aphg final

Human Geographers focus

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The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the:

agricultural density

Low population growth resulting from high CBR and very high CDR is characteristic of stage ____ of the demographic transition

stage 1

A developed country that has reached a stage where the population is most stable will develop a population pyramid that is:

rectangular shaped

The long-term relocation of an individual, household, or group to a new location outside the community of origin is called

immigration

Gender studies of migration indicate that men ______________ than women.

all responses are correct

What is the model which states that spatial interaction between places (e.g. migration) is directly related to the population size and inversely related to the distance between them?

gravity model

The ________ of a group of people includes the things they construct

material culture

The process of adjustment of the number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives to reflect shifts in population patterns is known as

reapportionment

A hinterland reveals the _________ of each settlement.

economic reach

The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence is referred to as _______

neocolonialism

Which is not an example of primary economic activity?

corn flake production

Which of the four classifications of industry must locate where the resources are found?

primary

The Kyoto Protocol ______

addresses global climate change

The study of global cities showed that ____________ is the most globally linked city in the world.

london

According to Manuel Castells, a set of interconnected nodes is a(n) ________________

network

The set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships and heightening interdependence regardless of national boundaries are called

globalization

The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows:

the arrangement and organization of things on the surface of the earth

Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact of the drainage of part of the Florida Everglades?

human environment

______ refers to the infusing of a locality with meaning and emotion

sense of place

A good example of a formal region would be a:

region of similar language

The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge and skills from their place of origin to other areas where they are adopted is called:

diffusion

The mental map you have of places you routinely visit is a map of your

activity spaces

The lack of penetration of alcoholic beverages in Islamic regions illustrates the effect of _______ on cultural diffusion

cultural barriers

Births and _______ add to the population growth of a particular country

immigration

Countries with aging populations attempt to stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of rising medical and retirement costs by:

promoting immigration

The arithmetic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total ___________

population by the total area

The statistics that report the number of deaths per thousand people in a given year is called:

crude death or mortality rate

The type of movement that involves journeys that begin at and bring us back to our home bass is called

cyclic

A periodic form of movement that involves a system of pastoral farming whereby livestock and their keepers adjust their location to the seasonal availability of pastures is called

transhumance

Which of the following is not one of Ernst Ravenstein's laws of migration?

the majority of urban migrants are uneducated

A person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion is officially a:

refugee

Which is not an example of a fortified barrier to migration?

the united states - canadian barrier

_____ culture is conceived as small, incorporating a homogenous population, typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits

folk

The fact that trends in popular culture (e.g fashion) proceed from large global centers (Milan, Paris, New York) through a series of progressively smaller cities is an example of

hierarchical diffusion

Government efforts to discourage native practice and languages in the United States and Canada were attempts to _____________ native groups.

assimilate

According to Gillian Ross, "identity" is

how we make sense of ourselves

When places are "designed" either for women or men they are said to be

gendered

The crucial element in language is

vocalization

A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs is called

an isogloss

The most widely used Indo-European language today is

english

The belief that inanimate objects (e.g. trees, mountains, boulders) contain spirits is

animism

Which of the following is not generally a characteristic of an ethnic religion

always polytheistic

The faith that is most widely dispersed over the world is

christianity

The fundamental doctrine of the Hindu faith is

karma

The teachings of Lao-Tsu form the tenants of

taoism

The largest constituency of Christianity is

roman Catholicism

At the global scale, political geographers study the spatial manifestations of political processes expressed in the organization of territories with permanent population, defined territory and a government. These spatial units are called

states

Which is an example of a stateless-nation?

kurdistan

One of the most powerful impacts of colonialism was the construction of global order characterized by great differences in ___

economic and political power

Distance, remoteness and marginal location enhance the potential for devolution. This form of devolution is referred to as ___

spatial devolution

Participation in the United Nations serves the useful purpose of committing states to ____

international standards of behavior

The boundary between countries is a ___

vertical plane that cuts through the rocks below and air above

Urban places in the ancient world were ___

exceptions in an overwhelming rural society

In a model urban hierarchy, the population of a city, town or village is inversely proportional to its rank in the system (i.e. if the largest city is 4 million the second will be 2 million or 1/2, the third will be 1/3 and so on). This is known as . . .

rank-size rule

Paris and Mexico City are many times larger than the second-ranked city in their respective countries. Their disproportionate size illustrates _______

the concept of the primate city

The multiple nuclei model of urban structure developed by Harris and Ullman arose from the idea that _____ was losing its dominat position in the metropolitan city

the CBD

The focal point of the Southeast Asian city is the _____

old colonial port zone

The core area suburbs are experiencing a process of the tearing down of existing suburban homes and the building of very large, standardized looking homes known as ____

mcmansions

_______ processes in the commodity chain involve technology, education, research and development, and high wages

core

Gross domestic product measures only

production only within a country

Dependency ratio measures ______

the number of young plus the number of elderly per 100 workers

Even if the Gross National Product (GNP) index is used to measure the well-being of a country, it will fail to show _______

the distribution of wealth

Countries in which tier of the world economy (region) have high birth and death rates and low life expectancy at birth?

periphery

A form of tropical subsistence agriculture in which fields are rotated after short periods of crop production is ___________

shifting cultivation

Milpa agriculture involves the _________ method of clearing fields.

burning

Which commodity would be found closest to the market town in von Thunen's model?

milk

The rectangular land division scheme in the United States adopted after the American Revolution is quite unique. Its correct name is:

township-and-range system

Examples of luxury crops include:

coffee and tobacco

In areas of shifting cultivation the population _______

cannot have high density

The form of villages still existing in many rural landscapes that are reminders of a turbulent past is ___________

walled

The increase in time and cost with distance is referred to as ________

friction of distance

If a substantial number of enterprises all develop in, or move to, the same area the factor is called _______

agglomeration

When Alfred Weber published his book Theory of the Location of Industries (1909), what did he select as the most important variable when determining industrial location?

transportation costs

Mass production of standardized goods using assembly line techniques is referred to as:

fordists

The type of manufacturing that is more likely to be located in peripheral countries is _______

labor-intensive

A tsunami's waves result from _______

earthquake displacement of the seafloor

The world distribution of precipitation is concentrated in ____

equatorial and tropical areas

Central to globalization is _____

trade

Most of the one billion malnourished people in the world

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