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What is the hearth of local culture?
What is placelessness?
‘Mr. Kingett's APHG 2(B) Mid-term review’
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What is placelessness?
A place where local culture is prominent
The loss of uniqueness of a place
A place where popular culture is prominent
The landscape of a particular place
2
What is the hearth of local culture?
The region's resources
A religion
An ancestral founder
None of the above
3
What is a hearth?
A loss of uniqueness of a place
A type of diffusion
A type of culture
A point of origin of a culture
4
Which of the following is not an example of a vernacular/perceptual region?
The Pacific Ocean
The Deep South
The Middle East
Appalachia
5
The diaspora of the Jews after the destruction of Jerusalem led many Jews to move to
The Middle East
India
The Iberian Penninsula
The United States
6
Who established the fifth urban hearth?
The Chavin
The Olmec
The Maya
The Inca
7
Archaeologists found evidence of early agriculture around
12,000-14,000 years ago
9,000-11,000 years ago
10,000-12,000 years ago
11,000-13,000 years ago
8
Type of region is defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within?
Vernacular
Functional
Formal
Perpetual
9
What is Greece considered?
The seventh urban hearth
A secondary hearth
An urban hearth
An agricultural hearth
10
Complete the following analogy: Hindi is to India as __________________
Austrian is to Austria
Russian is to Ukraine
Mandarin is to China
Celtic is to Denmark
11
An example of an indigenous religion is
Mormonism
Baptism
Hinduism
Shamanism
12
Of the world’s 14 million Jews, … live in the United States.
35%
5%
40.5%
55%
13
Zionism fully realized would result in a
Heterogeneous Society
Globalization
Chain Migration
Homogeneous Society
14
What does NGO stand for?
Non Governmental Organization
Neutral Governing Organization
National Governing Operative
Not Going Outside
15
“Viral” Youtube videos is an example of what type of diffusion?
Hierarchical
Stimulus
Hearth
Contagious
16
Which of the following is not a cultural element that has been commodified?
Hawaiian Luaus
Language
Moccasins
Russian dolls
17
Which of the following is true of popular culture?
is practiced among a homogenous group of people in the world
is more static than folk culture
incorporates traits that diffuse quickly to many places
spreads primarily by relocation diffusion
18
Linguistic diffusion is often the result of __________
Innovation
None of the Above
Common origin
Conquest and migration
19
Of the many 1000's of different languages spoken by prehistoric humans, what number remain?
1000
600
Over 6000
2500
20
What is vertical integration?
A company owns all/most points along a commodity chain
A company that operates in nearly all major countries
Allowing people to obtain the same means of communication
Integrating technology into a society on a wide scale
21
Local cultures are propelled into popular culture in all these ways except?
Diffusion
Reterritorialization
They are commodified
Opinion Leaders
22
How are cultures seen in the landscapes?
Commodification
Cultural Landscapes
Placelessness
Hearths
23
What does CSA stand for?
Community Supported Agriculture
Citizen Support Alliance
Chickens Standing Alone
Controlled Supply Act
24
What is a Washington consensus?
The movement to have DC recognized as a state
Label used to describe certain fundamentals of free trade.
The agreement between the UK & the US ending the Revolution
The recognition of the USA as a global superpower
25
Christian and Muslim Africans in African countries where the faith is relatively new...
Still adhere to elements of traditional African religions
Are actually atheists
Practice Buddhism as well
Disdain fellow Christians/Muslims who practice superstition
26
The Muslim countries with the lowest percentages of Muslim inhabitants in Africa are in the
Northwest
Center
Northeast
South
27
What do the languages of English, Spanish and Hindi have in common?
All three are spoken where they are due to colonialism
All three derive from the Afro-Asiatic language family
All three are in the Indo-European language family
They are all spoken in the same countries
28
What is the backbone of economic globalization?
International tariffs
Trade
Commercial Industries (like clothing stores, restaurants)
When your friend gives you money.
29
Religious Extremists include people from
All of the above
Islam
Judaism
Christianity
30
Which of the following comprise material culture?
Beliefs
Manners
Dress
Aesthetics
31
Buddhism started to grow rapidly when … converted to Buddhism.
Emperor Ashoka
Emperor Theravada
Emporer Gyatso
Emperor Punjab
32
Which of the following is not a theme of geography?
Region
Place
Location
Diffusion
33
What is globalization?
The want for a global culture
A term used to describe diffusion in the Age of Exploration
Interacting with nations increasing relations across borders
The motive of countries that primarily seek global control.
34
A map showing word usage boundaries uses ______ to illustrate where one word is most often used
Isoglosses
Contour Lines
Topographic Lines
Color Coding
35
An example of an interfaith boundary is
Catholics and Huguenots
Christian and Muslim
Sunni and Shi’tes
Baptist and Lutheran
36
What is synergy?
Energy resources that a company has.
The amount of support that a country needs to sustain itself
The cross promotion of vertically integrated goods
The ratio of people to resources in a region
37
The official language in 56 countries is _______
French
English
Spanish
Mandarin
38
The most secular countries can be found in
Asia
North America
Africa
Europe
39
When was the third urban hearth?
2100 BC
2300 BC
2200 BC
2000 BC
40
What is the fifth urban hearth?
Peru
Russia
Northern Canada
Mesoamerica
41
Where was the fourth urban hearth?
Indus River Valley
Huang He and Wei Valleys
Nile River Valley
Mesopotamia
42
Where was the third urban hearth?
Indus River Valley
Mesopotamia
Nile River Valley
Huang He and Wei Valleys
43
All maps of the world suffer from some degree of
Projection
regionalism
Situation
Distortion
44
What country would most likely have a digital divide?
The United Kingdom
United States
Canada
India
45
Why is Greece not an urban hearth?
Agriculture and urbanization diffused there
It developed too late
It never fully developed
It did not last long enough.
46
Which of the following regional-lingua franca associations is not correct?
All are correct
Western Europe-French
India-Hindi
China-Mandarin
47
Lingua Franca are most commonly diffused through ______________
Stimulus Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Commercial Diffusion
48
Swahili in East Africa and English in global commerce are examples of ______
Creole Language
Lingua Franca
Official Language
Pidgin Languages
49
There are … Muslims in the world.
347 Million
2.2 Billion
1.6 Billion
1 Billion
50
How does local culture diffuse?
Relocation Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
51
Where was the second urban hearth?
Huang He and Wei Valleys
Nile River Valley
Mesopotamia
Indus River Valley
52
India’s caste system
Looked down upon Dalits
Died out centuries ago
Was supported by Ghandi
Was closely bound to Islam’s teaching
53
What is the global-local continuum concept?
Pop culture & local culture can be dependent on each other
Pop culture eventually becomes local culture
Local culture is becoming pop culture due to globalization
Globalization is slowly destroying local culture
54
All of the following are examples of cultures except?
Values
Norms
Customs
Hearths
55
When was the sixth urban hearth established?
900 BC
700 BC
1000 BC
800 BC
56
How are local cultures sustained?
Assimilation
None of the above
Reterritorialization
Cultural Appropriation
57
Examples of companies strive to create an “authentic” cultural experience?
Irish Pubs
Museums
Literature
Technology
58
An example of religion affecting the cultural landscape could be
A giant cathedral
A statue of Buddha
All of the above
The absence of a liquor store
59
What is imagined community?
The ideal community determined by a group of locals
People that have never met are part of the same community
The community aesthetic that a town hopes to have
The idea that a person will live in the same place forever
60
Which of the following is not a lingua franca?
French in North Africa
English in East Asia
Swahili in East Africa
Hebrew in the Persian Gulf
61
When did people start living in cities?
8,000 years ago
10,000 years ago
6,000 years ago
12,000 years ago
62
Popular culture is based on rapid simultaneous global connections made by
Television
All of the above
Internet
High Speed Rail
63
The most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa is ______
Nilo-Saharan
Afro-Asiatic
Niger-Congo
Khoisan
64
A thematic map that connects points of equal value.
Dot Map
Proportional Symbol Map
Choropleth Map
Isoline Map
65
What is a network?
A set of interconnected cities.
A set of interconnected nodes with a center.
A set of interconnected cities without a governing body.
A set of interconnected nodes without a center.
66
What is CSA?
Networks between agricultural producers and consumers
Agreement between the government and a farm
Farm supported by the government to produce food for market
Government regulated farms
67
Of the principal language families, which one is spoken by about half of the world’s people?
Uralic-Altaic
Sino-Tibetan
Afro-Asiatic
Indo-European
68
The extinction of many languages once spoken in Peru is a result of _____
Political Dominance and Conversion
Contagious Diffusion
Chain Migration
Relocation Diffusion
69
The art and science of making maps is:
C. Topography
A. Cardemography
B. Cartography
D. Geomorphology
70
Which of the following is an example of folk culture?
Gray’s Anatomy
Olympics
Native American Powwows
Turkish rugs
71
What is a digital divide?
The ratio of Millenials to Baby Boomers
A national divide caused using internet as the means.
The ratio of countries with technology to countries without
A major divide in access to information technology
72
Which is NOT an example of participatory development?
Locals deciding development's definition & how to achieve it
A small town voting on a new airport in their town.
A mayor unilaterally deciding on a new airport
A community voting on whether they want a fountain or a pool
73
What is expansion diffusion?
The spread of an idea physically from one person to the next
Spread of an idea from people of authority to other places
Place in which Innovation originates
The spread of a trend among people from one area to another
74
Fort Benning is an example of what kind of region?
Functional
Perpetual
Formal
Vernacular
75
When was the second urban hearth?
3400 BC
3500 BC
3200 BC
3300 BC
76
How is popular culture diffused?
Hierarchical Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
77
Thomas Malthus based his work on population on which of the following premises?
Both food production and population increase exponentially.
Both food production and population increase arithmetically
Food rises arithmetically/population increases exponentially
Food rises exponentially/population increases arithmetically
78
A religion that believes in inanimate objects possessing spirits and thus should be revered.
Catholic
Animistic
Monotheistic
Polytheistic
79
Hinduism’s hearth in Pakistan…
is the site of 60% if the world’s Hindus
Is larger than India’s Hindu population
Is where it’s founder was born
Is predominantly Muslim
80
When was the first urban hearth?
2200 BC
3600 BC
3500 BC
2500 BC
81
What is the definition of synekism?.
People changing from living in a space.
Conditions from dwelling apart in a home place or space.
Conditions from dwelling together in a home place or space.
People changing from moving away from a space.
82
Geographers call the name given to a portion of Earth's surface as its
D. Topography
A. Toposequence
C. Toponym
B. Topohilia
83
Who established the sixth urban hearth?
The Inca
The Maya
The Olmec
The Chavin
84
What is the sixth urban hearth?
Northern Canada
Peru
Mesoamerica
Russia
85
All of the following are in the Indo-European language family except _________
Turkish
Hindi
Bengali
German
86
Leopoldville Congo becomes Kinshasa and Salisbury Zimbabwe becomes Harare. They are examples of
Postcolonial toponyms
Colonial toponyms
Migration effects
Descriptive toponyms
87
The Baptist Church is most popular in the
Southwest
Midlands
Southeast
Northeast
88
Where was the first urban hearth?
Mesopotamia
Nile River Valley
Huang He and Wei Valleys
Indus River Valley
89
Which of the following is not a romance language?
Romanian
French
Portuguese
English
90
Spatial concentration consists of two types.
B. Clustered, dispersed
A. Density, patterned
C. Staggered, linear
D. All of the above
91
When was the fifth urban hearth established?
1000 BC
1100 BC
1200 BC
1300 BC
92
What is globalization sometimes described as?
Peaceful
Chaotic
Genuine
Useless
93
What is glocalization?
The combination of local and global culture
Tight knit places where cultures practice their customs
The loss of uniqueness of a place
Local place folk mediate regional, national & global process
94
Hinduism has a hearth in
The Yellow River
The Indus River Valley
China
The Eastern Mediterranean
95
Wall Street, the economic focus of the world, is what kind of region?
A. Nodal
D. None of the above
B. Homogeneous
C. Vernacular
96
When was the fourth Urban hearth?
1600 BC
1400 BC
1500 BC
1200 BC
97
Which is not an example of globalization?
World leaders meet as the United Nations
Theresa May meets with leader of France
Trump meets with Xi Jinping to discuss trade.
Kim Jong-Un closes off all relations with other countries
98
Where was the first agricultural hearth?
China
SouthwestAsia
East Asia
North Africa
99
Taoism is based in the teachings of Lao-Tsu, who published
”Book of the Truth”
“Book of the Way"
“Book of the Nature”
"Book of the Order”
100
A fundamental difference between folk and popular culture is that folk culture (x)
Often sets minority groups apart from the general population
Loses distinctive trait as it crosses national boundaries
Is adaptive to change over time
Tends to diffuse rapidly across geographical space
101
What is a gatekeeper?
A person or company with access to information
Someone who collects gates for fun
Govt. that provides technology to its people for (-) reasons
A person who works in border control
102
Identify the characteristic of situation, the third way to indicate location.
Position or status in regards to conditions & circumstances
A. Direction
C. The location of a place relative to other places
D. Time and place
103
A cultural landscape can be defined as
Diversity of distinctive cultures within a geographic area
Forms superimposed on physical environment by human activity
Way that folk in differing cultures perceive the environment
The types of art, music and dance, practiced in a region
104
Buddhism's architecture
May not have images of Buddha
Is exemplified by the “Dome of the Rock” structure
Include stupas and pagodas
Is only small buildings
105
All of these could be found in some Muslim countries except:
Graves of Imams
Sacred shrines
Quran study sessions
Statue of Muhammad
106
Spanish language concentration of Miami"s Little Havana is an example of what type of diffusion
B. Relocation diffusion
C. Expansion diffusion
D. Hierarchical diffusion
A. Stimulus diffusion
107
Which of the following is not considered “a master” of vertical integration?
Time-Warner
Viacom
Disney
IHOP
108
What is horizontal integration?
How the government integrates itself with its citizens
Several firms absorbing into a single firm at the same level
How hierarchical diffusion affects people at a smaller scale
How citizens interact with their government
109
Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi are languages common to ________
Afghanistan and Tibet
Iraq and Iran
Indonesia and the Philippines
India and Pakistan
110
If a Spanish & French speaker conduct trade in English, English is referred to as a(n)_________
Creolized Language
Lingua Franca
Official Language
None of the Above
111
What is NOT an example of social network?
Facebook
A fostering of social interaction.
Talking to yourself in the shower
MySpace
112
A mathematical process for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is a
distribution
projection
interruption
scale
113
The oldest roots of the English Language have been traced back to present-day __________
Iceland
Denmark
Netherlands
Belgium
