Tay GEO 112

The linkage of language and religion greatly enhances the potential for

all of the above

International newspapers and magazines are not permitted in certain regions of the People's Republic of China. This is an example of:

an absorbing barrier to diffusion.

A rising up against established authority with the goal of breaking up the state or replacing the existing government is known as:

an insurgency

The most widespread Semitic language with the greatest number of speakers is:

arabic

The type of territorial shape exhibited by the country below is an example of a:

prorupt (protruded) territorial shape

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have all of the following in common EXCEPT:

proselytic goals

Kelsey's rent just went up by $50 a month and she has decided to look for a less expensive place to live. Kelsey is being influenced by a ___________ factor in the migration process.

push

The Great Wall of China is an example of a:

relic boundary

The small nucleus from which a state grows is known as a:

core area

A temple or pyramid is a part of the _______________ landscape.

cultural

_______________ is the spatial study of population.

population geography

The town of "Bartonville" would be an example of a:

posessive place name

Which of the following is an example of the geographic theme of absolute location?

40°45' N & 89°35'W

The approximate current population of the World is:

7.6 billion

Lesotho is a country totally surrounded by South Africa. Lesotho is what type of political entity?

A and C

The 66°30' South Line of Latitude is known as the:

Antarctic Circle.

Which of the following countries is not one of the five largest in the world in terms of territorial size?

Australia

Who proposed that life is full of suffering, desire is the cause of this suffering, cessation of suffering comes with the quelling of desire, and proper personal conduct and meditation permits the individual to overcome desire, together they are known as the Four Noble Truths?

Buddha

Which of the following is not one of the World's five most populous countries?

Canada

Both _______________ and _______________ are regarded as the founders of modern geography.

Carl Ritter/Alexander von Humboldt

The most spoken language (first language of a people) in the world today is:

Chinese

The 0° longitude line is known as the ___________________.

Correct Prime meridian

When geographers focus on the interrelationships between people and their physical environment, they are following the theme of:

Cultural Ecology.

While going to the voting booth this past November, Andrew's decision on who to vote for was influenced by his religious beliefs. This illustrates the concept of:

Cultural Interaction.

Geographers use the term or concept of _________________ to describe a grouping of similar places.

Culture Region

During Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition, why do we start to see a decrease in the birth rate?

During this stage children are seen as a burden.

Which of the following 3 regions of the World are the most densely populated?

East Asia, South Asia, and Europe

All of the following are properties or elements that a map should posses with the exception of:

Elevation.

Which of the following is not a type of numerical scale that can be found on a map?

Engineer's

German immigrants in the 19th century settled in Central Illinois because they perceived it as an environment that was similar to the one they came from in Germany. This illustrates the concept of:

Environmental Perception.

The idea that most people passed over the plains of Canada because they perceived it as a dry and harsh landscape, but the Ukrainian immigrants saw this as an area that was productive land for grain farming and therefore settled in this region illustrates the concept of:

Environmental perception

What person is considered the Father of Geography?

Eratosthenes

Climate, vast distance, marshes, and dense forest have all played a part in creating a which has protected the core area of the Russian State.

Folk fortress

Which of the following is considered an independent state of the World?

France

Looking at the population pyramid below, what would be a concern for this country in the next several years (5 to 10 years)?

High unemployment due to too many people entering the labor force.

Lines of Latitude are:

Horizontal lines running East to West and measured North and South from the Equator.

The 2015 Earthquake in Nepal and its impact best illustrates which of the Five Central Themes of Geographic Education?

Human-Environment Interaction

The country that ranks 4th in terms of world population is__________________.

Indonesia

The single most common variable by which different cultural groups are identified is:

Language

Which of the following is not a "Pillar" of Islam?

Make at least one pilgrimage to Cairo

While Human Geography forms one part of the discipline of geography, ________________ Geography forms the other part of the discipline of Geography and deals with the natural environment.

Physical

The number of people per unit of arable land is known as the:

Physiological Density.

A middle of the road approach to the study of cultural ecology that recognizes that both the physical environment and humans play a role in determining cultural development is:

Possibilism.

On the tropical rainforest island of Borneo, some tribes practice slash and burn agriculture while other tribes have chosen to be fishers. This exemplifies:

Possibilism.

Migration is considered to be the purest form of this type of diffusion.

Relocation

What type of diffusion is portrayed? A group of French citizens migrate to Quebec and take with them their religion and house-building style.

Relocation

A religion that arose from an attempt to unify Hinduism and Islam is:

Sikhism

Of the following choices, which is not one of the three major classes of map projections?

Spherical

The people of Siberia domesticated reindeer after learning about cattle being domesticated by people to their south. This is an example of this type of diffusion.

Stimulus

The majority of Muslims are:

Sunni

Which of the following would be an example of a reluctant relocation?

The movement of refugees from conflict in Syria to Turkey in search of shelter.

Which of the following is not a condition favoring a dispersed or isolated settlement?

The need for defense

Formal culture regions typically exhibit:

a core-periphery pattern.

The requirements to be considered an independent state of the World are:

a sovereign government, territory, permanent population, and to be recognized as an independent state by the rest of the world.

The World's highest birth rates are found among _________________ populations.

african

A possible cause that might encourage people to migrate is:

all of the above

A result of China's One-Child Policy was:

all of the above

According to the videos Do You Speak American?:

all of the above

An advantage of a large territorial size can be:

all of the above

Malthus believed that ________________ was an effective check on, and an inevitable consequence of population growth.

all of the above

The number of births per 1000 people in a year is known as the __________________.

birth rate

Nearly half of Rwanda's population is below the age of 15. Rwanda's population pyramid would have a ___________________ base.

broad

forces led to the destruction of the Soviet Union.

centrifugal

The joke spread quickly throughout the office and every household in the village claimed a cholera victim are examples of:

contagious diffusion.

The World's population explosion has been triggered by a dramatic:

decrease in death rates.

A fence or wall placed on the earth's surface to mark a country's borders is an example of:

demarcation

The "Red River" is an example of a:

descriptive place names

An environmental __________________ would say that the Inuit (Eskimo) culture must be the way it is because of environmental conditions.

determinist

are variant forms of a language that have not lost mutual understanding.

dialects

The word "Geography" means:

earth description

All of the following statements about religion are true EXCEPT

ethnic faiths do seek converts

Alaska, as a state in the United States, is an example of a(n):

exclave

A farm is an example of a ________________ culture region.

functional

The "ville" in Princeville and the "burg" in Galesburg are examples of:

generic place names

A formerly "dead" language revised for use in the twentieth century is:

hebrew

In _______________ diffusion, ideas leapfrog from one important person to another or from one urban center to another, temporarily bypassing other persons or rural territories.

hierarchical

Which of the following is not a monotheistic religion?

hinduism

The dog, domesticated different places by different people who were not in contact with each other is an example of:

independent invention

In which language family do English and French exist?

indo europeans

Currently the fastest growing religion in the world is:

islam

Culture is:

learned, collective behavior.

A language of communication and commerce spoken across a wide area is known as

lingua franca creole

Which of the following tend(s) not to be characterized by sparse populations?

mid latitudes

A state such as Canada which contains many ethnic groups within the state and does not have a common cultural factor uniting the entire population of the state is a:

multinational state

The Kurds, who are located in portions of Iraq and Turkey, are an example of a:

nation

Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty are symbols of:

national iconography

English and French are spoken in many parts of Africa because:

of imperialism and colonialism

At a basic level, the vernacular culture region grows out of:

people's sense of belonging.

The U.S. boundary between Texas and Mexico follows the Rio Grande. This is an example of a:

physiographic boundary

The rapid, accelerating increase in world population which has occurred since about 1650 and especially since 1900 due to a gradual decrease in death rates, yet little decrease in birth rates is referred to as the ___________________.

population explosion

So many Chinese have migrated from Hong Kong to Vancouver, Canada, that the city is sometimes referred to as "Hongcouver." This illustrates the process of _______________ diffusion.

relocation

Ethnographic boundaries may be based upon everything except for one of the following:

rivers

The Asian religion which is the ethnic religion of Japan is:

shinto

Population pyramids provide information about all of the following EXCEPT:

spatial distribution

According to the Demographic Transition, at what stage will a country experience its greatest population growth?

stage 2

Niger-Congo languages are spoken by the people in which geographic region of the world?

sub saharan african

The universal human desire to belong to a group that controls its own piece of the earth is called:

territoriality

An occurrence that does or can result when people migrate is:

that there can be the spread of ideas and innovations from the area the migrant came from to where they move to settle.

Mackinder, who proposed the Heartland Theory, thought that the most likely base from which to launch a successful campaign for world conquest would be:

the Eurasian continent

All of the following are cases of forced migrations prior to the twentieth century EXCEPT for:

the Taliban fleeing into Pakistan from American-controlled territory.