EXAM 1

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All geographic inquiry focuses on:

The spatial arrangement of places

The spatial arrangement of phenomena on the Earth's surface

Inquiries into how, why, and where things are arranged in the landscape

All of the above

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Human geographers are interested in:

study of how people make places

How space and society is organized

how people interact with each other in places and across geographical spacespace

All of the above

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Geography as a discipline:

teaches one to think critically

allows one to study both the social and physical world

shows us where we are matters, to who we become to how power relationships play out

All of the above

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Key concepts in Geography include:

notions of space and place

regions

geographical patterns or arrangements

all of the above

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The act of turning geographical space into a place is referred to as:

Place Making

Territorial marking

Place ownership

Hierarchical Place Inscribing

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True or False

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Ideas about 'place'emphasize the way locations take on meaning and value through people's subjective experiences of them.

True

False

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When people develop strong emotional attachments or reactions to certain locations, they are expressing:

A site of memory

Anachorisms

A transgression of space

A Sense-of-Place

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The location of something that corresponds to other locations or features on the landscape,such as giving directions using landmarks is:

Natural location

Comparable location

Fixed location

Relative location

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Which is NOT true about the geographical concept of place?

It is unique

It possesses emotional qualities

It is part of human identity

It is identical to geographic space

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Popular culture is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

Mass production of goods

Global money economy

Considerable leisure time

Local folk traditions

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In contrast to popular culture, folk (local) cultures:

tend to be similar across vast regions of Earth.

are found in large, heterogenous societies that share certain customs.

are traditionally practiced primarily by small homogeneous groups living in relative isolation from other groups

are traceable to an individual or corporation in a particular place.

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The main effect of modern communications has been to:

slow the rate of change.

stimulate the diffusion of folk cultures around the world.

preserve folk cultures, by increasing awareness of their uniqueness.

spread popular culture through hierarchical diffusion.

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Which of the following can be defined as "the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape"?

Environmental landscapes

Sequent occupance

Cultural landscapes

Physical landscapes

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Which of the following wouldnotbe a cultural marker (or cultural component) that makes itself visible on the landscape ?

Values

Architecture

Religion

All of the above markers make themselves visible on the cultural landscape

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Which is NOT a type of cultural landscape recognized by cultural geographers?

amenity landscapes

leisure landscapes

functional landscapes

elitist landscapes

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A grouping of similar places, or of places with similar characteristics, is a

landscape.

diffusion.

environment

region.

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One of the Pervasive geographic influences of worldwide popular culture is that one place becomes much like another, robbing places of their cultural uniqueness. This "geography of nowhere" is most often referred to as:

placelessness

culture clustering

cultures of cyberspace

resistance to popular culture

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A ___________ is a classification method that aggregates popular culture sub-groups based on zip codes

Virtual Place

Vernacular Cluster

Lifestyle Cluster

Lifestyle Landscape

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Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies. What type of material culture does this refer to?

western culture

folk culture

popular culture

traditional culture

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The geographical concept of 'place' focuses on abstract, objective, and quantitative understandings of spatial systems and networks, whereas the concept of geographical 'space' is subjective, humanistic, culturally oriented.

True

False

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Popular culture:

spreads primarily through relocation diffusion.

is distributed widely across many countries with little regard for physical factors.

has a distinctive distribution influenced by a combination of local physical and cultural factors.

is transmitted slowly from one location to the next on a small scale.

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Geographic differences in popular culture can be found at all of the following levels EXCEPT:

the body

the local

the globe

geographic differences are found at all of the above levels

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Phenomena that occur on the surface of the Earth (whether human made or natural) create and sustain patterns on the landscape. In geographical terms, these processes are known as:

a scalar distribution

a region

Spatial distribution

Mobility through diffusion

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Geography is not just about places, but also about:

the networks and flows of people and goods that bind places together

The interconnectedness of spatial phenomena

Diffusion from source areas of culture, information, ideas and innovation

All of the above

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Which of the following would not be an element of studying cultural geography:

Kinship/family ties

Economic organization

Political systems

All of the above are elements of cultural geography

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The world's population now stands at about:

500 million

3 billion

8 billion

12 billion

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In which region does the majority of the world's people live?

North America

Eurasia

North and South America

Africa

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The population of a country divided by its area determines its

birth/death rate.

rate of natural increase.

population density.

population doubling time.

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A low birthrate can eventually put stress on governments to provide for_____, because there will be fewer people of working age to support this segment of the population.

the elderly

children

adults of child-bearing age

minorities

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True or False

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High birth rates found in stage 4 of the demographic transition are attributed to decreased access to birth control as well as a decrease in the number of women working outside the home.

True

False

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Which stage of the demographic transition has both high birth rates and high death rates so there is little to no population growth? It alsodescribes the reality through most of our history.

stage 1

stage 2

stage 3

stage 4

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True or False

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If you identify as a Malthusian you subscribe to the notion thatfamine, disease, and war is the inevitable outcome of population growth outstripping food production.

True

False

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In order to reverse Russia's steep decline in population, What isRussia is doing to encourage more people to have children?

Awards to large families for doing their patriotic duty

Financial subsidies in the form of rent, utilities, etc.

Giving families things like free parking, theater trips, and school meals

All of the above

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True or False

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One of the challenges in developing countries to reduce birth rates is overcoming long standing cultural taboos in family planning services, such as birth control and contraceptives.

True

False

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Examine these population pyramids. Which country needs to focus the most effort on providing senior citizen support and services now and in the near future?

Ethiopia

Japan

Israel

Nigeria

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Which country's population pyramid shows the most expansive population?

Ethiopia

Japan

Israel

Nigeria

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True or False

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Most migration involves people travelling a long distance from their original destination, oftendue to political and social factors.

True

False

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True or False

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The oldest recorded map is a 9ft wall painting of a town plan showing buildings and a volcano found in France and is dated 6100-6300BC.

True

False

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The type of map shown below is:

A Mercator Map

A T&O map

A Madrid Map

An Idrisi map

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True or False

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While cartography and the study of geography came to a complete standstill in the Muslim world during the Middle Ages, scientific advances in map making flowered in Europe.

True

False

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True or False

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The art of cartographic persuasion is a many faceted field that uses maps to convince, cajole, and propagandize.

True

False

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True or False

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Although Mandarin Chinese and English are the top 2 languages spoken in the world, far more people have adopted English as a second language.

True

False

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Linguistic Landscapes are represented by:

Road signs, billboards, graffiti, and other publicly displayed writings that reveal the locally dominant language

Place names that consist of the generic and the specific, where language and culture intersect

Symbols of forced cultural assimilation writ large upon the landscape

None of the above

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Place names mirror language, culture, and history writ large on the landscape, whether they're names of settlements, streets, or features of the terrain. These are known as:

Linguistic Landscapes

Toponyms

Dialect Geographies

Spatial Places

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You discovered a mountain in the Appalachians has no official name, and would to name itMount Bakhtiari,in honor of your favorite geography instructor. To do this you would go to:

The governor of the state where the mountain is located

The National Forest Service agency on Toponyms

The U.S. Geological Service Board on Geographic Names

The Presidential Advisory Committee on place names

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The religious faith that is the most widely dispersed over the world is:

Hinduism

Christianity

Judaism

Islam

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Adherents of this major religion are scattered throughout the world as direct result of forced migrations and discrimination stretching back to Roman times. In more recent times, its cultural and religious center was in central and eastern Europe until a third or more of all adherents to this religion were systemically murdered by the Nazis during WWII.

Islam

Buddhism

Orthodox Christianity

Judiaism

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This boundary in Africa that represents the division between the predominantly Islam faith in North Africa and Christianity in central in sub-Saharan Africa is known as:

A religious dissimilarity boundary

An interfaith boundary

An intrafaith boundary

A secularism boundary

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This is a philosophy in democratic societies that says there should be no state mandated religion, and allows people to hold any religious belief they wish without interference from government.

Fundamentalism

Secularism

Monotheism

Polytheism

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Which wouldnotbe considered one of the "pillars of Islam?"

Charitable giving

Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan

The veil worn by Muslim women

A pilgrimage to Mecca