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WorksheetsAP HuG Fall Review (Units 1-3)
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 55mins
The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called:
Relative Location
Absolute Location
Referenced Location
Central Location
A person forced to flee their country due to war, violence, or natural disaster is called a...
Runner
An illegal alien
Immigrant
Refugee
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a
Custom
Habit
Popular Culture
Folk Culture
Sometimes, immigrants will send money home to their family; this is known as:
Repayments
Remittances
Reparations
Chain Migration
When a country has policies that want to slow the birth rate, by either issuing out penalties for having more than one child or giving incentives of money to only have one child, as it used to be in China, this form of policy is known as what?
Pro-Natalist Policy
Anti-Natalist Policy
Pregnancy Decrease Plan
Fertility Rate Deduction Plan
The physical environment causes social and cultural development
Environmental Determinism
Environmental Possibilism
Cultural Possibilism
Cultural Environmentalism
Which of the following is a term used in the study of place names?
Phenonyms
Loconyms
Isonyms
Toponyms
In 1995 the world's population reached 6 billion, it was forecasted that the population would reach 12 billion in 45 years, this period is called
double increase rate
double overpopulation
doubling life expectancy
doubling time
What is the technique that collect information from the earth from a distance?
Geographic Information Systems
Global Positioning Systems
Remote Sensing
Ethnography
Humans possess the ability to dominate their environment is known as
environmental determinism
possibilism
demographics
animism
In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s voyage took nearly 40 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean, a trip that would take a modern ship less than one week. This difference best reflects the geographic concept of
distance decay
space-time compression
uneven development
stimulus diffusion
The art and science of mapmaking is called
Cartography
Topography
Physical geography
Spatial analysis
Refugees fleeing from the Balkans during the 1990s were mostly reacting to
economic push factors
economic pull factors
cultural pull factors
cultural push factors
Which of the following is least likely to have a high population density?
coastal areas of South America
river valleys in Africa
interior areas of Australia
coastal areas of India
Which of the following areas of the world generally have net out-migrations?
Asia and North America
Europe and North America
Africa and Europe
Africa and Asia
Canada’s two largest language-based ethnic groups are
English and Spanish
Russian and Inuit
English and German
English and French
As Islam spread to Sub Saharan Africa by the 9th century, its first converts were the elites, but most ordinary people retained their native religions. This phenomenon illustrates the process of
contagious diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
stimulation diffusion
relocation diffusion
Linguistic geographers use isoglosses to mark
The boundary of languages in an area
The extinction of a language in an area
The creation of a pidgin language in an area
The lack of a lingua franca in an area
Which is the best example of the diffusion of a language?
The spread of English via the Internet
The decline in use of the Navajo language
The designation of one official language for a country
The use of bilingual signs in a country with two official languages
A taboo against pork is a characteristic of
Buddhism and Judaism
Christianity and Hinduism
Judaism and Islam
Judaism and Christianity
Telecommunication networks, whose areas of service radiate outward from central nodes best represent which of the following types of culture?
Vernacular Region
Formal Region
Folk Region
Functional Region
Physiological density is the number of
Farm animals per area suitable for agriculture
People per area suitable for agriculture
Farmers per area of farmland
People per area of flat land
Ester Boserup differed in thought to Thomas Malthus in that Boserup believed
That the increase of population would not cause a food shortage because people will create solutions to problems and use technology and new innovations to survive
That the destruction of a society is due to the increase in population over time
That the food surplus will continue to shrink to a shortage because of the increase of population
That the increase in population will have no affect on food supplies
The ratio between the size of things in the real world and the size of those same things on a map
Disorient
Distortion
Scale
Projection
The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people
Region
Ideology
Religion
Culture
Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of
Expansion and hierarchical
Contagious and stimulus
Expansion and relocation
Migrant and hierarchical
Measuring the distance people are willing to travel to shop at a store would be creating what type of region for that store?
Formal
Functional
Perceptual
Uniform
Billy thinks that in the south, everyone eats grits, eats fried chicken and watches football. He would be creating what type of region of the south with these ideas?
Formal
Functional
Uniform
Perceptual
Which type of map would show the boundaries of countries?
vegetation map
political map
land-use map
elevation map
Imaginary North-South line that passes through Greenwich, England, and has a value of 0 degrees
latitude
longitude
relief
scale
What stage is this population pyramid?
1
2
3
5
What stage is this population pyramid?
1
2
3
4
What is an internally displaced person?
Someone who has been forced to migrate but has not crossed international boundaries
Someone who has fled to a foreign country and is seeking asylum
Someone who has voluntarily moved to a country in search of a job
Someone who has been forced to migrate fearing for their life
A nation with a large number of farmers per unit of arable land would have a high:
Agricultural Density
Arithmetic Density
Physiological Density
Population Density
To determine the carrying capacity of a territory, which measure of density should we use?
agricultural density
arithmetic density
physiological density
population density
A Less Developed Country in Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model would have a:
high elder dependency ratio
low natural increase rate
low infant mortality rate
a "bottom-heavy" population pyramid
According to Ravenstein's Laws of Migration, which of the following would likely not happen?
movement from rural areas to urban areas
migration of single women over long distances
long distance migration to cities
step migration
According to Ravenstein, people tend to migrate
From rural areas to urban areas
as long a distance as possible
From urban areas to rural areas
starting around age 48
Why is carrying capacity important to know about when looking at population density?
Because it describes what population can be supported in order to export to other countries
Because it describes how much population the land can support without environmental deterioration
Because it shows that all countries can produce higher yields so that they do not need to import food
Because it shows the development of the land
Why might an area suffer if the Total Fertility Rate is too low?
Because they won't be able to have as many individuals in the pre-productive stage to replenish the current population
Because they are a post-industrial country so they will need more workers
Because the country has reached the carrying capacity
Because they won't be able to have as many workers, so it might stop them from progressing
Assimilation takes place when
a smaller culture shares traits with a larger culture
a smaller culture is totally absorbed by a larger, more dominant culture
cultures give and take
culture moves with people in relocation diffusion
Which of the following is a sacred place in the Hindu religion?
Dead Sea
Sahara Desert
Ganges River
Mount Fuji
Organize the world’s languages from biggest classification, to smallest.
language group, language, language family, dialect
language family, language branch, language group, dialect, language
language branch, language group, language, language family, dialect
language family, language branch, language group, language, dialect
What is the most widely used language form of lingua franca?
English
Spanish
Italian
Latin
Balkanization refers to
a small geographic area that cannot successfully be organized into states
The breakdown of a state due to conflicts among Ethnicities
religions splintering into opposing groups
ethnic cleansing
A Centripetal force is
A force that helps to unify and bring together the people of a state.
(e.g. Nationalism/Patriotism, Equality, Tolerance)
The process by which a state breaks down as a result of ethnic conflict. (Reference to Balkan Peninsula/Yugoslavia
The system formerly in effect in South Africa that segregated people based on their race.
(Abolished in the 90s)
A real-estate tactic used during the end of segregation in America. Real-estate agents convinced Whites to sell them their houses for cheap in fear of Blacks moving in. They then resold them to Blacks at a far higher price.
The belief in the existence of only one god is
pagan
polytheism
monotheism
cosmogony
Which of the following is a pull factor?
Insufficient Food Supply
High Crime Rate in Native Country
High Crime Rate in New Country
Higher Paying jobs in New Country
The two primary Eastern religions of Hinduism and Buddhism each have their hearths located where?
Jerusalem, Israel
Southeast Asia
Northern India
Eastern China
The modern game of soccer (football) spread to many parts of the world because of British colonization. This is an example of ____________ diffusion.
relocation
expansion
hierarchical
contagious
Muslims (those who practice the religion of Islam) are clustered in
Sub-Saharan Africa
South America
Eastern Europe
the Middle East
Which of the following is not a strong centripetal force in the United States?
network television
the flag
the many ethnic groups living in the United
States
"The Star Spangled Banner"
French Creole is a ____________ that combined two simplified languages to form a lingua franca.
pidgin language
official language
logograms
isolated language
What is the difference between folk music and popular music
folk music talk about popular things
popular music talks about life
popular music is created to be sold
folk music is slower
Folk Culture food is often influenced by?
Other countries
What is most in demand for that season
What people choose to snack on and drink
Environment
