Human Geography Test

Question 1

What is globalization?

Answer 1

A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders.

Question 2

Globalization occurs at which scale?

Answer 2

Local, regional, and global

Question 3

Geographers are most interested in analyzing:

Answer 3

Spatial patterns

Question 4

What is a pandemic?

Answer 4

A worldwide outbreak of a disease.

Question 5

Dr. John Snow was able to correlate cholera deaths with:

Answer 5

Water pumps

Question 6

What are the five themes of geography?

Answer 6

I. Location: Position on Earth’s surface
II. Place: Physical and human characteristics
III. Human/Environment Interaction: Shaping the landscape
IV. Movement: Humans interacting on the earth
V. Regions: How they form and change

Question 7

The art and science of making maps is referred to as:

Answer 7

Cartography

Question 8

GPS stands for:

Answer 8

Global Positioning System

Question 9

GIS

Answer 9

Geographic Information Systems

Question 10

What is a cultural hearth?

Answer 10

An area where cultural traits develop and from which the cultural traits diffuse.

Question 11

The way the common cold spreads is an example of which type of diffusion?

Answer 11

Contagious

Question 12

The spread of fashion is typically an example of which type of diffusion?

Answer 12

Hierarchical

Question 13

What is a fundamental of the theory of possibilism?

Answer 13

The natural environment,not merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture.

Question 14

Who is the vast majority of the 1 billion malnourished people on the earth?

Answer 14

Women and children

Question 15

Global food distribution is usually distributed evenly. (T/F)

Answer 15

False

Question 16

The best-fed countries have the most arable land. (T/F)

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Absolute and relative location are interchangeable terms. (T/F)

Answer 17

False

Question 18

A functional region is the product of interactions, of movement of various kinds. (T/F)

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What is physiologic population density?

Answer 19

It relates the total population of a country or region to the area of arable land it contains.

Question 20

Where are the three largest population clusters in the world?

Answer 20

East Asia, South Asia, Europe

Question 21

What term do urban geographers use to refer to huge agglomerations such as the Northeastern section of the United States?

Answer 21

Megalopolis

Question 22

What did Malthus believe regarding population growth?

Answer 22

Population grew exponentially and food resources grew arithmetically.

Question 23

Which continent has the highest rate of natural increase?

Answer 23

Africa

Question 24

Which of the following countries is in Stage 4 of the DTM?

Mexico
Kenya
Japan
Laos

Answer 24

Japan

Question 25

Which of the following countries would most likely have a population pyramid with a wide bottom and narrow top? Uganda U.S. Australia Canada

Answer 25

Uganda

Question 26

The lowest infant mortality rate among larger populations has long been reported by which country?

Answer 26

Japan

Question 27

Which country has the longest life expectancy?

Answer 27

Japan

Question 28

Most undeveloped countries will be in which stage of the DTM?

Answer 28

2nd

Question 29

There are more than 60 countries with populations levels that had fallen below the replacement level. (T/F)

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Every country's population doubles in approximately 14 years. (T/F)

Answer 30

False

Question 31

Every country goes through all four stages of the DTM.

Answer 31

False

Question 32

Infant mortality rate and child mortality rate are the same measurement.

Answer 32

False

Question 33

China once encourages expansive population policies, but now encourages restrictive population policies. (T/F)

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Fraction of the world that is malnourished

Answer 34

1/6

Question 35

What is an example of cyclic movement?

Answer 35

Commuting to work

Question 36

What are activity spaces?

Answer 36

The local areas in which people have a daily routine.

Question 37

What is an example of periodic movement?

Answer 37

Migrant labor and transhumance.

Question 38

When is movement considered migration?

Answer 38

When it results in a permanent relocation

Question 39

When a migrant LEAVES the home country's he or she is classified as a/an ___________ of the home country

Answer 39

Emigrant

Question 40

Moving from California to New York would be considered what type of migration?

Answer 40

Internal

Question 41

According to Ernst Ravenstein, what is the law of migration?

Answer 41

Every migration flow generates a return or counter migration. The majority of migrants move a short distance. Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big-city destinations.

Question 42

The gravity model predicts interaction between places on the basis of:

Answer 42

Their population size and distance between them

Question 43

A refugee can be identified by which characteristics?

Answer 43

They move without any more tangible property than they can carry. They make their first step on foot, by bicycle, wagon, or open boat. They move without official documentation.

Question 44

Which continent is most severely afflicted by dislocation?

Answer 44

Africa

Question 45

Nomadism is a type of cyclic movement. (T/F)

Answer 45

True

Question 46

The largest voluntary migration in history was the Atlantic slave trade.

Answer 46

False

Question 47

Prospective migrants are likely to have more complete perceptions of nearer places than of farther ones, which confirms the notion that the intensity of human activity, process, or function declines as distance from its source increases. This is the principle of distance decay.

Answer 47

True

Question 48

Immigration waves are swells in migration from various origins to the same destination.

Answer 48

False

Question 49

Islands of development are often coastal cities because their establishment was based on access to trade.

Answer 49

True

Question 50

The birth place of a civilization is call a/an:

Answer 50

Culture hearth

Question 51

Which of the following is NOT an element of popular culture? Large Incorporates heterogeneous populations Typically urban Experiences cultural traits that do not often change

Answer 51

Experiences cultural traits that do not often change

Question 52

Which of the following would be considered material culture? Art Houses Clothing All of the above

Answer 52

All of the above

Question 53

Which of the following would be considered non-material culture? Sports Dance Foods Beliefs

Answer 53

Beliefs

Question 54

Which of the following best describes a group of people in a particular place who seem themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those trips and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themes levels from others? Material culture Local culture Popular culture Folk culture

Answer 54

Local culture

Question 55

Fashion trends tend to diffuse quite quickly through which type of diffusion process?

Answer 55

Hierarchical

Question 56

In terms of diffusion, what us a hearth?

Answer 56

The point of origin

Question 57

What is a practice that a group of people routinely follows?

Answer 57

Custom

Question 58

What is the process by which other countries adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit?

Answer 58

Cultural appropriation

Question 59

What did the Makah American Indians so that was considered unthinkable by environmentalists?

Answer 59

Reinstated the whale hunt

Question 60

Cultural landscapes usually vary from one country to another. (T/F)

Answer 60

True

Question 61

Little Sweden, U.S.A is an example of neolocalism. (T/F)

Answer 61

True

Question 62

Commodification usually does not have a big impact on culture. ( T/F)

Answer 62

False

Question 63

Hip Hop is an example of reterritorialization.

Answer 63

True

Question 64

Time-space compression explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication technologies.

Answer 64

True

Question 65

In peripheral countries, families often see the role of young women as:

Answer 65

One of support- financial support for their families.

Question 66

One of the clearest ways in which societies are gendered are through:

Answer 66

Divisions of labor

Question 67

In American society, which of the following do we typically assume is not a task that should be completed by men?

Answer 67

Cooking and cleaning

Question 68

Many women in peripheral countries migrates to EPZs for work. What is an EPZ?

Answer 68

Export Production Zone

Question 69

One of the most powerful ways to construct an identity is by identifying against to identify against we:

Answer 69

First define the "other" and then define ourselves as "not the other."

Question 70

What is residential segregation?

Answer 70

The degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the the an environment.

Question 71

Invasion and succession is a process involving

Answer 71

Chechens