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APHG MIDTERM

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the key characteristic of women in a country with a falling birth rate?

a)

Access to birth control

b)

Access to education

c)

Low marriage rates

d)

High infant mortality

2.

How did Islam diffuse from its hearth?

a)

Hierarchically through conquest

b)

Relocation via missionaries

c)

Contagious through settlement

d)

Stimulus via North Africa

3.

What is a formal region?

a)

core dominating its surroundings

b)

uniformity in human or physical characteristics

c)

transportation network that links types of land use

d)

a unified government

4.

Which area would be most productive under environmental determinism?

a)

Tropical regions

b)

Arctic regions

c)

Temperate regions

d)

Arid regions

5.

What is an ethnic neighborhood?

a)

An inner city area where people are forced to live

b)

A rural community where people who are most alike live

c)

A voluntary urban community where people of similar origin live

d)

An involuntary community where people with the same values live

6.

Which situation is most associated with assimilation?

a)

Christianity diffused to Haiti where it blended with indigenous beliefs

b)

Despite having many churches in France, many French do not identify as religious

c)

An Irish immigrant to a new country settles near other Irish and stays mostly within that neighborhood

d)

The British government educated Indian children teaching them English and cultural values

7.

Why has there been an increase in Syrian asylum seekers to Europe?

a)

Continuing issues of conflict

b)

Rise in employment for asylum seekers

c)

Political unrest

d)

Population shift from rural-to-urban

8.

Which country is part of the United Kingdom (a multinational state) but is physically separated from it?

a)

Ireland

b)

Scotland

c)

England

d)

Northern Ireland

9.

What type of boundary was created as a result of the Berlin Conference on the continent of Africa?

a)

Geometric

b)

Subsequent

c)

Natural

d)

Subsequent

10.

Which stage of HTM has high life expectance and very low birth rates?

a)

Stage 1

b)

Stage 3

c)

Stage 5

d)

Stage 4

11.

Which best describes Stage 3 of the HTM?

a)

High birth rate, high death rate, low population growth

b)

Declining birth rate, declining death rate, slowing population growth

c)

High birth rate, declining death rate, rapid population growth

d)

Low birth rate, low death rate, low population growth

12.

What supra-national organization allows for the free flow of people and products across borders with little to no restriction?

a)

OPEC

b)

EU

c)

NAFTA

d)

NATO

13.

What is the spreading of information, ideas, behaviors, other aspects of culture known as?

a)

cultural landscape

b)

cultural trait

c)

cultural diffusion

d)

acculturation

14.

Which stage of development on the DTM would have a high level of urbanization and technological advancement?

a)

Stage 1

b)

Stage 2

c)

Stage 3

d)

Stage 4

15.

Why do all map projections have some type of distortion?

a)

the grid system is two-dimensional while reality is three-dimensional

b)

Earth is not a perfect square

c)

latitude lines are shorter than longitude

d)

a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface w/out distortion

16.

A boundary that coincides with a cultural divide such as language or religion is known as a

a)

consequent boundary

b)

antecedent boundary

c)

natural boundary

d)

geometric boundary

17.

Traditional languages can be communicated on the Internet as well as English as the

a)

standard language

b)

lingua franca

c)

official language

d)

lengua franca

18.

Why are Korea and Vietnam viewed as shatterbelts during the Cold War?

a)

They were fragmented due to internal struggles.

b)

They experienced conflict due to a dispute between two global powers.

c)

They tried to conquer all the land and sea around them.

d)

They kept two political powers separated geographically.

19.

What are some ways to determine absolute location?

a)

street address

b)

using a landmark

c)

latitude and longitude

d)

cardinal directions

20.

Which of the following scales is represented in the map shown?

a)

Regional

b)

Local

c)

State

d)

Block

21.

Which of the following most closely fits with the neo-Malthusian perspective.

a)

A country experiencing from a population decline

b)

A country with a low rate of population increase, where a small percentage are farmers

c)

A country with a high rate of natural population increase, where food supplies are at a risk

d)

A country recovering from an environmental disaster

22.

The ability to meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs i.e. reducing environmental pollution is

a)

shatterbelts

b)

cultural landscape

c)

environmental determinism

d)

sustainability

23.

A boundary drawn by outside powers is a(n)

a)

antecedent boundary

b)

superimposed boundary

c)

natural boundary

d)

geometric boundary

24.

An example of a superimposed boundary would be

a)

Geometric boundary between Iraq and Saudi Arabia

b)

Geometric boundary between the U.S. and Canada

c)

Natural boundary between China and India

d)

the Great Wall of China

25.

Looking at the population pyramid shown, what could explain the sex ratio in Qatar?

a)

high infant mortality rate

b)

an epidemic with high mortality

c)

they forgot to count the women!

d)

large guest-worker population

26.

Looking at the population pyramid shown, what challenges could they face in the future?

a)

Building enough schools

b)

Providing prenatal care

c)

Controlling population growth

d)

Providing for the needs of its aging population

27.

This population pyramid represents...

a)

large guest-worker population

b)

retirement village

c)

military base

d)

university town

28.

What are some uses for a GIS?

a)

Inventory

b)

crime management

c)

targeting customers for sales using their location

d)

finding lost dogs

29.

The visible reflection of a culture (the built environment) is known as the

a)

cultural landscape

b)

physical environment

c)

cultural diffusion

d)

supra-national organization

30.

Which cultural landscape would the image most likely have originated?

a)

Southwest

b)

Northeast

c)

Northwest

d)

Great Plains