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1
When immigrants follow their relatives or spouses to a new country after a period of time:
net migration
brain drain
affinity
chain migration
2
If a trait is spread via hierarchical diffusion, where will it be adopted first?
Middleburg
Jacksonville
New York City
Atlanta
3
A Uniform region can be defined as
the area around a node that is influenced by that node
An area that people believe exists based on their attitudes
An region around a business that the customers come from
An area with common cultural features
4
A computer that stores layers of geographic data over a base map
Remote sensing
Geographic Information System
Geographic Positioning system
Satellite Imagery
5
Situation defines a location
in relation to other cities or features
as a perceptual region
based on latitude and longitude
based on connections to other places
6
The environment exclusively shapes human culture and actions is the belief of
possibilism
animism
NeoMalthusians
environmental determinism
7
Which religion is correctly matched with its hearth?
Judaism-Spain
Buddhism-India
Hinduism-China
Islam-Egypt
8
According to Ravenstein, which is the least likely migration?
within the same region in search of work
from one city to another within the same country
From a city to a rural area in another country
from a rural area to a city
9
According to Thomas Malthus the major problem of population growth is
people will lose cultural distinctiveness
People are unable to contribute to the workforce
not enough food for the population
stage 5 pandemics are more likely to develop
10
Which is NOT a characteristic of Hinduism
places of worship may be in the home
Bathing in rivers that are considered holy
sacred spaces often have unknown origins
It is a universalizing religion
11
The site of a location is most related to
its physical characteristics and climate
it's relationship to other places through infrastructure
its geographic coordinates
its sense of place and unique cultural characteristics
12
A major disadvantage with the map projection shown is
distortion at the northern and southern latitudes
The direction is inconsistent
distortion and the eastern and western longitudes
there are too many lines of longitude
13
In Stage 1 of the demographic transition model:
birth and death rates are low
birth and death rates are high
death rates are high and birth rates are low
birth rates are high and death rates are low
14
Which country is likely to have the lowest fertility rate currently
Singapore
Democratic Republic of Congo
Afghanistan
Vietnam
15
A blend of languages between a European language and the language of slave populations is
a lingua franca
a language branch
a creole
a dialect
16
The measure of the average number of children who are born to a woman in a population is
total fertility rate
infant mortality rate
crude birth rate
net reproduction ratio
17
Which country has ZPG or negative population growth?
Germany
India
Pakistan
Brazil
18
According to the graph, the global population growth since 1950
is due to growth of MDCs
Is due to growth of LDCs
Is coming from all regions equally
has not changed much
19
In the early 1900s the majority of immigrants to the US came from
Latin America
China
Southern and Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
20
What type of map is this
Cartogram
Elevation
Reference
Thematic
21
A pilgrim to Mount Varanasi or the Ganges River in India is most likely
Muslim
Hindu
Christian
Buddhist
22
Which is a barrier to diffusion?
A change in the price of energy
a new form of media to broadcast a trend
a change from hierarchical to contagious diffusion
a lack of infrastructure to support an innovation
23
Which is NOT a major population cluster in the world?
South Asia
Western Europe
South America
Southeast Asia
24
The toponym San Antonio reflects
Increasing globalization
cultural heritage of the area
Physical attributes of the region
The role of popular culture
25
Which would NOT be an example of cultural landscape
Polders in Belgium
Germany's Black Forest
Shipyards on the waterfront in Boston
Rice fields in China
26
An example of a site characteristic is
A train station
highways connecting two cities
A park
A river
27
Satellites that can take detailed images up to one meter of the earth's surface
Global positioning system
Geographic information system
remote sensing
28
Swahili on the east coast of Africa is an example of __ because its used widely for commerce
official language
dialect
pidgin
lingua franca
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A region with a uniform characteristic and clearly defined boundaries is a
functional region
perceptual region
nodal region
formal region
