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Duplicate of AP Human Geography Midterm
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This quiz is to help review Unit 2 Population geography and Unit 3 Cultural geography.
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Studying religion is important to understanding a culture because
religions are key to understanding the role of women
major world religions can be linked to a cultural homeland
religions don't have any impact on the built landscape
religious beliefs are reflected in most aspects of culture
2
Problems with the Chinese ideographic writing systems include
in order to be literate, a person memorizes 1,000s symbols
each dialect has its own symbols for writing
each symbol corresponds with the pronunciation of the word
many symbols no longer have meaning
3
Which of the following is an effect of chain migration on the area of destination?
Culture clusters
Multi-ethnic neighborhoods
Urban slums
Urban ethnic enclaves
4
Presently, most population growth in the world is occuring
in Western countries
in LDCs
in Africa
in MDCs
5
English has been influenced by which of the following groups?
Danes
French
Anglo-Saxons
All of the above
6
Which two cities in the United States often serve as hearths for popular culture?
New York and Chicago
Los Angeles and Detroit
New York and Los Angeles
New York and Miami
7
Since 1950, this part of the developing world has seen a dramatic increase in population.
Urban areas
Non-industrial areas
Areas away from coasts
Rural areas
8
Problems with multi-lingual states include
place names are identified differently in different language
antagonism between speakers of the different languages
increased costs for printing government signs & literature
All of the above
9
Which of the following countries has the lowest arithmetic density?
Brazil
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
10
The use of French as an official language of Senegal demonstrates the
desire to adopt all the official languages of the UN
work of French Catholic missionaries
concept of lingua franca
amount of power the French wielded over its colony
11
Which of the following areas would be considered a cultural transition zone?
Poland
All of the above
Eastern Ontario-Western Quebec
Southwest U.S.-Northern Mexico
12
Which statement about universalizing religions is correct?
A universalizing religion is one into which people are born.
A universalizing religion is usually easy to join.
B and C only
Universalizing religion seeks converts from other religions
13
The largest source of international immigrants to the United States is from
Mexico
India
China
Canada
14
Which of the following is an example of hierarchical diffusion?
Spread of Wal-Mart from Arkansas to the rest of the U. S.
spread of laptop computers from the upper class to middle
Spread of AIDS from Africa to Europe
The spread of Spanish language to Latin America
15
Which country has the largest muslim population in the world?
U.S.
India
Saudi Arabia
Indonesia
16
All of the following are examples of a "Brain Drain"
except
Russian scientists after the fall of the Soviet Union
German aerospace experts following World War II
Cuban doctors after the rise of Fidel Castro
migration of Mexican farmers to the United States
17
Jerusalem is a sacred city for all of the following religions except
Hinduism
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
18
The highest crude birth rate (CBR) in the world are found in
Latin America
Sub-Saharan Africa
China
Middle East
19
Religions' influence on the cultural landscape can be seen in all the following ways
except
commercial districts
burial grounds
places of worship
shrines
20
Which of the following factors does
not
affect a person's life expectancy?
Parents' age at the time of the person's birth
Socio-economic status
Education
Gender/sex
21
Which country would be a good example of a theocracy?
India
Iran
Japan
Iraq
22
An example of an anti-natalist population program is
India's sterilization programs
Singapore's Population and Family Planning board
All of the above
China's One child policy
23
Popular culture is characterized by all of the following
except
quickly changing attributes
urban population
globalization
homogeneous population
24
Which of the following is an example of an intervening obstacles?
Laws requiring immigrants to obtain
The Demilitarized Zone on the Korean Peninsula
The wall separating the West Bank from Israel
All of these are
25
Which statement concerning the globalization of Western culture is
true
?
Many foreign cultures have adoped Western traits.
All of these are true
Areas of the world have actively resisted Western culture
Backlash against Western culture has resulted in violence
26
Nearly half of the people in the world speak a language from this language family.
Niger-Congo
Indo-European
Germanic
Japanese
27
Which of the following is an example of a pull factor?
Religious persecution in a migrant's chosen destination
Plentiful jobs in the migrant's chosen destination
Political persecution in a migrant's homeland
War or famine in the migrant's country of origin
28
Which of the following is an example of an intervening opportunity?
All of above
the wall separating the West Bank from Israel
The Sahara Desert separating North Africa from West Africa
Taking a high paying job on the way to somewhere else
29
Which of these modern languages spread globally as a result of religion?
Arabic
French
Spanish
English
30
The largest major population concentration of North America is
Bo-Wash
The South
The Pacific Northwest
The Midwest
31
According to Thomas Malthus, natural checks on a population include all of the following except
disease
war
agricultural advancements
famine
32
Roman Catholics in the United States are largely concentrated in
Northeastern USA
All of the above
Southwestern
West Coast
33
Which is an example of a folk cultural landscape in the United States?
Pueblo communities in New Mexico
Log cabins in Appalachia
All of the above
Amish communities in Pennsylvania
34
In developed countries, guest worker programs
encourage the diversification of culture in a country
are used because native workers cost too much to hire
recruit workers from LDCs to fill a need for unskilled labor
often have negative consequences to a country's birth rate
35
Dialects are local variants in language that differ in their
spelling
all of the above
pronunciation
vocabulary
36
Which of the following is an example of a revived language?
Greek
Swahili
Hebrew
Latin
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Which of the following is an example of a push factor?
A stable government in the migrant's country of origin.
Lack of employment in a migrant's city of residence.
Plentiful jobs in the migrant's chosen destination.
A stable government in the migrant's chosen destination.
