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