1) The difference between population geography and demography is that population
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1) The difference between population geography and demography is that population geography is
A) totally concerned with human migration.
B) the study of individual populations in terms of specific group characteristics.
C) the study of the distribution of humankind across Earth.
D) the study of internal population dynamics.
2) Which of the following is one of the three major population concentrations mentioned in the chapter?
A) East Asia
B) Central Asia
C) Subsharan Africa
D) Australia
3) A world map drawn so that the size of each country is the reflection of its population rather than its size is called
A) a Mercator projection.
B) a standard land-area map.
C) a conic projection.
D) a cartogram.
4) "Physiological density" is a term applied to human populations that means
A) the number of people per unit of area.
B) the strength of the local football team.
C) the density of population per unit of arable land.
D) the standard of living in any given place.
5) Population densities tend to be low
A) in cold climates.
B) in level terrain.
C) near the sea.
D) in areas of fertile soil.
6) Human beings cluster in which of these regions? A) cold lands
B) dry lands
C) warm lands
D) wet lands
7) Country X has a crude birth rate of 42 and a crude death rate of 17, while Country Y has a crude birth rate of 20 and a crude death rate of 5. Which country has a lower natural increase rate?
A) Country Y
B) Country X
C) The rate is the same in both countries.
D) The rate can't be computed.
8) The region with the highest growth rate is
A) North America.
B) Sub-Saharan Africa.
C) Europe.
D) Asia.
9) In the first stage of the demographic transition, crude birth rate is ________ and crude death rate is ________.
A) low; high
B) high; low
C) low; low
D) high; high
10) Brain drain occurs when
A) highly educated citizens leave a country to move to another country.
B) schools are closed by civil unrest.
C) universities become unaffordably expensive. D) agricultural experts leave cities for the countryside.
11) Humankind has assumed responsibility for
its own evolution through
A) environmental determinism.
B) culture and technology.
C) avoiding racial interbreeding.
D) living in temperate environments.
12) The nineteenth-century French approach of possibilism stated that
A) environmental change is not possible.
B)the environment sets limits on what is feasible but does not dictate a culture's choices.
C)people should adopt practices that do not harm the environment. D) none of the above
13) The process where aspects of culture move from their area of innovation to other areas is
called
A) acculturation.
B) dispersion.
C) diffusion.
D) cultural diversity.
14) The entire region throughout which a culture prevails is called a
A) core.
B) culture realm.
C) hearth area.
D) cultural landscape.
15) Voyages of exploration and conquest by ________ connected the world.
A) the Chinese
B) the Ottoman Turks
C) Europeans
D) the Japanese
16) Culture is
A) genetically derived.
B) an attribute of a society that deals specifically with art and music.
C) learned behavior.
D) derived only from contact with other societies. E) an attribute found only among folk of less developed countries.
17) A sub-culture group
A) shares a part of the mainstream culture but also a bundle of culture traits of its own.
B) is always defined by an ethnic or racial heritage. C) stems from being marginalized or discriminated against.
D) exits only in the United States.
18) Humans make decisions on how they will act in the real world based on A) how they perceive the world.
B) the real world as it is.
C) their religious beliefs.
D) incomplete understanding of the world.
E) predestination.
19) The entire region throughout which a culture prevails is called a A) core.
B) culture realm.
C) hearth area.
D) cultural landscape.
E) built environment.
20) When considering that in the past human societies developed in greater isolation from one another than today, each of the following statements is true except:
A) Each group evolved its own distinct culture.
B) The extraordinary diversity of cultures testifies to human ingenuity.
C) Different peoples living in very similar environments, but isolated from one another, developed astonishingly different lifestyles.
D) Some aspects of cultures that have developed in different physical environments are startlingly similar.
E) One can easily assume a direct cause-and-effect relationship between a physical environment and an aspect of culture.
21) The way any language is spoken and written according to formal rules of diction and grammar is called a(n)
A) dialect.
B) language family.
C) standard language.
D) official language.
22) The predominant world lingua franca is
A) Japanese.
B) French.
C) Russian.
D) English.
23) The language with the most native speakers in the world is
A) English.
B) Hindi.
C) Spanish.
D) Mandarin Chinese.
24) Languages that are related by descent from a common proto-language make up a
A) language family.
B) language group.
C) cluster of languages.
D) language region.
Explanation / Answer
1-c
2-a
3-d
4-a
5-a
6-d
7-b
8-b
9-d
10-a
11-b
12-b
13-c
14-b
15-c
16-b
17-a
18-a
19-b
20-c
21-c
22-d
23-d
24-a
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