APHG MIDTERM

What is the key characteristic of women in a country with a falling birth rate?

• Access to birth control

• Access to education

• Low marriage rates

• High infant mortality

How did Islam diffuse from its hearth?

• Hierarchically through conquest

• Relocation via missionaries

• Contagious through settlement

• Stimulus via North Africa

What is a formal region?

• core dominating its surroundings

• uniformity in human or physical characteristics

• transportation network that links types of land use

• a unified government

Which area would be most productive under environmental determinism?

• Tropical regions

• Arctic regions

• Temperate regions

• Arid regions

What is an ethnic neighborhood?

• An inner city area where people are forced to live

• A rural community where people who are most alike live

• A voluntary urban community where people of similar origin live

• An involuntary community where people with the same values live

Which situation is most associated with assimilation?

• Christianity diffused to Haiti where it blended with indigenous beliefs

• Despite having many churches in France, many French do not identify as religious

• An Irish immigrant to a new country settles near other Irish and stays mostly within that neighborhood

• The British government educated Indian children teaching them English and cultural values

Why has there been an increase in Syrian asylum seekers to Europe?

• Continuing issues of conflict

• Rise in employment for asylum seekers

• Political unrest

• Population shift from rural-to-urban

Which country is part of the United Kingdom (a multinational state) but is physically separated from it?

• Ireland

• Scotland

• England

• Northern Ireland

What type of boundary was created as a result of the Berlin Conference on the continent of Africa?

• Geometric

• Subsequent

• Natural

• Subsequent

Which stage of HTM has high life expectance and very low birth rates?

• Stage 1

• Stage 3

• Stage 5

• Stage 4