APHuG MCQ Units 1-3

Which of the following is the best example assimilation?

• Hinduism diffused from India to Bali, where it blended with traditional Balinese beliefs to create a form of Hinduism unique to Bali.

• The American government educated Native American children in American-style boarding schools. All of the children were taught English, and girls were taught how to be homemakers.

• Despite the large number of historic churches in France, many French identify as nonreligious and believe that religion is a private matter.

• A family immigrates to a new country, settles near others from their homeland, and conducts most of their day-to-day activities within their ethnic neighborhood.

The spread of specialty coffee shops across the United States in the 1990s is an example of

• hierarchical diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

• relocation diffusion

Ethnicity is associated with _____ ancestry, while race is associated with _____ ancestry. 

• cultural: biological 
• biological: cultural 
• cultural: religious 
• religious: cultural 

practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture and generates misunderstanding, ignorance and conflict 

• Ethnosuperiorism
• Egotism
• Ethnocentrism
• Human nature

Which of the following is a pull factor?

• Insufficient Food Supply
• High Crime Rate in Native Country
• Higher Paying jobs in New Country
• High Crime Rate in New Country

According to Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration, which group is most likely to move?

• older adults
• younger adults
• children
• families

How are Stages 1 and 4 of the demographic transition model similar?

• both have low growth rates
• both have low life expectancies
• both have low dependency ratios
• both have low death rates

This theory explains that Europe as "superior" to the rest of the world because of the climate and location of the region is called...

• Environmental Determinism
• Possibilism
• Time distance decay
• Formal Region

Which concept is illustrated here?

• Scale

• Region

• Spatial Analysis

• Map Distortion

Explain Thomas Malthus's population theory.

• He concluded that the world's population increase was higher than the development of food supplies.
• He concluded that crude birth rates must balance crude death rates.
• He concluded that population increased arithmetically while food production increased linguistically.
• He concluded that population growth was outpacing available resources in every country, according to algebraic calculations.