AP Human Geography Chapter 7 Ethnicity

Question 1

One of the most violent ethnic conflicts in Africa in recent years occurred between...?

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The Hutus & The Tutsis

Question 2

In what part of the U.S. will you find the greatest percentage of Hispanics?

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Southwest

Question 3

Barack Obama, whose mom was white, dad from Kenya, and stepdad from Indonesia demonstrates...

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the complexity of designating race and ethnicity

Question 4

is an attitude that tends to UNIFY OR CONNECT people and enhance support for a state (country).

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centripetal force

Question 5

Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one:

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ethnic cleansing

Question 6

Great Britain contains the following ethnicities.

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English, Welsh, Scot, & Irish

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is a feeling against someone based on race it is an ideology and part of the cultural complex.

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Racism

Question 8

Ethnicity on the Balkan Peninsula came into conflict as

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Serbs attempted to create a nation-state

Question 9

Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country.

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Nationality

Question 10

Big cities, like Los Angeles tend to be ___________ in terms of ethnic neighborhood layout.

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clustered

Question 11

Detroit's Greektown and Poletown are examples of...

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European ethnic groups clustered in new neighborhoods

Question 12

An attitude that tends to DIVIDE people and decrease support for a state.

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centrifugal force

Question 13

Process by which property in certain neighborhoods is sold at low price due to racial prejudice

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blockbusting

Question 14

Ethnic Asians tend to cluster in the ____________ part of the US

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West

Question 15

What is ‘white flight’?

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Whites fleeing area in anticipation of blacks settling

Question 16

The largest Ethnicity to not have their own country is the

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Kurds

Question 17

The cycle of poverty tends to hit _______ the hardest

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women and children

Question 18

The ____ were a series of ethnically-based wars and insurgencies fought from 1991 to 1999/2001.

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Yugoslav Wars

Question 19

Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts between ethnic groups:

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Balkanization

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT a part of a person's ethnicity?

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race

Question 21

An ethnic group is

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a group of people who share a culture

Question 22

Murdering an entire people to eliminate them

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Genocide

Question 23

Race is based off of ____________ traits whereas ethnicity is based off of ___________ traits.

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biological; cultural

Question 24

Can be categorized as a race and an ethnicity

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Jewish

Question 25

Ethnic cleansing led to many forced migrations in Europe after

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WWII

Question 26

Apartheid existed in the last century in________ and was used to divide the races

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South Africa

Question 27

Five characteristics of minorities includes all of the following except

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Have more services in their neighborhoods

Question 28

Which of the following is NOT considered a race by the U.S. Census Bureau?

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Hispanic/Latino

Question 29

Nationalism is fostered by all the following except

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economies

Question 30

acquiring the culture of a particular society, but keeping some of your own

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Acculuration

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Eliminating an entire people from the culture

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Ethnic cleansing

Question 32

Promotes one nationality and culture above that of other nations.

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Nationalism

Question 33

Dominant Groups tend to have

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fewer landfills & toxic waste plants near their population.

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the process of responding to new situations with conformity; “blending” in

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Assimilation

Question 35

key centripetal forces include all of the following except

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poor economies

Question 36

INDEX OF RESIDENTIAL DISSIMILARITY

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0 (no segregation) to 100 (complete segregation).

Question 37

A strong centrifugal force includes all the following except

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compulsory education

Question 38

is identity with a group who share a biological ancestor and it is distinct from ethnicity.

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Race

Question 39

Charter = ________ referring to the group that has a lasting impact on the cultural landscape.

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first

Question 40

African Americans tend to cluster in the ____________ part of the US

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Southeast

Question 41

Which of the following states has NOT experienced genocide?

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Taiwan

Question 42

African National Boundaries

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cut across ethnic regions

Question 43

Balkanization

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is breaking apart one state into many states

Question 44

Which ethnicity is regionally clustered in the Southeast?

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African American

Question 45

occurs when an action has taken place against someone based on R & P

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Discrimination

Question 46

The extent to which members of an ethnic group are not uniformly distributed in population

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Segregation

Question 47

Examples of ethnic cleansing in the modern era include all the following except

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South Africa - Apartheid

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Is based on an assumption or stereotype

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Prejudice

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identity with a group who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.

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Ethnicity

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“Doctrine of First Effective Settlement” was created by

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Wilbur Zelinsky

AP Human Geography Chapter 7 Ethnicity

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AP Human Geography Chapter 7 Ethnicity

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