practice quiz aphid

Which of the following terms best describes the spatial effects of the internet on the global diffusion of culture?

• Time-space convergence

• complementarity

• cultural divergence

• push factors

• pull factors

Which of the following describes the perspective of environmental determinism?

• A twentieth-century idea that human cultures are imprinted on the landscape in different forms of land use and architecture

• A contemporary ecological view that human activity is affecting the global environment toward a negative outcome

• A former scientific viewpoint stating that factors within the physical geography of a region shape the local population’s culture and behaviors

• A theory that humans hold the ability to modify Earth’s physical geography to meet the resource needs of a society

• A belief system based on an ideology that humans have dominion over Earth and its natural resources

In the contemporary pattern of migration to cities in more developed countries, migrants are more likely to settle in

• Suburban areas

• the central city

• brownfield sites

• squatter settlements

• areas of gentrification

As Buddhism diffused through East Asia, Buddhist traditions blended with local cultural customs to create distinct religious practices, such as Daoism in China and Shinto in Japan. Which of the following terms best describes this blending of cultural traditions?

• Assimilation

• Acculturation

• Possibilism

• multiculturalism

• syncretism

Debt-for-nature swaps are financial transactions in which a portion of a developing country’s foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for local investments in environmental conservation measures. Which of the following explains the significance of debt-for-nature programs?

• The programs utilize a dependency theory-based approach to improve local economic development.

• The programs provide a sustainable-development approach to reducing uneven levels of development between countries.

• The programs combat the economic decline of deindustrialization and improve service and technology development.

• The programs provide improvements in environmental health and sanitation that reduce mortality and epidemic disease rates

• The programs invest in environmental education that informs youth populations about preserving economic resources for future use.

As a less developed country’s economy evolves, the size of the primary sector, the size of the secondary sector, and the size of the tertiary sectors fluctuate. Which of the following statements best describes the highest level of job-opportunity change as countries shift from the periphery to the semiperiphery level of development?

• Primary sector employment increases as the country’s domestic demand for food and energy increases.

• Primary sector employment increases as the country’s economy becomes increasingly export oriented.

• Tertiary sector employment grows more quickly than any other sector because of foreign direct investment

• Secondary sector employment increases as the demand for manufactured products increases.

• Secondary and tertiary sector employment declines as factories and offices are increasingly automated.

In the model shown, the lines for birth rate, death rate, and total population are indicators of a country’s

• cycles of economic boom and bust over time

• level of social and economic development over time

• demographic change following a period of warfare

• demographic change following a period of famine

• demographic change following a period of totalitarian government

The demographic transition is a general model that seeks to explain

• the relationship between the size of age cohorts and natural population change

• how variations in population size and food supply can lead to periods of crisis

• the effects of changes in population size on the gross domestic product

• variations in population size, population migration rates, and the rate of natural increase

• how differences in birth and death rates result in natural population change

Which of the following statements best describes how the epidemiologic transition affects the demographic transition?

• The epidemiologic transition occurs in stage 1 of the demographic transition, causing a fluctuation in birth and death rates.

• Improvements in nutrition, sanitation, and health care cause death rates to fall in stage 2 of the demographic transition.

• Improvements in nutrition, sanitation, and health care cause birth rates to fall in stage 3 of the demographic transition.

• The epidemiologic transition occurs in stage 4 of the demographic transition, causing a slowing of the rate of natural increase.

• The epidemiologic transition occurs in stage 5 of the demographic transition as famines and wars cause a total population decline.

Which of the following is a limitation of the map of Hispanic population percentage?

• The small size of urban counties in the eastern United States masks the significance of the Hispanic population in most eastern cities.

• Larger county sizes in the western United States mask the significance of the Hispanic population in most western counties.

• States with the largest total populations mask the significance of the Hispanic population in those states.

• States with the smallest total populations mask the significance of the Hispanic population in those states.

• The pattern shown is not different than the pattern of early Hispanic settlement during the era of colonization.