exponential)
declining (subducting) / increasing (additive)
arithmetic (linear) / geometric (exponential)
54
when a country's population continues to grow long after fertility rates have been largely cut
demographic momentum
gravity model
high stationary
exponential growth
55
3rd stage of DTM?
family planning
negative population growth
very high CBR & CDR
improved medical care & diet
56
number of people per square unit of farmland
physiologic
hierarchical
arithmetic
agricultural
57
What is it?
dot distribution map
dot density map
cartogram
proportional symbol map
58
how humans and the environment interact is
environmental determinism
cultural possibilism
natural science
cultural ecology
59
Spread of which religion?
Buddhism
Taoism
Sikhism
Hinduism
60
Which has the lowest population growth?
Poland
Nigeria
USA
Argentina
61
True or False - most migrants move so they can change political parties
true
false
62
popular culture is
is fragmented & heterogeneous
is rarely urban
homogeneous & cohesive
has an unknown begining
63
age sex diagram is a (an)
college
China
retirement community
army base
64
Which has NOT helped with the spread of pop culture
ethnocentrism
globalization
technology
social media
65
what is it?
Robinson
Goode's Interrupted Homosoline
Mollwiede
Mercator
66
How does diffusion of pop culture adversely impact environment
depletion of resources & pollution
reduces demand for products
using renewable resources & energy
increased diversity & product depletion
67
Which has NOT had problems caused by language?
Belgium
Nigeria
India
Mexico
68
60 year olds from NY going to Florida in winter
geriatric goers
elderfest
goldie oldie
snowbirds
69
Which is matched correctly?
Islam - Coptic & Sunni
Hindu - no branches
Christianity - Reformed, Protestant & Roman Catholic
Judaism - Orthodox, Conservative & Sufti
70
mental maps are mostly based on experiences of an individual's knowledge of a place
true
false
71
belief in natural world full of spiritual beings and supernatural powers
Atheistim
Animism
Agnostic
Shamanism
72
placelessness antonym
heterogenous
everywhere
same
homogenous
73
region where the characteristics are homogeneous
functional
formal
perceptual
74
manufacturing jobs
tertiary
secondary
primary
quaternary
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Which group is clustered in the US Southwest
Lutheran
Roman Catholic
Baptist
Morman
76
Which is NOT true of the population pyramid?
slow population growth
Core country
MDC
most jobs in manufacturing
77
layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as
GPS
GMO
GIS
GDP
78
region with a purpose / performs a service
formal
functional
perceptual
79
what is it?
cartogram
population density
isotherm or isolene
dot distribution
80
diffusion starting with the elites and trickling down to the regular people
hierarchical
contagious
reverse-hierarchical
stimulus
81
Service jobs
tertiary
secondary
quaternary
primary
82
Which is true?
low fertility rates are in LDCs
population is evenly distributed around the world
many educated women = lower fertility rates
population growth rates are the same around the world
83
nomadic warrior/herders from steppes near Black Sea that founded the Inod-European language
Celts
Anatolians
Kurgans
Normans & Angles
84
If a population is growing at 10% the doubling time would be:
1.57 years
70 years
7 years
10 years
85
age sex diagram is a (an)
LDC
army base
college town
retirement community
86
Which is a centripetal force?
ethnic protests
uneven balance btwn rich & poor
race riots
9/11 brought US together
87
which stage of the DTM?
4
2
1
3
88
what is it?
population density
isoline or isotherm
cartogram
topographic map
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Taking part of another culture w/o giving anything to the creator
assimilation
cultural appropriation
authenticity of place
commodification

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