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Geography Mid-Term Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is world geography?

(a)  

2.

What does DOGSTAILS stand for?

(a)  

3.

What does ESPN stand for?

(a)  

4.

What type of map is this?

a)

physical map

b)

political map

c)

population map

d)

climate map

5.

List the five biomes

(a)  

6.

what are non-human factors?

(a)  

7.

What is a perceptual region?

a)

feelings and prejudices that may or may not be true

b)

An area defined by one predominant or universal characteristic throughout its entire area

c)

an area centered on a node, focal point, or central hub surrounded by interconnecting linkages.

d)

where do you live and why it is important to figure out.

8.

What is a formal region?

a)

feelings and prejudices that may or may not be true

b)

An area defined by one predominant or universal characteristic throughout its entire area

c)

an area centered on a node, focal point, or central hub surrounded by interconnecting linkages.

d)

where do you live and why it is important to figure out.

9.

What is a functional region?

a)

feelings and prejudices that may or may not be true

b)

An area defined by one predominant or universal characteristic throughout its entire area

c)

an area centered on a node, focal point, or central hub surrounded by interconnecting linkages.

d)

where do you live and why it is important to figure out.

10.

What is a geography map?

a)

feelings and prejudices that may or may not be true

b)

An area defined by one predominant or universal characteristic throughout its entire area

c)

an area centered on a node, focal point, or central hub surrounded by interconnecting linkages.

d)

where do you live and why it is important to figure out.

11.

Some examples of physical barriers are (a)  

12.

What is the definition of a culture?

a)

a way of life, how people survive, shared beliefs, customs, attitudes, and identification

b)

a "heartland", source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture

c)

Cultural values come from a group's language, religion and ethnicity

d)

The movement of people is dependent on location and natural features

13.

What is a cultural hearth?

a)

a way of life, how people survive, shared beliefs, customs, attitudes, and identification

b)

a "heartland", source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture

c)

Cultural values come from a group's language, religion and ethnicity

d)

The movement of people is dependent on location and natural features

14.

What are characteristics of a culture?

a)

In more isolated societies, change is resisted and less likely

b)

a "heartland", source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture

c)

Cultural values come from a group's language, religion and ethnicity

d)

The movement of people is dependent on location and natural features

15.

List the elements of a culture

(a)  

16.

List ways a culture can change over time

(a)  

17.

What is counter culture?

a)

A culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture

b)

reflecting many different cultures

c)

many different types of things or people being in included in something

d)

giving/providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized

18.

What describes cultural DIVERGENCE

a)

Cultures becoming dissimilar over time and not associating with each other

b)

The Amish continue to practice their own societal norms despite the power of American pop culture

c)

Process of cultures coming into contact with each other and becoming similar over time

d)

People spread ideas/features/cultures through migration

19.

What describes cultural convergence?

a)

Cultures becoming dissimilar over time and not associating with each other

b)

Process of cultures coming into contact with each other and becoming similar over time

c)

diffusion in which one people receives a culture element from another but gives it a new and unique form

d)

the spreading of culture from one society to another

20.

Stage 1 DTM

a)

Low Growth: birthrate and death rate vary. Primitive, rural or preindustrial society

b)

High Growth: Death rates drop, birth rates remain high. Society enters industrial revolution, then medical revolution.

c)

Moderate Growth: rapidly declining birthrate, declining death rate. Urban growth, rural decline, increase in education access, democracy

d)

Low Growth: low birth rate, low death rates.

Modern technology, health care, education, democracy, woman's rights.

21.

Stage 2 DTM

a)

birth rate is lower than death rate, negative population growth. Country is declining.

b)

High Growth: Death rates drop, birth rates remain high. Society enters industrial revolution, then medical revolution.

c)

Moderate Growth: rapidly declining birthrate, declining death rate. Urban growth, rural decline, increase in education access, democracy

d)

Low Growth: low birth rate, low death rates.

Modern technology, health care, education, democracy, woman's rights.

22.

Stage 3 DTM

a)

birth rate is lower than death rate, negative population growth. Country is declining.

b)

High Growth: Death rates drop, birth rates remain high. Society enters industrial revolution, then medical revolution.

c)

Moderate Growth: rapidly declining birthrate, declining death rate. Urban growth, rural decline, increase in education access, democracy

d)

Low Growth: low birth rate, low death rates.

Modern technology, health care, education, democracy, woman's rights.

23.

Stage 4 DTM

a)

birth rate is lower than death rate, negative population growth. Country is declining.

b)

High Growth: Death rates drop, birth rates remain high. Society enters industrial revolution, then medical revolution.

c)

Moderate Growth: rapidly declining birthrate, declining death rate. Urban growth, rural decline, increase in education access, democracy

d)

Low Growth: low birth rate, low death rates.

Modern technology, health care, education, democracy, woman's rights.

24.

Stage 5 DTM

a)

birth rate is lower than death rate, negative population growth. Country is declining.

b)

High Growth: Death rates drop, birth rates remain high. Society enters industrial revolution, then medical revolution.

c)

Moderate Growth: rapidly declining birthrate, declining death rate. Urban growth, rural decline, increase in education access, democracy

d)

Low Growth: low birth rate, low death rates.

Modern technology, health care, education, democracy, woman's rights.

25.

Which stage of DTM does this chart represent?

a)

stage 2

b)

stage 1

c)

stage 4

d)

stage 3

26.

Which stage of DTM does this chart represent?

a)

stage 2

b)

stage 1

c)

stage 4

d)

stage 3

27.

What causes the seasons?

a)

the tilt of the sun and the way the earth wobbles

b)

the weather

c)

the climate of a location

d)

the moon

28.

What is the ring of fire?

a)

is a region around much of the rim of the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.

b)

Hawaii

c)

the hemisphere tilted away from the sun