Human Geo Midterm

The concern of geography with space puts
_________ at the center of its agenda.

scale

A good example of a formal region would
be a:

region of similar language

Cultural geographers identify a single element of normal practice as

a cultural trait

The notion that cultural factors are the
product of environmental conditions (e.g. the ancient Greek idea that Europeans were fierce and brutish because of the cold
climate), is an example of

environmental determinism

Which of the following regions generally receives the most precipitation

Southeast Asia

The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called

relative location

The cultural landscape of Dar es Salaam is
a composite of several different culture
groups which have administered the place.
British policy stimulated the development of
a district of 3 to 4 story apartments
reminiscent of

Bombay

Which of the following countries has the lowest percentage of arable land

Norway

Much of Kenya’s income comes from

coffee and tea production

Most of the one billion malnourished people in the world

have little power, money, are women or children

Replacement level, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility rate of ____

2.1

Not all countries with aging populations resort to immigration to offset economic problems. An example is

Japan

It has been estimated that 98 percent of Egypt’s population occupies only ___ percent of the country’s total area

3

The world’s three largest population concentrations are all found on the same landmass, which is ____

Eurasia

Births and _____ add to the population growth of a country

immigration

In the 1970’s, the government of India used this method to reduce the population growth rates in certain areas of the country

forced sterilization of males

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

the crude death or mortality rate

In Europe the marked decline of the birth rate was the result of _____

the effects of Industrialization, urbanization, and general modernization

More than half of the world’s entire population is concentrated in East Asia

false

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

rectangular shaped

Today, an estimated _____ unauthorized migrants live in the US

10.7 million

In both the US and Canada, agricultural workers primarily come from

Mexico and Central America

Among the migrants in the US, authorized and unauthorized, migrants from Mexico account for ____ percent

26 percent

A cyclic movement practiced in the mountain areas when ranchers move livestock vertically during the summer months and to lowlands during winter months is called

transhumance

In 1901, this country approved the Immigration Restriction Act, which ended all nonwhite immigration to the country

Australia

Hutterites differ from the Amish in that they

accept modern technology

A group of people in a particular place see themselves as a community and who share experience, customs, and traits are referred to as a ____

local culture

In terms of popular culture, cities like Paris, New York, and Milan are referred to as ___

hearths

“Little Sweden” in Lindeborg, Kansas is a good example of

neo localism

The Makah of Washington State reinstitute ______ as a means of solidifying their culture and reconnecting with their past

whaling

A culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women, their character, roles and divisions of
labor are referred to as

gender

What society typically calls a “race” is in fact

a combination of physical attributes

residential segregation in the US today is

decreasing

We think of the border region between the United States and Mexico as being an Anglo-Hispanic meeting
point, but one of the largest groups of _____________ in Mexico can be found just outside the city of Mexicali

Chinese

Which African country was the first to have over 50% of its Parliament seats held by women

Rwanda

Hawaii is an example of state with

official bilingual policies

The language most widely used as a second language by hundreds of millions of people in India, Africa and elsewhere is

English

A language that us used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce is

a lingua franca

The greatest concentration of streets memorializing MLK is found in

the South, especially Georgia

The predominantly French-speaking capital city of Belgium (Brussels) is located in the Flemish-speaking northern area of the country.

True

The Peace of Westphalia _____

marked the beginning of the modern state system of Europe

_____ is an example of a country which was never a classic colonial power.

Singapore

The movement of power from the central government to the regional government is referred to as ____

devolution

The boundary between the US and Canada west of the Great Lakes is an example of a(n) _____

geometric boundary

In 1945, Mackinder wrote about his concerns over the potential of Stalin’s control of the countries of eastern Europe. His views led to the development of the US containment policy and to the establishment of ____

NATO

Russia had recently taken forcible control of ____, which has produced a chilling effect on NATO’s possible eastward expansion.

Crimea

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

international standards of behavior

Which of the following is NOT a supranational organization?

United States

Following WWI there were fewer than 75 states in the world.

True

Taiwan is a member of the UN

False

In which of the following hearths did urbanization develop first?

Mesopotamia

A hinterland reveals the ____ of each settlement

economic reach

The core of a city is called the ____

central business district (CBD)

_____ was coined to describe a complex urban area, like Los Angeles or Toronto, where functions of the city are not centered in one place

galactic city

The huge influx of population from rural to urban regions of the world in peripheral or semi-peripheral areas finds housing in _____

shantytowns

Cities in the periphery often have unregulated growth and mixed land use, where a factory may be located next to a primary school, because of ____

an absence of enforced zoning regulations

In cities of the global core, the renewal or rebuilding of lower income neighborhoods into middle to upper class neighborhoods is called ____

gentrification

As nodes of interaction, world-cities act as forces shaping ____

Globalization

Urbanization occurred in all urban hearths at about the same time

False

The two Alpha++ world cities that are the most important nodes in the world economy are:

New York and London

Which of the following has the highest per capita Gross National Income (GNI)?

Norway

Modern ideas of development are related to ____

the Industrial Revolution

Gross domestic product measures only ____

production only within a country

The overall dependency ratio measures:

the number of younger people plus the number of the older people per 100 workers

Young girls trafficked from the periphery to wealthier regions most often work as _____

domestic workers/street vendors

Organic food is found in _____ areas

all

Which is NOT an example of a primary economic activity?

corn flake production

Goats were domesticated 10,000 years ago in the Zagros Mountain region of _____

the Fertile Crescent

Shifting cultivation involves the _____ methods of clearing fields

burning

The Green Revolution is considered to have a limited impact in parts of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa

True

A _____ forms where a denser oceanic plate descends under less dense continental plate

subduction zone

What percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?

70

During periods of ____, more water is in the form of ice in glaciers at higher latitudes and elevations

glaciation

_____ is the ways people use land resources for specific purposes

land use

The destruction of vast tracts of forest, typically caused by clearing forestland for agriculture or livestock use, is called _____

deforestation

Resources that are replenished as they are being used _____

renewable resources

Which of the following is NOT once of the key “greenhouse” gasses?

ozone

____- are the examples of actions that cause environmental stress

all of the above

_____ is the variety of plants and animals on Earth or in a specific area

biodiversity

_____ make a far greater demand on the Earth’s resources than most

Core countries