GEOG 150 Cumulative

Which of the following religions has the oldest origins?

Hinduism

The stage of receding pandemics is part of which stage of the epidemiologic transition?

Stage 2

Most migrants to the US during the 1800s came from

North and Western Europe

Which of the following statements is most correct regarding the origins of geography

Humans have practiced geography at least since the time of ancient Greek civilization

The percentage of people who are too young or too old to work in a society is the

dependency rate

The population pyramid of Italy is “upside down” because it has a high percentage of

elderly people

The concept that the physical environment influences human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment is

environmental possibilism

The second largest religion in the world, with 1.3 billion followers, is

Islam

Which of the following were domesticated in the Andres Mountains

Guinea Pigs

The main impact of the 1920s quota laws on the national origin of immigrants to the US was to

admit migrants mostly from northern and western Europe

The eating of dirt to provide minerals and/or counteract intestinal sickness is called

Geophagy

The belief that population growth is negative because it will place pressure on many types of resources is attributed to

Neo-Malthusians

Situation identifies a place by its

location relative to other places

Today, the US legally allows ____ migrants to enter every year

1,000,000

Most migrants to the US during the time period of 1905-1914 came from which part of Europe

South and east

The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime is the

total fertility rate

Scale

Relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

A computer system that stores, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is referred to as

GIS

The division of the US into 50 states creates which type of regions

formal regions

Money sent by migrants back to their home country or community is called

Remittance

In comparing Malthus’s theory to actual world food production and population growth, during the past half-century, the principal difference is that

Actual food production has been much higher than what Malthus predicted

The Romanian language is part of which language branch

Romance

Many Argentinians who left the country in the 1970s, when the country was ruled by a military regime, returned to the country after democratic elections were held in 1983. This is an example of

a push factor changing to a pull factor

In the US, which is likely to cause almost all population growth in the next couple decades

Immigration

Languages differentiate due to

Isolation, interaction, and diffusion

Which of the following statements about population is correct?

population growth in more developed countries is low

Social area analysis attempts to explain

the distribution of different types of people in an urban area

The process of converting a neighborhood from low-income to middle-class or upper-class is

gentrification

Ranching is practiced in a climate region most similar to that of which other type of agriculture

pastoral nomadism

The strongest criticism of suburbs argued that historically,

low-income people and minorities are able to live in some areas because of the high cost of the housing, the discrimination of established residents, and irrational fears that property values would decline if minorities were allowed to buy property there

NATO planes flying high over former Yugoslavia during the civil war provided information later used for geographic interpretation to

document acts of ethnic cleansing by the Serbs

A racist believes in

the biological classification of people and the superiority of some groups over others on the basis of racial identity

The United Nations is primarily what kind of cooperative effort

Political

In the US about what percent of all jobs are in consumer services

50%

Concept that nationalities have the right to govern themselves is known as the right of

self-determination

The majority of humans in history were

hunter-gatherers

Dr. Timms built houses in Jamaica for

goats

A “footloose industry” refers to one where

cheap labor is the most important factor for location of factories

A copper concentration mill tends to locate near a copper mine because it is a

bulk-reducing industry

Shifting cultivation causes environmental damage primarily when

population growth increases area cleared

The largest number of Asian Americans are descended from immigrants from

China

In a market area analysis, threshold refers to

the number of people needed to support a service

Containerization was developed to facilitate long-distance transport by

Ship

The earliest known domesticated wheat, barley, and rice crops are thought to have originated in Asia about

10,000 years ago

The Industrial Revolution began in the

late-1700s (1750-)

After the Industrial Revolution, the spatial distribution of industrial activities within a region became

clustered

What percent of the world’s population now lives in urban areas

50%

Weber’s Industrial Location model

Labor, agglomeration, transportation

What was apartheid

The geographic separation of races in South Africa

The top agricultural region in the US, in terms of market value, is

California

A state shape that has an extension for access to a resource such as Namibia is called a

Prorupted state

A frontier, in contrast to a boundary,

is an area rather than a line

Balkanization refers to

The breakdown of a state due to conflicts among ethnicities/nationalitites

Chicken production is most prominent in which region of the US

The South

The EU has

promoted economic growth in Western Europe

In contrast to Fordist production, Post-Fordist production is more likely to

introduce more flexibile work rules

Growing potatoes on terraces in the Andes of South America is an example of which type of agriculture

Intensive subsistence not wet rice dominant

A state with control over its internal affairs has

Sovereignty

Country of Chile is a good example of a

elongated state

A group of people that are united politically are referred to as a

nationality

A principal practice of sustainable agriculture

Sensitive land management, better integration of crops and livestock, limited use of chemicals

The soft-drink industry locates itself near consumers because it is a

bulk-gaining industry

The Fertile Crescent

extended from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea and was the location of the first city-states in the Middle East

Conflict in Africa is widespread because of

inappropriate colonial borders, numerous ethnic groups

LA has what kind of ethnic distribution

Clustered

Adherents of which religion have controlled Palestine (todays Israel) for most of the past 1500 years

Islam

Distance decay refers to

a decline of influence with increasing distance from point of origin (hearth)

The arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth’s surface is

Spatial distribution

Largest branch of Christianity

Roman Catholicism

In which period did African Americans primarily migrate to the urban areas of the North in the US

Around WWI and WWII

Eq for NIR

(Crude birth rate = crude death rate)/10

Rule of 69

69/NIR

Motivations of historic European and current Latin American immigrants to the US

Primarily economic factors

Islam originated around 600 AD in which present day country

Saudi Arabia

A ship’s position is fiven as 0 deg latitude and 27 deg west longitude, where is the ship?

on the equator and in the Atlantic Ocean

It may sound strange to hear that the ____ is generally lower for less developed countries than for more developed countries

CDR (crude death rate)

Which of the following best describes the idea of a cultural landscape

A landscape where human activity has modified the natural environment in any way

To geographers, the spread of McDonald’s around the world represents

economic and cultural globalization

Which factor usually causes voluntary migration

economic

A country with a large amount of arable land and a small number of farmers will have a

low agricultural density

What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?

They are both concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do

In contrast to folk culture, pop culture is typical of

large heterogenous groups

Geographers define overpopulation as

too many people compared to resources

The township and range system

resulted in a gridlike pattern for much of present-day land use in the US

International immigration reaches a peak in which stage of the demographic transition

Stage 4

Brain drain is

the large-scale emigration of talented (educated) people

A system of transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is

a projection

The most prominent type of intraregional migration in the world is

rural to urban

The spread of disease is facilitated by

poverty, travel, urbanization

Earth area of permanent human settlement

ecumene

New York' City’s _____ is 100 miles northeast of Philadelphia and 100 miles southwest of Boston

Situation

Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on the US is an interesting geographic case study because

its effects are an intersection of human and physical geography

The Total Fertility rate required to replace the world’s existing population is

2.1

Branch of Islam with the greatest amount of followers

Sunni

Agricultural density

Number of farmers per area of arable land

Physiological density

number of people per area of arable land

A decline in a country’s crude birth rate would result in an increase in the country’s

doubling time

The largest number of people in the world speak languages from which language family

Indo-European

First person to write the word “geography”

Eratosthenes

Types of expansion diffusion

Hierarchical, stimulus, contagious