WorksheetsAPHG Semester 1 Review
Total questions: 94
Worksheet time: 53mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following do geographers use to compare a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations of the environment by combining layers of spatial data, and creating maps in which patterns and processes are superimposed?
a)
GPS
b)
GIS
c)
Scale
d)
Mental Maps
2.
Which of the following uses a coordinate system to precisely plot where something is.
a)
Relative location
b)
Absolute location
c)
Generalized Maps
d)
GIS
3.
Representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization (ex. local, regional, global)
a)
Mental Maps
b)
Scale
c)
GPS
d)
Regions
4.
Relative location is....
a)
location of a place in relation to other human and physical features.
b)
Precise coordinates of a place.
c)
General trends we see of a given phenomenon.
d)
Digitized representations of the environment.
5.
The French-speaking region of Europe is what type of region?
a)
Formal
b)
Functional
c)
Perceptual
d)
Rescale
6.
What are mental maps?
a)
Maps on our minds of places we have been and places we have merely heard of.
b)
Helps us see general trends
c)
Data collected by satellites and aircraft
d)
Compares a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations.
7.
Which of the following is a perceptual region?
a)
South China Karst Region
b)
City of Denver
c)
Southern United States
d)
French-speaking region in Europe
8.
Which type of region is defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it?
a)
Formal
b)
Functional
c)
Perception
d)
Rescale
9.
An area where cultural traits develop and from which cultural traits diffuse is...
a)
Cultural Trait
b)
Cultural Hearth
c)
Cultural Diffusion
d)
Culture complex
10.
What is expansion diffusion?
a)
When an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward.
b)
a pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused.
c)
The distance controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person-- analogous to the communication of a contagious illness.
d)
A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.
11.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
a)
a pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused.
b)
When an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward.
c)
The distance controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person-- analogous to the communication of a contagious illness.
d)
A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.
12.
What is contagious diffusion?
a)
The distance controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person-- analogous to the communication of a contagious illness.
b)
When an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward.
c)
a pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused.
d)
A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.
13.
What is stimulus diffusion?
a)
A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.
b)
a pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused.
c)
When an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward.
d)
The distance controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person-- analogous to the communication of a contagious illness.
14.
Under Armour diffusing from college to professional football players who were trying to stay cool and keep their clothing light, to lacrosse players and other athletes who were friends of the football players' sportswear, other athletes, to their favorite players, and now as a fashion trend is an example of which type of diffusion?
a)
Stimulus
b)
Contagious
c)
Hierarchical
d)
Expansion
15.
This image is an example of which type of diffusion?
a)
Relocation Diffusion
b)
Stimulus Diffusion
c)
Hierarchical Diffusion
d)
Expansion Diffusion
16.
The choices that a society makes depend on what its members need and on what technology is available to them this is called...
a)
environmental determinism
b)
Possibilism
c)
political ecology
d)
cultural ecology
17.
This theory explains that Europe as "superior" to the rest of the world because of the climate and location of the region is called...
a)
Environmental Determinism
b)
Possibilism
c)
Time distance decay
d)
Formal Region
18.
The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source is called...
a)
hierarchical diffusion
b)
time-distance decay
c)
cultural hearth
d)
Possibilism
19.
Which of the following is an example of a cultural barrier?
a)
People in Mexico do not know how to speak English therefore do not interact with English speaking people.
b)
Under Armour was spread to many youth players.
c)
Coors began in Golden, CO
20.
A regional outbreak of a disease.
a)
Pandemic
b)
Epidemic
c)
Centrality
d)
Realm
21.
Which of these is NOT something that could be used to find the location of a place?
a)
Projection
b)
Lines of latitude
c)
Cardinal directions
d)
Intermediate directions
22.
Why might a person use a Global Positioning System?
a)
to locate any object on Earth
b)
to find where Earth falls in the solar system
c)
to label all the planets of the solar system
d)
to locate any object in the galaxy
23.
The specific location of a place including it's physical setting. (Ex. Baton Rouge is on the Mississippi River.)
a)
site
b)
map projection
c)
situation
d)
functional region
24.
Geographers generally reject environmental determinism for possibilism.
a)
True
b)
False
25.
Latitude is to longitude as
a)
South is to North
b)
Parallels are to Meridians
c)
Meridians are to Parallels
d)
North is to west
26.
Physiological Density is
a)
the total measure of a population relative to land size
b)
Number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.
c)
The arrangement of people on the Earth's surface.
d)
Huge urban conglomerates
27.
Huge urban aggolmerations is called...
a)
Megalopolis
b)
Census
c)
Natural Increase
d)
Total Fertility Rates
28.
This is calculated by subtracting the total number of deaths from the total number of births...
a)
Total Fertility Rate
b)
Child Mortality Rate
c)
Natural Increase
d)
Population Density
29.
Old age dependency ratio is....
a)
relationship between the number of people over the age of 65 and the working age population between 15 and 64.
b)
Demographers use this to measure whether a population can replace its deaths with births. It is calculated as the average number of children born to a woman of childbearing age.
c)
calculated by subtracting the total number of deaths from the total number of births...
d)
the time it would take for the population to double.
30.
If you invested $100 at 10% compounded annually it would take about seven years to double to $200 and then another 7 years to become $400 and another 7 years to become $800. This is called...
a)
Doubling time
b)
Population explosion
c)
Zero population growth
d)
Total Fertility Rate
31.
This is calculated by the number of live births per year per thousand people in the population...
a)
Crude Birth rate
b)
Crude Death Rate
c)
Total Fertility Rate
d)
Child-bearing age
32.
This is calculated by the number of deaths per year per thousand people...
a)
Crude Death Rate
b)
Crude Birth Rate
c)
Total Fertility Rate
d)
Natural Rate of Increase
33.
How is Infant mortality rate measured?
a)
baby's death during the first year following its birth; number of cases per 1000 live births
b)
death between ages 1 and 5
c)
Total population divided by ages
d)
Total population divided by land area
34.
Life expectancy is...
a)
number of years on average someone may expect to remain alive
b)
Deaths of children aged 1-5
c)
How long the earth will sustain population growth
d)
How healthy a child is
35.
An example of an expansive population policy is....
a)
Do It for Denmark
b)
One-child Policy
c)
Eugenic population policies
d)
All of these answers
36.
An example of a restrictive population policy....
a)
Do It for Denmark
b)
Mao's Population Policy in China
c)
China's One Child Policy
d)
offering cash subsidies, houses in exchange for more kids
37.
Monies migrants send home is called....
a)
Reverse remittances
b)
Remittances
c)
Refugee camps
d)
Bracero Program
38.
Immigration is....
a)
Movement of people away from a place
b)
Movement of people to a place
c)
Movement of a group of people from one place to another
d)
Shorter trips away from home
39.
Voluntary Migration is....
a)
occurs after a migrant weighs options and choice, even if somewhat desperately or not so rationally.
b)
Migration that involves the imposition of authority or power producing involuntary movements that cannot be understood based on theories of choice
c)
Migration the occurs within a single country's border
d)
A specialized for of periodic movement which is a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to seasonal availability of pastures
40.
Which of the following is not one of Ravensteins laws of migration?
a)
Every migration flow generates a return or countermigration
b)
The majority of migrants move a short distance
c)
Migrants who move longer distance tend to choose big-city destinations
d)
All migrants choose to live in rural areas
41.
This predicts interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them...
a)
Gravity Model
b)
Push Factors
c)
Pull Factors
d)
Distance Decay
42.
Which of the following is an example of a push factor?
a)
Genocide
b)
Economic Prosperity
c)
Jobs
d)
Favorable weather
43.
Which of the following is an example of a pull factor?
a)
Genocide
b)
Environmental Disaster
c)
War
d)
Favorable Climate
44.
A term that is now used to describe migrant labor is called....
a)
Illegal immigrants
b)
Guest workers
c)
Immigration
d)
Pull Factors
45.
When one culture blends with another culture (melting pot) this is called....
a)
Acculturation
b)
Assimilation
c)
Refugee
d)
Internally displaced persons
46.
When one brings aspects of their culture with them to a new culture is called...
a)
Assimilation
b)
Acculturation
c)
Russification
d)
Refugee
47.
Internally displaced persons are....
a)
People who bring their culture with them
b)
People who have been displaced withing their own countries like Hurricane Katrina
c)
People who blend in with their culture
d)
Refugees across the world
48.
Name the Geographer who thought the world population would grow exponentially and food would grow linear.
a)
Malthus
b)
Ravenstein
c)
De Blij
d)
Rubenstein
49.
A specialized for of periodic movement which is a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to seasonal availability of pastures is called?
a)
transhumance
b)
nomadism
c)
Internal migration
d)
Forced migration
50.
Migration the occurs within a single country's borders is called...
a)
Forced Migration
b)
Internal Migration
c)
Refugees
d)
Transhumance
51.
Migration that involves the imposition of authority or power producing involuntary movements that cannot be understood based on theories of choice is called...
a)
Internal Migration
b)
Forced Migration
c)
Transhumance
d)
Voluntary Migration
52.
Which of the following is the definition of emigration?
a)
Movement of people away from a place
b)
Movement of people to a place
c)
Movement of a group of people from one place to another
d)
Shorter trips away from home
53.
A type of cyclical movement that requires wanderers to be familiar with the territory in order to survive. It is purposeful wandering is called....
a)
Nomadism
b)
Internal Migration
c)
Forced Migration
d)
Periodic Movement
54.
Demographers use this to measure whether a population can replace its deaths with births. It is calculated as the average number of children born to a woman of childbearing age.
a)
Total Fertility Rate
b)
Child Mortality Rate
c)
Old-age dependency ratio
d)
child dependency ratio
55.
This is used to display percentages of each age group in a total population (normally in five-year increments) by a horizontal bar whose length represents its share. Males in the group are tot he left of the center line and females to the right...
a)
Population Pyramid
b)
Demographic Transition Model
c)
Crude Birth Rate
d)
Crude Death Rate
56.
Measure of a total population in relation to land size is called?
a)
Physiological Population Density
b)
Population Density
c)
Population distributions
d)
Dot Maps
57.
Brain drain is
a)
the large-scale emigration of talented people
b)
the process by which people are given reference for migration
c)
people forced to migrate for political reasons
d)
a cultural feature that hinders migration
58.
Most Asian migration to the United States is through the process of
a)
expansion diffusion
b)
brain drain
c)
chain migration
d)
undocumented immigration
59.
A possible stage five epidemiological transition is the stage of
a)
receding pandemics, including possible zombie pandemics
b)
degenerative and human-created diseases
c)
delayed degenerative diseases
d)
reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases
60.
Mexico provides the United States with its largest numbers of
a)
voluntary immigrants and political refugees
b)
both legal and undocumented immigrants
c)
laborers
d)
refugees from natural disasters
61.
Counterurbanization is
a)
moving from an urban core to suburban areas
b)
due to expanding suburbs
c)
migration to rural areas and small towns from central cities or suburbs
d)
the decline of the inner-city infrastructure
62.
A country with an age distribution like that shown above, is most likely a country that
a)
is experiencing rapid growth
b)
is experiencing slow or no population growth
c)
is experiencing a high death rate
d)
is a less-developed country
63.
Geographers have noted that specific diseases are more prevalent in countries that are in certain stages of the demographic transition. This is known as the “epidemiological transition”. Cancers and heart disease are most common in countries in which stages?
a)
1 and 2
b)
2 and 3
c)
3 and 4
d)
1 and 4
64.
Relatively developed countries moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition 200 years ago in part because of
a)
an agricultural revolution
b)
revolution in medical technology
c)
the Industrial Revolution
d)
a medical revolution
65.
The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?
a)
Stage 1
b)
Stage 2
c)
Stage 3
d)
Stage 4
66.
Of the following four countries, the lowest crude birth rate (CBR) would be found in
a)
Mexico
b)
Argentina
c)
Spain
d)
Ethiopia
67.
Of the following four countries, the highest rate of natural increase (RNI) would be found in:
a)
China
b)
Denmark
c)
Uganda
d)
India
68.
Which of the following population agglomerations is the most highly urbanized?
a)
Southeast Asian
b)
European
c)
West African
d)
North American
69.
Geographers define overpopulation as
a)
too many people in the world
b)
too many people compared to resources
c)
too many people in a defined region
d)
too many people as compared to the number of farmers
70.
Which stage is represented in the population pyramid?
a)
Stage 1
b)
Stage 2
c)
Stage 3
d)
Stage 4
71.
Which stage is represented in the population pyramid?
a)
Stage 1
b)
Stage 2
c)
Stage 3
d)
Stage 4
72.
Which stage is represented in the population pyramid?
a)
Stage 1
b)
Stage 2
c)
Stage 3
d)
Stage 4
73.
Which of the following countries is best represented in the population pyramid?
a)
The United Kingdom
b)
Ethiopia
c)
Venezuela
d)
Myanmar
74.
Which of the following is an effect of Chain Migration on the area of destination?
a)
Culture clusters.
b)
Multi-ethnic neighborhoods.
c)
Urban slums.
d)
Urban ethnic enclaves.
75.
During the 1990s, a large amount of refugees fled the ________ due to ethnically-based wars and insurgencies.
a)
Balkans
b)
Himalayas
c)
Andes
d)
Alps
76.
What continents are immigrants moving to?
a)
North America and South America
b)
North America and Europe
c)
South America and Australia
d)
Africa and Asia
77.
This German-English geographer came up with a set of "Migration Laws."
a)
Ravenclaw
b)
Einstein
c)
Einclaw
d)
Ravenstein
78.
Since the 1950s, a majority of human migration in developing countries has occurred from ________ areas.
a)
rural to urban
b)
urban to rural
c)
rich to poor
d)
southern to northern
79.
In the past few decades, the United States has seen _________________, or net migration from urban to rural areas.
a)
countermigration
b)
counterculture
c)
counterruralization
d)
counterurbanization
80.
Intervening opportunities are opportunities that
a)
increase the attraction of moving to distant places
b)
increase the likelihood of moving to closer, more attractive places
c)
decrease migration
81.
The ecumene is that part of Earth
a)
where people live
b)
where people can live
c)
where people cannot live
82.
The gravity model describes the power of attraction between two cities:
a)
the more alike the cities, the more likely people are to move from one to another
b)
the less alike the cities, the more likely people are to move from one to another
c)
the larger the city the more likely people are to move to the city
83.
Step migration occurs when
a)
a migrant moves from a farm to a village to a city
b)
a migrant moves from one country to another
c)
a migrant begins the process of leaving his or her country
84.
Cyclic movement
a)
describes migratory processes with a repetitive pattern
b)
describes migratory processes involving transportation
c)
describes migratory processes to maintain stability
85.
Pro-natalist policies may include free birth control
a)
True
b)
False
86.
The epidemiological transition model explains that there are different causes of death that predominate in each stage of the Demographic Transition Model
a)
True
b)
False
87.
Carry capacity
a)
The economic level that is sustainable
b)
The population level that is sustainable
c)
The political system that is sustainable
88.
Census
a)
An official political program
b)
An official education program
c)
An official population count
89.
refers to the movement of the population from its original homeland, used more specifically with the Jewish ethnic group.
a)
diaspora
b)
pilgrimage
c)
stimulus diffusion
d)
globalization
90.
a map that uses differences in shading, coloring, or the placing of symbols within predefined areas to indicate the average values of a property or quantity in those areas.
a)
dot maps
b)
isoline maps
c)
choropleth maps
d)
cartograms
91.
a type of thematic map that transforms space such that the political unit with the greatest value for some type of data is represented by the largest relative area
a)
choropleth map
b)
isoline map
c)
cartogram
d)
mercator map
92.
a relatively small ratio between map units and ground units, usually have higher resolution and cover much smaller regions
a)
small-scale map
b)
large-scale map
c)
cartogram
d)
isoline map
93.
map line that connects points of equal or very similar values
a)
isoline map
b)
choropleth map
c)
dot map
d)
cartogram
94.
Amazon is seeking a new city for future operations. If Amazon chooses Denver over Boise the choice most likely reflects
a)
intervening opportunity
b)
step migration
c)
the gravity model
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