A map of downtown Detroit is an example of which type of map scale?
Large-Scale Map
Which of the following map scales would be most useful for studying the details of geographic features in the landscape of a farming community? Large Scale Map (1:10,000)
The cultural geographer Wilbur Zelinsky approached the task of defining and delimiting the perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada by analyzing
Perceptual regions
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
Land parcels in the American Midwest tend to be rectilinear because Township and Range System
Why are most South American population centers located at or near the coast? It’s more urban, makes farming easier, better trade, better transportation
One would expect to find a population with a relatively young age structure in developing countries
Which of the following is most characteristic of societies currently in the last stage of demographic transition? Crude death rate and crude birth rate being equal/crude death rate being higher than crude birth rate(Both are very low)
Replacement rate, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility of 2.1
Countries with aging populations attempt to stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of rising medical and retirement costs by using immigrant labor
Asian population extensions reflect fertile river valleys, while the European extension reflects coal mines
In 1789, a British economist named Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that while population increased at what he called a geometric rate, the means of subsistence grew only at linear rate
Low population growth resulting from high CBR and very high CDR is characteristic of stage 1 of the demographic transition:
In 2005 the United States and Canada had a higher crude death rate than Mexico because they have an older population
15.) Which of the following is not one of Ernst Ravenstein's laws of migration?
Laws of Migration -
1. Every migration flow generates a return or counter migration
2. The majority of migrants move a short distance
3. Migrants who move longer distance tend to choose big-city destinations
4. Urban migrants are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas
5. Families are less likely to make international moves rather than young adults
16.) Chain migration occurs when:
migration of people to a specific location because of relatives or members of the same nationality already there.
Today, major internal migrations in the United States are
Moving to the sunbelt(north to south)
18.) Where is the current center of the U.S. population?
Southwest Missouri as of 2020
What is placelessness?
loss of sense of place
20.) What do people in metro Detroit call a cola flavored soft drink?pop
21.) The dependency ratio is most useful for indicating the amount of people under the age of 15/over the age of 65 compared to the working age people | |
22.) 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 diffision | |
23.) | Geographer David Harvey refers to the increasing speed by which innovations in popular culture diffuse as Time-Space Compression |
24.) Gerrymandering adjusts voting districts boundaries in order to favor a candidate | |
25.) | The Dave Matthews Band established a hearth in Charlottesville, Virginia and gained popularity through hierarchical diffusion among college towns. |
n.26.) | According to E. Relph, the term which best captures the quality of the American landscape which is associated with the spread of popular culture is Placelessness |
27.) | Most of the workers in maquiladoras are mexican females |
28.) | Which of the following is a term used in the study of place names? Toponym |
29.) | The French government has prevented infusion of foreign cultures to protect French language and culture. |
| | banned foreign words in advertising and on radio and television |
| | established the Académie Française to standardize the language |
| | passed a law levying fines on those using foreign terms |
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30.) | The greatest concentration of streets memorializing Martin Luther King Jr. are found in: Georgia |
31.) | Persuasion will not lead people to change the language they speak, but it can induce them to? change religion |
32.) | Which of the following U.S. regional associations is incorrect? U.S. regional associations- Utah has Mormons South has Baptists Upper Midwest has Luthereans |
33.) | Which is an example of an intrafaith (boundary) conflict? Northern Ireland(Between Catholics and Protestants) |
34.) | The Peace of Westphalia created modern Europe(came at the end of the 30 years war) |
Most are islands. Most are relatively isolated. Most have extremely small populations. Most are remnants of empires. |
35.) | The set of statements above applies to which of the following? Colonies that still don’t have independence |
36.) | Most of Africa’s political boundaries were originally drawn by European Powers at Berlin Conference |
37.) | Which of the following groups represents a nation without a state? Kurds/Kurdistan |
38.) | The term Balkanization refers to the breakup of a larger country into smaller independent states which are often hostile to each other. EX - Breakup of Ottoman Empire(after WW1) and breakup of Yugoslavia |
39.) | Culturally defined political boundaries, such as those determined by the spatial patterns of religion or language, are called Consequent boundaries |
40.) | The movement of power from the central government to regional governments is referred to as devolution |
41.) | A boundary between countries is extends vertical planes (think above and below ground) |
42.) | Sir Halford Mackinder developed what would become known as the heartland theory which suggested that interior Eurasia contained a critical “pivot area” that would generate a state capable of challenging for world domination. The key to the area according to Mackinder was Eastern Europe |
43.) | Technically supranationalism refers to efforts by 3 or more states to forge associations for common advantage and in pursuit of common goals. |
44.) | Indonesia is an example of which of the following types of states? Fragmented State |
45.) | 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 |
46.) | A hinterland reveals the economic reach of each settlement. |
47.) | Which of the following describes a primate city? An urban center that is disproportionately larger than the second largest city in a country and that dominates the country’s social, political, and economic activities |
48.) | In Burgess' concentric zone model, the zone of transition became if the CBD continues to grow the zone of transition gets smaller |
49.) | Which of the following is true of an edge city? It has a large amount of recently developed retail and office space. |
50.) | Which of the following models of urban structure depicts a commercial spine bordered by an elite residential sector extending outward from the central business district? Latin American City Model |
51.) | The huge influx of population from rural to urban areas in peripheral or semi-peripheral areas find housing in squatter /informal settlements |
52.) | Which is not an example of a primary economic activity? Primary Economic Activity - Involves those products closest to the ground such as agriculture, ranching, hunting & gathering, fishing, forestry, mining, and quarrying. |
53.) | In core area cities the practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the raising of housing values and a social change in neighborhoods is called gentrification |
54.) | The decline in density and the spread of cities associated with the building of freeways in the second half of the twentieth century has been pejoratively referred to as Urban Sprawl |
55.) | Many companies moved their operations from New England and the Midwest to locations in the South because the south has less expensive site factories than the north, Right to Work laws, which lead to less work unions meaning labor is cheaper in the south |
56.) | According to Carl Sauer, the earliest plant domestication Root Crops 12,000 years ago, seed crops 10,000 years ago |
57.) | As a country’s economy develops, a smaller percentage of the workforce tends to be employed in: first and second sectors |
58.) | A form of tropical subsistence agriculture in which fields are rotated after short periods of crop production is ______crop rotation___________ |
59.) | In von Thunen's model there was a concentric circle of forest around the city because ______provide lumber__for heating home and building. Transporting heavy lumber was too hard for them to use it efficiently. ________ |
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60.) | 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 |
61.) | The Township and Range System is to the American Plains as the long-lot survey system is to _____French colonies(like Quebec and Grosse Ile)_____ (like Grosse Ile) |
62.) | New Urbanism, know it :) New Urbanism is a movement that aims to create walkable, sustainable, and livable communities |
63.) | The following are all factors of the Green Revolution EXCEPT Factors - (pick the one that isn’t one of these) Increased production of rice New varieties of wheat and corn Reduced famines due to crop failure
Pesticides, herbicides, plant hyperbreading, mechanized irrigation |
64.) | If a manufacturing company uses a single, weight-losing raw material to manufacture its finished product, then most likely the company will locate closer to raw materials |
65.) | The classic model of industrial location theory suggests that the primary consideration in the location of an industrial site is which of the following? The cost of transportation |
66.) | Which is not among the five stages of Rostow's development model? 5 stages - (Pick the one that isn’t one of the five) Stage 1 - Traditional Society Stage 2 - Preconditions for takeoff Stage 3 - Takeoff Stage 4 - Drive to maturity Stage 5 - Age of mass consumption |
67.) | The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow's model of economic development is known as dependency theory |
68.) | Cities in India have a competitive advantage over cities in China as locations for international consumer services, such as call centers and bill processing. This advantage has its origins in which of the following: English language legacy of British colonialism in India |
69.) | Wallerstein's three-tier regionalization of the world includes all of the following except ___It includes Core, semi-periphery and periphery________ |
70.) | Mexico has established export processing zones with special tax, trade and regulatory arrangements for foreign firms. This phenomena is referred to as _____maquiladoras_________ |
71.) | An ethnic neighborhood is best described as which of the following? A voluntary neighborhood comprised of people of the same ethnicity |
72.) | Central to globalization is world cities |
73.) | Mixed-use development, pedestrian-friendly design, and the incorporation of front porches and alleys are design elements of which of the following? New Urbanism |
74.) | Which of the following sectors of the economy has grown the fastest in the United States since the mid-1970s? tertiary sector |
75.) | According to Christaller’s central place model, which of the following would most likely have the smallest range? |
A grocery store
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