geography midterm 1 review
The approximate population of Earth is
7.1 billion
Which of the following is NOT an example of a geographic inquiry?
A. How did a group of people come to occupy a particular place? B. How have people modified the physical aspects of a place to suit their needs? C. How have people contributed to a particular environmental problem? D. All of the above are examples of geographical inquiry. Correct
Into what language family do Semitic languages like Hebrew fall?
Afro-Asiatic Correct
Around which city are the three college ice hockey teams in the western United States clustered?
Denver, Colorado
Which statement regarding language is NOT correct?
Dialects are mutually unintelligible
Which statement regarding language is NOT correct?
Dialects are mutually unintelligible.
In which region is Swahili a lingua franca?
East Africa Correct
The term placelessness was coined by
Edward Relph
five stages of demographic transitions
First: Death rates and birth rates are high and are roughly in balance. Second: Death rates drop rapidly due to improvements in food supply and sanitation Third: Birth rates fall due to access to contraception, increases in wages, urbanization, an increase in the status and education of women, and other social changes Fourth: Birth rates and death rates are both low Fifth: Birth rates drop, population declines
The prime meridian runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through
Greenwich, England
The official language of China is:
Han
With the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, a common language was needed to unite the immigrant Jews. _____ was revived as the official national language of the new country
Hebrew Correct
What is the largest and most widely spoken language family?
Indo-European
Which statement is NOT true of popular culture?
It focuses on community over the individual.
Which is NOT true of a lingua franca?
It is derived from French
Which is NOT true of a lingua franca?
It is derived from French. Correct
The Semitic languages are spoken mostly in:
Middle East
Which is NOT one of the world's three most heavily populated clusters?
North American cluster
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forcibly moved many American Indian tribes to
Oklamhoma
Which is NOT a cause of population change?
People live their entire lives in one place.
Which statement is NOT true of language?
Primates and other higher-order species have language systems as complicated and expressive as human language. Correct
Following Indo-European, which language family is spoken by the MOST people?
Sino-Tibetan Correct
Which statement is NOT true of indigenous cultures
They typically provide the foundation for a national culture.
Which statement is NOT true of folk cultures, as the term was originally defined?
They value independence and personal initiative
All projections entail some distortion.
True
Lines of longitude on a map run from pole to pole.
True
The presence of _____ in a downtown area may contribute to a sense of placelessness
Walmart and McDonald's Correct
Which is NOT a formal region?
a distribution network of the Washington Post
A language family is:
a group of languages that spring from a common ancestor
In bilingual societies, there is no need for:
a lingua franca
Demographic transition
a model used to represent the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. The transition involves five stages.
Which of the following terms refers to the making of maps?
cartography
Into what type of language can a pidgin language evolve as it acquires more words and speakers?
creole language
. Learned collective human behavior is known as
culture
The Indian subcontinent and East Asia are
densely populated regions
In French the word for three is "trois," in Romanian it is "trei," in Sanskrit it is "travas," and in Welsh it is "tri." This indicates that these languages are
derived from a common ancestor
In French the word for three is "trois," in Romanian it is "trei," in Sanskrit it is "travas," and in Welsh it is "tri." This indicates that these languages are:
derived from a common ancestor Correct
A language variant that can be understood by many or most speakers of the main language is a:
dialect
The globe is divided into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres at the
equator
A map is by definition an unbiased view of the world.
false
Lines of latitude are also known as meridians
false
Most regions, as defined by geographers, have well-defined boundaries
false
n the video shown in class on Friday, it can be said of the Aborigninal langauges that they are all mutually intelligble.
false
n the video shown in class on the "Geospatial Revolution," USHAHIDI was used in response to an earthquake in Nepal
false
The term invented to distinguish traditional ways of life in rural and agricultural spaces from ways of life in urban and industrial spaces is
folk culture
The term invented to distinguish traditional ways of life in rural and agricultural spaces from ways of life in urban and industrial spaces is
folk culture
Mayan speakers typically live in
highlands and forests
The term used to refer to a culture of native origin, often within the context of colonialism, is:
indigenous
The term used to refer to a culture of native origin, often within the context of colonialism, is
indigenous
A self-identified tribal people whose social, cultural, and economic conditions distinguish them from the national society of their host state is a(n)
indigenous culture
Which two sports had their modern origins in Canada?
lacrosse and ice hockey
The single most common variable by which different cultural groups are identified and by which they assert their unique identity is
language
The single most common variable by which different cultural groups are identified and by which they assert their unique identity is:
language
Culture is
learned, collective behavior
A language of communication and commerce spoken across a wide area is known as
lingua franca
In defining a region, geographers might take into account all of the following factors EXCEPT
literary history
Which of the following is NOT an aspect of geographical analysis
lithography
All of the physical, tangible objects made and used by members of a cultural group collectively form its
material culture
Lines of longitude are also known as
meridians
Which concept suggests that a country's population possesses a set of recognizable characteristics or traits that characterize the "core" traits of that country?
national culture
The wide range of beliefs, values, myths, and symbolic meanings of a culture form its
nonmaterial culture
Through which ocean does the longitude line at 180° run
pacific
Geography as a discipline links the _________________ with the _____________________
physical sciences; social sciences
Suppose that speakers of languages A, B, and C live close to one another and come into contact fairly regularly. A fourth language, D, takes elements from A, B, and C to facilitate communication among the groups. D might be considered a:
pidgin language Correct
Which term refers to the generic quality of popular culture that makes one place seem very much like another?
placelessness
When using the demographic transition model to study population, one would expect countries with high birth and death rates to be
preindustrial
Cartographers solve the problem of showing the spherical Earth on a flat piece of paper by using
projections
Which broad classification of cultural difference is NOT discussed in the textbook?
racial
A grouping of similar places, or of places with similar characteristics, is a
region
Which of the following terms refers to the unit of Earth's surface that contains distinct patterns of physical features or of human activities?
region
16. Which is NOT an element of material culture?
religion
All of the following are associated with popular culture EXCEPT
religious institutions
Which of the following refers to the relationship between the distances shown on the map and the actual distances on Earth's surface?
scale
In popular culture, authority tends to be
secular
Which of the following terms refers to the study of how people, objects, or ideas are, or are not, related to one another across space?
spatial analysis
Edward Relph's term placelessness refers to:
standardization of landscape
Tattoos, or "ink," are very popular today. Some people end up living the "ink lifestyle," getting large portions of their limbs or bodies tattooed, spending time with other tattooed people, and attending ink conventions. We might classify the people who take part in the ink lifestyle as a(n)
subculture
The Semitic languages are spoken mostly in
the Middle East
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States, which was seen as a symbol of the American national character?
the cowboy
The word geography comes from a Greek word meaning
to describe the Earth
Comparing the _____ of various Indo-European tongues reveals their kinship
vocabularies Correct
Central to the study of geography are the questions ________ and ________
where; why