The branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms, climate, soils, and vegetations of the Earth is:
a. Cultural Geography
b. Human Geography
c. Locational Geography
d. Physical Geography
What is d. Physical Geography
100
The world's thrid most populous country is:
a. Indonesia
b. Russia
c. the United States
d. India
What is c. The United States.
100
The term "race" has come to reger to an undeniable realityof our human existence which is:
a. there really are different races
b. people differ physically from each other
c. there really are no difference in appearance of people
d. skin color identifies different races
What is b. people differ physically from each other
100
The Romance languages of today are derived from :
a. Greek
B. Latin
C. Sanskrit
D. Etruscan
What is B. Latin
100
In some societies, an organized form religion has:
a. Become more traditional
b. become more diverse
c. experience strong revival
d. become less important
What is d. become less important
200
The importance of the SPATIAL approach that geographer use in their studies is that it shows:
a. the arrangement and organization of things on the surface of the Eath
b. the history of an area
c. human activity only
What is A.
200
The arithmetic density of population for a country is determinded by dividing the total:
a. Population by the number of farmers
b. Area of square miles by five
c. Area of the country by the population
d. Population by the total area
What is d. Population by the total area
200
Some anthropoligist have proposed that the whole concept of race:
a. be accepted as face
b. is tied to a person's place of origin
c. is a relative new concept
d. be abandoned
What is d. be abandoned
200
The predecessor of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit was
A. Proto-Indo-European
B. Indo-European
C. Came from Africa
D. Came from East Asia
What is A. Proto-Indo-European
200
Which of the following is NOT generally a characteristic of an ethnic religion?
a. found within a particular culture
b. always polytheistic
c. spatially concentrated
d. does not seek outside convert
What is B. Always polytheistic
300
The concern of geography with space put_________ at the center of its agenda.
a. patterns
b. distance
c. scale
d. places
What is c. Scale
300
Only a fraction of the Earth's surface is actually farmable land, that is able to produce crops and livestock this land is called:
a. Arable
b. Alluvial
c. Available
d. Developed
What is a. Arable
300
The regional variation in the appearance of humans in clustered populations probably results :
a. from a long history of adaptation to different environments
b. develop of populations on different continents
c. wars kept populations seperated
d. territoriality kept people from mixing and intermarrying
What is a. from a long history of adaptation to different environments
300
The two theories of the Proto-Indo European language dispersal through Europe are the conquest theory and:
A. The spread of Agriculture
B. Massive Migration
C. Extensive Trade Routes
D. Missionary Activity
What is A. The spread of Agriculture
300
The faith that is most widely dispersed over the world is:
a. Christianity
b. Islam
c. Shamanism
d. Buddhism
What is a. Christianity
400
The physical location of a place using the Earth latutde-longitude grid is properly called the:
a. relative location
b. absolute location
c. central location
d. referenced location
What is b. absolute location
400
The great majority of people in East Asia are:
a. City dwellers
b. Farmers
c. Suburban dwellers
d. equally divided between rural and urban areas
What is b. Farmers
400
Which of the following regions of civilization was the MOST RECENT to dvelop sophisticated cultures?
a. Europe
b. China
C. Southwest Asia
d. North Africa
What is a. Europe
400
According to the agricultural hypothesis of the spread of the Proto-Indo-Eurpean language the source region was in present-day:
a. Russia
b. France
c. Turkey
d. Egypt
What is C. Turkey
400
The largest consituency of Christianity is:
a. Protestant
b. Eastern orthodox
c. Coptic
d. Roman Catholicism
What is d. Roman Catholicism
500
The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge, and skills from their places of origin to other areas they are adopted is called:
a. diffusion
b. adjustment
c. spreading
d. expansion
What is a. Diffusion
500
The North American population cluster is much like the European region in that much of the population is concentrated in:
a. Rural areas
b. River valleys
c. Mountain valleys
d. Several major cities
What is d. Several major cities.
500
In rural areas, immigrants sometimes settle in areas that reflect their perceptions of both the natural environment they left and the one they selected after arriving in America. These are called ethnic:
a. neighborhoods
b. islands
c. patterns
d. linkage
What is b. Islands
500
The current language map of the Americas is dominated by which of the following languages?
a. Malaya-Polynesian
b. Afro-Asiatic
c. Indo-European
d. Sino-Tibetan
What is C. Indo-European
500
In the early twenty-first century, the fastest growing of the world religions is:
a. Christianity
b. Islam
c. Buddhism
d. Hinduism