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1
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The visible expression of human activity on the world is called

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Cultural Landscape

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2
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Saying that there are 125 people per square mile is an example of:

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Density

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3
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The physical and cultural characteristics and attributes of a place are referred to as the:

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Site

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4
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The external relations of a locale are called:

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Situation

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The relationship between the size or length of a feature on a map and the same item on the Earth’s surface is called:

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Scale

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These regions emerge from patterns of interaction over space and time that connect places:

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Functional

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These regions are based on one or more objectively measurable properties, such as different agricultural zones of a country, different language areas, or different cutlures:

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Thematic

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These regions are defined by people’s beliefs, feelings, and images about an area or region:

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Perceptual

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This part of the global grid lies at zero degrees longitude.

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Prime Meridian

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This part of the global grid lies at zero degrees latitude.

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Equator

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From your text, which is the correct order of hierarchy, from smallest to largest, for identifying the spatial dimensions and components of culture?

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culture trait, culture complex, cultural system, culture region, culture realm

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The study of the interaction between a culture group and the natural environment is known as:

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Cultural Ecology

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The process by which an immigrant population takes on the values, attitudes, customs, and speech of the receiving society is:

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Acculturation

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the specialized behavioral patterns, understanding, adaptations, and social system that summarize a group of people’s learned way of life.

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Culture

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The center from which a culture trait diffuses is called

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cultural hearth

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16
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The number of people supportable within a given area by the technologies at their disposal is called:

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Carrying Capacity

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17
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Which of the following can act as a barrier to diffusion of ideas and/or cultural traits?

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The Earth’s topography,
Man-made laws, Distance

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18
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The viewpoint that the environment constrains or limits culture making some cultural variants more probable than others is called ______________.

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Possibilism

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19
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The sociological subsystem of a culture consists of:

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Sociofacts

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20
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A culture’s technological subsystem consists of ___________.

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Artifacts

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21
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An example of a pull factor for migration is:

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A higher paying job in a nearby city

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22
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California produces vegetables in wintertime for which there is a demand in markets in the East and Midwest. This would be explained by the principle of:

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Complementarity

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23
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The value of a place or its desirability as a migration destination is known as its:

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Place utility

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true or false:
Between 1825 and 1840, approximately 100,000 Native Americans were removed from their homelands and sent to “Indian Territory.”

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True

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25
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The declining intensity of any spatial interaction with increasing distance from its point of origin.

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distance decay

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26
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Interaction between two places is a product of their interaction masses, divided by the distance between them, raised to an exponent, and multiplied by an interaction constant.

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Gravity Model

27
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After World War II, the auto industry boomed in Michigan. Lots of people came there to find jobs.

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Pull Factor

28
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A measure of the retarding or restricting effect of distance on spatial interaction.

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friction of distance

29
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Calculated interaction between multiple points in a network.

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potential model

30
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This concept takes into account acceptable costs of a spatial exchange.

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transferability

31
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A model that traces the changing levels of human fertility and mortality associated with Industrialization, health care improvements, urbanization, and change cultural attitudes regarding childbearing.

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demographic Transition

32
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The idea that agricultural improvements occurred as a result of increasing population is called:

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Boserup Thesis

33
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The term “ecumene” refers to what

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the permanently inhabited areas of the earth’s surface

34
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A normal sex ratio for human births has:

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More males and females

35
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He wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population.

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Thomas Malthus

36
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Subtracting the crude death rate (CDR) from the crude birth rate (CBR) give you:

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Rate of Natural Increase

37
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Crude Birth Rates (CBR) and Crude Death Rates (CDR) are calculated as being the number of births or deaths per how many people?

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1,000

38
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true or false
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is the same as crude birth rate (CBR).

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false

39
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Infant mortality rates (IFR) include deaths of children under _______ year(s) of age.

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1 year

40
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Maps/Tables that display human populations in age cohorts are called:

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Population Pyramids

41
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The United States is the only really multiethnic state among the world’s large countries.

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false

42
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The United States is the only really multiethnic state among the world’s large countries.

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false

43
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Yugoslavia is an excellent example of a multiethnic society that has overcomes ethnic and religious differences.

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false

44
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A tendency to evaluate other cultures against the standards of one’s own culture:

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Ethnocentrism

45
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When an ethnic residential cluster persists because its occupants choose to preserve it, it is called a colony or an enclave. When it endures because of external forces of discrimination it is called a:

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ghetto

46
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Populations of humans with distinct physical characteristics like body size and skin color are a result of:

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natural selection

47
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A measure of the extent to which members of an ethnic group are not uniformly distributed in relation to the rest of the population is called:

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segregation

48
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Deep rooted and unreasonable fear of foreigners is called:

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xenophobia

49
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Culture rebound is a reversal of the assimilation process.

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true

50
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An outdated categorization of humans based on outward physical characteristics:

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race

51
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Which of the following is NOT a primary economic activity?

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steel making

52
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As emphasized numerous times in class, the most important human activity is:

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food production

53
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In the United States, commercial wheat farming is:

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extensive

54
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According to the von Thünen model, the most important determinant of the location of agricultural production is the:

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distance between the consuming center and the production site

55
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Nonrenewable resources:

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exist only fixed amounts

56
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The existence of workable mineral deposits is the result of:

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geological process

57
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Primary economic activities can be thought of as economic production taken from the earth.

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true

58
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Many developing countries feel exploited by trading their commodities and raw materials at relatively low prices while paying relatively higher prices for processed goods made from the same exported resources.

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true

59
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Culture determines which natural resources are commodities.

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true

60
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the worlds oldest religion

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hinduism

61
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the study of place names

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toponymy

62
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the religion founded by siddartha Gautama in the 6th century india

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buddhism

63
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example of pull factor for migration

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higher paying job in a nearby city

64
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large scale irrigation agriculture began in Egypt

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4400 B.C.

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