APHG: Semester 1 test questions Unit 1-3
Which type of agriculture is classified as commercial but found primarily in LDCs?
Plantation
What type of geospatial tool may be used to show the change in temperature and how it impacts global changes to agriculture and vegetation?
Remote Sensing
What is the major difference between remote sensing, GPS, and GIS?
Remote sensing: satellite orbits; GPS: precise position; GIS: computer system and layers
`According to the map of world milk production, more than 100 million metric tons of milk are produced annually in...
India
Smartphones have revolutionized cartography. Matthew Zook, a geographer at the University of Kentucky, partnered with a company of data scientists called the DOLLY project and have created a repository of every geotagged tweet since December 2011, using longitude and latitude Why are geographers interested in this information from DOLLY?
It provides information about spatial distribution of people's reactions to events
According to the Gravity model of migration, in which state and city of the US would Mexican immigrants most likely live?
Texas and Los Angeles
The Phatak family in India today decides to have five children, although India's official approach to demographic growth includes a public relations campaign encouraging smaller families. This illustrates...
That women in this family probably have little or no power in relation to family planning and the husband may want more children.
Which of the following have aided commercial farmers in MDCs?
Transportation improvements, scientific advances, and electronics
Mixed crops and livestock allows farmers to
create a system where crops provide food for livestock and the livestock provide the bulk of the income
Which of the following explains the connection between LDCs and subsistence agriculture?
lack of capital to invest in farms results in farmers producing smaller yields to only feed their family
The study of how humans and the environment interact is called...
cultural ecology
Refugees migrate primarily because of which type of push factors, as seen in Iraq, Afghanistan and especially in Syria in recent years?
cultural or political
The decline in the number of farmers in MDCs can be best described as a consequence of.....
push/pull economic factors, including the lack of opportunity in rural areas and higher-paying jobs in urban areas and more mechanization resulting in less farmers needed
San Francisco is located east of the San Francisco Bay and the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. To its west is the Pacific Ocean. To its north is Marin Country. To its south is the sprawling South Bay metropolis. What is this an example of?
site
To increase crop yields and overcome topography, farmers in South China using wet rice dominance commonly practice....
terraced farming
In what ways have humans modified their environment?
the people of the Netherlands have created polder systems to impact farming practices and to reduce flooding
According to possibilism...
the physical environment can set limitations but humans can overcome them
The population pyramid of a city in southern Florida, Arizona, and even northern Japan may appear ______ because the city's population is dominated by elderly people.
"Upside down" or inverted
Which is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?
A new field is used every few years due to soil depletion and left fallow
In this figure, which two of the 4 boxes have the highest density of dots?
A,D
The government of Bangladesh and Botswana has helped reduce birth rates (pushing them into stage 3) mainly by providing...
Access to and information about various methods of contraception/family planning
Which of the following is a typical practice in growing rice in Asia (Intensive subsistence wet rice dominant)?
All of these questions are correct (Preparing fields with a plow drawn by oxen, flooding the plowed field with water, growing seedlings in a nursery and then transplanting seedlings into the flooded field, harvesting and sometimes polishing the rice)
In this figure, which 2 boxes have the highest cluster of dots?
B,D
Which of the following is a restriction that prevents LDCs from "trading their way" out of poverty and competing with MDCs?
Because of free trade, it becomes cheaper to import goods from MDCs since MDC governments subsidize their farmers
Which of the following is used primarily with commercial farming?
Capital-intensive agriculture
The stages of the epidemiological transition are based are...
Causes of death at varying stages of the demographic transition
According to the table, which country has a greater need for increased crop yields and imported foods and why? Country A: Arithmetic Density 226 ppl/sq. mile Physiological Density 8,078 ppl/sq. mile Arable land % 2.8% Country B Arithmetic Density 84 ppl/sq.mile Physiological Density 498 ppl/sq. mile Arable land % 16.8%
Country A: The large difference between its arithmetic and physiological densities indicates that it has only a little good farmland
Which of the following is a solution to increase output of intensive subsistence agriculture NOT wet rice dominant?
Crop rotation
A geographer might use a GPS to...
Find the best route to a store or find the locations of specific sites
A boy migrated from Honduras through Guatemala and Mexico, then entered the USA without immigration documents, because members of his ethnic group were being targeted for torture or assassination in his home country. Although the US government does not grant the boy refugee status, his case is an example of international and______migration.
Forced
Moving toward Mexico and the southern states of TX, New MX, and AZ, Spanish is becoming the common language and a unifying characteristic. What type of region does this represent?
Formal
Using this land use urban planning map of Manila, what geospatial tool would a geographer/cartographer to produce this image and share it with local city planners?
GIS
Which is grown ONLY on a commercial farm and NOT on a subsistence farm?
Grapes
A farmer who converts forested land and marshland into cropland has....
Increased the land's carrying capacity
What is the primary difference between intensive and extensive land use/agriculture?
Intensive land use has small-area farms with high inputs of labor while extensive use has large area farms with low inputs of labor
Which type of agriculture is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's LDCs, making up many farming practices in LDCs, where population density is high?
Intensive subsistence farming
Which Agricultural region is most likely associated with the largest population cluster?
Intensive subsistence wet rice dominant- East and South Asia
The shape of a country's population pyramid...
Is determined primarily by its crude birth rate and life expectancy
Why is map scale used in cartography?
It is used to show the relationship between the feature size on a map to its actual size on earth using a ratio(1:24,000), written(1 inch equals 1 mile), or graphic scale
What types of agriculture would the globalization of McDonald's most likely leverage(use)?
Livestock ranching, grain farming, commercial gardening and fruit farming
A country with a large amount of arable land and a smaller of farmers will have a ____. This would most likely suggest that the country uses ______
Low agricultural density/mechanization and commercial agriculture
Which of the following statements is true regarding MDC's and LDC's?
MDCs have a higher CDR (10) than LDCs do (8)
Global positioning systems reference_______location.
Mathematical
Which of the following projections preserves direction at the expense of shape(especially at the poles-compass)?
Mercator
The invention of agriculture, which was believed to be accidental, began in the fertile crescent or _____, and then probably came to America through a trade known as_____.
Mesopotamia, Colombian Exchange
The largest number of authorized and unauthorized immigrants to the USA come from what country?
Mexico
Which of the following explains the connection between MDCs and commercial agriculture?
More capital to invest means higher yields due to mechanization
Which of the following is NOT one of Ravenstein's "laws of migration"?
Most migrants move from the urban to rural centers for more economic opportunity
Which of the following isn't one of the major international migration patterns today?
North America to Asia
Which of the following is NOT a limitation for LDC farmers today?
Overproduction of goods resulting in low prices
Neo-Malthusians believe...
Population growth is outpacing available resources such as fuel in many countries
The concept that the physical environment sets broad limits on human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to a wide variety of physical environments is
Possibilism
A mathematical process for transferring location from a globe to a flat map is a....
Projection
Judging from the map of agricultural regions, which type of agriculture occupies the largest percentage of central and sub-Saharan Africa and Northern South America?
Shifting cultivation
Which of the following would be agricultural types found in humid-tropical climates (due to the benefits of this climate)?
Shifting cultivation and intensive subsistence wet rice dominant
The US center of population and the major trend in the last 50 years has moved steadily to the...
South
*Change in undernourishment chart According to the "Change in Undernourishment" chart, what region is IMPROVING their level of undernourishment FIRST in the last 10 years from 2006-present (the amount of people undernourished is declining) AND SECOND, OVERALL from 1991-2001?
South Asia AND East Asia
The initial hearth of agriculture(specifically seed agriculture), as demonstrated by the map above, was probably
Southwest Asia, later diffusing to Europe
The highest crude death rates are found in countries in which stage of the classic demographic transition?
Stage 1
Country X has a crude birth rate of 40 and a crude death rate of 15. In what stage of the demographic transition is this country?
Stage 2
The migration transition model predicts that international emigration reachers a peak at_____of the DTM.
Stage 2
Which stage of the DTM best reflects the Second Agricultural Revolution?
Stage 2
Rapidly declining crude death rates are found in which stage of the classic demographic transition? This is because...
Stage 2/improvements in medicine and in the industrial revolution for MDCs.
A crude birth rate of approx 9-10 per 1,000 is typical of a country in which stage of the demographic transition
Stage 4
Life expectancy is lowest and total fertility is highest on average in
Sub Saharan Africa
Among the following world regions, the least densely populated (NOT one of the four major clusters) is...
Sub-Saharan Africa
When geographers say that the South is partly defined as a region by the Baptist Church, they understand that...
The Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Methodist, and other churches also attract adherents in the South but to a lesser extent than do baptist churches
The greatest total number of foreign-born residents can be found in...
The USA
All other factors being equal, assess which the following families would most likely contribute to slowing it's country's birth rates today in 2016?
The daughters are encouraged to complete as many years of formal education as possible before marrying and/or beginning to bear children themselves.
Which generalization is best illustrated by the population density world map above:
The majority of the world population live between 20 degree N and 60 degree N latitude
Which of the following is most likely a functional region?
The market/viewing area of dominance of a TV station
One demographic feature with the most significant future implications for the world today is that...
The most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries and they cannot support a high NIR.
Geographers might characterize a country as overpopulated if...
The population numbers less than one million, but there is concern that the country's natural resources are only adequate for only 500k people.
Which aspects of von Thunen's Model has changed as a result of developments in transportation?
The width of the rings has increased and more markets have merged
Which statement correctly describes pastoral nomadism?
This form of subsistence agriculture is still practiced in some remote areas(less than 15 million left) despite the modernization of agriculture
How many one contrast the three identifiers of a place?
Toponym: place names; site: physical characteristics and exact location; situation: relative
The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures is
Transhumance
*Map of dietary energy consumption Using the map of dietary energy consumption as a reference (and momentarily ignoring other cultural and economic factors), we could predict that among the following countries, those most likely to suffer an obesity epidemic in the near future would be....?
USA, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Russia
Among the elements of globalization of culture are the tendencies toward..
Uniform landscapes enhanced communication and mass media, lack of individual cultural identity and traditions
Most humans derive their calories from grain. Which grain is the leading source of energy for the developed world (plus the developing regions of Central and Southwest Asia) and what type of agriculture produced it?
Wheat-grain farming or intensive subsistence not wet rice dominant
Distortion is most severe and apparent on...
World maps
Which of the following best describes the idea of a cultural landscape?
a landscape where human activity has modified the natural environment in some way
A hearth is...
a region from which a phenomenon or idea originates
Examining maps of cancer death rates drawn at different scales reveals that...
a region with an overall low cancer death rate may have some areas of the local level with high cancer death rates
According to Boserup's model of agricultural progression, why did the population never outgrow food supply?
a series of Agricultural Revolutions resulting in more food for growing populations
In comparing Malthus's theory to actual world food production and population growth during the past half-century, the principal difference is that....
actual food production from biotechnology is much higher than Malthus predicted
In the United States many farms are integrated into a large food production industry. This is known as...
agribusiness
Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that
both have low natural increase rates
Which of the following is least likely to be produced in Mediterranean agriculture?
butter or milk
A principal practice of sustainable agriculture is....
careful land management(ridge tillage) and rejection of pesticides
The art and science of making maps is..
cartography
Which of the following types of maps is the best example of a large scale map?
city
The most common intraregional migration trend in the USA in the last 70 years is....
city to suburb
The south is established as a vernacular region of the USA by..
climate, low educational attainment, cotton production, and the prevalence of Baptist churches
Which of the following is an example of the secondary sector of agribusiness?
companies such as Kellogg and Con Agra turning grain into cereal
The way a feature is spread out over an area (and is clustered or dispersed) is...
concentration
The diffusion of ideas via the internet is an example of which type of diffusion?
contagious
Which of the following are forms of expansion diffusion?
contagious and hierarchical
Von Thunen's model can be best be used to explain the location of which of the following types of agriculture due to perishability?
dairying in the Northeast United States
The arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth's surface is...
distribution
A decline in a country's CBR (from 10 births/1,000 to 5 births/1,000) and no change to death rate would result in an increase in that country's...
doubling time
The most important voluntary pull factor for migrants to the North America today is....
economic
To geographers, the spread of McDonald's around the world represents....
economic and cultural globalization
The township and range system reflect geometric pattern because they...
established a grid-like/rectangular pattern for much of present-day land use in the USA
In the winter wheat of the US, the crop is planted in
fall and harvested in late spring/early summer
This map of Africa illustrates the Sub regions of the continent linguistic (language) and physio graphic reasons This represents what regionalization approach?
formal
Which of the following is the outcome of manipulating plants and animals to secure dominance for the most favorable traits, inevitably altering its original state?
genetically modified foods
Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Sub-Saharan regions were all
hearths of plant domestication
Which of the following in NOT a strategy for increasing food supply?
increasing tariffs/taxes on grain exports for LDCs
Which best describes the effect of time-space compression of the technology shown above?
it is more evident because it is speeding up communication
The low rate of contraceptive use and high CBR in Africa reflects the region's...
low status of women
What is the purpose of crop rotation?
maintaining the fertility of fields(for higher yields) and prevent soil exhaustion
The primarily factor in Von Thunen's model for choosing commercial farm products is....
market location for transportation costs and perishability
In the USA, which is likely to cause virtually all population growth in the next few decades?
net immigration
Stage 1 of the ETM is the stage of...
pestilence and famine-infectious disease
Farmers in more developed and less developed countries share which of the following problems?
poor/low income
If someone said that human activities may be limited by intense cold, but that humans have adapted to living in Russia through the use of advanced heating systems, this would be an example of what geographic approach?
possibilism
The historic diffusion of HIV/AIDS to the USA is an example of which type of diffusion?
relocation
The map to the left illustrates the spread of Buddhism from its hearth in Nepal to East Asia, This represents what phenomenon?
relocation diffusion
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite, spacecraft, or specially equipped high-altitude balloon is...
remote sensing
The most prominent type of interregional migration in the world is...
rural to urban
After maize, the most commonly grown crop in the US mixed crop and livestock region______. This can also be found on what type of farming?
soybeans and intensive subsistence not wet rice dominant
Which combination of demographic indicators and their justifications is correct?
stage 4 - CBR is very low because women are working and delaying childbirth
Which of the following could be a vernacular region?
the area of dominance of a certain religion such as the "Bible Belt"
The reason for a decreasing CBR in Japan and other countries that are entering a possible Stage 5 of the DTM is...
the fact that women in this country are choosing work over childbearing
Brain drain is...
the large-scale emigration of talented people away from their country of origin
Farmers in LDCs choose to grow drug crops for export primarily because of...
their market value and demand in MDCs, especially cocaine in the United States
Population pyramids with a large base or a large top illustrate dependency rations. What is the implication for society with a large dependency ratio younger than 15?
there is a large strain on hospitals, schools, and daycares
A treaty with the Omaha Tribe allowed the creation of the Nebraska Territory, ad the city was name Omaha city on July 4, 1854. This is an example of which of the following?
toponym
Relatively few people live at the poles because it is difficult to sustain agriculture and life. This represents with of the four "too's"? What is overcoming this?
too cold/possibilism