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Questão 1

Questão
The name given to a portion of Earth's surface is called
Responda
  • location
  • site
  • situation
  • toponym

Questão 2

Questão
Situation identifies a place by its
Responda
  • location relative to other objects
  • mathematical location on the Earth's surface
  • nominal location
  • unique physical characteristics

Questão 3

Questão
New York City's _________ is on the Hudson River, approximately 100 miles northeast of Philadelphia and 100 miles southwest of Boston.
Responda
  • location
  • site
  • situation
  • toponym

Questão 4

Questão
Which is true?
Responda
  • Every meridian is actually a circle rather than a line
  • Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end
  • Every parallel begins and ends at the poles
  • Every parallel is the same length

Questão 5

Questão
A ship's position is given at 0 degrees latitude and 27 degrees west longitude. We can conclude from this information that the ship is located
Responda
  • on the equator
  • at the North or South Pole
  • on the Prime Meridian
  • astride the International Date Line

Questão 6

Questão
According to environmental determinism,
Responda
  • the physical environment causes social development
  • the physical environment sets limits on human actions
  • people can adjust to the physical environment
  • people can choose a course of action from many alternatives offered by the physical environment
  • people determine their physical environmnent

Questão 7

Questão
A hearth is
Responda
  • a region from which a phenomenon
  • the process in which a feature or trend spreads
  • an area defined by one or more distinctive features or trends
  • the modification of a culture as the result of contact with a more powerful one

Questão 8

Questão
A system for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is
Responda
  • distribution
  • interruption
  • scale
  • projection

Questão 9

Questão
Culture means to
Responda
  • care about something
  • take care of something
  • develop new variations
  • both A and B

Questão 10

Questão
Which of the following is most correct regarding the origins of geography?
Responda
  • Geography was invented as a science in the late 18th century
  • Geography owes its existence to the Renaissance period in Western Europe
  • Humans have practiced geography at least since the ancient Greek civilization
  • Human geography was not practiced until powerful computers capable of mapping

Questão 11

Questão
Scale is
Responda
  • the system used by geographers to transfer locations from a globe to map
  • the extent of spread of a phenomenon over a given area
  • the difference in elevation between 2 points in an area
  • the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

Questão 12

Questão
What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?
Responda
  • They are sometimes found as part of the same department in major universities
  • They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do
  • They are trying to solve the problem of how to manage the natural environment
  • They are trying to solve the problem of how to manage the human population

Questão 13

Questão
What map would have the largest scale?
Responda
  • World
  • continent
  • state
  • city

Questão 14

Questão
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method
Responda
  • GIS
  • GPS
  • remote sensing
  • aerial photography

Questão 15

Questão
Global Position Systems references what type of location?
Responda
  • relative
  • situation
  • mathematical
  • toponym

Questão 16

Questão
Which is not an example of a functioning region?
Responda
  • the circulation area of a newspaper
  • the are of dominance of a television station
  • the market area of a supermarket
  • the area dominated by a particular crop
  • area served by a sports franchise

Questão 17

Questão
The state of Texas is considered a formal region because
Responda
  • only one language is spoken everywhere in the region
  • the same state laws apply everywhere in the region
  • the climate is the same everywhere in the region
  • it is a part of the US

Questão 18

Questão
For each 15 degree in longitude, time changes by one hour
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 19

Questão
Regions are found only where physical and economic characteristics are strongly related
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 20

Questão
The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided each townships into 36 one by one mile sections
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 21

Questão
The signal area of radio station WOXY is an example of a vernacular region?
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 22

Questão
If the scale of a map is 1:100,000, then I cm on the map represents ____ on Earth's surface
Responda
  • 1 kilometer
  • 10 kilometers
  • 10,000 kilometers
  • 100,000 kilometers
  • it depends on the size of the map

Questão 23

Questão
Which is a form of expansion diffusion?
Responda
  • contagious
  • hierarchical
  • stimulus
  • relocation
  • all of the above

Questão 24

Questão
Distortion is especially severe on
Responda
  • globes
  • small scale maps
  • large-scale maps
  • topographic maps
  • all maps

Questão 25

Questão
The science of map making is
Responda
  • demography
  • cartography
  • topography
  • geomorphology
  • meteorology

Questão 26

Questão
To geographers, the spread of McDonald's across the world represents
Responda
  • a popular fad
  • a unique taste in every location
  • the relocation diffusion of restaurants
  • economic and cultural globalization
  • on a global scale everyone loves to eat big macs

Questão 27

Questão
The study of how humans and the environment interact is called
Responda
  • environmental determinism
  • cultural ecology
  • cultural diffusion
  • natural science

Questão 28

Questão
The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of other phenomena is
Responda
  • regional analysis
  • spatial analsis
  • spatial association
  • spatial distribution
  • regional dissociation

Questão 29

Questão
The arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth's surface is
Responda
  • regional analysis
  • spatial analysis
  • spatial association
  • distribution
  • regional dissociation

Questão 30

Questão
An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics is a
Responda
  • biome
  • landscape
  • region
  • uniform unit

Questão 31

Questão
The South is established as a vernacular region of the United States by
Responda
  • climate
  • the Baptist Church
  • low high school graduation rates
  • high cotton production
  • all of the above

Questão 32

Questão
The division of the United States into nine regions by the Census Bureau is an example of a
Responda
  • vernacular region
  • functional region
  • nodal region
  • formal region

Questão 33

Questão
Which of the following BEST describes the idea of a cultural landscape
Responda
  • a landscape that is so modified that it is no longer, like a city center
  • a landscape set aside for historical preservation, like a Civil War battlefield
  • a landscape where human activity has modified the natural environment in any way
  • a landscape untouched by human activity, featuring mountains, rivers, and plants

Questão 34

Questão
The frequency of something within a given unit of area is
Responda
  • concentration
  • density
  • distribution
  • pattern
  • diffusion

Questão 35

Questão
The spread of something over a given study area is
Responda
  • concentration
  • density
  • distribution
  • pattern
  • diffusion

Questão 36

Questão
The spatial distribution created by the U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785 is an example
Responda
  • concentration
  • density
  • distribution
  • category
  • pattern

Questão 37

Questão
A hearth is
Responda
  • a region from which a phenomenon originates
  • the process by which a feature or trend spreads
  • an area defined by one or more distinctive features or trends
  • the modification of a culture as a result of contact with a more powerful one
  • perimeter of a regional feature

Questão 38

Questão
The historic diffusion of HIV/AIDS on the United States is an example of which type of diffusion?
Responda
  • contagious
  • hierarchical
  • relocation
  • stimulus
  • osmosis

Questão 39

Questão
Elements of globalization of culture include all but
Responda
  • uniform consumption preferences
  • enhanced communications
  • unequal access to cultural elements
  • maintaining local traditions
  • uniformity of cultural beliefs and forms

Questão 40

Questão
The global movement of money has been enhanced primarily by
Responda
  • establishment of new stock exchanges in London, New York, and Tokyo
  • improvements in electronic communications
  • relocation of production from core to peripheral regions
  • uneven developments
  • a proliferation of currencies

Questão 41

Questão
Globalization of the economy has
Responda
  • leveled economic differences between places
  • heightened economic differences among places
  • decreased investment in less developed countries
  • drained resources from more developed countries
  • decreased regional specialization of production

Questão 42

Questão
The International Date Line is measured approximately from
Responda
  • 0 degrees latitude
  • 0 degrees longitude
  • 90 latitude
  • 180 degrees longitude
  • 90 degrees longitude

Questão 43

Questão
Moving toward the Southern border of the United States, English becomes less common and Spanish is more often spoken. What type of region does this gradual change of language reflect?
Responda
  • formal
  • functional
  • vernacular
  • bilingual

Questão 44

Questão
Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the United States is an interesting geographic case study because
Responda
  • the effects are an intersection of human and physical geography
  • the winds reached incredible speeds near the eye of the hurricane
  • the damage was largely a result of flooding from rivers and a storm surge, not the winds
  • people of all races were equally devastated by the storm

Questão 45

Questão
A high degree of dispersion withing an area high density
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 46

Questão
The idea that the physical environment limits human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to that environment is called possibilism
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 47

Questão
A functional region can exhibit the distance decay phenomenon
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 48

Questão
The spread of an idea through the movement of people is known as stimulus diffusion
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 49

Questão
the spread of a new fashion first in large cities, and later to smaller towns is an example diffusion
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 50

Questão
The lowest crude birth rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition
Responda
  • stage 1
  • stage 2
  • stage 3
  • stage 4

Questão 51

Questão
The highest crude death rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?
Responda
  • stage 1
  • stage 2
  • stage 3
  • stage 4

Questão 52

Questão
Country X has a crude birth rate of 40 and crude death rate of 15, while Country Y has a crude birth rate of 20 and a crude death rate of 9. Which country has a higher NIR?
Responda
  • Country X
  • Country Y
  • the rate is the same in both countries
  • the rate can't be computed

Questão 53

Questão
For every 1,000 babies born in Mozambique this year, nearly 150 of them will die before they reach their first birthday. The rate of 150 deaths per 1,000 births is known as the
Responda
  • crude death rate
  • infant mortality rate
  • life expectancy
  • total fertility rate

Questão 54

Questão
More developed countries moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition 200 years ago in part because of
Responda
  • the agricultural revolution
  • invention of new technology
  • people moving to cities
  • women choosing to enter the labor force

Questão 55

Questão
The population pyramid of Naples, Florida is "upside-down" because the city has a large percentage of
Responda
  • elderly people
  • young people
  • immigrants
  • females

Questão 56

Questão
The annual population growth rate increased approximately 200 years ago because of
Responda
  • Agricultural Revolution
  • Demographic Transition
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Medical Revolution

Questão 57

Questão
Of the following countries, the highest NIR is found in
Responda
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Denmark
  • Uganda

Questão 58

Questão
Of the following countries, the lowest crude birth is found in
Responda
  • China
  • Cololmbia
  • Denmark
  • Uganda

Questão 59

Questão
One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that
Responda
  • it is increasing more slowly than in the past
  • there are more people alive in the world now than at any time in the past
  • the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries
  • people are uniformly distributed across Earth

Questão 60

Questão
the most populous country in the world is
Responda
  • China
  • India
  • Russia
  • United States

Questão 61

Questão
A country with a large amount of arable land and a small number of farmers will have a
Responda
  • high physiological density
  • low physiological density
  • high agricultural density
  • low agricultural density

Questão 62

Questão
India and the United Kingdom have approximately the same arithmetic density. From this, we can conclude that the 2 countries have the same
Responda
  • level of output per farmer
  • number of people per area of land
  • pressure placed by people on the land to produce food
  • all of the above

Questão 63

Questão
Most people live in cities in which of these regions
Responda
  • East Asia
  • South Asia
  • Southeast Asia
  • Western Europe

Questão 64

Questão
A country in stage 2 of the Demographic Transition is likely to have higher crude birth and crude death rates than a country in stage 4
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 65

Questão
Nearly half of the people in the world live in East and South Asia
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 66

Questão
A country in stage 4 of the demographic transition is likely to have a population pyramid with a flatter base than a country in stage 2
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 67

Questão
A country in stage 4 of the demographic transition is likely to have a population pyramid with a flatter base than a country in stage 2
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 68

Questão
Geographers define overpopulation as
Responda
  • too many people in the world
  • too many compared to resources
  • too many in a region
  • all of the above

Questão 69

Questão
The world's largest concentration of people is located in
Responda
  • East Asia
  • SW Asia
  • SE Asia
  • Western Europe

Questão 70

Questão
Physiological density is the number of
Responda
  • acres of farmland
  • farmers per area of farmland
  • people per area of land
  • persons per area suitable for agriculture

Questão 71

Questão
If the physiological density is much larger than the arithmetic density, then a country has
Responda
  • insufficient farmers
  • a large number of farmers
  • a small percentage of land suitable for farming
  • too many people for the available resources

Questão 72

Questão
The most populous country in Southeast Asia is
Responda
  • Singapore
  • Indonesia
  • China
  • Bangladesh

Questão 73

Questão
The annual global population growth rate increased approximately ten thousand years ago because of the
Responda
  • Agricultural Revolution
  • Demographic Transition
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Medical Revolution

Questão 74

Questão
The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is
Responda
  • CBR
  • CDR
  • TFR
  • NIR

Questão 75

Questão
The global annual NIR is currently approximately
Responda
  • 1.25%
  • 12%
  • 1.25 million
  • 125 million

Questão 76

Questão
Of the following four countries, the highest NIR is found in
Responda
  • China
  • COlombia
  • Denmark
  • Uganda

Questão 77

Questão
The world's population in 1995 was approximately 6 billion and was expected to reach 12 billion in 45 years. The period of 45 years is known as
Responda
  • Overpulation
  • NIR
  • Life Expectancy
  • Doubling Time

Questão 78

Questão
Which of the following rates are NOT typically found to be low in LDCs?
Responda
  • CBR
  • CDR
  • IMR
  • NIR

Questão 79

Questão
Life expectancy is lowest in
Responda
  • Asia
  • North America
  • Africa
  • Western Europe

Questão 80

Questão
The total number of live births per 1,000 people in a society is the
Responda
  • NIR
  • CBR
  • CDR
  • TFR

Questão 81

Questão
The percentage of people who are too young or too old to work is the
Responda
  • Life expectancy
  • Dependency ratio
  • Sex ratio
  • Population pyramid

Questão 82

Questão
In contrast to the MDCs, LDCs entered stage 2 of the demographic transition through
Responda
  • Creation of higher levels of wealth
  • Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
  • Diffusion of medial technology from other countries
  • Profound changes in their economy and social systems

Questão 83

Questão
Thomas Malthus concluded that
Responda
  • Population increased arithmetically while food production increased geomeetrically
  • The world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies
  • Moral restraint was producing lower CDRs
  • Population growth was outpacing available resources in every country

Questão 84

Questão
the principle reason for declining NIRs in LDCs today is
Responda
  • Increasing CBRs
  • Declining CDRs
  • Increasing CDRs
  • Declining CBRs

Questão 85

Questão
India's most controversial family planning program today has been to
Responda
  • Allocate housing on the basis of one child per family
  • Sterilize people
  • Legalize abortions
  • Prohibit marriages until age 27 for men and 25 for women

Questão 86

Questão
According to Malthus, population increased geometrically, while food supply increases arithmetically
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 87

Questão
As the wealth of a country increases the NIRs decrease
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 88

Questão
A country of 30,000,000 people has a CBR of 10. This means that in one year, 3,000,000 babies were born
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 89

Questão
More people are alive now than at any time in the past
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 90

Questão
The ability to move from one location to another is
Responda
  • Migration
  • Mobility
  • Net migration
  • Voluntary migration
  • Variable migration

Questão 91

Questão
A permanent move to another location is
Responda
  • Migration
  • Mobility
  • Net migration
  • Net in migration
  • Net out migration

Questão 92

Questão
A country has net in migration if emigration__________ immigration
Responda
  • Equals
  • Exceeds
  • Is closer to net migration than
  • Is less than
  • Varies more than

Questão 93

Questão
Which of the following would be considered a migration pull factor?
Responda
  • Revolutionary takeover of a government
  • Failed harvest
  • Flooding of a river
  • Opening of a new factory
  • Civil war

Questão 94

Questão
The most important pull factor for migrants to north America today is
Responda
  • Economic
  • Environmental
  • Forced
  • Cultural
  • Geomagnetic

Questão 95

Questão
A physical feature, such as a body of water, which hinders migration, is an example of
Responda
  • An environmental push factor
  • A forced migration
  • An intervening obstacle
  • A cultural pull factor
  • An environmental incentive

Questão 96

Questão
People are forced to migrate primarily because of which factor?
Responda
  • Economic
  • Environmental
  • International
  • Cultural
  • Mobility

Questão 97

Questão
Which of the following is not presently one of the three largest migration flows in the world?
Responda
  • To Europe from Asia
  • To Europe from Africa
  • To North America from Asia
  • To North America from Latin america

Questão 98

Questão
The greatest total number of foreign born residents can be found in
Responda
  • China
  • Australia
  • Germany
  • United states

Questão 99

Questão
Most Asians are currently migrating to the U.S. througj the process of
Responda
  • Expansion diffusion
  • Brain drain
  • Chain migration
  • Illegal immigration
  • Global relocation

Questão 100

Questão
Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted
Responda
  • Women are more likely to migrate than men
  • Long migration distances are more likely than short
  • Migration characteristic vary with the demographic transition
  • Nitrate goons migration is more important than international
  • Migrants move most frequently for economic reasons

Questão 101

Questão
The largest level of interregional migration in the U.S. was caused by the
Responda
  • Arrival of the Europeans beginning in the 1600s
  • Illegal immigration from Latin america
  • Immigration of Asians beginning in the early 20th century
  • Opening of western territories
  • Industrial development in the northeast

Questão 102

Questão
Which is a current intraregional migration trend in the U.S.?
Responda
  • Rural to urban
  • Urban to suburban
  • Metropolitan to no metropolitan
  • Net emigration from the northeast
  • All of the above

Questão 103

Questão
Most migrants to the U.S. during the 1840s and 1850s came from
Responda
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • Africa
  • Australia
  • Middle East

Questão 104

Questão
Human geographers use the 11 migration law from
Responda
  • Brettel
  • Rashman
  • Carvenstein
  • Ravenstein
  • Zelinsky

Questão 105

Questão
Europeans migrated to the U.S. primarily because of
Responda
  • Decreased economic opportunities as European countries experienced rapid population growth
  • Decreased political stability as European countries were wracked by revolutions
  • Religious freedom in the us as European countries oppressed their citizens
  • Discoveries of gold in California and Alaska

Questão 106

Questão
Most migrants to the U.S. during the early 20th century came from which part of Europe?
Responda
  • Central
  • North and west
  • South and east
  • South and west
  • North and east

Questão 107

Questão
The difference between people migrating to a place and the number leaving is called net migration
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 108

Questão
Most migration occurs because a combination of push and pull factors
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 109

Questão
The most common environmental push factor comes from having too much or too little water
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 110

Questão
The major reason for illegal immigration to the u.s is to escape political prosecution
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 111

Questão
Refugees migrate primarily because of what type of push factor?
Responda
  • Economic
  • Environmental
  • Political
  • All of the above

Questão 112

Questão
Several killion Irish migrated in the 1840s primarily because of what push factor?
Responda
  • The English forced them to bece refugees
  • Disastrous economic conditions pushed them out of the country
  • Poor environmental conditions induced them to migrate
  • They were attracted to the U.S.

Questão 113

Questão
The most important pull factor for migrants to North America is
Responda
  • Economic
  • Environmental
  • Forced
  • Political

Questão 114

Questão
Which factor usually induces voluntary migration?
Responda
  • Economic
  • Environmental
  • International
  • Political

Questão 115

Questão
The most popular destination for voluntary migrants from Great Britain has been
Responda
  • Asia
  • Australia
  • North America
  • South America

Questão 116

Questão
Most migrants to the United states during the 1960/1979 came from
Responda
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Latin America

Questão 117

Questão
Most migrants to the us during the 1980s came from
Responda
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Latin America

Questão 118

Questão
The largest number of immigrants to the us are
Responda
  • Women
  • Political refugees
  • Relatives of us residents
  • Talented professionals

Questão 119

Questão
Brain drain is
Responda
  • the large-scale emigration of talented people
  • the process by which people are given reference for migration
  • people forced to migrate for political reasons
  • a cultural feature that hinders migration

Questão 120

Questão
The largest number of legal immigrants to the United States come from what country?
Responda
  • Cuba
  • Mexico
  • the Philippines
  • South Korea

Questão 121

Questão
Guest workers in Europe and the Middle East are
Responda
  • illegal immigrants
  • low status foreigners
  • Muslims
  • southern Europeans

Questão 122

Questão
The largest level of interregional migration in the United States was caused by the
Responda
  • arrival of Europeans beginning in the 1600s
  • illegal immigration from Latin America
  • immigration if Asians beginning in the early 20th century
  • opening of the western territories

Questão 123

Questão
U.S. Center of Population has moved steadily to the
Responda
  • east
  • north
  • south
  • west

Questão 124

Questão
Many of the refugees from Vietnam became known as the
Responda
  • boat people
  • communists
  • Hindus
  • Okies

Questão 125

Questão
The United States has received the lowest number of refugees from which of these countries?
Responda
  • Cuba
  • Ethiopia
  • Haiti
  • Vietnam

Questão 126

Questão
The Brazilian government encouraged interregional migration by
Responda
  • making Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo more attractive
  • dictating optimal locations for factories
  • clearing the rain forests for agricultural in the interior
  • moving the capital to Brasilia

Questão 127

Questão
The most prominent intraregional migration in the world is
Responda
  • rural to urban
  • region to region
  • urban to rural
  • city to city

Questão 128

Questão
Counterurbanization is
Responda
  • the move from urban core to suburban area
  • due to expanding suburbs
  • increased migration to rural areas and small towns
  • the trend of the elderly retiring to rural locations

Questão 129

Questão
Suburbanization of more developed societies is due primarily to
Responda
  • expanding urban territory
  • increasing employment opportunities
  • desire to change lifestyle
  • development

Questão 130

Questão
The main impact of the 1920's quota laws on the national origin of immigrants to the United States was to
Responda
  • encourage migration from Asia and Latin America
  • admit migrants mostly from Europe
  • permit migrants from all regions of the world
  • all of the above

Questão 131

Questão
Why have in recent years Latino immigrants found other U.S. areas, notably the Midwest as popular places to immigrate to?
Responda
  • the Midwest has more Spanish speakers
  • the food is very diverse and is similar to Latino food
  • the availability of occupations that are similar to those found in Latin America
  • the prominence of Catholic Churches

Questão 132

Questão
According to the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, undocumented immigrants were
Responda
  • increasingly deported in the United States
  • permitted become legal immigrants
  • encouraged to remain because of shortages of workers
  • no longer eligible for public services in the United States

Questão 133

Questão
The three major kinds of push factors are cultural/political, economic, and environmental
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 134

Questão
During the 1990s most illegal immigrants to the United States were young Mexican men
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 135

Questão
Migration is more likely to be from rural to urban areas with less developed countries, but from rural to urban to rural in more developed countries
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 136

Questão
Positives towards immigrants in the United States are seen in new laws affording immigrants opportunities
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 137

Questão
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people is called a
Responda
  • custom
  • popular culture
  • habit
  • taboo

Questão 138

Questão
A repetitive act performed by an individual is a
Responda
  • custom
  • popular culture
  • habit
  • taboo

Questão 139

Questão
Folk cultures are spread mainly by
Responda
  • contagious diffusion
  • hierarchical diffusion
  • relocation diffusion
  • stimulus diffusion

Questão 140

Questão
Rapid diffusion of pop culture
Responda
  • encourages people in different places to adopt different customs
  • Depends on modern communication systems
  • Is an example of relocation diffusion
  • all of the above

Questão 141

Questão
In contrast to pop culture, folk cultures are more likely to vary
Responda
  • from place to place at a given time
  • from time to time at a given place
  • both from place to place and time to time
  • neither from place to place or time to time

Questão 142

Questão
Folk songs are distinguished from popular songs because they
Responda
  • tell a story about daily activities
  • can be understood by only one group
  • are never changed from one generation to the next
  • are only transmitted orally

Questão 143

Questão
The current distribution of soccer demonstrates that
Responda
  • a folk custom can become part of a pop culture
  • all sports are examples of folk culture
  • television has infused all sports into pop culture
  • american football is also an example of folk culture

Questão 144

Questão
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a
Responda
  • folk culture
  • habit
  • pop culture
  • taboo

Questão 145

Questão
Which of the following is not an important source area for U.S. house types?
Responda
  • Lower Chesapeake
  • Middle Atlantic
  • Far Northeast
  • Upper New England

Questão 146

Questão
The main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to
Responda
  • preserve folk cultures, by increasing awareness of their uniqueness
  • stimulate the diffusion of folk cultures around the world
  • increase the similarity of social customs in different locations
  • have little effect on the diffusion of social customs
  • slow the rate of change

Questão 147

Questão
Folk cultures usually originate from
Responda
  • the availability of more leisure time
  • the application of industrial technology
  • familiar events in daily life
  • a famous historical event
  • global economic exchange

Questão 148

Questão
Pop culture
Responda
  • is transmitted from one location to another through small scale and local migration
  • diffuses through relocation diffusion
  • typically follows the process of hierarchical diffusion from nodes of innovation
  • is usually transmitted orally across time and location

Questão 149

Questão
Culture is promoted by
Responda
  • the relative isolation of a group from others
  • globalization
  • the movement of goods and services across borders
  • expansion diffusion

Questão 150

Questão
The diffusion of jeans is a good example primarily of the
Responda
  • diffusion of pop culture
  • adoption of unique folk culture
  • impact of high incomes on clothing habits
  • lack of barriers in communist countries

Questão 151

Questão
The choice of clothing Western countries is strongly influenced by
Responda
  • occupation
  • level
  • knowledge of fashion elsewhere
  • all of the above

Questão 152

Questão
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of
Responda
  • small heterogeneous groups
  • large heterogeneous groups
  • groups living in isolated rural areas
  • groups that have little interaction with other groups
  • groups of specialists

Questão 153

Questão
Popular customs most frequently originate in
Responda
  • more developed countries
  • less developed countries
  • former communist countries
  • countries with large rural populations
  • equally likely in all of the above

Questão 154

Questão
Popular customs are more likely than folk customs to
Responda
  • evolve from the isolation of different groups
  • rapidly diffuse through modern communications and transportation
  • reflect the unique characteristics of the landscape
  • have an unknown source of origin
  • vary from place to place

Questão 155

Questão
Typically, pop culture
Responda
  • originates in a number of locations at the same time
  • reflects the characteristics of a distinctive physical environment
  • experience frequent changes
  • is practiced by small heterogeneous groups
  • all of the above

Questão 156

Questão
Collections of customs can be used to define a culture
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 157

Questão
The physical environment commonly plays an important role in the development of unique folk customs
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 158

Questão
Two social groups living in close proximity will retain unique social customs if there is limited interaction between them
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 159

Questão
Which of the following characteristics is more typical of a pop culture than a folk culture?
Responda
  • it has an anonymous origin
  • it diffuses slowly from its point of origin
  • it results in a more uniform landscapes
  • it is likely to be derived from physical conditions

Questão 160

Questão
The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the United States is an example of
Responda
  • folk culture
  • habit
  • pop culture
  • taboo

Questão 161

Questão
A taboo against pork is a characteristic
Responda
  • Judaism and Islam
  • Judaism and Buddhism
  • Christianity and Buddhism
  • Christianity and Hinduism

Questão 162

Questão
Which of the following is not an important factor in distinguishing different folk housing types in the United States?
Responda
  • choice of building materials
  • size of the building
  • form in which the structure is arranged
  • climate in which the structure is built

Questão 163

Questão
Today, housing types in the United States are distinguished by all but which of the following?
Responda
  • they can still be divided into three distinct regions
  • they display few regional fistinctions
  • they are usually mass produced
  • alternative styles have diffused throughout the country

Questão 164

Questão
In which state would alcohol consumption be relatively low?
Responda
  • Kentucky
  • Nevada
  • New York
  • Utah

Questão 165

Questão
Geographers are concerned with the distribution of which of the following aspects of T.V. service?
Responda
  • number of receivers per capita
  • method of government control
  • year service was adopted
  • all of the above

Questão 166

Questão
Features of the U.S. landscape, such as gas stations, supermarkets, and motels,
Responda
  • promote a uniform landscape
  • reflect the preservation of folk culture
  • provide diversity on the United States landscape
  • promote diffusion of folk culture

Questão 167

Questão
Many less developed countries fear the loss of folk culture because
Responda
  • they do not want to preserve traditional values
  • Western perspectives may become more dominant
  • pop culture values can promote environmental damage
  • they want to avoid political disputes

Questão 168

Questão
Western dominance of the news media is feared in less developed countries for all but which of these reasons?
Responda
  • Western countries supply a large percentage of the television programs to less developed countries
  • western countries control most of the newspapers in less developed countries
  • western radio newscasts can be heard in most countries
  • western values control the media

Questão 169

Questão
People maintain their folk culture despite familiarity with pop culture because of
Responda
  • the high cost of pop customs
  • concern for the physical environment
  • strong desire to preserve unique customs
  • lack of exposure to media

Questão 170

Questão
Pop culture and folk culture can both result in a higher level of
Responda
  • extinction of animal species
  • demand for raw materials
  • consumption of animal products
  • all of the above

Questão 171

Questão
As they have more contact with pop culture, women in less developed countries are more likely to
Responda
  • bear more children
  • obtain food for their family
  • gain more opportunities outside the home
  • reduce the practice of prostitution

Questão 172

Questão
One impact of large scale consumption if chicken in more developed countries is to
Responda
  • cause chickens to become an endangered species
  • make inefficient use of the world's grain supplies
  • diffuse agricultural products to the physical environment
  • encourage the development of a new food taboo

Questão 173

Questão
Pioneer farmers settling the grasslands of the American West often built houses of sod, while early settlers of the eastern forest built wooden structures like log cabins. This suggests that building materials
Responda
  • are strongly influenced by local resources
  • are commonly imported long distance because of folk sulture
  • are chosen because the diffusion of pop culture
  • are a uniform feature of folk culture
  • all of the above

Questão 174

Questão
Terroir refers to
Responda
  • a group's sense of place
  • a group's food taboos
  • the relationship between the physical environment and culture
  • the sum of the effects of the local environment on a food item

Questão 175

Questão
The origin of pop music is a good example of how folk culture orginates
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 176

Questão
In general, folk culture is more likely to cause greater uniformity on the landscape than pop culture
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 177

Questão
Food taboos usually derive from unique elements of the physical environment
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 178

Questão
Leaders of many developing countries fear that the spread of American pop culture will destroy traditional social behavior
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 179

Questão
Adoption of Western pop culture seldom results in the elimination of traditional folk culture
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 180

Questão
The physical environment commonly plays an important role in the development of unique folk customs
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 181

Questão
The adoption of a pop custom depends primarily on the amount of disposable income
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 182

Questão
A literary tradition is
Responda
  • a form of a language used for official government business
  • a form of a language spoken in a particular area
  • a collection of languages related to another
  • the written form of a language

Questão 183

Questão
Which is the following is not a Romance language?
Responda
  • Bulgarian
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian

Questão 184

Questão
An isogloss is
Responda
  • a form of a language spoken in a local area
  • a collection of unique words
  • a boundary between language regions
  • all of the above

Questão 185

Questão
Dialects developed within England primarily because
Responda
  • different Germanic invaders settled in different regions
  • the Normans invaded in the South
  • the Viking invaders did not remain long in England
  • BRP became the standard dialect

Questão 186

Questão
British and American English differ in all but which of the following?
Responda
  • alphabet
  • pronunciation
  • spelling
  • vocabulary

Questão 187

Questão
Major differences in U.S. dialects originated because
Responda
  • early settlers were isolated from each other
  • of differences in dialects among the original settlers
  • of similarities in dialects among the original settlers
  • the early settlers originated from the same location

Questão 188

Questão
English is part of which language branch?
Responda
  • Germanic
  • North Germanic
  • West Germanic
  • Ind-European

Questão 189

Questão
The language spoken by the greatest number of people in the world is
Responda
  • Cantonese
  • English
  • Hindu
  • Mandarin

Questão 190

Questão
Russia is part of which language branch?
Responda
  • Balto-Slavic
  • Germanic
  • Indo-Iranian
  • Romance

Questão 191

Questão
When languages are depicted as leaves on trees, the trunk of the tree represents
Responda
  • dialects
  • language groups
  • language families
  • possible prehistoric superfamilies

Questão 192

Questão
A collection of languages through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago
Responda
  • dialect
  • language branch
  • language family
  • language group

Questão 193

Questão
A form of a language spoken in a local area is a
Responda
  • dialect
  • language branch
  • language family
  • language group

Questão 194

Questão
The geographic study of the distribution of languages provides a good example
Responda
  • the interplay between globalization and local diversity
  • the diffusion of folk culture in different areas of the world
  • the role and spread of religion across much of the world
  • political conflicts that arise due to ethnic tensions

Questão 195

Questão
When people who speak a given language migrate to a different location from other members of their group,
Responda
  • their language usually shows very little change even over a long period of time
  • they immediately develop a literary tradition
  • isolation usually results in the differentiation of one language into two
  • they lose their linguistic abilities

Questão 196

Questão
The main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how
Responda
  • recently in time the languages were once the same
  • closely the speakers of each language live to each other
  • similar the cultures of the speakers of each language are
  • all of the above

Questão 197

Questão
The uniform language of the Western U.S. can be credited to the mobility of Americans
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 198

Questão
The dominant language spoken in Southeastern Canada French
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 199

Questão
The language branch that makes up most of Eastern Europe is Balto-Slavic
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 200

Questão
The language branch makes up most of North Western Europe is Romance
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 201

Questão
A group languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a
Responda
  • dialect
  • language branch
  • language family
  • language group

Questão 202

Questão
A group of languages of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a
Responda
  • dialect
  • language branch
  • language family
  • language group

Questão 203

Questão
The four most frequently spoken branches of Indo-European include all but
Responda
  • Balto-Slavic
  • Celtic
  • Indo-Iranian
  • Romance

Questão 204

Questão
The most widely spoken language in Brazil is
Responda
  • Creole
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Questão 205

Questão
Recent evidence points to the first speakers of the Indo-European language as the ancient
Responda
  • Celts
  • Germans
  • Kurgans
  • Russians

Questão 206

Questão
English is part of what language family?
Responda
  • Germanic
  • North-Germanic
  • West-Germanic
  • Indo-European

Questão 207

Questão
The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic languages because of
Responda
  • Iceland's close contact with other people and activities
  • Migration by Germanic tribes
  • Iceland's relative isolation from other places
  • The extinction of the East Germanic group

Questão 208

Questão
A creolized language is
Responda
  • extinct
  • a mix of indigenous and colonial languages
  • an isolated language family
  • a possible prehistoric superfamily

Questão 209

Questão
The 2 most important languages in South America are
Responda
  • Dutch and English
  • English and Spanish
  • French and Spanish
  • Portuguese and Spanish

Questão 210

Questão
According to the Anotolian hearth theory, Indo-European languages diffused across Europe
Responda
  • entirely by sea
  • by way of the Kurgan homeland
  • by warriors on horseback
  • with the diffusion of agriculture

Questão 211

Questão
The two largest language families in the world are
Responda
  • Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic
  • Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan
  • Balto-Slavic and Sino-Tibetan

Questão 212

Questão
The language family encompassing the languages of the People's Republic of China is
Responda
  • Indo-European
  • Indo-Iranian
  • Mandarin
  • Sino-Tibetan

Questão 213

Questão
Hebrew is an example of
Responda
  • an isolated language
  • an extinct language
  • a revived language
  • a language family

Questão 214

Questão
The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from
Responda
  • thousands of years of isolation between tribal groups
  • repeated invasions by outsiders
  • introduction of of many different languages by the colonial powers
  • frequent migration by the different tribal groups

Questão 215

Questão
A lingua franca is
Responda
  • an English word that has entered the French language
  • a language that is mutually understood by people who have 2 different native languages
  • an extinct language that has been revised
  • an official language in a region of the world different from where the language originated

Questão 216

Questão
Basque is spoken primarily in
Responda
  • Brittany
  • The Swiss Alps
  • The Pyrenees Mountains
  • Barcelona, Spain

Questão 217

Questão
An Indo-European language is spoken in which of these European countries?
Responda
  • France
  • Finland
  • Hungary
  • All of the above

Questão 218

Questão
Spanglish
Responda
  • the lingua franca of Spain
  • a dialect of Spanish
  • the standard language of Mexico
  • the use of English in the Spanish language

Questão 219

Questão
English has received unprecedented acceptance globally due to
Responda
  • the role of colonialism and imperialism
  • its role as the common language of a global economy and culture
  • the rise of popular culture and the decline of folk culture
  • the diffusion of religion from MDCs to LDCs

Questão 220

Questão
Germanic, Romance, and Latin are all branches of Indo-European
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 221

Questão
The most popular language in China is Cantonese
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 222

Questão
The most frequently spoken Afro-Asiatic is Arabic
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 223

Questão
Nearly half of the people in the world speak an Indo-European language
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 224

Questão
Ebonics is a dialect that developed from African Americans diffusing into the large the large northern cities
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 225

Questão
With respect to the relationship between culture, religion and the physical environment
Responda
  • few religions derive meaningful events from the physical environment
  • religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment
  • religion is no longer an important source of identification for a distinct cultural group
  • all of the above are true

Questão 226

Questão
a universalizing religion
Responda
  • is based on the physical characteristics of a particular location on Earth
  • appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations on Earth
  • is rarely transmitted through missionaries
  • is intentionally developed to be a world religion

Questão 227

Questão
The world's largest universalizing religion is
Responda
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Islam

Questão 228

Questão
The world's largest ethnic religion is
Responda
  • Confucianism
  • Daoism
  • Hinduism
  • Shintoism

Questão 229

Questão
Christianity first diffused from its hearth through
Responda
  • contagious diffusion
  • hierarchical diffusion
  • relocation diffusion
  • all of the above are equally important

Questão 230

Questão
Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?
Responda
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Islam
  • Judaism

Questão 231

Questão
Muslims are clustered in
Responda
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • The Middle East
  • Eastern Europe
  • East Asia

Questão 232

Questão
What is the holiest book in Hinduism?
Responda
  • the Bible
  • the Old Testament
  • the Qu'ran
  • none of the above

Questão 233

Questão
Which of the following is the most important religion in the homeland of the man of the man who founded it?
Responda
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Islam

Questão 234

Questão
Animists believe that
Responda
  • people should compete God's creations of the Earth
  • inanimate objects and natural events have spirits
  • people should make complete use of the Earth's resources
  • natural disasters are preventable

Questão 235

Questão
Which is not an ethnic Asian religion?
Responda
  • Buddhism
  • Confucianism
  • Shintoism
  • Daoism

Questão 236

Questão
Especially important in Confucianism is to
Responda
  • perform public services
  • reflect on the mystical and magical aspects
  • respect forces of nature as divine
  • believe in one all-powerful God

Questão 237

Questão
Especially important in Daoism is to
Responda
  • perform public service
  • reflect on the mystical and magical aspects of life
  • respect forces of nature as divine
  • believe in one all-powerful God

Questão 238

Questão
Which is not a characteristic of a hierarchical religion?
Responda
  • It has a well-defined hierarchical stucture
  • It encourages each congregation to be self-sufficient
  • It organizes territory into local administrative units
  • It fosters interaction among different congregations

Questão 239

Questão
Jerusalem is a Holy City to all but which of these religions?
Responda
  • Christianity
  • Judaism
  • Hinduism
  • Islam

Questão 240

Questão
The Ganges is the most holy river for the Muslims
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 241

Questão
Jerusalem is a holy city to all three universalizing religions
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 242

Questão
Natural landscape features features are the holiest places in Islam
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 243

Questão
Pilgrimages play a significant role in ethnic religions but not in universalizing religions
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 244

Questão
Christianity has the most widespread geographic distribution of any religion
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 245

Questão
A large and fundamental division withing a religion is a
Responda
  • branch
  • denomination
  • sect
  • dialect

Questão 246

Questão
A relatively small group that has broken away from an established church is a
Responda
  • branch
  • denomination
  • sect
  • dialect

Questão 247

Questão
Protestants in Ireland are
Responda
  • dispersed throughout the island
  • recent immigrants from Great Britain
  • highly clustered in one part of the island
  • highly integrated with the Roman Catholic population

Questão 248

Questão
Lutheranism is an example of a Christian
Responda
  • branch
  • denomination
  • religion
  • sect

Questão 249

Questão
The dominant branch of Islam is
Responda
  • Druze
  • Eastern Orthodoxy
  • Shiite
  • Sunni

Questão 250

Questão
Hinduism's caste system
Responda
  • assigns everyone to a distinct calss
  • Decrees the pilgrimages which should be taken
  • is a substitute for the lack of a holy book
  • identifies a families' important deities

Questão 251

Questão
For most of the past 2,000 years, most Jews have been
Responda
  • highly clustered in present in present-day Israel
  • dispersed around the world
  • concentrated in the United States
  • forced to live in ghettos

Questão 252

Questão
A mosque differs from a church a church, because a mosque
Responda
  • is not a sanctified place
  • is not a place of worship
  • displays a variety of architectural styles
  • contains a relic of the founder

Questão 253

Questão
The situation in Northern Ireland is a result of
Responda
  • countries in Northern Ireland voting to remain in the UK
  • Catholic protests against discrimination by Protestants
  • British control which contributed to poor economic conditions
  • violence committed by extreme partisans on both sides
  • all of the above

Questão 254

Questão
Palestinians include all but which of the following groups?
Responda
  • residents of refugee camps
  • residents of territories occupied by Israel
  • citizens of other states calling themselves Palestinians
  • Jewish citizens of Israel
  • Muslim citizens of Israel

Questão 255

Questão
Adherents of which region have controlled the Holy Land for most of the past 1,500 years?
Responda
  • Judaism
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Christianity

Questão 256

Questão
Jerusalem's geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict because
Responda
  • sacred sites to Jews and Muslims are literally built one on top of the other
  • the population of Jerusalem is majority Christian but surrounded by majority Jewish and Muslim populations
  • the Israeli government has separated the most sacred sites with a massive concrete wall
  • Israeli captured the Sinai peninsula from Egypt

Questão 257

Questão
Which of the following penalties were imposed by the Taliban?
Responda
  • Men were beaten for shaving their beards
  • Homosexuals were buried alive
  • Prostitute were hanged in public, and men were stoned for committing adultery
  • Thieves' hands were cut off, and women with nail polish had their fingers cut off
  • all of the above

Questão 258

Questão
What policy did the British follow in India?
Responda
  • They divided India into 2 countries
  • They forced all of the Hindus to migrate
  • They turned the problem over to the United Nations
  • They encouraged the abolishment of the caste system
  • They required all education to be conducted in English

Questão 259

Questão
From the Russian Revolution to the fall of the communist government, what was the policy of the government towards religion?
Responda
  • All churches were closed
  • The old church was replaced by Eastern Orthodoxy
  • Churches remained open but played a limited role
  • Youth were encouraged to attend so that they could be indoctrinated into communism
  • All marriages were performed by clergy

Questão 260

Questão
Lutherans in the United States are concentrated in the southeast
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 261

Questão
The most troublesome religious boundary in Western Europe is in Ireland
Responda
  • True
  • False

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