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WorksheetsSemester 1 Exam Review
Total questions: 74
Worksheet time: 42mins
Keith really wanted to enjoy the sun. He moved from Boston to Virginia Beach, then to Orlando.
counter migration
step migration
gender patterns
short distances/distance-decay
After selling his farm to Kellogg, Jordan moves to the city to find a new job.
short distances/distance decay
counter migration
rural to urban
youth
Migration from urban areas to rural areas is called _______, and has been impacted by _________ technology.
counterurbanization, telecommunications
urbanization, high speed rail
ruralization, vehicle gas mileage
mobility, smart phone
In recent decades, the most important type of internal intraregional migration within the USA has been from
rural to urban areas
urban to suburban areas
urban to rural areas
suburbs to urban areas
_______ push and pull factors are the most common reason global migration patterns reflect movement from LDCs to MDCs.
Economic
Social
Political
Environmental
The majority of Black Americans live in the region of the United States, reflecting the historical pattern of
forced migration of slaves.
voluntary migration from Africa/
forced migration due to war, amine, and disease.
voluntary economic migration.
What is a refugee ?
A person with no nationality that is living as a non existing person.
A person that fled his country from violence, fear or persecution
A person not able to move and is still in the border of his country from violence
A migrant is...
someone who voluntarily chooses to move from their own country and can return at anytime.
someone who is forced to move from their own country but can return at anytime.
someone who chooses to move from their own country but are not able to return.
someone who flees their own country for a better life.
My parents wanted to EMIGRATE to the United States. This means that
they wanted to visit
they wanted to move
they wanted to stay
they wanted to continue
What vocabulary term is this paragraph describing?
Guest workers
Refugees
"Brain drain" immigrants
Assylum seekers
Traditionally, intervening obstacles were ____.
physical features
cultural features
If a person moves from Canada to Mexico, what type of migration is this considered?
International
Migrant Stream
Intranational
Rural to Urban Migration
A series of migrations within a family or group of people is considered ...
Stream migration
Step migration
Impelled migration
Chain migration
When a person moves in steps from a farm to a village to a town to a city to a new country, this migration is called..
Step migration
Chain migration
Internal migration
Which type of migration is shown in this example?
John is a Muslim but it is illegal for him to practice his religion in his home country. If he doesn't move, he could be jailed for his beliefs.
Forced Migration
Reluctant Migration
Voluntary Migration
Which of the following are push factors?
War
No jobs
Good education
Natural disasters
Operation Paperclip was a secret program carried out by special agents of the US Army between 1945 and 1959.
More than 1,600 German scientists and engineers, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were taken from Germany to the United States, for U.S. government employment. Many were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party.
The primary purpose for Operation Paperclip was U.S. military advantage in the Soviet–American Cold War, and the Space Race.
Operation Paperclip is an example of the US military facilitating a:
Brain drain
Asylum
Remittances program
Step migration
Space-Time Prism
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. This is a severe example of a/an:
Remittance program
Immigration quota
Critical distance
Transhumance
Asylum
In the 1960s, Turkish workers arrived in Germany to fill the demand for cheap labor in a booming post-war economy. Many of them never left, creating a minority community that changed the demographics of Germany forever. These Turkish migrants could be described as:
Step migrants
Remittance beneficiaries
Guest workers
Asylum seekers
Refugees
"In 1970, Dallas ISD began desegregation of schools as a majority white district, with 94 thousand white students. By 1980, the district enrolled fewer than half that many, 42 thousand.
In recent years (2015), the white population has hovered below 5 percent...By the end, DISD's “white flight” could be rationalized as a response not to racial mixing but to concentrated poverty, flagging test scores and an inept administration mired in scandal...https://bit.ly/34sXNpe
The process of “white flight” from downtown Dallas to its surrounding suburbs and small towns (such as Richardson) could be described as an example of:
Remitances
Counter-urbanization
Activity Space
Space-Time Prism
Transhumance
Many tourists to Morocco enjoy tours of the Atlas mountains led by Berber guides. Berbers are a diverse cultural group indigenous to many countries in North/West Africa. Some Berber groups still migrate seasonally with flocks of camels, goats, or sheep - this may be called an example of:
Transhumance
Critical Distance
Space-Time Prism
Asylum
Counterurbanization
The popularity of destinations such as Mexico and India for Walmart international money transfers indicates that there are large numbers of workers in the United States sending ______ home to care for their families abroad.
Quotas
Remittances
Guest workers
Brain drain
Refugees
When teenagers learn to drive, part of the reason it's exciting is because their ___ gets much larger. They are able to travel much greater distances routinely, exaggerating their sense of freedom.
Asylum
Remitannces
Activity Space
Brain drain
Quotas
Dominant language family in the regions above
Niger - Congo
Indo - European
Latin Americano
Sino - Tibetan
Dominant language family in the regions above
Sino -Tibetan
Afro - Asiatic
Niger - Congo
Afrikaans
When two people who speak different languages use English to conduct business, we can consider English a(n)
Assimilated language
Lingua Franca
Pidgin Language
Creole Language
This region of the world is most likely the hearth of what language family?
Austro - Asiatic
Indo - European
Altaic
Sino - Tibetan
Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese are all
Sino - Tibetan languages
Germanic languages
Altaic languages
Romance languages
The largest universalizing religion is
Hinduism
Islam
Buddhism
Christianity
World's first monotheistic religion
Jainism
Hinduism
Judaism
Shintoism
If a Muslim is physically and financially able, they are expected to travel to
Mecca
Palestine
Madrid
Israel
Social hierarchy system that has existed in India and has been a part of Hinduism for thousands of years
Dowry system
Caste system
Imperial system
Feudalism
The fighting in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, known as "The Troubles" can be considered an
Interfaith conflict
Intrafaith conflict
Which is NOT part of material culture?
Language
Food
Clothing
Shelter
Quick and widespread diffusion like a disease is known as
Stimulus diffusion
Hierarchical diffusoin
Relocation diffusion
Contagious diffusion
Actions involving the whole world and increasing connections between people, corporations, and/or organizations is BEST known as
unilaterialism
globalization
multiculturalism
milieu
The combination of a place's cultural, economic, and physical features is known as its
formal region
cultural landscape
uniform landscape
place definition
What is acculturation?
When you accept one culture while keeping your own
When you keep your culture and reject the new one
When you don't addapt to a new culture
When you adopt one culture and retain your own.
In general, this process happens when a minority culture adopts the practices and values of a majority culture.
True
False
_________________ is the process by which a person or group adopts a new culture that takes the place of the original leaving almost no traces.
Separation
Acculturation
Transmutation
Assimilation
shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors expressed by a society
xenophobia
folk culture
culture
pop culture
ideas, values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms
material culture
non-material culture
artifacts of culture
technologies
not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms (celebrating diversity)
ethnocentrism
cultural trait
cultural relativism
material culture
Belief in the superiority of one's own culture
ethnocentrism
material culture
cultural relativism
technology
Belief in the superiority of one's own culture
ethnocentrism
material culture
cultural relativism
technology
The idea that previous societies have left an "imprint" that still continues to appear on the cultural landscape after that society has gone
classical architecture
gendered spaces
sequent occupance
cultural landscape
Concept that specifically addresses cultural values regarding gender, such as behaviors that are acceptable only for one gender, and often only in certain spaces
modern architecture
cultural landscape
sequent occupance
gendered spaces
yurts, igloos and huts are all examples of
traditional architecture
postmodern architecture
the four main types of agriculture
non-material culture
_________________ is the cycle of birth and rebirth found in Buddhism and Hinduism.
Prayer
Reincarnation
Sikhism
Symmetry
_____________ is an important person in Islam.
Buddha
Jesus
Abraham
Muhammad
_____________ is an important person in Judaism.
Buddha
Jesus
Abraham
Muhammad
The religion with the most followers is ___________________.
Islam
Sikhism
Buddhism
Christianity
Followers of Islam are called _______________.
Muslims
Followers
Buddhist
Christians
The oldest religion is the world is _________________.
Chrisitanity
Hinduism
Buddhism
Islam
