Ap Human study guide

Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, was born in

India

The boundaries between which set of countries were established primarily to separate different religions?

India and Pakistan

Nearly half of the people in the world speak a language from this language family

Indo-European.

Margret embarked on her move to California. En route to Sand Diego from her home in Louisville, Kentucky, she stopped in Santa Fe, New Mexico. While in Santa Fe, she fell in love with the city and decided to stay there. In Margret's migration, Santa Fe represents a(n)?

Intervening Opportunity

Which of the following religions is currently the most important religion in its area of origin?

Islam

Which statement about the English language is correct?

It has been largely influenced by the French language

Which of the following areas is not considered a cultural realm?

New England

The initial spread of HIV between large cosmopolitan cities (e.g. Miami, San Francisco, New York) exemplifies which type of diffusion?

Says contagious is wrong

Which country is in the region with the highest concentration of people?

South Korea

Which of the following would be most important to a human geographer?

Space

In which stage of the demographic transition model does the medical revolution take place?

Stage 2

The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?

Stage 2

The majority of Muslims are

Sunni

Which of the following is an example of a formal cultural region

The Bible Belt

Which of the following is an example of counter-urbanization?

Urban to rural migration.

Which of the following is most clearly a pro-annalist policy?

Awarding tax breaks to families with three or more children

The number of people a region can reasonably support, given it's landscape, resources, and trading ability, is known as?

Carrying capacity

The nineteenth century emigration of Scotch-Irish families to Chicago, as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them, is an example of,

Chain migration

Which of the following religions is not an important religion in India?

Christianity

The shape of a country's population pyramid is determined primarily by its,

Crude birth rate

Which statement about culture is true?

Culture is the traditions and beliefs of a group of people. Culture is learned behavior that is passed from one generation to the next. Cultures are dynamic and always changing. Cultural traits are a reflection of a group's values. -ALL OF THE ABOVE

Which of the following is NOT one of the four Indo-European Romance languages?

English

Jenny's Grandma emigrated from Dublin to New York, and the journey took her 4 days by boat. Jenny's brother migrated from New York to Dublin, but his journey only took 7 hours by plane. This is an example of:

time-space convergence

The name given to a portion of Earth's surface is known as

toponym

Culture is spread by

trans-national corporations. migrants. war and occupation. television and other media. -ALL OF THE ABOVE

Which is the greatest current intraregional migration trend in the US and other developed nations?

urban to suburban

Economic development through international trade is an example of what type of diffusion?

relocation

Which is not a form of expansion diffusion?

relocation

Folk culture is transmitted from one location to another primarily through

relocation diffusion

Which of the following is NOT an example of a typical intervening obstacle?

roads

You have two maps. One shows population density by state, other shows population density by county, and the two reveal entirely different patterns. This is an example of

scale of inquiry

Over time, some regions have been inhabited by a succession of people from different cultures, each of which has left their lasting imprints, such as the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey:

sequent occupance

The arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth's surface is

spatial distribution

People often practice their folk customs instead of pop culture because

they want to preserve their traditional cultures

Of the following five countries, the highest rate of natural increase (RNI) would be found in:

Uganda

An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics is a _______

region

Migration to the United States declined during the 1920s primarily because of

- forgot to answer

In order to replace its population only, a country needs a total fertility rate of

2.1

Geographers have noted that specific diseases are more prevalent in countries that are in certain stages of the demographic transition. This is known as the "epidemiological transition". Cancers and heart disease are most common in countries in which stages?

3 and 4

Life expectancy is lowest in,

Africa

Popular culture is rapidly diffused around the world by

American news organizations, such as CNN. Hollywood movies. American TV shows. the internet. - ALL OF THE ABOVE

Which of these modern languages spread globally as a result of religion?

Arabic.

Early English was influenced by all of the following groups except the

Basques

Population pyramids are used to show,

Both A & B - The age of a country's population, The sex ration of a country's population

This is the measurement that shows the average number of people in an area's population who are not economically productive, who must be supported by the area's economically productive population.

Dependency Ratio

Which of the following countries most likely has the highest agricultural density?

Egypt

A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is

GIS

Which of the following is an example of a revived language?

Hebrew

Which of the following can be considered the "parent" religion to Buddhism?

Hinduism

Which of the following is considered an ethnic religion?

Hinduism

How are Buddhism and Hinduism different?

Hindus have a rigid class system (castes or varnas); Buddhists reject the caste system

Under what circumstances could high birth rates pose a challenge for a country?

If a country's economy grows at a slower rate than the CBR If a country is unable to provide adequate health care for its citizens. If a country's natural resources are depleted in an unsustainable manner. If a country's population structure. resembles a pyramid. -ALL OF THE ABOVE

Which of the following would have the smallest map scale?

Map of the World

Which of the following trends matches the urban migration pattern of the 1800s noted by Ernst Ravenstein?

Migrants who move long distances tend to move to large cities

Which of the following trends matches the urban migration pattern of the 1880s noted by Ernst Ravenstein?

Migrants who move long distances tend to move to large cities

This is the process by which a less dominant culture adopts the traits of a more dominant culture so completely that the two cultures become indistinguishable.

NOT - Acculturation

Rapidly declining crude birth rates are found in which stage of the demographic transition?

NOT - Stage 2

The lowest crude birth rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?

NOT - Stage 4

According to the Migration Transition Theory countries that are most likely to be senders of migrants are in what stage of the demographic transition?

NOT - Stages 1, 2, and 3

Relatively developed countries moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition 200 years ago in part because of

NOT - a medical revolution

A group of related cultural traits is a

NOT - culture complex

Which of the following differences between two populations could NOT be discerned by comparing their population pyramids?

NOT - dependency ratios

When Honduran immigrants - en route to the US - decide to settle in a city such as Matamoros, Mexico, which of the following terms is most explanatory?

NOT - intervening obstacle

All of the following are examples of a "Brain Drain" except

NOT - migration of Cuban doctors after the rise of Fidel Castro

Historically, the world's population grew

NOT - quickly until about 1800 CE, before slowing down between 1800 CE and the present.

Family planning has been advocated as a method for influencing population growth in many countries. Which of the following phrases is NOT an important part of "family planning"?

NOT - women play a more part than men

The lowest crude birth rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?

NOT stage 4

The largest concentration of Protestants in the world is in

North America

India and The United Kingdom have approximately the same arithmetic density. From this this we can conclude that the two countries have the same,

Number of people per area of land

Which statement about official languages is true?

Official languages are used by the government for use in its daily business

If you were measuring the concentration of white Americans using a dot density map, which threshold would put the most visual emphasis on those whites living in rural areas?

One dot per 3,000 white Americans

Which statement regarding interregional migration in the United States is most accurate?

People are migrating from the Northeast and the Midwest to the West and the South

A map that uses a symbol to display frequency (the larger the symbol the higher the frequency) is a(n)

Proportional-symbol Thematic Map

Which population pyramid shows a population that is slowly growing?

Pyramid "B"

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method is _______

Remote Sensing

Which country listed below would have the population pyramid with the narrowest base?

The Netherlands

Which of the following areas is considered part of the ecumene?

The banks along the Nile River

Distortion can be defined as

The error that occurs in all maps

Karl Marx would have most likely agreed with which of the following statements?

The unequal distribution of resources creates surplus population

Thomas Malthus concluded that,

The world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies

Which three cities in the world often serve as hearths for popular culture?

Tokyo, New York, and London

Most people live in cities as a percentage of the population in which of these regions?

Western Europe

Human geography is best described as the study of

Where and why human activities are located where they are

Reasons why women in the United States are having fewer children than 50 years ago include all of the following except

Women have poorer diets

A geographic assemblage of related culture regions is

a culture realm

According to Wilbur Zelinsky's theory of Migration Transition,

a person living in a country that is in stage 1 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) is very unlikely to migrate internationally, a person living in a country that is in stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) is most likely to migrate internationally, a person living in a country that is in stage 3 or 4 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) is likely to migrate internally - ALL OF THE ABOVE

No map is an accurate representation of the earth's surface because

a sphere cannot be projected onto a flat surface without distortion

Seoul, South Korea can be found at 37 00 N, 127 30 E. These coordinates describe Seoul's

absolute location

If a group of people migrated from Papua New Guinea to North America and adopted Western cultural habits, this would be an example of

acculturation

A universalizing religion

appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations

In folk societies, materials used for building homes

are available locally

Ethnic religions

are made up of homogeneous populations. do not seek converts. - A AND B ONLY

Mahayana and Theravada are

branches of Buddhism

Relocation diffusion is

the spread of an idea or trait through the physical movement of people from one place to another.

The science of making maps is

cartography

The nineteenth century emigration of Scotch-Irish families to Chicago, as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them, is an example of

chain migration

Examples of non-material aspects of culture include all of the following except

clothing.

Religions influence on the cultural landscape can be seen in all following ways except

commercial districts

The area of origin of a culture is called

culture hearth

A single attribute of culture is called a

culture trait

Europeans migrated to the United States primarily because of

decreased economic opportunities as European countries experienced rapid population growth

The frequency of something within a given unit of area is

density

A characteristic other than age that geographers believe is an indicator of the tendency of a person to migrate long distances is

education

The theory that the physical environment causes social and cultural development is called

environmental determinism

All of the following are characteristics of folk cultures except

folk cultures are spread through expansion diffusion

A formal culture region differs from other regions in that it

has a selected feature or internal uniformity

Popular Culture is characterized by all of the following except

homogeneous population

Chinese characters, which represent ideas or concepts but not specific pronunciations are examples of a (n)?

ideogram

By definition, animists believe that

inanimate objects and natural events have spirits

Problems with multi-lingual states include

increased costs for printing government signs and literature in multiple languages. antagonism between speakers of the different languages. confusion, as some place names are identified differently in the different languages -ALL OF THE ABOVE

Swahili as the language of trade and commerce in East Africa is an example of a

ingua franca

Cultural Ecology studies the

interactions between human societies and the physical environment

Which of the following statements best describes the subject matter of cultural ecology?

interactions between human societies and the physical environment

A creole language

is a pidgin language that has evolved to become a group's first language

In North America, "porch," "stoop," "balcony," and "veranda," are used in different regions. The boundary between regions where these different terms are used are known as:

isoglosses

Brain drain is

large-scale emigration by talented people

The difference between a migrant and a refugee is

migrants seek to move permanently; refugees usually seek to return to their home, migrants move to improve their lives; refugees move as a result of catastrophic events in their homeland, migrants carefully plan their move; refugees have to move on a moment's notice, migrants are usually young and single; refugees are people of all ages - ALL OF THE ABOVE

Which of the following events would be considered a migration pull factor?

opening of a new factory

The spatial distribution created by the U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785 is an example of

pattern

Physiological density is the number of

people per acre of arable land

A country's Total Fertility Rate is

the average number of children a woman can expect to give birth to during her lifetime

According to environmental determinism,

the physical environment forces certain social development

Sub Saharan Africa is dominated by this language family

​Niger-Congo

Which of the following is NOT used by geographers to determine absolute location?

​​Distance from the Ocean

Which of the following maps would be more useful for demonstrating varying levels of oceanic elevation?

​​Isoline Topographic

Which of the following map projections would you most likely find in your textbook, as no one map property is overly distorted?

​​Robinson Projection