Cultural Geography – Geog 2001
Fall Semester
J. Naumann
Study Guide
Test One: Chapters 1-4
1) How does Environment Determinism explain the relationship between the environment
(physical conditions of nature) and culture?
2) How does Possibilism explain the relationship between the environment (physical conditions of nature) and culture?
3) What were the adverse environmental impacts of rechannelling the Kissimmee River in
Florida ?
4) What are characteristics of meridians in the Earth's Coordinate System?
5) What are characteristics of parallels in the Earth's Coordinate System?
6) What is map scale?
7) What are the characteristics of a small scale map? A large scale map?
8) What is the term for a system for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map?
9) Map projections can cause what kind of distortion?
10) The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method is called what?
11) What is a Geographic Information System (GIS) and what does it do?
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12) Define these terms: Situation and Site.
13) What are toponyms? in North America and Australia commonly have origins in what language and/or culture? Why are typonyms in South Africa often derived from Dutch?
14) The cultural landscape displays what characteristics?
15) Define functional region. Give some examples.
15b) The South is established as a vernacular region of the United State by which characteristics?
16) The division of the United States into congressional districts is an example of a which type of region?
17) Globalization of the world economy is evident from what process?
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18) The arrangement of something across Earth's surface is the definition of what term?
19) What term means the frequency of something within a given unit of area?
20) The concept of space-time compression is a direct result of what processes, concepts, and/or devices?
21) The fact that people living farther away from a large city are less likely to subscribe to its newspaper is an example of what phenomena of spatial interaction?
22) What is a hearth?
23) The successful expansion of PCs that adopted icons and mice, aspects introduced by the unsuccessfully expanded Apple computers, is an example of what kind of diffusion?
24) How do geographers define overpopulation?
25) Where is the population in South Asia mostly concentrated:?
26) Which is the most populous country in the world?
27) Two-thirds of the world's population is clustered in four regions. Name the regions.
28) Which is the region with the greatest urban dwelling populations?
29) Relatively few people live at high elevations, but there are significant exceptions, especially in what region?
30) What is physiological density?
31) What is land that is suited for agriculture called?
32) If the physiological density is much larger than the arithmetic density, then a country has what kind of agricultural situation?
33) What is an important future implication of the current world's population patterns?
34) The world's population in 1995 was approximately 6 billion and with a constant rate of natural increase was expected to reach 12 billion in approximately 45 years. The period of 45 years is known by what term?
35) Currently, approximately what is the Earth's annual natural increase rate?
36) Country X has a crude birth rate of 40 and a crude death rate of 15. In what stage of the demographic transition is this country?
37) The lowest crude birth rates are usually found in which countries?
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38) A crude birth rate of approximately 10 per 1,000 is typical of a country in which stage of the demographic transition?
39) What is the term for the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society?.
40) What is the term for the average number of children a women will have throughout her childbearing years?
41) Life expectancy is lowest in what part of the world? .
42) Country X has a crude birth rate of 40 and a 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 natural increase rate?
43) For every 1,000 babies born in Mozambique this year, nearly 150 of them will die before they reach their first birthday. This rate of 150 deaths per 1,000 births is known by what term?
44) More developed countries moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition 200 years ago in part because of what factor(s)?
45) The number of people who are too young or too old to work in a society compared to the number of people in their productive years are referred to by what term?
46) In contrast to the experience of more developed countries, less developed countries entered
Stage 2 of the demographic transition through what process?
47) What is the most effective method for lowering birth rates?
48) What has been the most lethal epidemic in recent years? .
49) The nodes of origin for AIDS in the United States in the 1980s were which states?
50) What is a permanent move to a new location called? .
51) What is the difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants called?
52) what is migration away from a location called?
53) What events would be considered a migration pull factors?
53b) What events would be considered a migration push factors?
54) Most people migrate from one country to another primarily because of which type of factor?
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55) In Europe and Africa in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, large scale forced migration of ethnic groups were primarily caused by what factor?
56) Which factor(s) usually induces forced migration?
57) Since the late twentieth century, what has been true about the gender and family status of most immigrants?
58) According to geographer E.G. Ravenstein, a century ago most immigrants had what characteristics?
59) What term means the ability to move from one location to another?
60) According to the migration transition, what is the most important type of migration for countries in stage 4 of the demographic transition?
61) Guest workers in Europe and the Middle East are most likely to have what characteristic(s)?
62) Most European guest workers come from which part of Europe?
63) Most migrants to the United States during the peak of the 1840s and 1850s came from which part of Europe?
64) Most migrants to the United States during the early twentieth century came from which part of Europe?
65) Most migrants to the United States since the 1960s have come from where?
66) Migration to the United States declined during the 1920s primarily because of what factor?
67) What is migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there called?
68) The largest number of undocumented immigrants to the United States come from what country?
69) What was the largest example of interregional migration in the United States?
70) Since the 1700s, every decade the U.S. center of population has moved steadily in which direction?
71) A trend that began in the late 1900s is that the center of the American population has shifted in what direction?
72) Which is a current intraregional migration trend in the United States?
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73) The Brazilian government encouraged interregional migration by doing what?
74) Name the country that has paid to relocate people from its overpopulated Island of Java to surrounding, less populated ones.
75) What is the most prominent type of intraregional migration in the world?
76) Counterurbanization refers to what?
77) What is the term for the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition?
78) The repetitive act of a group is called what?
79) Folk culture is most likely to vary in what way?
80) Popular culture is most likely to vary in what way?
81) In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of what kind of group or area?
82) Which characteristic(s) is more typical of a popular culture than a folk culture?
83) Folk songs are often distinguished from popular songs because they do what?
84) Folk cultures are spread primarily by what means?
85) The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the United States is an example of what?
86) Popular customs are more likely than folk customs to do what?
87) Typically, how does popular culture originate?
88) The main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to do what?
89) Popular customs most frequently originate where?
90) The current distribution of soccer in the world demonstrates what? .
91) Which states (region) is an important source area for U.S. folk house types?
92) The Saltbox and Two-Chimney are housing styles from what folk housing region?
93) What is a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom?
94) China produces a relatively large amount of pork compared to the countries of Southwestern
Asia primarily for what reason? ..
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95) What are distinctive characteristics of the physical environment related to wine production? .
96) The choice of clothing in Western countries is strongly influenced by what factor(s)?
97) The diffusion of jeans is a good example primarily of what? .
98) Diffusion of Internet service is following the earlier pattern of television, except for what?
99) What is one significant impact of popular culture on the environment?
100) What is one impact of large-scale consumption of chicken in more developed countries?
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