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1
English has adopted extensive vocabulary from which of the following?
French
All of the above
Yiddish
Spanish
2
Which of the following is
not
an example of a form of expansion diffusion:
stimulus
contagious
independent inventions (ancient agricultural hearths)
Hierarchical
3
The concern of geography with space puts ____ at the center of its agenda
Patterns
Scale
Distances
Places
4
Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in
China
India
Indonesia
Iran
5
Absolute location determines:
Direction
Distance and Direction
Elevation
Distance
6
Which major language spread mostly through religion?
Mandarin Chinese
Arabic
English
French
7
Residential Segregation in the United States today is
Increasing
Decreasing
a phenomena
a result of restrictive state and local laws
8
The diffusion of Birkenstock shoes or of newstyles of music tend to be examples of
stimulus diffusion
Hierarchical Diffusion
contagious diffusion
Independent diffusion
9
The smallest number of slaves involved in the Atlantic slave trade was sent to
Brazil
French Carribean
British Carribean
British North America
10
Efforts to conserve local cultures often focus on the local
mobility
boundaries
Customs
Landmarks
11
According to E. Relph, which term best describes the American Landscape and pop culture?
Placelessness
Popular Landscape
Urban Blight
Cultural Landscape
12
Fred Kniffen's folk-housing research DOES NOT track the eastward spread of which housing type?
California Bungalow
Double-wide trailer home
New England "salt box"
ranch-style house
13
Japan is a hearth of global popular culture that influences North America with
animated films
sports
Foods
fashion
14
The world’s three largest population concentrations are found on the same landmass, which is
South America
Asia
North America
Eurasia
15
Today an estimated ______ illegal immigrants live in the United States.
10,000,000
1,000,000
100,000
75,000,000
16
Gender studies of migration indicate that men ___________ than women
migrate farther
are more mobile
have more employment choices and income
All of the above
17
Sub-Saharan Africa’s high mortality rate is strongly influenced by
famine
traffic accidents
war
AIDS
18
Where is the major focus of North America's population?
Southern California
Chicago/Lake Michigan
The Northeast US
The Southeast US
19
The arithmetic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total
area of square miles by 5.
area of the country by the population
Population by the number of farmers
population by the total area.
20
The English language containing European vocab/words is due mostly to:
a fashion trend for including exotic words
multi-cultural curriculum in schools
international broadcast media
relocation diffusion of various groups of people
21
Terrain and environment plays a significant role on Europe and Asia. Which statement is true about Europe?
role varies from country to country
Greater role now than in the past
Plays a greater role than Asia
Lesser of a role than Asia
22
Births and _____ add to the population growth of a particular country
increased agricultural output
immigration
emigrations
Rise in death rates
23
Which is
not
an example of a fortified barrier to migration
The US - Canada Boarder
The Great Wall of China
The Berlin Wall
Fences along the Rio Grande River
24
19th c. American English contains Dutch, Native Am., Spanish, French, and German words because?
international broadcast media
Multi-cultural curriculum in schools
Relocation diffusion of various groups
Contagious diffusion of language
25
Coordinates of absolute location are useful mainly in determining exact:
Elevations
Distance and Directions
Distance
Directions
26
The greater the distance from the hearth the less likely an innovation will be adopted.
cultural replusion
distance decay
Innverse innovation rules
adoption avoidance
27
The only Old order Anabaptist group who live communally rather than in family farmsteads are
Amish
Hutterites
Mennonites
Brethren
28
In Europe the marked decline of the birth rate was the result of
Rapid Emigration
WWI and II
Effects of Industrialization, urbanization & modernization
stablization
29
Hutterites differ from the Amish in that they
accept modern technology
are Anabaptist
live in Pennsylania
Reject Modern Technology
30
Branch of geo that focuses on natural landforms, climate, soils, and vegetation on Earth
Human Geo
Cultural Geography
Biogeography
Physical Geo
31
Highest rates of infant mortality are found in this region
Central Africa
East Asia
Eastern Europe
South America
32
Which geo theme would involve the study of the impact on the drainage on Florida Everglades?
Place
Human-environment
Movement
Location
33
One of the “laws” of migration as derived by Ravenstein states that
Urban residents are less migratory than rural
Urban residents are more migratory than rural
rural inhabitants hardly ever migrate
rural residents are more migratory than urban
34
According to Gillian Ross, “identity” is
genetically determined
identical gender
Information contained in government issued passports
How we make sense of oursleves
35
In India the breaking of a dowry contract may lead to
Dowries are illegal so who cares?
Lawsuits
a beating or killing
a marriage annulment
36
Nearly 1/2 of the world speaks a language from which language family?
Mandarin
Indo-European
Germanic
Sino-Tibetian
37
Groups in N. Ireland and in major US cities create "exclusive" areas by?
Jim Crow laws
graffiti demarcating territory
street names
Gov't programs
38
Buying a Native American dream catcher at Wal-Mart is an example of?
Cultural Appropriation
Assimilation
Cultural Geography
Reterritorialization
39
Branson, Missouri capitalizes on local culture by presenting it as ____ for tourist consumption
Popular
Authentic
cosmopolitan
Timeless
40
The regional variation in the appearance of humans in clustered populations probably results
development of population on differentcontinents
From a long history of adaptation to different environments
territoriality kept people from mixing andintermarrying
Wars kept populations separated
41
Low population growth due to high CBR and high CDR gives you a very unstable growth. What stage of DTM is this?
II
I
III
IV
42
What is the current TFR rate of replacement?
2.0
2.5
1.8
2.1
43
Cholera vaccines exist, but the problem is that:
serious side effects
They are too expensive
many people refuse them
they do not remain effective for longer then 6 months
44
Which of these locations has the highest clustering of population on a small piece of land
Eastern Canada
Western China
Egypt
Southeast US
45
Except for South and SE Asia, what ocean influences the moistest areas of the world?
Southern Ocean
Pacific
Indian
Atlantic
46
Set of processes that increase interactions, deepen relationships and raise interdependance
Ecological
Nationalizing
Spatial
Globalization
47
In terms of popular culture, cities like Paris, New York, and Milan are referred to as
Capitals
local cultures
world cities
hearths
48
Which of the identified types of movements create your activity space
Periodic
cyclic
emigration
migratory
49
At the present rate of births and deaths in the world, we add about ___million inhabitants .
110
80
250
50
50
A good example of a formal region would be a
region showing the migration to a centrallocation
Region surrounding a manufacturing complex
Region of similar language
city and its surrounding region