Human Geo Final

1.

1 point

What is the core area and the main source for economic activity in a city?

Peripheral Area

The Central Business District

Town Square

Economic Zone

2.

1 point

Commercial land use is for privately owned businesses, retail shops, etc.

True

False

3.

1 point

What is a combination of many metropolitan areas called?

Ultra Cities

Megalopolis

Metropolitan Amalgamation

The CBD

4.

1 point

A GIS is a large digital collection of images, data, etc. It is a powerful database for geographic research.

True

False

5.

1 point

What is a cultural hearth?

It is an agricultural technique

A cultural hearth is a site of origin for ideas, material, and technology. Where they spread from.

It is the cause of the spreading of an idea

It is the receiving place of a cultural trait through diffusion

6.

1 point

What is the purpose of a thematic map

To express many themes apparent throughout the world

B and C

A and B

All of the Above

Maps that emphasize or focus on one feature

Maps that discuss only population

7.

1 point

Which map attempts to balance out size and shape, but still has some distortion?

Mercator

Molleweide equal

Robinson

Albers equal conic projection

8.

1 point

What is the purpose of grid lines?

To help find a how long it takes to get form one place to another

To help find the absolute location of a place

To help find the relative location of a place

To help find North, South, East, and West.

9.

1 point

Which of the following are/is (an) example/s of thematic maps

Cartogram

Flow line maps

Qualitative maps

All of the Above

A and C

10.

1 point

What are/is the new, powerful, helpful tool/s geographers can use today?

A, C, D

Global positioning system

Contour line maps

All of the above

A, B, C

GIS (geographic information system)

Remote sensing

11.

1 point

Residential land use is for privately owned businesses, retail shops, etc.

True

False

12.

1 point

Contour line maps are examples of thematic maps

True

False

13.

1 point

What is the RNI

A and D

(Definition) The percentage of increase population in the world every year

Rate of Nurture Index

None of the Above

Rate of Natural Increase

Rate of Natural Inhabitants

14.

1 point

A globe is a geographers best tool

True

False

15.

1 point

What are the concentric circles are of a cities going from the center to the outside.

B and D

Urban than the Peripheral

The city, the exurbs, the suburbs,

Urban, Suburbs, Exurbs

Exurbs, Urban, Suburbs

A and D

16.

1 point

Belief in divine forces in nature and people; traditional belief in spirits in natural phenomena

17.

1 point

A vertical rectangle, compact shape of a population pyramid of a country would mean that the country is

They have much more old people than young people

They are losing population

The country is stabilized, developed, and an even amount of people.

None of the above

They have much more young people than old people

18.

1 point

Monotheism is the belief in many gods

True

False

19.

1 point

What is urban geography?

The study of how people leave the urban area for better opportunities

The study of people and how tall their buildings are.

How much people are in the urban areas compared to others

The study of how people use space in cities

20.

1 point

A metropolitan area is a large economic landscape created by a combination of the suburbs, the city, and the exurbs

True

False

21.

1 point

What is the opposite of an Immigrant called?

Refugees

Emigrant

Enterers

The Inhabitants

22.

1 point

The birth rate is the total live births each year per
1,000 people.

True

False

23.

1 point

Exurbs are

The slums that are impoverished

Towns that occupy land beyond the suburbs, but are close enough to allow commuters to trade and work in the city

The main centers for industrialization that are right next to the city; closer than the suburbs.

Towns so far the cannot commute to the city and just work in their own.

24.

1 point

What are the two types of grid lines

Contour lines, Elavation lines

Longtitude, Contour Lines

A and C

Longtitude an latitude

25.

1 point

Contour line maps focus on land elevation and ocean/freshwater depth

True

False

26.

1 point

What is the spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior? This now happens very rapidly with technological advances in communication and travel.

Stimulation

Rapid Expansion

Acculturation

Cultural Diffusion

27.

1 point

What is the difference between a universalizing religion and an ethnic religion?

Ethnic religion are more isolated within a group of people when universalizing religions try to appeal to all humans seeking converts.

Universalizing religions are more confined to their own place and don't like to seek new followers; ethnic religions do and are on the more global scale.

None of the Above

Universalizing religions and ethnic religion are the same but universalizing religions are located mostly in Asia

Ethnic religions and Universalizing religions are the same but universalizing religions are usually bigger

28.

1 point

What is the amount of children a woman will have in her lifetime called?

Crude Birth Rate

Infant mortality

Fertility Rate

Rate of Natural Increase

29.

1 point

Immigrants are the number of people leaving a country

True

False

30.

1 point

Commercial land use is for the manufacturing of goods (may cause pollution, so may need to be positioned outside of the CBD)

True

False

31.

1 point

Cartography is the science of measuring distance on a map

True

False

32.

1 point

Polytheism is the belief in many gods

True

False