Cultural Geography Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Cultural Geography examines the spatial aspects of human cultures, exploring how cultural practices, beliefs, identities, and landscapes are shaped and transformed across different regions of the world. This course delves into topics such as language, religion, ethnicity, customs, and social norms, investigating how these elements create cultural regions and influence interactions between people and their environments. Through theoretical frameworks and case studies, students learn to analyze cultural diffusion, globalization, place-making, and the role of culture in shaping urban and rural landscapes, enhancing their understanding of the diverse ways in which culture is expressed and experienced geographically.
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Contemporary Human Geography 3rd Edition by James M. Rubenstein
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Chapter 1: This Is Geography
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Q1) Brazil currently has the seventh largest economy in the world,yet (Figure 1.8.5 in the text) tells us that there is a ________ income gap between the ________ and ________ 10%.This disparity is best explained by ________ access.
A) small, upper, lower, equal
B) large, lower, upper, unequal
C) designed, upper, lower, legal
D) small, upper, lower, unequal
E) small, lower, upper, equal
Answer: B
Q2) The extent of a feature's spread over space is defined as ________.
Answer: concentration
Q3) What elements of study do physical and human geography share?
A) They are concerned with patterns in space and why and where things occur.
B) They both are trying to solve human's influence on the environment.
C) It is common for professors to teach both areas.
D) They are both concerned with the migration of people from one area to another.
E) They both focus on the cultural aspects of geography.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Population and Health
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Q1) Why is physiological density sometimes used by geographers instead of arithmetic density to describe how many people are in a given area?
A) Physiological density takes into account how the people feel about where they live.
B) Physiological density is used to understand the number of people supported by arable land.
C) Physiological density and arithmetic density mean the same thing.
D) Physiological density takes into account migration patterns.
E) Physiological density is more reliable because it is based on census calculations. Answer: B
Q2) Which stage of the demographic transition cannot be found anywhere in the world today?
A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Migration
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Q1) How does the United States treat economic migrants and refugees differently?
A) Refugees must first obtain visas and economic migrants need green cards.
B) Refugees must prove they will receive remittances.
C) Economic migrants are not admitted if they already have close family in the U.S.
D) Economic migrants are typically admitted because they possess special skills.
E) Refugees have priority over economic migrants for new jobs.
Answer: D
Q2) In Tajikistan,nearly one-half of the gross domestic product depends on ________,primarily from ________.
A) exportation, raw materials
B) remittances, emmigrants living in Russia
C) remittances, other governments
D) exportation, manufacturing
E) international aid, the UN
Answer: B
Q3) Migration to the United States declined in the 1920s as a result of new laws.What did these laws do?
Answer: set quotas based on the immigration background of current citizens
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Chapter 4: Folk and Popular Culture
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Q1) What is one of the major differences in the origin of popular music compared to folk music?
Q2) In contrast to folk culture,popular culture is typical of A) small homogeneous groups.
B) large heterogeneous groups.
C) groups living in isolated rural areas.
D) groups that have little interaction with other groups.
E) groups of specialists.
Q3) A repetitive act of a group,performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group is known as A) habit.
B) popular culture.
C) folk culture. D) custom.
E) daily necessity.
Q4) Do you believe the Amish will be able to preserve their cultural identity 50 years from now? Explain.
Q5) How should the United States reverse the negative impacts of Uniform Popular Culture on the environment?
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Chapter 5: Languages
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Q1) The main difference between languages in the same family,branch,or group is how
A) recently in time the languages were once the same.
B) closely the speakers of each language live to each other.
C) similar the cultures of the speakers of each language are.
D) All of the above
Q2) From most distant to closest relatives,languages can be classified into
A) families, branches, and groups.
B) branches, families, and groups.
C) branches, groups, and families.
D) families, groups, and branches.
E) groups, branches, and families.
Q3) According to Colin Renfrew's Anatolian hearth theory,Indo-European languages diffused across Europe
A) entirely by sea.
B) by way of the Kurgan homeland.
C) by warriors on horseback.
D) with the diffusion of agriculture.
E) following the silk road.
Q4) What geographic factor accounts for the fact that both Americans and the British speak English?
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Chapter 6: Religions
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Q1) A universalizing religion
A) is based on the physical characteristics of a particular location on Earth.
B) appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations.
C) is rarely transmitted through missionaries.
D) has celebrations based on seasonal changes.
E) is less likely to be used as a reason for violence than ethnic religions.
Q2) Why is Hinduism <u>not</u> considered a universalizing religion?
A) because it only has 900 million adherents
B) because it is primarily concentrated in one geographic region
C) It should be; the next edition of this book will classify it as a universal religion.
D) There are just too many sects in Hinduism to count it as a universal religion.
E) because the number of adherents are difficult to count
Q3) Which is <u>not</u> an ethnic Asian religion?
A) Buddhism
B) Confucianism
C) Shintoism
D) Daoism
E) Hinduism
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Chapter 7: Ethnicities
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Q1) Which of the statements below is the <u>best</u> explanation for the pattern of diffusion shown in the maps?
A) Early migrants were reluctant to move into the countryside since the city was all they knew.
B) African Americans first migrated to neighborhoods where other African Americans lived.
C) Baltimore passed a law in 1940 allowing African Americans to migrate.
D) Growth resulted from natural increase in the African American population.
E) Baltimore was the destination of large numbers of refugees.
Q2) Which of the following is <u>not</u> a strong centripetal force in the United States?
A) network television
B) the flag
C) the many ethnic groups living in the United States
D) "The Star Spangled Banner"
E) baseball
Q3) What U.S.government agency does <u>not</u> consider Hispanic or Latino to be a race?
Q4) Describe the ethnic conflicts that happened after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Q5) A system of racial discrimination in South Africa was called ________.
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Chapter 8: Political Geography
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Q1) Redistricting so that the opposition supporters are concentrated in a few districts is known as the ________ form of gerrymandering.
A) stacked vote
B) redistricting
C) dishonest
D) excess vote
E) wasted vote
Q2) The most populous countries <u>not</u> members of the UN are
A) Taiwan and Kosovo.
B) North and South Korea.
C) Switzerland and Monaco.
D) Monaco and Vatican City.
E) Western Sahara and Morocco.
Q3) Frontiers between countries are
A) becoming more common.
B) the same as a boundary.
C) becoming less common.
D) usually extremely narrow.
E) None of these statements is true.
Q4) Discuss the development of the modern concept of the state.
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Chapter 9: Development
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Q1) Which of the following is not a Fair Trade requirement?
A) protected by high environmental and safety standards
B) permitted to organize a union
C) paid fair wages
D) housing needs to be provided by employer
E) have the right to collective bargaining
Q2) Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have some of the world's lowest literacy rates,averaging ________ percent.
A) below 40
B) below 50
C) below 60
D) below 70
E) below 20
Q3) Which of the following regions has seen the most improvements in its HDI since 1980?
A) East Asia
B) South Asia
C) Southeast Asia
D) Sub Sahara Africa
E) Latin America
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Chapter 10: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) The practice of shifting cultivation is ________ rapidly,although now the ________ recognizes that shifting cultivation is a more ________ sound approach as compared to clearing rainforest for cattle and other lucrative crops.
A) increasing, governments, financially
B) increasing, World Bank, environmentally
C) decreasing, farmers, financially
D) evolving, environmentalist, industrially
E) declining, World Bank, environmentally
Q2) Shifting cultivation is being replaced by A) logging.
B) cattle ranching.
C) cultivation of cash crops (commercial agriculture).
D) All of these are replacing shifting cultivation.
Q3) Only about 15 million people are nomads,but they sparsely occupy
A) 20 percent of the earth's land area.
B) 10 percent of the earth's land area.
C) most of the tropical regions of the earth.
D) most of the islands of the south Pacific.
E) 50 percent of the undifferentiated highlands.
Q4) In shifting cultivation,how do farmers clear their fields for planting?
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Chapter 11: Industry
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Q1) Looking at Figure 11.4.4,which of the following countries had the highest steel production in 1980?
A) Argentina
B) Russia
C) China
D) United States
E) Brazil
Q2) All of the following are lean production rules except A) leveling.
B) problem solving.
C) teams.
D) one task-one worker.
E) productivity.
Q3) Which of the following countries is <u>not</u> one of the top global producers of cotton yarn?
A) China
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) Mexico
E) Argentina
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Chapter 12: Services and Settlements
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Q1) Using the rank-size rule,a country's fourth largest city is expected to be about ________ of the size of the largest city.
A) one-half
B) two-thirds
C) one-third
D) one quarter
E) one-sixteenth
Q2) Most rural settlements in the United States are
A) clustered.
B) dispersed.
C) linear.
D) clustered circular.
E) enclosed.
Q3) ________ helps explain how the most profitable location can be identified for consumer services.
A) Type of service
B) The range
C) Central place theory
D) Market area
E) Threshold theory
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Chapter 13: Urban Patterns
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Q1) More than ________ percent of all trips within U.S.cities are made by car.
A) 95
B) 99
C) 68
D) 25
E) 33
Q2) Which of the following is true of urban retailing?
A) Historically, urban residents bought food and other daily necessities at small neighborhood shops in the midst of housing areas.
B) Historically, grocery stores have always been outside the CBD.
C) Historically, all the large clothing stores preferred to set up shop in large suburban malls.
D) Historically, gangs made stores in the CBD pay "taxes" (protection money) to them.
E) Because of lower taxes, historically, large retail businesses preferred to locate in tall buildings.
Q3) Compare colonial and post-colonial Latin American cities.
Q4) What are some of the challenges that inner cities face in the U.S.?
Q5) What are some of the characteristics of suburban retail?
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Chapter 14: Resource Issues
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Q1) Describe the potential for solar and wind power.
Q2) Electric vehicles may still be using fossil fuels
A) because they all have a supplemental gas tank.
B) at a greater rate than conventional vehicles.
C) because batteries require oil to operate.
D) well into the 21st century.
E) if their charge comes from fossil-fueled power plants.
Q3) Why is coal typically found at mid-latitudes and not evenly distributed across the globe?
A) Coal formed preferentially in the mid-latitudes 250 million years ago.
B) Coal was formed in the tropical regions a long time ago and relocated to the mid-latitudes due to continental drift.
C) Coal turned to petroleum or natural gas in other parts of the world 250 million years ago.
D) Coal is distributed fairly uniformly but exploration has focused in the mid-latitudes.
E) The mid-latitudes had the ideal swampy conditions that initiated the long process of turning dead organisms into coal.
Q4) Identify and describe the three principal sources of water pollution.
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