Friday, May 13
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Multiple Choice – 75 Questions, 60 minutes
FRQs – 3 Questions, 75 minutes
Each section counts for HALF of your total
grade
No penalty for guessing!
See topic outline
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Every Tuesday and Thursday 2:45-3:15
Next week:
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Tuesday 4/19 Migration
Thursday 4/21 Culture
Practice Test – Saturday, April 30 @ SLHS
1.
As an academic discipline, geography is principally concerned with
the
A.
nature and meaning of place names
B.
impact of the environment on human understandings and
activities
C.
evolving character and spatial organization of Earth’s surface
D.
absolute location of places, peoples, and processes on Earth’s
surface
E.
construction of maps that depict places, peoples, and
processes as accurately as possible
2.
Thomas Malthus based his work on population on which of the
following premises?
A.
Both food production and population increase arithmetically.
B.
Food production increases arithmetically and population
increases exponentially.
C.
Both food production and population increase exponentially.
D.
Food production increases exponentially and population
increases arithmetically.
E.
Food production increases arithmetically and population
remains stable.
3.
Of the following, which region contains the smallest
percentage of the world’s population?
A.
The Southern Hemisphere
B.
The Northern Hemisphere
C.
The Eastern Hemisphere
D.
Coastal areas of the world within 160 kilometers (100
miles) of ocean
E.
Areas of the world lying lower than 150 meters (500 feet)
above sea level
4.
In 2005 the United States and Canada had a higher crude
death rate than Mexico because they
A.
are larger countries
B.
received more immigrants
C.
had more elderly people
D.
had a higher standard of living
E.
spent more on health care
1.
The 19th century emigration of a large
number of Swedes from a particular
region of Sweden to Isanti County, MN,
as a result of communications from
friends and relatives who preceded them
there is an example of
A. Brain drain
B. Chain migration
C. Net migration
D. Internal migration
E. Counterurbanization
2.
In recent decades, all of the
following have played a major role
in the rapid growth of Sun Belt
cities of the US except
A. Immigration from Latin America
B. High levels of per capita federal spending
in the South and West
C. Cheap land and labor
D. Climatic changes leading to colder
northern winters
E. The increasing demand for retirement and
resort centers
3.
An important physical site
characteristic is a
A. Major airport
B. Grid street pattern
C. Major central park
D. Natural harbor
E. Public sports facility
4.
A student who lives in Minneapolis
chooses to spend her spring break
in Florida rather than in Jamaica
because FL is closer and the airfare
is cheaper. This illustrates the
concept of
A. Human capital
B. Time space compression
C. Intervening opportunities
D. Rank size rule
E. Central place theory
5.
Cultural landscape is closest
in meaning to which of the
following?
A. Cultural ecology
B. Nonmaterial culture
C. Environmental determinism
D. Physical environment
E. Built environment
5.
In the 19th and early 20th century, the
demographic transition in Europe was best
characterized by
A. Shift in the composition of national populations
toward greater ethnic balance
B. Net population decline resulting from an excess of
deaths over births
C. Migration between European countries
D. Large-scale population movements following periods
of war or widespread civil unrest
E. Urbanization and falling birth rates
6. Place names that refer to saints are most
common in which of the following North
American regions?
(a) Louisiana and New England
(b) California and British Columbia
(c) Ontario and Utah
(d) Nova Scotia and the United States Midwest
(e) Quebec and the United States Southwest
7. Which of the following is true of the
architectural shape shown above?
(a) It represents the dominant religion of all of
Indonesia except for the island of Bali.
(b) It signifies a major religion that originated in
India but is now found in Thailand and other
parts of Asia.
(c) It symbolizes houses of worship for
monotheistic religions that hold Jerusalem
sacred.
(d) It represents religions especially common in
sub-Saharan Africa.
(e) It symbolizes denominations of a Western
religion that divided first in Europe.
8.Which of the following refers to the
study of the relationship between the
physical environment and culture?
(a) Central place theory
(b) Ecosystem analysis
(c) Culture history
(d) Cultural ecology
(e) Polytheism
9. A pilgrim to Varanasi in India is
most likely to be a
(a) Christian
(b) Jew
(c) Hindu
(d) Buddhist
(e) Muslim
11. A fundamental difference between folk
culture and popular culture is that folk
culture
(a) Often sets a minority group apart
from a region’s general population
(b) Is adaptive to change over time
(c) Tends to diffuse rapidly across
geographic space
(d) Loses some of its distinctive
characteristics as it crosses national
boundaries
(e) Represents universal values
12. The saltbox-type house pictured
here originated in which of the
following culture areas?
(a) The Great Lakes region
(b) New England and the Canadian
Maritimes
(c) The Canadian Prairie
(d) The US Southwest
(e) The US Southeast
13. A formal culture region differs from
other regions in that it
(a) Has a focal point or node
(b) Is one that people believe exists
(c) Has a selected feature or internal
uniformity
(d) Does not contain gradations such
as core, domain, and sphere
(e) Applies only to linguistic and
religion regions
14. Which of the following correctly
sequences the continuum from language
family to dialect?
(a) Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Arabic, Berber
(b) Sino-Tibetan, Sinitic, Mandarin,
Chinese
(c) Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Hindi,
Bengali
(d) Indo-European, Baltic-Slavic, Russian,
Ukranian
(e) Indo-European, Germanic, English,
Midland-Northern
15. Contact zones between religions are
most likely to be volatile when they are
(a) Inhabited by two major groups with
divergent religious beliefs
(b) Made up of three or more religious
groups
(c) Characterized by considerable
interaction between religious groups
(d) Also language contact zones
(e) Associated with competing
ethnonational claims to territory
16. Swahili in East Africa and English
in global commerce are examples of
(a) Pidgin languages
(b) Lingua franca
(c) Standard language
(d) Creole language
(e) Official language
17. Political Geographers consider
which of the following as the core
area of the US?
(a) Los Angeles-San Francisco
(b) New York-Washington DC
(c) Chicago-Detroit
(d) Atlanta-Birmingham, AL
(e) Buffalo-Cleveland
18. The country that the US helped to
create in the early 20th century in
order to facilitate oceanic commerce
is
(a) Nicaragua
(b) Costa Rica
(c) Colombia
(d) Venezuela
(e) Panama
19. Which of the following is unique
among Latin American countries in
that its capital represents the concept
of a forward capital?
(a) Argentina
(b) Brazil
(c) Chile
(d) Mexico
(e) Peru
20. Which of the following best
represents the concept of the nationstate in its internal cultural-political
makeup and spatial organization?
(a) Iran
(b) South Africa
(c) Japan
(d) New Zealand
(e) Argentina
20. Which of the following does not act
as a centrifugal force for a state?
(a) Uneven development
(b) Substate nationalism
(c) Linguistic homogeneity
(d) A fragmented territorial base
(e) A strong tradition of local
governance
20. Gerrymandering adjusts voting districts
in order to
(a) Ensure all districts are of similar
shape and size
(b) Benefit the interests of one political
group
(c) Create districts that coincide with
municipal service areas
(d) Allow those living in one state to vote
on issues in another state
(e) Equalize the tax burden among ethnic
groups
Since 1950 many states have faced challenges in
developing a strong national identity.
1.
Using contemporary examples, explain how each of
the following has contributed to the development of
national identity and the strengthening of a state.
A. Economic development
B.
Relocation of a state’s capital (since 1950)
2.
Using contemporary examples, explain how each of
the following may detract from the development of
national identity and weaken a state.
A. Ethnicity
B.
Transportation infrastructure