Human Geography
A folk house that is of half-timbered construction and has a central chimney and built-in porch is the Acadian:
Creole cottage
Which is NOT a characteristic of the nipa hut?
It has no windows.
Farm villages are common everywhere EXCEPT:
The United States
Which statement is NOT true of indigenous cultures?
They are the result of colonial efforts
According to the convergence hypothesis, people and places are:
becoming more alike
Birth rates were high in agrarian societies because:
children provided a source of labor
The intensely terraced hills in Southeast Asia are examples of:
cultural landscapes
What process makes it possible to see many of the folk architecture buildings in large cities today?
historic preservation
Which is NOT a punishment faced by Chinese people who have more than one child?
imprisonment
Which is an example of nonmaterial culture?
myths
Which group of people believes that Earth's support systems are being strained by the widespread adoption of wasteful Western lifestyles?
neo-Malthusians
Languages that developed in dense tropical rain forests tend to have a language with more:
open vowel sounds
A factor that slows, but does not prevent, diffusion is a(n):
permeable barrier
The longest-lasting toponyms tend to identify:
physical geographical features
According to Peter Jackson, cultural practices rooted in place shape the effects of globalization through all of the following EXCEPT:
placelessness
Airports that have museum exhibits specific to the history of the city or state in which they are located are attempting to overcome:
placelessness
Human geographers with a social theoretical perspective ask questions about:
power and ideology
The BEST term to describe Los Altos de Cazucő is:
shantytown
An economy in which people seek to consume only what they produce and to produce only for local consumption rather than for exchange or export is called a _____ economy.
subsistence
The effects of diffusion tend to become _____ as they move away from the point of impact.
weaker
Approximately how many people have the ongoing Sudanese civil wars displaced?
4,000,000
Of an estimated 107 billion Homo sapiens who have ever lived on Earth, approximately _____ are alive today.
7 %
It is likely that Homo sapiens evolved in:
Africa
Based on the map, which Indian city name does NOT reflect the country's postcolonial toponyms shift?
Bombay
Many _____ toponyms are found in modern Spain.
Arabic
A log home consisting of two rooms with a fireplace in between is a:
Cape Cod
Which of the following is NOT a push factor for a refugee?
Cold Climate
Why are traditional/folk Yankee houses so large?
Cold winters forced much work to be done indoors.
Which emperor caused the Roman Empire to split into two halves?
Constantine
Two states in which desirable environmental traits have attracted a significant number of interregional migrants are:
Florida and Arizona
Which country in 2010 banned full-face veils (burqas) in public?
France
There is a strong correlation between lower total fertility rate and:
Increased education of females
Which statement is NOT true of popular culture?
It focuses on specific, individual choices.
In the Alps, the people who tend to live on the sunny side of the slopes are likely to speak:
Italian
The architecture of the Alhambra is:
Moorish/Muslim
In what part of the United States are generic toponyms such as ‣Corners․ or ‣Center․ often found?
New England
In 1854, John Snow traced the cholera outbreak in London to:
One Water pump
Using the framework of environmental perception, why is the spatial pattern of belief in global warming significant?
People vote based on their perceptions, which has implications for policy.
Migration is considered to be this type of diffusion:
Relocation
For nearly a millennium, which was the world's wealthiest, most powerful, and most populous city, with a population of more than 1 million in the first century c.e.?
Rome
All of the following terms refer to cultural preference for males EXCEPT:
Sex Ratio
Which type of house is an example of an African American folk dwelling?
Shotgun
According to the demographic transition graph, a sharp decline in the birth rate begins in:
Stage 3
Why did the Miskito turtle hunters, once a purely subsistence economy, need to work to pay off debts to outsiders, which eventually caused the collapse of the subsistence economy?
The turtle hunters had been given loans to buy equipment for hunting.
Why did Upland Southerners migrate from the Appalachians to places like the Ozark-Ouachita Mountains and the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest instead of places like the Great Plains?
Their ecological knowledge was better adapted to mountainous areas.
Which country long suppressed the Kurdish language but has been easing these restrictions as part of its efforts to join the European Union?
Turkey
Within the United States, the New West․ is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:
a regional economy based on cattle ranging, mining, and logging
The population explosion was triggered primarily by:
a steep decline in the death rate for infants and children
A farming system that combines the growing of trees with the cultivation of agricultural crops is:
agroforestry
Televisions, videocassette recorders, and videotapes were not permitted in Afghanistan during the regime of the Taliban. This is an example of:
an absorbing barrier to diffusion
Understanding why cats began living around humans and eventually became their pets would be a question for someone in the subfield of:
animal geography
The leading cause of internally displaced persons (IDPs) is:
armed conflict
Within a formal region, the cultural traits tend to be strongest:
at the core
Houses of the Ndebele region in Africa are noted for their:
brightly colored walls
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels blamed poverty and starvation on:
capitalism
Suppose that a parcel of land is capable of supporting 100 people and that 400 people live on that parcel of land. We can say that the land exceeds its:
carrying capacity
Europeans historically claimed that indigenous peoples practices destroyed the environment, yet this claim was part of an effort to dispossess indigenous peoples from their land during:
colonialism
While at opposite ends of the emotional spectrum, a joke spreading quickly throughout an office and cholera claiming a victim from every household in a village are both examples of which type of diffusion?
contagious
The critics of Thomas Malthus who argue that science and technology can solve resource shortages are known as:
cornucopians
A folk culture is NOT likely to be:
culturally diverse
The term _____ has been coined to describe the pattern of unequal access to the Internet.
digital divide
The Rule of 72 is used to calculate:
doubling time of population
Understanding how human cultures interact with their environment reflects a(n):
ecological perspective
The outdated idea that people in the Pacific Islands were lazy or less intelligent than Europeans because of the tropical climate they lived in is known as:
environmental determinism
Each state within the United States, and each province within Canada, can be considered a:
functional region
Diane Rocheleau's work in East Africa and the Dominican Republic identified all of the following themes EXCEPT:
gendered sexuality
Indigenous rights organizations assert that they have cultivated local biodiversity for generations and that they should have control over the resulting
genetic resources
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) stores now exist in Shanghai, China's largest city, and Beijing, its second major city. Soon, other KFC stores will open in other Chinese cities and towns that are smaller in size in a decreasing order. What type of diffusion does this process illustrate?
hierarchical
The term used to describe the highly localized knowledge about environmental conditions and sustainable land-use practices is:
indigenous technical knowledge
The greatest voluntary relocation of people in world history was caused by:
industrialization
All of the following are commonly found in amenity landscapes EXCEPT:
informal settlements
The Great Migration, which refers to the twentieth-century movement of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and Midwest, was which type of migration?
internal
A shopping mall might be classified as a(n):
landscape of consumption
Which was a case of voluntary migration?
migration of elderly residents to coastal districts in Great Britain
A geographer who uses an imaginary situation or abstraction in an attempt to isolate causes is building a:
model
A country such as Tanzania, with a broad-based population pyramid, has a _____ population.
rapidly increasing
Pressure from _____ compelled residents of the Malpai region to develop a consortium to maintain the local landscape and ranching as a way of life
real estate developers
Jews who were expelled from Spain brought their religious beliefs and practices to the new areas in which they settled. This is a case of:
relocation diffusion
A geographer seeking to understand why people are reserved and quiet at memorials would be examining:
sense of place
Edward Relph's term placelessness refers to:
standardization of landscape
Suppose a family moves from the Russian countryside to Moscow, and then across the Russian border into Ukraine. This type of migration is:
stepwise migration
The people of Siberia domesticated reindeer after learning about cattle being domesticated by people to their south. This is an example of which type of diffusion?
stimulus
The hippies of the 1960s formed a distinct segment of American society that set itself up in opposition to what it perceived as the problems of the dominant culture. Hippies can be said to have composed a distinctive:
subculture
The home of the Quechua people can be found in:
the Ecuadorian Andes
In what part of the United States are generic toponyms using ‣Gap․ or ‣Hollow․ often found?
the Midlands
Which is NOT an accurate definition of culture?
the complete population of a given county, state, or country
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 gradual and continuous sinking of Mexico City is caused by:
the depletion of an underground aquifer
Understanding how people make meaning from experiences in places is a goal of:
the humanistic perspective
The fact that there are more than 20 Spanish words describing mountains and hills illustrates:
the influence of topography in traditional Spanish culture
Living at higher elevations offers the people of the tropics all of the following advantages EXCEPT:
thicker air that is heavier with oxygen
A person who sees the landscape as one of consumption might see a beautiful forest they want to live near for the view. A person who sees the landscape through the lens of production might see:
timber that can be harvested
Why do geographers ‣read․ the landscape?
to focus on the symbolic qualities of various landscapes
Humans tend to have an affinity for the coast because of _____; humans tend to avoid the continental interior because it is often _____.
trade and fishing opportunities; hot and dry
A culture region that is perceived to exist by its inhabitants is a:
vernacular region
HIV infection rates have decreased around the world EXCEPT in:
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Because graffiti uses symbols and words that can be recognizable, yet in ways that are only understandable to those who can read them, graffiti can be considered a:
Dialect
A log home consisting of two rooms connected by an open-air passageway is a:
Dogtrot
Where is the least likely place that a person with a second home in Durango, Colorado, earned the bulk of their income?
Durango, Colorado
Which doctrine holds that women are inherently better environmental preservationists than men are?
Ecofeminism
