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Ch. 1 Key Issue #3 – “Why are Different Places Similar”
1. The relationship between a culture group and the natural environment it occupies is termed:
a. cultural ecology
b. cultural convergence
c. cultural diffusion
d. culture hearth
e. cultural landscape
2. The movement of black Americans from the rural south to the cities of the northern U.S. is
an example of which kind of diffusion:
a. permeable
b. contagious
c. expansion
d. relocation
e. possibilism
3. The spread of Islam from its origins in Arabia outward across North Africa and the Middle
East would be classified as what kind of diffusion:
a. expansion
b. hierarchical
c. permeable
d. relocation
e. conversion
4. Which of the following is not an indicator of the cultural landscape:
a. house types
b. kinship (family) systems
c. size of settlements
d. transportation networks
e. irrigation systems
5. Which of the following best accounts for the universal appeal of blue jeans?
a. diffusion of popular culture
b. adoption of unique folk culture
c. impact of high income of clothing habits
d. lack of barriers in communist countries
e. need for durable clothing
6. Physiological population density differs from crude population density in that physiological
density:
a. examines only the population of cities, while crude density includes the population of cities and rural
areas
b. is a measure of how density is perceived, while crude density is a measure of specific density
c. explains density in terms of people per arable square land unit, while crude density
explains density in terms of people per total square land unit
d. explains the density of a single housing unit while crude density explains the density of a group
of houses
e. is the number of people per housing unit, while crude density is the number of people per square
mile
7. Globalization of the economy has
a. leveled the economic differences between places
b. heightened economic differences between places
c. decreased investment in less developed countries
d. drained resources from more developed countries
e. decreased regional specialization of production
8. Elements of globalization of culture include all of the following but,
a. uniform consumption preferences
b. enhanced communications
c. unequal access to cultural elements
d. maintaining local traditions
e. uniformity of cultural beliefs and forms
9. The global movement of money has been enhanced primarily by
a. establishment of new stock exchanges in London, New York, and Tokyo
b. improvements in electronic communications
c. relocation of production from core to peripheral regions
d. uneven development
e. a proliferation of currencies
10. Which is not a common practice of transnational corporations
a. relocate command centers from more developed countries
b. relocate nonessential employees to locations outside command centers
c. identify the distinctive economic assets of each region of the world
d. organize production according to a spatial division of labor
e. move factories from high wage regions to low wage regions
11. The frequency of something within a given unit of area is:
a. concentration
b. density
c. distribution
d. pattern
e. dispersion
12. The spread of something over a given study area is:
a. concentration
b. density
c. distribution
d. pattern
e. diffusuion
13. The spatial distribution created by the U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785 is an example of
a. concentration
b. density
c. distribution
d. category
e. pattern
14. A hearth is
a. a region from which a phenomenon originates
b. the process by which a feature or trend spreads
c. an area defined by one or more distinctive features or trends
d. the modification of a culture as a result of contact with a more powerful one.
e. Perimeter of a regional feature
15. Cultural convergence is the:
a. merging of the original culture hearths
b. sharing of technologies, organizational structures and culture traits among separated societies
c. process of acculturation
d. abandonment of older culture hearths for modern centers
e. the gradual elimination of all minor cultures by one dominant culture