Saturday, November 16, 2019

The physical location of a place using the Earth latitude-longitude grid is properly called the:

The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape is known as:
the cultural landscape.

The physical location of a place using the Earth latitude-longitude grid is properly called the:
absolute location

________________ culture is conceived as small, incorporating a homogeneous population, typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits.
Folk

Almost everywhere on Earth, Total Fertility Rates (TFRs) are
falling.

A city’s relative location can change over time.
True

“Little Sweden” in Lindsborg, Kansas is a good example:
neolocalism.

The spread of disease where nearly all adjacent individuals are affected is an example of
contagious diffusion

The major focus of North America's population is
the Megalopolis region.

Some countries have declining populations, which means negative population growth rates.
True

Much of Kenya’s income comes from:
coffee and tea production

The mental map you have of places you routinely visit is a map of your:
activity spaces

A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a community and who share experience, customs, and traits are referred to as a
local culture.

Which is not an aspect of cultural landscape convergence?
development of regional architectural styles

Geographer David Harvey refers to the increasing speed by which innovations in popular culture diffuse as
time-space compression.

The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows:
the arrangement and organization of things on the surface to the Earth

Which of the following is not one of Ernst Ravenstein’s laws of migration?
The majority of urban migrants are uneducated.

Globalized popular culture can be picked up and reproduced by people in the context of their local culture. This is referred to as:
reterritorialization.

Food production, contrary to the predictions of Malthus, has grown exponentially because of a number of factors.  Which one of the following is not one of these factors?
an increase in the number of farmers in Britain

Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact of the drainage of part of the Florida Everglades?
human-environment

One recent refugee crisis in Southwest Asia took place in 1991, when, in the aftermath of the Gulf War, the __________ population of northern Iraq was forced to leave their villages and flee across the Turkish and Iranian borders.
Kurdish

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