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An outcome of the expansion of popular culture that is unique to women's lives is that they:
a. are able to grow more food to feed larger families.
b. may become empowered to further their education as seen in popular culture examples.
c. are harassed online for their views.
d. express folk traditions by wearing conservative dress.
e. benefit from large dowries.
May become empowered to further their education as seen in popular culture examples.
Ravenstein's principles of migration include which of the following statements about how migration laws have changed in modern times?
a. Migration is now influenced more by global economic factors and technology than by distance and rural-urban patterns.
b. Migration laws have remained unchanged since Ravenstein's time.
c. Modern migration is primarily local and rarely international.
d. Ravenstein's laws are no longer referenced in migration studies.
Migration is now influenced more by global economic factors and technology than by distance and rural-urban patterns.
Where will you most likely hear Russian spoken in Ukraine? (sorry no picture)
a. Kharkiv
b. Kyiv
c. Odesa
d. Lviv
e. Donetsk
Donetsk
The term used to describe the area of Earth's surface characterized by human settlement is called the:
a. population concentration.
b. subpolar region.
c. fertile crescent.
d. ecumene.
e. hot zone.
Ecumeme
One significant impact of popular culture is to:
a. spread through acculturation.
b. modify the physical environment.
c. promote the diffusion of folk culture.
d. limit globalization.
e. create a more varied and less uniform landscape.
Modify the physical environment
Which of the following provides the best reason why geographers examine migration patterns?
a. To develop policies to better control migration flows
b. To estimate when a society will enter stage 5 of the demographic transition
c. To explain changes in population, cultural values, and economic practices in various places
d. To understand why human migration has only occurred since the beginning of the twenty-first century
e. To explain the influence of tectonic activity on population growth and distribution
To explain changes in population, cultural values, and economic practices in various places
Which three demographic measures most closely parallel each other in terms of global distribution?
a. Life expectancy, crude birth rate, crude death rate
b. Natural increase rate, crude birth rate, total fertility rate
c. Natural increase rate, crude birth rate, crude death rate
d. Crude death rate, crude birth rate, total fertility rate
e. Life expectancy, crude death rate, total fertility rate
Natural increase rate, crude birth rate, total fertility rate
For what percent of total global population growth since 1980 do South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa account?
a. 20 percent
b. 51 percent
c. 31 percent
d. 95 percent
e. 10 percent
51 percent
Between 1900 and 1940:
a. oil towns of Houston and Los Angeles grew exponentially.
b. coastal Atlantic cities, especially southern cities, began to grow rapidly.
c. high numbers of Asian immigrants arrived on the West Coast.
d. the Great Plains became a destination for immigrants.
e. immigrants bypassed the plains going directly to the West Coast.
Coastal Atlantic cities, especially southern cities, began to grow rapidly.
What one eats is revealing of one's:
a. social, religious, and ethnic memberships.
b. economic standing.
c. socioeconomic status and age group.
d. occupation.
e. social, educational level, and religious memberships.
Social, religious, and ethnic memberships.
Given your understanding of regions, the territories set aside for the Alaskan Indigenous people are an example of:
a. vernacular regions.
b. unique regions.
c. formal regions.
d. functional regions.
e. nodal regions.
Formal reigons
The extent of the spread of something over a given study area is called:
a. density.
b. pattern.
c. diffusion.
d. concentration.
e. distribution.
Diffusion
Cultural diversity is created and maintained by:
a. The rapid movement of goods and services across borders.
b. increasing globalization.
c. The relative isolation of a group from others.
d. The connections between different homogeneous groups.
e. expansion diffusion.
The relative isolation of a group from others.
The bubonic plague (aka the Black Death) which killed more than 25 million people in Europe in the mid-fourteenth century occurred during which stage of the epidemiological transition?
a. Stage 1
b. Stage 2
c. Stage 3
d. Stage 4
e. Stage 5
Stage 1
A mental map:
a. is the same thing as participatory GIS.
b. is a personal representation of a location.
c. requires that a person be in a particular location to draw the map.
d. is limited by citizen science.
e. is a map created using a GIS.
Is a personal representation of a location.
During the same time every year, agricultural workers travel within Brazil to engage in the labor-intensive harvest of sugarcane. This migration pattern is best described as:
a. agricultural mobility.
b. agricultural transience.
c. immigration.
d. seasonal mobility.
e. emigration.
Seasonal mobility
Geographers are interested in the relationships between locations on Earth, which include:
a. maps, space, and scale.
b. local, global, and regional.
c. scale, regions, and space.
d. scale, space, and connection.
e. regions, places, and connections.
Regions, places, and connections.
The extreme distortion found in polar latitudes in a Mercator projection is due to:
a. the latitude lines run parallel to each other, rather than converging at the Equator.
b. the latitude lines converge at the Equator, rather than running parallel to each other.
c. the meridians converge at the poles, rather than run parallel to each other.
d. the meridians run parallel to each other, rather than converging at the poles.
e. the latitude and longitude never intersect at a right angle anywhere on the Mercator projection.
The meridians run parallel to each other, rather than converging at the poles.