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Question 1

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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Which is true?
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  • 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

Question 5

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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
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  • on the equator
  • at the North or South Pole
  • on the Prime Meridian
  • astride the International Date Line

Question 6

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According to environmental determinism,
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  • 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

Question 7

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A hearth is
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  • 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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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Which of the following is most correct regarding the origins of geography?
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  • 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

Question 11

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Scale is
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  • 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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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Which is not an example of a functioning region?
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  • 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

Question 17

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The state of Texas is considered a formal region because
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  • 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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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To geographers, the spread of McDonald's across the world represents
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  • 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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

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Which of the following BEST describes the idea of a cultural landscape
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  • 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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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A hearth is
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  • 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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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The global movement of money has been enhanced primarily by
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  • 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

Question 41

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Globalization of the economy has
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  • 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

Question 42

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

Question 43

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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?
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  • formal
  • functional
  • vernacular
  • bilingual

Question 44

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Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the United States is an interesting geographic case study because
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  • 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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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

Question 49

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

Question 50

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

Question 51

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

Question 52

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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?
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  • Country X
  • Country Y
  • the rate is the same in both countries
  • the rate can't be computed

Question 53

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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
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  • crude death rate
  • infant mortality rate
  • life expectancy
  • total fertility rate

Question 54

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

Question 55

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

Question 56

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

Question 57

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

Question 58

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

Question 59

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One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that
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  • 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

Question 60

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

Question 61

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

Question 62

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India and the United Kingdom have approximately the same arithmetic density. From this, we can conclude that the 2 countries have the same
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  • 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

Question 63

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

Question 64

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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
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  • True
  • False

Question 65

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

Question 66

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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
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  • True
  • False

Question 67

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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
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  • True
  • False

Question 68

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

Question 69

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

Question 70

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

Question 71

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

Question 72

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

Question 73

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

Question 74

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

Question 75

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

Question 76

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

Question 77

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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
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  • Overpulation
  • NIR
  • Life Expectancy
  • Doubling Time

Question 78

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

Question 79

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

Question 80

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

Question 81

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

Question 82

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In contrast to the MDCs, LDCs entered stage 2 of the demographic transition through
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  • 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

Question 83

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Thomas Malthus concluded that
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  • 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

Question 84

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

Question 85

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India's most controversial family planning program today has been to
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  • 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

Question 86

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

Question 87

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

Question 88

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

Question 89

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

Question 90

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

Question 91

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

Question 92

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

Question 93

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

Question 94

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

Question 95

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

Question 96

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

Question 97

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

Question 98

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

Question 99

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

Question 100

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Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted
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  • 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

Question 101

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The largest level of interregional migration in the U.S. was caused by the
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  • 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

Question 102

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

Question 103

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

Question 104

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

Question 105

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Europeans migrated to the U.S. primarily because of
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  • 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

Question 106

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

Question 107

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

Question 108

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

Question 109

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

Question 110

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

Question 111

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

Question 112

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Several killion Irish migrated in the 1840s primarily because of what push factor?
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  • 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.

Question 113

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

Question 114

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

Question 115

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

Question 116

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

Question 117

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

Question 118

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

Question 119

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Brain drain is
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  • 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

Question 120

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

Question 121

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

Question 122

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The largest level of interregional migration in the United States was caused by the
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  • 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

Question 123

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

Question 124

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

Question 125

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

Question 126

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The Brazilian government encouraged interregional migration by
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  • 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

Question 127

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

Question 128

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Counterurbanization is
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  • 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

Question 129

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

Question 130

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

Question 131

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Why have in recent years Latino immigrants found other U.S. areas, notably the Midwest as popular places to immigrate to?
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  • 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

Question 132

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According to the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, undocumented immigrants were
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  • 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

Question 133

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

Question 134

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

Question 135

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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
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  • True
  • False

Question 136

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

Question 137

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

Question 138

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

Question 139

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

Question 140

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

Question 141

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In contrast to pop culture, folk cultures are more likely to vary
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  • 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

Question 142

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Folk songs are distinguished from popular songs because they
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  • 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

Question 143

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The current distribution of soccer demonstrates that
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  • 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

Question 144

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

Question 145

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

Question 146

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The main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to
Answer
  • 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

Question 147

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

Question 148

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Pop culture
Answer
  • 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

Question 149

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

Question 150

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

Question 151

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

Question 152

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

Question 153

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

Question 154

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Popular customs are more likely than folk customs to
Answer
  • 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

Question 155

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Typically, pop culture
Answer
  • 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

Question 156

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

Question 157

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

Question 158

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

Question 159

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Which of the following characteristics is more typical of a pop culture than a folk culture?
Answer
  • 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

Question 160

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

Question 161

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

Question 162

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

Question 163

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Today, housing types in the United States are distinguished by all but which of the following?
Answer
  • 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

Question 164

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

Question 165

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

Question 166

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

Question 167

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Many less developed countries fear the loss of folk culture because
Answer
  • 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

Question 168

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Western dominance of the news media is feared in less developed countries for all but which of these reasons?
Answer
  • 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

Question 169

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

Question 170

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

Question 171

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

Question 172

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One impact of large scale consumption if chicken in more developed countries is to
Answer
  • 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

Question 173

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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
Answer
  • 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

Question 174

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Terroir refers to
Answer
  • 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

Question 175

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

Question 176

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

Question 177

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

Question 178

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

Question 179

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

Question 180

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

Question 181

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

Question 182

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A literary tradition is
Answer
  • 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

Question 183

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

Question 184

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

Question 185

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Dialects developed within England primarily because
Answer
  • 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

Question 186

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

Question 187

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Major differences in U.S. dialects originated because
Answer
  • 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

Question 188

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

Question 189

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

Question 190

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

Question 191

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

Question 192

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

Question 193

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

Question 194

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The geographic study of the distribution of languages provides a good example
Answer
  • 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

Question 195

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When people who speak a given language migrate to a different location from other members of their group,
Answer
  • 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

Question 196

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The main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how
Answer
  • 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

Question 197

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

Question 198

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The dominant language spoken in Southeastern Canada French
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 199

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

Question 200

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

Question 201

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

Question 202

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

Question 203

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

Question 204

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

Question 205

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

Question 206

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

Question 207

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The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic languages because of
Answer
  • 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

Question 208

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

Question 209

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

Question 210

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

Question 211

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

Question 212

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

Question 213

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

Question 214

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The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from
Answer
  • 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

Question 215

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A lingua franca is
Answer
  • 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

Question 216

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

Question 217

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

Question 218

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

Question 219

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English has received unprecedented acceptance globally due to
Answer
  • 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

Question 220

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

Question 221

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The most popular language in China is Cantonese
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 222

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

Question 223

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

Question 224

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

Question 225

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With respect to the relationship between culture, religion and the physical environment
Answer
  • 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

Question 226

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a universalizing religion
Answer
  • 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

Question 227

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

Question 228

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

Question 229

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

Question 230

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

Question 231

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

Question 232

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

Question 233

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

Question 234

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Animists believe that
Answer
  • 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

Question 235

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

Question 236

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

Question 237

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

Question 238

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Which is not a characteristic of a hierarchical religion?
Answer
  • 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

Question 239

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

Question 240

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

Question 241

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

Question 242

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

Question 243

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

Question 244

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

Question 245

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

Question 246

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

Question 247

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

Question 248

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

Question 249

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

Question 250

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Hinduism's caste system
Answer
  • 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

Question 251

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

Question 252

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

Question 253

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The situation in Northern Ireland is a result of
Answer
  • 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

Question 254

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Palestinians include all but which of the following groups?
Answer
  • 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

Question 255

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

Question 256

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Jerusalem's geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict because
Answer
  • 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

Question 257

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Which of the following penalties were imposed by the Taliban?
Answer
  • 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

Question 258

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What policy did the British follow in India?
Answer
  • 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

Question 259

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From the Russian Revolution to the fall of the communist government, what was the policy of the government towards religion?
Answer
  • 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

Question 260

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Lutherans in the United States are concentrated in the southeast
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 261

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