WorksheetsAP HuG - Practice Quiz 7 (C1-5)
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?
They are taught or studied within the same department in major universities, but only rarely.
They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do.
They are dedicated primarily to managing national park systems.
They are focused primarily on managing the world's growing human population.
If the scale of a map is 1:100,000, then 1 centimeter on the map represents ________ on Earth's surface.
1 kilometer
10 kilometers
10,000 kilometers
100,000 kilometers
Without glancing at a map, we can guess that the coordinates 178 E longitude, 20 S latitude are likely
just east of the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean.
in the Pacific Ocean just north of the equator.
in the Pacific Ocean just west of the International Date Line.
just west of the prime meridian in the Atlantic Ocean.
Driving around to gather information for street navigation devices is called
ground truthing.
remote sensing.
GIS programming.
GPS grounding.
Analyzing a world map and the population maps in this chapter, you can deduce that the most populous country south of the Philippines is
Australia.
Indonesia.
New Zealand.
China.
Analyzing the map(s) of ecumene in this chapter, along with a world map, we can deduce that Turkey was intensively settled by
5000 BC.
AD 50.
AD 1500.
AD 1.
We can calculate that a country would lower its arithmetic density by
increasing the amount of agricultural land.
limiting the number of farmers.
increasing the areas of its urban centers.
limiting the size of its population.
Analyzing the maps of crude birth rates and total fertility rates in this chapter, we can surmise that Afghanistan has a higher TFR and CBR than its neighbors in
South Asia only.
Southwest Asia only.
Southwest Asia and South Asia.
South Asia and Southeast Asia.
A boy migrated from Honduras through Guatemala and Mexico, then entered the United States without immigration documents, because members of his ethnic group were being targeted for torture or assassination in his home country. Although the U.S. government does not grant the boy refugee status, his case is an example of international and ________ migration.
forced
human rights
voluntary
economic
If your ancestors migrated to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s, barring any other evidence, you might strongly suspect that they originated in
Norway or England.
Ireland or Germany.
Italy or Poland.
Spain or Portugal.
In the United States, which is likely to cause virtually all population growth in the next few decades?
natural increase rate
net in-migration
crude birth rate
declining death rate
According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2010, the largest number of refugees were forced to migrate from ________, which have seen a great deal of armed conflict in recent years.
Vietnam and Indonesia
Afghanistan and Iraq
Sudan, South Africa, and Colombia
Mexico and Colombia
A family has migrated from the south side of Chicago to a town beyond the suburban ring because they like the schools and housing prices there. This is an example of
counterurbanization.
true
false
Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies. They are also an example of
punk culture.
popular culture.
folk culture.
white-collar culture.
By analyzing the distribution of folk culture in our surroundings, we can surmise that
folk culture would not exist without small scale and local migration.
folk culture does not diffuse through relocation diffusion.
several elements of folk culture may have multiple, unknown origins.
folk culture can only be transmitted orally across time and location.
The global diffusion of popular culture may threaten folk culture by
being less responsive to the diversity of local environments.
threatening local environments through the diffusion of information by technology.
serving as a catalyst for the advancement of folk culture.
being more responsive to the diversity of local environments.
A particular preference for a new clothing style is more likely than a folk custom to
evolve rapidly owing to the isolation of different groups.
rapidly diffuse through modern communication and transportation.
reflect the unique characteristics of the physical landscape.
have an unknown source of origin.
In which state would alcohol consumption be relatively low?
Utah
California
New York
Nevada
Two social groups living in close proximity will retain unique social customs if there is limited interaction between them.
true
false
Although folk cultures have the same process of origin as popular culture, they have a more limited process of diffusion.
true
false
The main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how
recently in time the languages were once the same.
closely the speakers of each language live to one other.
they correspond to the diffusion of free markets across much of the world.
similar the cultures of the speakers of each language are.
The two largest language families in the world are
Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic.
Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European.
Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan.
Balto-Slavic and Sino-Tibetan.
Both the Angles and the Normans contributed to the development of the English language, because they
spoke ancient English languages.
invaded England.
spoke languages derived from Latin.
diffused English around the world.
Which group of the Germanic family is extinct?
West Germanic
North Germanic
East Germanic
South Germanic
Analysis of the maps and diagrams in this chapter shows that the Dutch language is from the branch of Indo-European known as
European.
Germanic.
Romance.
Balto-Slavic.
A literary tradition is
a form of a language intended to be printed in official government documents.
a language spoken in an area.
a collection of languages related to one other.
the written form of a language.
Immigrants to which American colonies had the most diverse backgrounds in the 1700s and 1800s?
Middle Atlantic
New England
Northern
Southern
An analysis of the map of U.S. soft drink terminology shows that the word "Coke" is more
common in
Illinois.
Mississippi.
New York.
Oregon.
A creolized language is
extinct.
a mix of indigenous and colonial languages.
an isolated language family.
a possible prehistoric superfamily.
The language maps in this chapter show that Urdu is one of the most important languages of
Bangladesh.
Iran.
Pakistan.
Sri Lanka.
