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1
What is Theocracy?
Power is held by the people
Rule by a small group
None of the above
Rule under laws based on religious ideas
2
Most modern hearths of popular culture are centered in:
Africa, South Asia, Australia
Europe, North America, East Asia
Europe, South America. South Asia
South America, Canada, Indonesia
3
Which of the following places is least influenced by conflicts related to multilingualism?
Belgium
Nigeria
Quebec
Venezuela
4
What stage of the demographic transition model does this show?
Stage 4
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
5
Which of the following religions originated in South Asia and subsequently migrated out of that region
Christianity
Buddhism
Hinduism
Islam
6
The concept that the environment limits human action, but that people have the ability to adapt
spatial association
environmental determinism
climatology
possiblism
7
According to environmental determinism
the physical environment causes social development
people can adjust to the physical environment
the physical environment can possibly limit human ability
people determine their physical environment
8
Going to spring break in Florida rather than in Costa Rica to save money is an example of
human capital
the rank size rule
intervening opportunity
time space compression
9
Who sent the Jews into their Diaspora?
Russian Empire
Roman Empire
Islamic Empire
The Nazis
10
Today, most rapid population growth is occuring in
less developed countries
None of These
more developed countries
newly industrialized countries
11
What is the purpose of an age-sex pyramid in Human Geography?
to show the spatial distribution of a population
to show the fertility rate among women
to show the migration patterns within a country
to show the population structure of a country
12
Of the following countries, the lowest crude birthrate would be found in
China
Denmark
Uganda
Zaire
13
1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?
written scale
bar line
graphic scale
representative fraction (RF)
14
Which of the following is most likely to lead to a sense of cultural unity among people?
A common language
Urban migration
Economic development
A diverse landscape
15
Religions that are expansionary, carrying their message to new peoples & areas, are termed
A Polytheistic Religion
A Universalizing Religion
An Ethnic Religion
A Monotheistic Religion
16
In which Stage would you likely see the beginnings of a potential housing shortage in a nation?
Stage 4
Stage 1
Stage 3
Stage 2
17
Which of the following events would be considered a migration pull factor?
failed harvest
opening of a new factory
civil war
flooding of a river
18
To study fertility, geographers most frequently use the
rate of natural increase
crude birth rate.
life expectancy.
infant mortality rate
19
In large cities, such as Los Angeles or Louisville, how do ethnicities tend to be distributed?
clustered
contiguous
inverted
diverse
20
The two largest language families in the world are
Afro-Asiaticand Sino-Tibetan
Altaic and Nilo-Saharan
Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European
Balto-Slavicand Sino-Tibetan
21
In which of these regions do the majority of people live in urban areas??
Europe
South Asia
East Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
22
Which of the following is
not
one of these is not a Romance language?
Spanish
Italian
Gaelic
Portuguese
23
Geographers define overpopulation as
too many people in the world.
too many people in a region.
too many people compared to resources
too many people in a nation
24
Situation identifies a place by its
location relative to other objects.
unique physical characteristics.
mathematical location on Earth's surface.
nominal location.
25
Why do most people migrate?
To get a suntan
Political Reasons
Cultural Reasons
Economic Reasons
26
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of
groups of specialists.
groups living in isolated rural areas.
large heterogeneous groups
small homogeneous groups
27
Which is a "Destination" push factor of immigration for a Syrian person?
job opportunities
Civil War at home
welfare programs
Anti-Immigrants groups
28
The most prominent type of internal migration in the world is
region to region.
city to city.
rural to urban.
urban to rural
29
Globally, people are
FORCED
to migrate MOST because of which factor?
environmental crisis
international laws
cultural conflict
economic poverty
30
The imprint of cultures on the Earth's surface is called the:
cultural history
cultural ecology
cultural landscape
cultural hearth
31
Basque is spoken primarily in
Brittany.
the Pyrenees Mountains.
Barcelona
the Swiss Alps.
32
In India the greatest concentration of population is found on the
central Deccan Plateau
foothills of the Himalayan Mountains
plain of the Ganges River
west coast
33
Ethnic conflict in Africa is widespread because of
all of the above
numerous ethnic groups
language differences
colonial boundaries
34
A hearth is
a region from which a phenomenon originates
an area defined by one or more distinctive features ortrends
perimeter of a regional feature.
the process by which a feature or trend spreads.
35
Which is
not
an example of a functional region?
area served by a sports franchise
the market area of a supermarket
the area of dominance of a television station
the area dominated by a particular crop
36
The diffusion of the iPhone would be an example of:
hierarchical diffusion
independent invention
stimulus diffusion
contagious diffusion
37
Site identifies a place by its
primary dimensions.
mathematical location on Earth's surface.
unique physical characteristics.
nominal location
38
Most complex languages have a standard form of the language and
a second language
varied dialects or accents
a limited vocabulary
a single written form
39
Which of the following is
not
used as criteria for defining a
region
:
location
time
area
boundaries
40
Increasing interactions, relationships & interdependence across our modern world is known as...
nationalization
spatialization
globalization
diffusion
41
Which of the following does the United States Census Bureau not consider a race
White
Black
Hispanic/Latino
Japanese
42
The country with a major problem concerning physiologic density is
Egypt
the United States
India
Canada
43
Cultural features of the U.S. landscape, such as gas stations, supermarkets, and chain stores....
promote diffusion of folk culture
promote a uniform landscape.
show high regional variation.
provide diversity on the U.S. landscape
44
A which stage of the DTM does population growth become an issue?
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
45
Land suited for agriculture is called
Arid Land
Population Density
Physiological Density
Arable Land
46
A good example of a functional region would bea:
region where farming practices were the same
region where nearly everyone spoke French
region of similar climate
city and its surrounding region
47
Improved status of women can be seen in the population data through......
Decreased death rates
Increased death rates
Increased total fertility rates
Decreased total fertility rates
48
This is an area distinguished by one or more common characteristics....
ecosystem
region
uniform unit.
landscape.
49
The average number of births women bear in their lifetimesis
Crude Death Rate
natural increase rate
total fertility rate
crude birth rate
50
The goal of Historical Linguistic studies - ie "Sound Shifts", etc. are:
The study of how ideas about language have changed over time
The study of old languages like Latin and Old English
The study of how languages change over time
The study of how our language ability evolved as a species
51
India speaks about 15 major languages, all but four of them belong to the language family:
Dravidian
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
52
India’s principle and largest Indo-European language is
Bengali
Rajasthani
Hindi
Punjab
53
Which of these do NOT include a major world population cluster
Africa
Southeast Asia
Europe
East Asia
54
Urdu is the most important language of what country
Turkey
Sri Lanka.
India
Pakistan.
55
A system for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is called
Rendition
Projection
Scale
Interruption
56
The arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth's surface is
spatial distribution.
regional dissociation
spatial association
spatial analysis
57
Define space-time compression
The farther away people are, the less likely they are to migrate there
Shortened times for interaction because of improvements in technology
The phenomenon in which days appear longer during the summer
Near things are more related to distant things.
58
A permanent move to a new location is known as
net migration.
migration.
net out-migration.
mobility.
59
The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the:
total density
physiologic density
agricultural density
average density
60
The
arithmetic
density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total:
area of the country by the arable land
population by the total area
area of square miles by five
population by the number of farmers
