AP Human Geography Midterm Exam (Chapter 6 Test)

In France,

• most of the people are protestant
• about one-forth of the people are animists.
• about half of the people are Catholic and half are Protestant
• most of the people are Catholic.

With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment,

• few religions derive meaningful events from the physical environment
• religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment,
• religion is no longer an important source of identification for a distinct cultural group.
• all religions appeal primarily to people living in their land of origin

Animism is

• the reverence of all mammals
• sity because
• rel
• another term for vegetarianism.

The world's largest ethnic religion is

• Hinduism
• Shintoism
• Islam
• Confucianism

____- is the founder of Buddhism

• Siddhartha Gautama
• Lao-Zi
• Confucius
• Guru Nanak

What logical conclusion might explain the higher prevalence of Buddhism in the west coast counties of the United States?

• destination of migrants from East and Southeast Asia.
• Displacement from east coast counties based on legal policies
• reverence for the ocean
• seasonal migration from China

Unlike other universalizing religions, Buddhism

• remained primarily concentrated in one region of the world
• was not begun by an individual founder and diffused elsewhere.
• was founded in China
• Worships more than one god.

Sunni and Shi'ite represent branches of Islam based on

• disputes over religious leadership.
• scioeconomic status.
• profession
• religious calendars.

An ethnic religion typically has less widespread distribution of its holy places because

• in large part their holy places derive from the physical characteristic of its hearth.
• they have not diffused globally.
• many of their holy places have been destroyed by urban growth.
• in times of globalization, they have been forced to abandon their holy places.

Which of the following is NOT a universalizing religion?

• Judaism
• Christianity
• Islam
• Baha'i