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WorksheetsAPHG MIDTERM
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is the key characteristic of women in a country with a falling birth rate?
Access to birth control
Access to education
Low marriage rates
High infant mortality
How did Islam diffuse from its hearth?
Hierarchically through conquest
Relocation via missionaries
Contagious through settlement
Stimulus via North Africa
What is a formal region?
core dominating its surroundings
uniformity in human or physical characteristics
transportation network that links types of land use
a unified government
Which area would be most productive under environmental determinism?
Tropical regions
Arctic regions
Temperate regions
Arid regions
What is an ethnic neighborhood?
An inner city area where people are forced to live
A rural community where people who are most alike live
A voluntary urban community where people of similar origin live
An involuntary community where people with the same values live
Which situation is most associated with assimilation?
Christianity diffused to Haiti where it blended with indigenous beliefs
Despite having many churches in France, many French do not identify as religious
An Irish immigrant to a new country settles near other Irish and stays mostly within that neighborhood
The British government educated Indian children teaching them English and cultural values
Why has there been an increase in Syrian asylum seekers to Europe?
Continuing issues of conflict
Rise in employment for asylum seekers
Political unrest
Population shift from rural-to-urban
Which country is part of the United Kingdom (a multinational state) but is physically separated from it?
Ireland
Scotland
England
Northern Ireland
What type of boundary was created as a result of the Berlin Conference on the continent of Africa?
Geometric
Subsequent
Natural
Subsequent
Which stage of HTM has high life expectance and very low birth rates?
Stage 1
Stage 3
Stage 5
Stage 4
Which best describes Stage 3 of the HTM?
High birth rate, high death rate, low population growth
Declining birth rate, declining death rate, slowing population growth
High birth rate, declining death rate, rapid population growth
Low birth rate, low death rate, low population growth
What supra-national organization allows for the free flow of people and products across borders with little to no restriction?
OPEC
EU
NAFTA
NATO
What is the spreading of information, ideas, behaviors, other aspects of culture known as?
cultural landscape
cultural trait
cultural diffusion
acculturation
Which stage of development on the DTM would have a high level of urbanization and technological advancement?
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Why do all map projections have some type of distortion?
the grid system is two-dimensional while reality is three-dimensional
Earth is not a perfect square
latitude lines are shorter than longitude
a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface w/out distortion
A boundary that coincides with a cultural divide such as language or religion is known as a
consequent boundary
antecedent boundary
natural boundary
geometric boundary
Traditional languages can be communicated on the Internet as well as English as the
standard language
lingua franca
official language
lengua franca
Why are Korea and Vietnam viewed as shatterbelts during the Cold War?
They were fragmented due to internal struggles.
They experienced conflict due to a dispute between two global powers.
They tried to conquer all the land and sea around them.
They kept two political powers separated geographically.
What are some ways to determine absolute location?
street address
using a landmark
latitude and longitude
cardinal directions
Which of the following scales is represented in the map shown?
Regional
Local
State
Block
Which of the following most closely fits with the neo-Malthusian perspective.
A country experiencing from a population decline
A country with a low rate of population increase, where a small percentage are farmers
A country with a high rate of natural population increase, where food supplies are at a risk
A country recovering from an environmental disaster
The ability to meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs i.e. reducing environmental pollution is
shatterbelts
cultural landscape
environmental determinism
sustainability
A boundary drawn by outside powers is a(n)
antecedent boundary
superimposed boundary
natural boundary
geometric boundary
An example of a superimposed boundary would be
Geometric boundary between Iraq and Saudi Arabia
Geometric boundary between the U.S. and Canada
Natural boundary between China and India
the Great Wall of China
Looking at the population pyramid shown, what could explain the sex ratio in Qatar?
high infant mortality rate
an epidemic with high mortality
they forgot to count the women!
large guest-worker population
Looking at the population pyramid shown, what challenges could they face in the future?
Building enough schools
Providing prenatal care
Controlling population growth
Providing for the needs of its aging population
This population pyramid represents...
large guest-worker population
retirement village
military base
university town
What are some uses for a GIS?
Inventory
crime management
targeting customers for sales using their location
finding lost dogs
The visible reflection of a culture (the built environment) is known as the
cultural landscape
physical environment
cultural diffusion
supra-national organization
Which cultural landscape would the image most likely have originated?
Southwest
Northeast
Northwest
Great Plains
