Chapter 4 Test Global Cultures, Population Geography,

Religion is not considered part of culture because beliefs vary in different parts of the world. 

• true
• false

All five of the early culture hearths, or centers where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward, were located near a major river or source of water. 

• true
• false

Trade, migration, and war are all factors that encourage cultural change. 

• true
• false

The information revolution has slowed cultural change because people around the world are exposed to ideas and traditions from around the world. 

• true 
• false

Geographers and historians study culture hearths because they are the centers where the world's first civilizations arose. 

• true
• false

The rate of ___________________ is the growth rate of a population, or the difference between an area's birthrate and its death rate. 

• doubling time
• zero population growth
• natural increases
• negative population growth

The _________________________ is the number of years it takes for a population to double in size. 

• natural increases
• doubling time
• zero population growth
• negative population growth

Most of the world's industrialized and technologically developed countries today have reached ____________________________, in which the birth rates and death rates are equal. 

• natural increases
• doubling time
• zero population growth
• negative population growth

In the late twentieth century, some European countries reached __________________, in which the annual death rate exceeds the annual birthrate. 

• natural increases
• doubling time
• zero population growth
• negative population growth

"Push factors" -such as religious persecution or a lack of economic opportunity-are reasons people might decide to __________________from native country. 

• emmigrate
• doubling time
• zero population growth
• negative population growth