1. Human Geography is best described as the: a study of how human activity is organized in space b. relationship between people and their environments) c. location of places (capitals, rivers, countries, etc.) around the earth d. both the study of how human activity is organized in space and the relationships between people and their environments)
2. _________ are interdependent.
a. Places
b. Regions
C. People
d. All of the above
3. What are two important tools of geographic data collection and analysis?
a. Paper maps and compass-based orienteering
b. Remote sensing (e.g. satellite imagery) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
c. Cartographers use compass and sextants to measure the shape of the Earth’s surface
d. Every geographer carries a foldable shovel and a notebook to collect soil samples and record information about the collection sites
4. The best example of relocation diffusion is the spread of
a. fashion across the world’s major urban centers
b. an agricultural innovation across a farming region
C. a disease from one side of a country to the other
d. Christianity as European colonized other parts of the world
5. What are culture hearths?
a. The base of a fixed fireplace within a culture’s unique architectural style
b. Locations where people domesticated crops and developed early human societies
C. Centralized locations along major waterways
d. Global centers of cultural production that drive global demands for popular culture
6. How are Folk culture and Popular culture related?
a. Local areas interact with global, consumer culture in ongoing processes that constantly change both folk and popular cultures
b. Folk culture exists in isolated, homogeneous communities while popular culture exists at the global level
c. An example of Folk Culture is the prominent use of the ukulele in Hawaiian music
d. Popular culture continues to form folk cultures all across the globe
7. What is the difference between site and situation?
a. Site is a place – electronic or physical – that exists
b. Sitvation describes the relative location of a place (i.e. proximity to natural resources available) and site is the physical location (i.e. elevation)
C. Situation explains the context in which people live
d. Site indicates the distance from the equator and situation explains distance from the Prime Meridian
8. The increasing connectedness of different parts of the world through processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change is best described as:
a. world regions
b. globalization
C. spatial diffusion
d. economic nationalism
9. Age-sex pyramids are graphical representations of:
a. the structure of population at a moment in time
b. birth rates and death rates of a country
c. the rankings of countries around the world
d. a hierarchy of core-periphery relationships
10. When crude birth rates are higher than crude death rates, the difference between them is known as the:
a. infant mortality rate
b. total fertility rate
c. natural decrease
d. rate of natural increase
11. The demographic transition is a model of population change used to explain high population growth rates. According to the theory,
a. birth rates decline, eventually followed by a decline in death rates
b. death rates decline, eventually followed by a decline in birth rates
c. birth rates and death rates decline simultaneously
d. death rates rise, eventually followed by a rise in birth rates
12.Which of the following BEST represents sacred spaces?
a. Anything that humans use to generate a sense of divine
b. Informal houses of worship that is used for socializing
c. The tendency to venerate prophets who are central to a religious tradition
d. All of the above
13. Which of the following immigrant groups likely has the greatest freedom of movement?
a. Guest workers
b. Asylum seekers
c. Highly skilled workers
d. Undocumented laborers
14. Why do cultural ecologists study of the types of landscapes created by the interrelationships between people and the environment?
a. Landscapes determine how people live within places
b. Cultures and landscapes are complexly intertwined, and they constantly influence each other
C. Cultures conquer landscapes and shape them to fit their collective needs
d. All places are unique
15. How does a lingua franca facilitate communication between people?
a. They are official languages that are imposed on communities to assimilate them into mainstream society
b • A Lingua franca connects people who live in different communities in a common culture that unites them in a universal human culture
C. A lingua franca is a practice that is deemed to be vital for the survival of a linguistic group that the state intervenes to protect it
d. A Lingua franca is a common language that enables people who do not share a common native language to communicate
