Geography of Population Exam Practice Tests
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Geography of Population examines the spatial distribution, composition, and growth patterns of human populations across the globe. This course explores key demographic processes such as fertility, mortality, and migration, and analyzes how these factors interact with cultural, economic, environmental, and political forces. Students will investigate population structures, urbanization trends, and the impacts of population change on resource use and development. Through the study of maps, statistics, and case studies, the course provides insights into contemporary population issues and their implications for planning and policy at local, national, and global scales.
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Human Geography 1st Edition by Jon Malinowski
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Chapter 1: Major Geographic Concepts
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Q1) Which of the following does not apply to the concept of process?
A)When something starts and when something ends.
B)If some phenomena has a logical progression.
C)When you can't access the appropriate webpage in your browser.
D)Explanations of why process has occurred.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following might be the best example of an iconic landscape?
A)a commercial shopping area on the edge of town.
B)a downtown street with local shops below skyscrapers.
C)a residential street with California bungalow houses.
D)a public area with large monuments dedicated to soldiers lost in war.
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is not true regarding processes as important to geographers?
A)they want to know how something began and how it ended.
B)they want to know the logical ordering or sequence of events.
C)they want to know why a pattern or order occurred when it did.
D)they want to memorize the capital cities of countries.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Geography Through the Ages
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Q1) Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralist theory consists of
A)a superstructure and an infrastructure.
B)a megastructure and a microstructure.
C)infrared levels and superred levels.
D)levels that cannot be ascertained by people.
Answer: A
Q2) Poststructuralists
A)don't generally try to understand the infrastructure.
B)don't have the spatial knowledge of Marx and Engels.
C)are virtually the same as postmodernists.
D)generally have little sense of place.
Answer: A
Q3) The teachings of Carl Ritter seemed to focus
A)on observation and discerning processes.
B)on developing advanced theories.
C)on collecting facts.
D)on accumulating trivia.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Population
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Q1) In population Australia is notable
A)because it is about as densely populated as Europe.
B)its arithmetic density overall is moderately high.
C)since it rivals Japan and China in population total numbers.
D)as it is virtually empty of population except in some coastal areas.
Answer: D
Q2) CBR-CDR = A)RNI.
B)TFR.
C)Doubling time in total population.
D)General ending time of an industrial revolution.
Answer: A
Q3) In the demographic transition the greatest growth is found in A)Stage 1.
B)Stage 2.
C)Stage 3.
D)Stage 4.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Geography of Health and Disease
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Q1) Dr.John Snow was able to isolate the reason for the diffusion of cholera by
A)watching bats and pigs interact.
B)mapping diseases incidences and clusters.
C)observing how mosquitoes move through the urban environment.
D)seeing how zombies transmit brain stem virus on the streets.
Q2) In shistosomiasis, eggs hatch
A)in the water.
B)in snails and other shellfish.
C)in the human body.
D)inside other worms.
Q3) Regarding the regional variation of HIV/AIDS
A)it is normally transmitted by homosexuals in the United States.
B)is normally transmitted by heterosexuals in Africa.
C)prostitution is also a factor in the diffusion of the disease.
D)all of the above.
Q4) Which of the following disease transmissions does not exhibit a vector?
A)one person shaking hands with another and transmitting hepatitis.
B)a mosquito transmitting west Nile virus from one person to another.
C)a raccoon transmitting rabies from another raccoon to a human.
D)a tsetse fly transmitting sleeping sickness from a cow to a chimp.
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Chapter 5: Migration Flows
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Q1) An area of slave trade that most people in the United States do not think about is
A)Africans brought to the deep south in the United States from western Africa.
B)Africans brought to the Caribbean from the Congo region.
C)the general traffic of slaves in the Americas.
D)slaves taken from east Africa to Arabia.
Q2) Ellis Island was
A)an island off the coast of Australia where British convicts were sent.
B)an island off the coast of French Guiana which was a prison.
C)where many immigrants came into the United States.
D)one of the first resorts for snow bird cyclical migrants in Florida.
Q3) If there were less immigration into the United States, then over time
A)the country would gain more area.
B)the country would have more population.
C)the country would gradually lose people to out-migration.
D)the country would cease to exist over a long period of time.
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Chapter 6: Culture and Cultural Landscapes
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Q1) House styles are representative of culture values
A)in the regional preferences of the external decoration of the structure.
B)because house styles reflect national and international tastes more than the local.
C)in that only studies on the inside of the house are important because external forms are too uniform to hold any meaning.
D)None of the above.
Q2) Which is not true regarding candlepin and duckpin bowling?
A)The pins are straighter.
B)After the ball is thrown, pins are left where they fall.
C)The sport has origins in the San Joaquin Valley of California.
D)The sport is found in the Mid-Atlantic and New England.
Q3) Culture and ethnicity are
A)concepts that are relatively foreign to geographers.
B)more often used by sociologists or anthropologists but not geographers.
C)only relevant to the historian's point of view.
D)the focus of a great deal of attention by geographers.
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Chapter 7: The Geography of Language
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Q1) To say that Rotokas, a language in New Guinea, has only 11 phonemes is saying that A)people who speak the language probably cannot communicate very efficiently with each other.
B)the language is similar to English or Spanish.
C)this is how many active sounds are used in the language.
D)this language's vocabulary is not very developed.
Q2) Place names can be
A)both of physical as well as cultural features.
B)found underground and this is a great new area of study.
C)are usually relatively recent and tell us little about early settlement.
D)none of the above
Q3) Grimm's law discusses
A)predictable sound shifts in different but related languages.
B)the importance of related vocabulary in related languages.
C)language as related to the gravity model of development.
D)how language families are related more broadly.
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Chapter 8: The Geography of Religion
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Q1) Which is the best example of a universalizing religion?
A)Judaism whose adherents often go door to door
B)Taoism whose beliefs encourage looking inward with meditation
C)The Heaven's Gate cult who killed themselves to 'board the mother ship'
D)Jehovah's Witnesses who actively proselyte for converts
Q2) The four noble truths of Buddhism can be summarized as teaching that
A)troubles and pain can be conquered through reincarnation improvement.
B)our status in the next life depends on our actions in this life.
C)suffering can be overcome and desire can be diminished.
D)there is no afterlife so current actions do not matter.
Q3) For Buddhists, Nirvana means
A)the ending of greed and suffering.
B)the beginning of eternal life with God.
C)leaving behind faith and embarking on perfect knowledge.
D)arriving at a certainty regarding authoritarian leadership.
Q4) Up to A.D.600 the diffusion of Christianity could be said to be
A)mainly near Israel.
B)mainly near the Mediterranean Sea and Mediterranean Europe.
C)mainly in the Baltic region and in Scandinavia.
D)mainly in the eastern Russian realm and then North America.
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Chapter 9: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
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Q1) When an ethnic group (like Mexicans coming to the United States) learn to adapt within the culture of the new country this is called
A)acculturation.
B)ethnic cleansing.
C)reincarnation.
D)areal differentiation.
Q2) The word 'ethnos' is
A)Greek for 'people'
B)Latin for 'water'
C)Roman for 'public'
D)Italian for 'love'
Q3) September 11, 2001 tended to do what to Americans?
A)make them more commercial and material
B)increase their positive feelings about being integrated into the global economy
C)solidify feelings of American-ness by flying more flags and having deeper patriotic feelings
D)increase gross national product per capita through events related to economic prosperity
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Chapter 10: A World of Nations and States
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Q1) In primitive examples of government, territory might have been ruled by A)tribal chiefdoms.
B)monarchs.
C)parliaments.
D)corporations.
Q2) A centrifugal force contributes to
A)the devolution of a country.
B)separatism.
C)possibly greater federalism in attempts to keep the country together.
D)all of the above are strongly related to centrifugal forces.
Q3) Which is the best example of a nation?
A)the Kurdish people, who reside in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey
B)the people of Ohio who maintain a distinct ethnicity and culture
C)the people of the United States who are "One Nation Under God"
D)the people of the 25 ethnically diverse states of India
Q4) Which is the best example of decolonization?
A)France becoming gradually more nationalistic and sovereign
B)the development of Spain around Spanish speaking peoples
C)the British Colonies of North America revolting and becoming independent
D)the city-state of the Vatican maintaining its autonomy
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Chapter 11: Geography of Governance and Representation
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Q1) The theory of the state that says that the state derives from servicing the needs of all members and groups within is called
A)the Marxist state theory.
B)the Pluralist state theory.
C)the Monarchical state theory.
D)the state theory of the Economic Man.
Q2) The undisputed core region of France is
A)Marseille and the Côte d'azur.
B)Toulouse and Bordeaux.
C)Ile de France.
D)Alsace Lorrain.
Q3) Though historically the United Kingdom is a unitary state
A)it is also politically tied to China and Japan, as confederated parts.
B)it has units that increasingly have gained more freedom to act on their own.
C)it is intimately connected to Ireland and Iceland in a federation.
D)none of the above.
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Chapter 12: Environment and Conservation
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Q1) Over the next few decades the world's population is expected to increase by 2 billion.This means that
A)more people will be added to the earth than ever before.
B)stresses on that population will increase.
C)we must learn to manage resources wisely to accommodate that population.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Fresh Kills is
A)a fresh water aquaculture fishery in Louisiana.
B)a polluted river stream in eastern Pennsylvania.
C)the largest landfill in the world on Staten Island.
D)a series of over hunted state parks in southern Indiana.
Q3) One important thing to remember about fossil fuels is that
A)once taken from the ground, they cannot be soon replenished.
B)they will be removed from daily use over the next decade.
C)the use of automobiles in the U.S.and Europe has little to do with their use.
D)all of the above.
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Chapter 13: Urbanization and Urban Networks
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Q1) In the Middle Ages two main axes of trade were
A)Central France and Central Spain.
B)Southern England and coastal Flanders.
C)the Baltic Hanseatic League and Italian port cities.
D)the Greek culture area from Turkey through southern Italy
Q2) Up until a few thousand years ago, cities
A)did not exist.
B)were only found in Japan and China.
C)clustered in Mexico and Central America only.
D)were always widely spread globally.
Q3) World areas with no urban development before the year AD 0 would be A)Europe.
B)North America.
C)Australia.
D)all of the above.
Q4) Division of labor refers to
A)jobs divided up by race.
B)working harder than ever before in factory jobs.
C)people working in specific jobs according to need.
D)more and more agricultural jobs available.
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Chapter 14: The Changing Structure of the City
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Q1) Medieval cities had to be constructed to serve defensive purposes so main ingredients in their construction and makeup would be
A)walls, gates, moats, and other fortifications.
B)tall buildings, banks, and commercial functions.
C)many extravagant homes for the wealthy.
D)rarely anything other than port facilities.
Q2) In filtering, the population generally
A)moves from the older housing stock into new.
B)moves out of newer homes because they cannot afford them.
C)moves toward retirement 'vacation' homes earlier in life.
D)moves into more brownfield industrial areas.
Q3) The automobile began to fundamentally alter city structure when?
A)after the Civil War
B)before World War I
C)during the Depression
D)after World War II
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Chapter 15: The Geography of Economic Activity and Agriculture
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Q1) Which is the best example of a primary sector economic activity?
A)changing the oil of an automobile
B)the sale of insurance for that automobile
C)mining the iron ore for the engine of that automobile
D)the sale of your used automobile
Q2) Imperial economies may
A)allow long distance trade.
B)allow specialization of trade within their borders.
C)have people interacting across great distances.
D)all of the above.
Q3) Which of the following is true regarding irrigation?
A)it did not originally involve water
B)it was usually put in place in coastal areas
C)it required that communities work together in a fairly intense way
D)all of the above
Q4) Which is an example of a large scale economy?
A)hunting and gathering
B)a planned economy
C)primitive seed agriculture
D)feudalism
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Chapter 16: Geographies of Production and Consumption
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Q1) Conspicuous consumption is
A)when a population mainly eats outside.
B)when a culture sees its automobiles as cultural markers with personalities.
C)when people display status by ostentatiously showing off their material goods.
D)when a culture accepts masques and costumes trying to hide its true identity.
Q2) Which might be a backward linkage with regard to the production of an automobile?
A)where the auto will be sold
B)the emissions the completed auto will output
C)how the auto will eventually be recycled
D)the iron ore which was mined and made into the auto's engine
Q3) The development of the steam engine was a main event powering
A)the agricultural revolution.
B)the industrial revolution.
C)agricultural diffusion.
D)none of the above.
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Chapter 17: Distribution and Transportation
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Q1) Retailing now is more and more tied to 'e-tailing' which involves
A) buying more and more from the store closest to your home or residence.
B) the appearance of more buy-out stores selling left over items in bulk.
C) shopping on-line with stores like Amazon or eBay.
D) both A and B
Q2) Which are main activities which require transportation?
A)military, freight, and personal mobility
B)desire, accomplishment, and satisfaction
C)physical fitness, mental health, and social networking
D)none of the above
Q3) Cities like Venice, Brujes, and Amsterdam grew rich by placing themselves
A)at the center of good trading networks.
B)at the periphery of continental trade.
C)along major highway networks.
D)in the center of raw material mining regions.
Q4) Regarding pedestrians, research shows
A)if pathways are available and clear people clearly like to walk.
B)people always prefer cars.
C)most cities in the U.S.are developing subway systems.
D)they are increasingly likely to be hit by automobiles.
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Chapter 18: Development and Geography
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Q1) Sustainable development attempts to
A)deplete all countries of their raw materials as quickly as possible.
B)reconcile economic advancement with environmental protection.
C)build up exports of higher level third world countries.
D)magnify the HDI of African countries in particular.
Q2) In terms of rubber production, Malaysia
A)only grows rubber trees as a commodity export country.
B)also produces a few rubber based goods for export.
C)has taken complete control of all production and manufacturing aspects of rubber.
D)none of the above.
Q3) When Marco Polo visited China from Venice he
A)generally could not bear the poverty he encountered.
B)denigrated the leadership and political system there.
C)wrote extensively about the wealth of the country.
D)swore he would never return because of the low health standards.
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