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APHG Mid-Term

Total questions: 54

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Means that the further away different places are from a place of origin, the less likely interaction will be with the original place
a)
Distance Decay
b)
Space
c)
Place
d)
Distribution 
2.
The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called: 
a)
A.  referenced location 
b)
A.  central location
c)
A.  relative location
d)
A.  absolute location 
3.
The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called: 
a)
absolute location
b)
relative location
c)
site
d)
situation
4.
Scale is…                                     
a)
the system used by geographers to transfer locations  from a globe to a map
b)
the extent of spread of a phenomenon over a given area
c)
 the difference in elevation between two points in an area
d)
 the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape
5.
The process of the spread of an idea and/or dissemination of an innovation from its source area to other cultures, is the process of cultural: 
a)
diffusion
b)
simultaion
c)
adaptation
d)
movement
6.
The layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as: 
a)
GPS
b)
GIS
c)
ENSO
d)
OPEC
7.
Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of 
a)
 Expansion and hierarchical
b)
Contagious and stimulus
c)
 Expansion and relocation
d)
 Migrant and hierarchical
8.
What is it called when you take a 3D image and put it onto a 2D surface?
a)
Cartogram
b)
Projection
c)
Globe
d)
Instagram
9.
Places that share similar characteristics are called 
a)
human systems
b)
environments
c)
regions
d)
physical systems
10.
Environment influences, but does not strictly determine, how a culture interacts with the environment.
a)
Environmental Determinism
b)
Environmental Possibilism
c)
Cultural Determinism
d)
Cultural Environmentalism
11.
defined formally by government or other structures, such as cities, states, and mountain ranges
a)
Location
b)
Place
c)
region
d)
formal region
12.
Which of the following is NOT an example of expansion diffusion?
a)
Relocation diffusion
b)
Hierarchical diffusion
c)
contagious diffusion
d)
Stimulus diffusion
13.
A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope. 
a)
space-time compression
b)
distance decay
c)
globalization
14.
The reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved technology is known as
a)
distance decay
b)
space-time compression
15.
Study of maps and mapmaking
a)
Geography
b)
Cartography
c)
Psychology
d)
meteorology
16.
Which projection is this?
a)
Robinson
b)
Mercator
c)
Lambert
d)
Goode's Homolosine
17.
What does GPS stand for?
a)
Gio's Pet Sam
b)
Geographic Positioning System
c)
Global Positioning System
d)
Global Positioning Satellite
18.
The pattern originates in a first order location then moves down to second-order locations and from each of these to subordinate locations at increasingly local scales
a)
Contagious Diffusion
b)
Hierarchical Diffusion
c)
Stimulus Diffusion 
19.
a place name
a)
Space
b)
Pattern 
c)
toponym
20.
The pattern begins at a point of origin and then moves outward to nearby locations, especially those on adjoining transportation lines, this could be used to describe a disease but can also describe the movement of other things, such as news in rural regions
a)
Expansion Diffusion
b)
Stimulus Diffusion
c)
Diffusion
d)
Contagious Diffusion
21.
The arrangement of objects on earth's surface in relation to to other objects
a)
density 
b)
pattern
c)
heath
d)
place
22.
When scientists are sent out to a location to verify information that has been gained by remote sensing.
a)
Remote Sensing
b)
Ground Truthing 
c)
Projection
23.
Frequency with which something occurs
a)
Concentration
b)
Connection
c)
Density 
24.
Where an innovation (that will eventually be diffused) originates
a)
Heath 
b)
Possiblism
c)
Renewable 
25.
The use of the Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain use in the future.  
a)
Sustainability 
b)
Renewable 
c)
nonrenewable 
26.

A farmer who produces only enough food for their immediate family is practicing

a)

Shifting cultivation

b)

Intensive agriculture

c)

Vegetative planting

d)

Subsistence farming

27.

In the Mediterranean region, the most important crops are

a)

Olives and grapes

b)

Citrus fruits and tree nuts

c)

Tomatoes and lettuce

d)

Cotton and sugarcane

28.

Which of the following was NOT a commodity first raised in the Americas and traded to the Eastern Hemisphere during the Columbian Exchange?

a)

Beans

b)

Wheat

c)

Squash

d)

Potatoes

29.

Which form of farming is typically most concentrated near population centers?

a)

Dairy farming

b)

Cereal farming

c)

Mixed crop and livestock

d)

Mediterranean

30.

The Green Revolution has had the least impact on people who live in

a)

Southeast Asia

b)

China

c)

Sub-Saharan Africa

d)

India

31.
What is the growing of fruits, vegetables and flower called?
a)
Horticulture
b)
Agriculture
c)
Subsistence Agriculture
d)
Truck farming
32.
All of the following are forms of commercial agriculture EXCEPT
a)
dairy farming
b)
pastoral nomadism
c)
cattle ranching
d)
specialized fruit production
33.
A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is particing
a)
subsistence agriculture
b)
shifting cultivation
c)
crop rotation
d)
slash-and-burn agriculture
34.
Market-Gardening activities occur in which zone of von Thunen's model?
a)
First Zone
b)
Second Zone
c)
Third zone
d)
Fourth Zone
35.
Transhumance is what?
a)
Pastoral nomads nomads moving based on the seasons.
b)
Shifting cultivation using the only form of cheap fertilizer available in LDCs.
c)
Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas.
d)
All of the above
36.

The rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, new high yield seeds and fertilizers is called what

a)

Green Revolution

b)

Agricultural Revolution

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

2nd Agricultural Revolution

37.
Aquaculture
a)
is only practiced in subsistence agriculture
b)
is only practiced in commercial agriculture
c)
has led to a dramatic increase in global fish production
d)
aims to reduce the global consumption of fish due to concerns over mercury poisoning
38.

WHich is NOT an example of a Lingua Franca

a)

English in global commerce

b)

Swahili in East Africa

c)

Vulgar Latin in ancient Rome

39.

All of these religions are Universal Religions except_______

a)

Buddhism

b)

Islam

c)

Judaism

d)

Roman Catholicism

40.
Animism is the belief that objects
a)
are to be used
b)
have a spirit
c)
have nothing to do with religion
d)
have power
41.
Christianity is the most practiced universalizing religion
a)
True
b)
False
42.
Buddhism is the third most practiced universalizing religion
a)
True
b)
False
43.
Judaism is not a universalizing religion
a)
True
b)
False
44.
Universalizing religions believe in conversion of people to the religion in question
a)
True
b)
False
45.
Hinduism is a universalizing religion
a)
True
b)
False
46.
Expansion diffusion is like a 
a)
meteor
b)
rainstorm
c)
desert
d)
snowball
47.
Hierarchical diffusion is spread by 
a)
one community member tothe next
b)
skipping from one community to another
c)
one community leader to another and then to the community
d)
books
48.
Contagious diffusion spreads like a 
a)
disease
b)
thought
c)
science fiction movie
d)
taste for mare's milk
49.
Relocation diffusion often occurs when a people
a)
a relative moves
b)
shop at the same name brand store in different cities
c)
bring their cultural traditions with them 
d)
change the dialect of their language
50.

The “separate but equal” doctrine was legally upheld by SCOTUS in the 19th century with

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

The Missouri Compromise

d)

The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution

e)

Dred Scott v. Stanford

51.

What is the unethical real estate practice of instilling fear in white homeowners to sell quickly, and then selling to black families at much higher prices?

a)

Redlining

b)

Gerrymandering

c)

Gentrification

d)

Blockbusting

e)

White Flight

52.

Folk cultures are spread primarily by

a)

Stimulus diffusion

b)

Contagious diffusion

c)

Relocation diffusion

d)

Hierarchical diffusion

53.

Apartheid was a policy found in ___________________ during the late 20th century.

a)

Kenya

b)

South Africa

c)

Ethiopia

d)

Sudan

54.

_____________ culture is conceived as small, incorporating a homogeneous population, typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits.

a)

Material

b)

Popular

c)

Folk

d)

Landscape

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