Geo 130 Final

Question 1

Religions in the US

Answer 1

Baptists - South
Lutherans - Upper Midwest
Catholics - NE, SW
Mormons - UT
Jews - NYC, Miami, (big cities)
Pentecostals - AR, area
non-believers - highest % in West

Question 2

Eastern Orthodox locations

Answer 2

Coptic - Egypt
Maronite - Lebanon
Nestorian - Jordan

Question 3

Buddhism divisions

Answer 3

Theravada (lesser) - SE Asia (Sri Lanka, Thailand)

Mahayana (greater) - East Asia (China, Japan)

Question 4

Landscapes of the dead

Answer 4

• religious identity
• social status
• cultural differences
• values, hobbies
• ethnicity, nationality
• migration patterns
• physical geography

Question 5

Hunters and gatherers

Answer 5

survive on what earth produces naturally
-(subsistence)
where?
-Amazon Rainforest, Congo, New Guinea

Question 6

Nomads/Transhumance

Answer 6

cyclical movement of people and animals
where?
-fringe lands of Africa, Asia
horizontal = yearly loop 
vertical = elevation changes throughout year

Question 7

Peasant

Answer 7

focus on cereal crops, staple crops
where?
-Asia, Latin America, Africa
*supports most of world’s population

Question 8

Commercial

Answer 8

focus on cash crops
-crop specialization, high yield
<2% American in agriculture
large scale, mechanized

Question 9

Plantation

Answer 9

relies on cheap, manual labor
exotic cash crops
labor = biggest expense

Question 10

Circle Four Farms

Answer 10

SW Utah
why?
-invited
-isolated
-close to I-15 corridor 
-cheap, available land
-future : reach Pacific Rim

Question 11

Rice

Answer 11

associated with peasant agriculture
#1 exporter = Thailand
#1 importer = Europe
#1 producer = China

Question 12

Wheat

Answer 12

mostly cash crop
highly mechanized
#1 exporter = US
#1 importer = Russia
#1 producer = China

Question 13

Ancient cities

Answer 13

small, high density
relatively small population
religious place at center
terrible conditions 
*top problems:
-waste disposal
-grain storage

Question 14

Agglomeration

Answer 14

External: clustering of UNLIKE activities
Localization: clustering of LIKE activities
-associated w/ specific industry
ex: Detroit, Las Vegas, Silicon Valley

Question 15

Era dates

Answer 15

Walking-Horse Car (1800-1890)
Electric Street Car (1890-1920)
Recreational Automobile (1920-1945)
Freeway (1945-present)

Question 16

Walking/Horse Car

Answer 16

city shape = concentric
1830 - RXR impacted city DISTRIBUTION
1852 - horse-drawn street car (city starts to expand)

Question 17

Electric Street Car

Answer 17

city shape = star

-expansion along trolly lines

Question 18

Recreational Automobile

Answer 18

city shape = concentric
urban expansion - middle class to suburbia
average distance to work INCREASED
average density DECREASED

Question 19

Freeway

Answer 19

*biggest impact on modern urban America
people leaving downtown, businesses follow
radial freeways first - similar to trolly lines
=poor left behind
beltways circumvent downtown
(government and stock exchange still downtown)

Question 20

Formal culture region

Answer 20

people have one or more trait in common

core-periphery - farther from center = less

Question 21

Functional culture region

Answer 21

created to complete a task
-(economically, socially, politically…)
ex: EU, a state, church boundaries
based on node or core area
-central point coordinates
clear-cut boundaries (no transition zone)
not as much homogeneity

Question 22

Vernacular culture region

Answer 22

people perceive themselves as part of region

ex: Texas

Question 23

Expansion/Contagious diffusion

Answer 23

diffusion waves spread out UNIFORMLY from node or core area

• to nearest neighborhood(s)
  ex: illness

Question 24

Relocation diffusion

Answer 24

innovation carried with people migrating to new area

ex: log cabin

Question 25

Hierarchal diffusion

Answer 25

based on size of location (large cities to small)
-originates in large city, moves to other large cities, eventually to small cities
ex: fashion
REVERSE ex: Walmart

Question 26

Stimulus diffusion

Answer 26

specific innovation rejected but concept or idea accepted

ex: domestication of wheat
ex: knife