Semester PreTest Unit I,II,III

Culture complexes are made up of many culture

Which is computed by subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate

a country has an arithmetic density of 78 and a physiological density of 3500, it likely has

Which of the following countries has the largest percentage of Roman Catholics

Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape

As Islam spread to Sub-Saharan Africa, its first converts were the elites then natives

If people believe that a devastating flood was caused by the displeasure of the gods.

Which of the following would be a large scale map be most helpful

Mathematical calculations using latitude and longitude allow us to determine the

Sunni and Shiite are two major branches of

of the ten major languages has the highest number of people who speak it as a first language

Which of the following is least likely to have a high population density

Which of the following churches is most prominent in the southern United States

Which of the following religions have direct roots in Judaism

Which of following were cultural hearths

The gravity model describes an inverse relationship between the

Which of the following is NOT a region of high population concentration

The phenomenon of space-time compression has been most directly promoted by

one of the first geographers to accurately calculate the circumference of the earth

Which of the following is a language sub-family

The three major branches of Christianity in the world today are

Branch of Christianity with the largest number of adherents

Which of the following is a dialect

Which of the following areas of the world currently have net in-migration?

region categorization that emphasizes the relationship between core and peripheral areas

combination of natural change and net migration to summarize population change over time is

Religion distinguishes itself from other belief systems by its emphasis on

The type of culture that emphasizes artifacts is called

Which of the following is generally encouraged by folk cultures

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the population of China

A special type of map designed to reveal the nature of local topography is called a

Which of the following is NOT a physical site characteristic

The pressure people put on the land to produce enough food is measured by

U.S. government agency directly responsible for counting and collecting information on people

Which of the following is a disadvantage of a map based on the Mercator projection

Examples of modern lingua franco languages are

The theory that population patterns vary according to levels of technological development is

concept distance decay best illustrates which of the following Ravenstein's laws of migration

The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture is called

Push and Pull factors explain reasons why people?

transition theory, which stages in a country's development is population increasing

Which of the following countries are majority Shiite

Place names may also be called

All of the following are correct statements about time zones EXCEPT

Which of the following is an example of the spatial analysis tradition in geography

If it is 9 A.M. in New York City, what time would it be in Los Angeles

Meridians and parallels are most helpful in determining

Which of following are areas that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity

Which of the following best describes demographic momentum

Brazil's moving its capital from Rio de Janeiro to to Brazilia reflects the country's desire to

An advantage of the Peters map projection is that it

Which of the following is an economic pull factor that encourages migration

form of relocation diffusion in which the spread of culture traits is slow enough to weaken

Which of the following is currently a major global migration flow

The country where the Industrial Revolution first began was

Refugees fleeing from Balkans during the 1990's were mostly reacting to

measures the position of an object on earth and stores information about it in layers is called

The largest branch of Islam is

The phenomenon of distance decay helps to explain the tendency for people to

Demographic transition theory is concerned with which of the following concepts

The field that studies the relationship between the natural environment and culture is called

Which of the following is NOT an ethnic religion

The branch of Buddhism with the largest number of adherents is

A hybrid that serves as a second language for everyone who uses it is called a

which of the following countries will surpass China as the most populous country by 2050

Linguistic geographers map the area in which particular words are spoken, marking their limits

first critic to note that the population was increasing faster than the food supplies was

A condition in which many languages are spoken, each by a relatively small number of people

Buddhism and Confucianism continued to be important forces, with a more or less equal exchange

populous countries in the world that have actively applied restrictive population policies are

The art and science of mapmaking is called

During the late 1800s, an important pull factor for immigrants to the United States was

Mahayana, Theraveda, and Tantrayana are three branches of

Which of the following religions has the largest number of adherents

traveler crosses the International Date Line from America to Asia, (s)he will set the time