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Unit 1
Religion & Language
Ethnicity, Popular and Folk Culture
Agriculture
Migration
100
What is the difference between site and situation?
Site is the specific absolute coordinates and everything that can be found there. Situation is how close a location is to something else (i.e. resources, large city, etc.)
100
Which religion of about 1 billion adherents features the caste system, reincarnation, and the Vedas?
Hinduism
100
What is the difference between assimilation and multiculturalism?
Assimilation: the immigrant completely blends into the host society (language, religion, etc.). Multiculturalism: the immigrant is allowed to retain all of their original cultural traits.
100
Describe the difference between subsistence and commercial agriculture.
Subsistence is for survival; commercial is for profit.
100
Describe the relationship between chain and channelized migration.
Chain features friends and family following someone after they've had success. Channelized is a much larger scale of chain.
200
Describe an example of remote sensing.
Anything analyzed from far away (satellite, photograph from an airline, radar, etc.)
200
Name 2 syncretic religions. Describe what each is a mix of.
Voodooism (Christianity and indigenous faiths) and Sikhism (Hinduism and Islam)
200
Provide an example of a: folkway, more, and taboo.
AWV
200
Which style of extensive subsistence agriculture is used primarily in the Sahara and Andes regions?
Pastoral Nomadism
200
The most common type of migration today is:
Rural-to-Urban
300
What are the 5 themes of geography?
Place, Location, Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interactions
300
Describe 3 ways that Jews alter the cultural landscape.
Growing citrus, synagogues, use of Hebrew, Stars of David, Menorahs, Graveyards, etc.
300
Provide three ways that popular culture leads to homogenization of the cultural landscape.
Restaurants, clothing, stores, music, movies, etc.
300
Which four food items go near the center of Von Thunen's Model? Which two go near the outside?
Center=Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, Dairy Outer: Wheat and Livestock Ranching (livestock fattening would be closer towards the center).
300
Name the following countries' largest group of migrant workers: USA, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and France.
USA=Mexicans, Australia=SE Asians, Saudi=Filipinos, France=North African
400
Describe the difference between the raster and vector approaches related to GIS technologies.
Raster is analyzed using a grid. Vector is analyzed using certain physical features (i.e. arable soil, rivers, roads, etc.).
400
Describe the difference between pidgins and creoles. Then, provide two examples of creoles.
Pidgin: combination of different languages; not a real, organized language (used for commands, military, etc.). Creole: a real language which was originally a pidgin but then became widely used and organized (Afrikaans, Haitian Creole, Swahili)
400
Describe four types of vernacular housing styles.
AWV: Charleston Single House, Log Cabin, Sod, Adobe, 4-over-4, Shotgun, etc.
400
List the four differences between extensive and intensive agriculture.
Area: E=Large, I=Small/Labor: E=Minimal, I=A lot/Yield: E=Low, I=High/Population: E=Low, I=High
400
Describe FOUR historical migrant streams to the USA.
-Slavery -Religious dissenters (1st Wave) -Asians to California (3rd Wave) -Irish due to the potato famine (2nd Wave) -Latin Americans (4th Wave)
500
The first environmentalist was_______________
Marsh
500
Name five of the 8 most prevalent languages on Planet Earth. Also, list a country where each is commonly spoken.
-Hindi, Mandarin, English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Indonesian
500
Describe social distance.
The further away ethnic groups are from each other in the city, the more different they are.
500
Name the type of agriculture for the following examples (i.e. intensive subsistence, intensive commercial, extensive subsistence, extensive commercial.): Mediterranean, Plantation, Rice Cultivation, Swidden, Cattle Ranching
Med=IC, Plantation=IC, Rice=IS, Swidden=ES, Ranch=EC
500
Name five of Ravenstein's migration trends.
-Short Distances -Most are male -Most are young -Most is rural-to-urban -Most is step -Produces a counterflow -Most are adults