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Geog.Final Ch.1-3
Geography Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common? | They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do |
| The beach at Ipanema, Brazil, can be studied using tools | from both human and physical geography |
| Scholars of the Ancient World | had a remarkable knowledge of planetary dimensions |
| The science of making maps is | cartography |
| Of the four major Earth systems, which one is composed of living organisms? | biosphere |
| If the scale of a map is 1:100,000, then 1 centimeter on the map represents | 1 kilometer |
| To geographers, the spread of McDonald's around the world represents | economic and cultural globalization |
| Scale is | the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature of the landscape |
| An area distinguished by a unique combination of features is a | uniform unit |
| The International Date Line mostly follows | 180 degrees longitude |
| The Indus and Ganges river plains hold a major part of what world population cluster? | South Asia |
| One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that | the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries |
| Land suited for agriculture is called | arable land |
| The world's most populous country is | China |
| Wealthier countries have lower values than poorer countries for all but which demographic measure? | life expectancy |
| Arranging a country's population along a bar graph representing ages and genders creates a population | pyramid |
| The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition? | Stage 2 |
| Which stage of the demographic transition are the world's richest countries in | Stage 4 |
| The ________ rate in more developed countries is higher on average than in less developed countries | Death |
| Geographers define overpopulation as | too many people compared to environmental capacity |
| The U.S. center of population has moved steadily to the | west |
| Worldwide, rural to urban migration is | the major trend in developing countries |
| Which of the following events would be considered a migration pull factor? | opening of a new factory |
| Which factor most often causes migration? | economic |
| A majority of undocumented migrants to the United States comes from | Mexico |
| Unrestricted immigration to the United States was first limited by | the Quota Act of 1921 |
| Refugees migrate primarily because of which type of push factor? | political |
| Brain drain is | the large-scale emigration of talented people |
| Counter urbanization is | migration to rural areas and small towns |
| Migration is | permanent move to a new location |
| The main effect of modern communication on social customs has been to | Increase the similarity of social customs in different locations |
| The use of a horse and buggy by the Amosh in the United States is an example of a | Folk culture |
| The repetitive act performed by an individual is a | Habit |
| Which sport is the most global in its extent | Football (soccer) |
| The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people is a | Custom |
| Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies. This refers to what type of material culture? | Popular culture |
| Diffusion of Internet service is following the earlier pattern of television, except | Diffusion is much faster |
| Rapid diffusion of popular culture | Depends on modern communication systems |
| A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a | Taboo |
| Some taboos against eating pork may be partly explained because | Pigs are not well-suited to hot, arid environments |
| The geographic study of the distribution of languages provides a good example of | The interplay between globalization and local diversity |
| From. It's distant to closest relatives, languages can be classified into | Families, branches, and groups |
| A literary tradition is | The written form of languag |
| English is part of which language branch? | Germanic |
| The residents of Hong Kong, China are exposed to a lot of Engish especially because | It was until recently a British colony |
| A language used by the government for business and official documents is an | Official language |
| English is part of which language family? | Indo-European |
| When people who speak a given language migrate to a different location and become isolated from other members of their group, | Various dialects develo |
| British and American English differ in all but what? | Alphabet |
| The two largest language families in the world are | Sing-Tibetan and Indo-European |
| For many people on Earth, religion serves as a source of | Key values and beliefs |
| The predominant religion in Latin America is | Catholicism |
| Buddhism's 400 million adherents are | Concentrated in China and Sotheast Asia |
| An ethnic religion is | Appealing mostly to one group of people in one place |
| The world's largest ethnic religion is | Hinduism |
| The world's largest universalizing religion is | Christianity |
| Muslims are clustered in | North Africa and southwest Asia |
| The division of Islam I to branches resulted from a disagreement | Over which of Mohammed's relatives should succeed him |
| Universalizing religions mostly have in common | Origins with individual men or prophets |
| A universalizing religion | Appeals to people living in a wide varie of locations |
| Geographers are concerned with ethnicity because | It is a core element of culture that individuals always carry with them |
| Race is | Self-identificTion with a group Shari g a biological ancestor |
| Latinos and Hispanocs are clustered in what areas of the United States? | West, Southwest |
| The largest proportion of Asian Americans are from | China |
| The ethnic heritage of most African Americans has roots in | Forced migration from Africa |
| what was apartheid? | The geographic separation of races in Soth Africa |
| President Barack Obama is a good example of the | Complexity of ethnic identity in the United States |
| Which of the following is not an element of cultural diversity | Race |
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