which is NOT a cultural landscape?

Mississippi River Delta and its tributaries

why are all map projections distorted?

round can't be made flat without distortion

son preference & female infanticide are common

Who are the Angles & Normans?

Conquered England & spread language

which is NOT an example of Houston's situation?

Houston is located at 29.7604° N, 95.3698° W

Which is NOT one of Ravenstein's laws?

the number of people moving into area always = those leaving

Ellsworth Huntington is an environmental determinist - he belives

Tropics (hot) produce lazy uneducated people

many educated women = lower fertility rates

largest to smallest religions

Christian, Islam, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh

Which is a way China has controlled its population growth?

all are control devices of Chinese government

The diagram shows which?

low fertility & mortality in stage 4

Thomas Malthus says food grows ____ & pop growth grows ____

linear (arithmetic) /geometric (exponential)

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1
Spread of which religion?
Islam
Buddhism
Taoism
Confucianism
2
Which is NOT true of the population pyramid?
slow population growth
most jobs in manufacturing
Core country
MDC
3
which is NOT a cultural landscape?
man walking in a park
Jews praying at the Wailing Wall
Muslims praying at Mecca
Mississippi River Delta and its tributaries
4
major language branch of Latin America
Spanish
Romance
Indo-European
Altaic
5
why are all map projections distorted?
earth is not a perfect sphere
latitude lines are shorter than longitude lines
round can't be made flat without distortion
parallels & meridians don't cross at straight lines
6
In which part of the US are Baptists clustered?
Midwest
N & NE
S & SE
S & SW
7
Gender ratio 120:100
son preference & female infanticide are common
most likely in the US
large # of males won't find wives
120 is number of females
8
Which is NOT a pillar sustainability
economic
environment
social
government
9
which stage of the DTM?
2
3
1
4
10
If a population is growing at 10% the doubling time would be:
70 years
10 years
1.57 years
7 years
11
what is it?
cartogram
population density
topographic map
isoline or isotherm
12
region without defined borders and based on commonly held ideas about a place
perceptual
functional
formal
13
Which is NOT Abrahamic
Buddhism
Judaism
Christian
Islam
14
Spread of which religion?
Christianity
Buddhism
Hinduism
Islam
15
age sex diagram is a (an)
college town
retirement community
army base
LDC
16
Who are the Angles & Normans?
Sedentary farmers that spread the West German language
Conquered England & spread language
founding groups of the Indo-European language family
warrior farmers from near the Black Sea
17
Major language branch of North Africa & SW Asia
Bantu
Arabic
Afro-Asiatic
Hebrew
18
which is NOT an example of Houston's situation?
Houston is connected to Dallas by the interstate HWY system
Houston is an international port
Houston's main industry is oil & gas
Houston is located at 29.7604° N, 95.3698° W
19
Seeing a culture through the eyes of the people who live that way
ethnocentrism
assimilation
cultural appropriation
cultural relativism
20
jobs that touch the natural resource
secondary
tertiary
quaternary
primary
21
Which is NOT one of Ravenstein's laws?
most international migrants are single individuals
most migrants move short distances
the number of people moving into area always = those leaving
rural is more likely than urban to move
22
Ellsworth Huntington is an environmental determinist - he belives
Tropics (hot) produce lazy uneducated people
people in the tropical (hot) zones are more productive
people in tropical zones achieve more
climate has no impact on human ability
23
Which taboo is matched correctly?
Judaism - no pork, no fish
Roman Catholic - no alcohol
Hinduism - no cow
Buddhism & Islam - no shellfhish
24
Which is a centripetal force?
uneven balance btwn rich & poor
9/11 brought US together
race riots
ethnic protests
25
region where the characteristics are homogeneous
functional
formal
perceptual
26
Hindus adopted McDonald's but not the beef hamburger is an example of
stimulus diffusion
relocation diffusion
reverse hierarchical diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
27
Taking part of another culture w/o giving anything to the creator
assimilation
cultural appropriation
commodification
authenticity of place
28
what is it?
Goode's Interrupted Homosoline
Mollwiede
Robinson
Mercator
29
nomadic warrior/herders from steppes near Black Sea that founded the Inod-European language
Kurgans
Celts
Anatolians
Normans & Angles
30
Main type of job in a NIC
secondary - manufacturing
primary - farming
tertiary - service
quatenary - new knowledge
31
Which is true?
low fertility rates are in LDCs
population growth rates are the same around the world
many educated women = lower fertility rates
population is evenly distributed around the world
32
Spread of which religion?
Sikhism
Hinduism
Taoism
Buddhism
33
belief in natural world full of spiritual beings and supernatural powers
Atheistim
Agnostic
Shamanism
Animism
34
True or False - most migrants move so they can change political parties
true
false
35
3rd stage of DTM?
negative population growth
very high CBR & CDR
improved medical care & diet
family planning
36
major Sub-Saharan language
Nilo-Saharan
Niger-Congo
Afro-Asiatic
Altaic
37
Brazil, China, Indonesia, India, and Mexico are examples of
MDC
NIC
LDC
38
Why is English the most important language in North America?
France beat England in New World
British colonialism
Spanish colonialism
war
39
largest to smallest religions
Christian, Buddhist, Islam, Sikh, Hindu
Christian, Hindu, Islam, Judaism, Mormon
Islam, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Taoist
Christian, Islam, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh
40
Which is a way China has controlled its population growth?
free health care & incentives
sterilization & late marriage
all are control devices of Chinese government
heavy use of contraceptives
41
A revived language
Swahili
Persian
Hebrew
Serbo-Croatian
42
The diagram shows which?
low fertility & mortality in stage 4
very low fertility in stage 1
low fertility rates in stage 2
increasing mortality in stage 2
43
Age-Sex diagram below is a (an)
college
army base
day care center
retirement community
44
Thomas Malthus says food grows ____ & pop growth grows ____
declining (subducting) / increasing (additive)
cultural / ethnic
linear (arithmetic) /geometric (exponential)
arithmetic (linear) / geometric (exponential)
45
which has the highest IMR?
Venezuela
Iceland
Zimbabwe
China
46
diffusion starting with the elites and trickling down to the regular people
contagious
reverse-hierarchical
stimulus
hierarchical
47
Which has NOT had problems caused by language?
Nigeria
India
Belgium
Mexico
48
how humans and the environment interact is
natural science
environmental determinism
cultural ecology
cultural possibilism
49
NOT true?
LDC
very little need for immigrant / migrant workers in future
low literacy rates for women & poor
Stage 4 of DTM
50
highest CBR?
Indonesia
USA
China
Zimbabwe
51
number of people per square unit of farmland
hierarchical
arithmetic
agricultural
physiologic
52
what is it?
DTM
distance decay
acculturation
barriers to diffusion
53
Within the US - after WWII - people have moved from
S to N & E to W
N to S & W to E
Midwest to S & E to N
N to S & E to W
54
please stop having babies
neo natal
pro natal
anti natal
post natal
55
How does diffusion of pop culture adversely impact environment
depletion of resources & pollution
using renewable resources & energy
reduces demand for products
increased diversity & product depletion
56
when a country's population continues to grow long after fertility rates have been largely cut
exponential growth
demographic momentum
gravity model
high stationary
57
Main job type in a MDC
quaternary
primary
tertiary
secondary
58
manufacturing jobs
tertiary
secondary
quaternary
primary
59
What made it possible to live in the Sunbelt comfortably?
better roads
better medicine
better living conditions - Air conditioning
better air transport
60
How does pop culture threaten folk culture
encourages ethnic religions
pushing the advancement of folk culture
technology
encourages homogeneous lifestyle
61
spread of folk culture
stimulus
hierarchical
relocation
contagious
62
layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as
GMO
GDP
GPS
GIS
63
What is it?
cartogram
dot density map
proportional symbol map
dot distribution map
64
which is NOT a culture hearth?
Indus River Valley
Nile River Valley
Xian River Valley
Mesopotamia
65
The most widespread language family in the world
Indo-European
English
Sino-Tibetan
Romance
66
Which has the lowest population growth?
Poland
Nigeria
USA
Argentina
67
successive groups conquer an area and bring their culture to the region
repeated decay
conformal occupance
successive culture
sequent occupance
68
religions that borrow from each other & the past are ___
secular
ecumenical
syncretic
complex
69
what is it?
cartogram
isotherm or isolene
population density
dot distribution
70
mental maps are mostly based on experiences of an individual's knowledge of a place
false
true
71
migration characteristics vary with the demographic transition model
Ernst Ravenstein
Thomas Malthus
Wilbur Zelinsky
Ellsworth Huntington
72
which is NOT near or at negative population growth?
Italy
Germany
UK
Russia
73
Which is NOT true of the population pyramid
MDC
may need migrant workers in the future
Brazil
negative population growth
74
age sex diagram is a (an)
retirement community
China
college
army base
75
Most immigrants in 1910 came from ___; today from ____
England / Mexico
Germany / Syria
England / Syria
Germany / Mexico
76
placelessness antonym
same
everywhere
homogenous
heterogenous
77
Service jobs
tertiary
primary
secondary
quaternary
78
Cause of the Lebanese civil war
Shia blew up Sunni plane
ethnic groups put together that dislike each other
France started it
majority religion changed
79
60 year olds from NY going to Florida in winter
goldie oldie
elderfest
snowbirds
geriatric goers
80
what is it?
cartogram
proportional symbol
cartogram
dot density map
81
Which is matched correctly?
Islam - Coptic & Sunni
Christianity - Reformed, Protestant & Roman Catholic
Hindu - no branches
Judaism - Orthodox, Conservative & Sufti
82
Which is NOT true of this population pyramid?
Poor country
low infant mortality rate
low literacy rate
LDC
83
popular culture is
homogeneous & cohesive
has an unknown begining
is fragmented & heterogeneous
is rarely urban
84
Which has NOT helped with the spread of pop culture
social media
globalization
ethnocentrism
technology
85
what is it?
Mollwiede
Goode's Interrupted Homosoline
Robinson
Mercator
86
written language
literary tradition
literacy rate
lingua franca
Bible
87
which is an ethnic religion
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Sikh
88
region with a purpose / performs a service
formal
functional
perceptual
89
Which group is clustered in the US Southwest
Roman Catholic
Lutheran
Morman
Baptist

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