AP Human Geography Religions

1) 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.

• religious ideas nearly all arise from changes in the physical environment.

Religion is a good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity because

• migrants leave their religion behind when they migrate to a new area.

• religion always represents the most traditional worldviews of a population.

• many people follow more than one religion.

• all religions are in competition to convert as many people as possible.

• religion represents core cultural values and beliefs that may conflict with others.

Christianity is divided into major branches. Those branches are

• Christian and Protestant

• Sunni and Shiite

• Christian, Protestant, and Orthodox

• Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox

• Orthodox, Reformed, and Liberal

Pilgrimage is an important ritual in many faiths. Which city is an important destination for Islam?

• Makkah

• Jerusalem

• Damascus

• Riyadh

• Istanbul

A geographer researching the practices of Tibetan Buddhists as well as the world travels of the Dalai Lama is studying

• spatial connections in religion.

• theological connections in religion.

• monetary connections in religion.

• connections between Christianity and Buddhism.

• connections between ethnic and universalizing religions.

The world's largest ethnic religion is

• Confucianism.

• Daoism.

• Hinduism.

• Shintoism.

• Islam.

Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America?

• having a Roman Catholic majority

• having a Protestant majority

• location relative to the Equator

• Ethnic religions make up the majority in one but not the other.

• Latin America has more Protestants, Jews, and Muslims.

Given Daoism's classification as either a universalizing or an ethnic religion, which of the following would you be more likely to categorize as pertaining to Daoism?

• Most shrines are located in major cities and towns around the world.

• Most of the religious texts concern the stories and letters of missionaries who traveled to different countries.

• Most shrines are located at major physical features or sites of longstanding cultural significance.

• Most of the religious texts are directly related to warfare.

• People of numerous ethnic groups attend the great majority of religious services.

The maps and diagrams in this chapter help us surmise that a person from northern Germany is more likely to be an adherent of

• Protestantism.

• Roman Catholicism.

• Judaism.

• Eastern Orthodoxy.

• a fundamentalist Christian sect.

The maps in this chapter indicate that in Sub-Saharan Africa,

• about half of the people are Protestant.

• about one-fourth of the people are Protestant.

• about half of the people are Catholic.

• about one-fourth of the people are animists.

• about one-fourth of the people are Orthodox Christian.