Human Geography Questions

Which of the following statements explains the regional location in the United States where the figures shown in the image are most likely part of the cultural landscape?AThe Northeast, because residents are influenced by British Protestantism.BThe Southeast, because residents are influenced by traditional religions from West Africa.CThe Great Plains, because residents are influenced by Native American traditional religions.DThe Southwest, because residents are influenced by Spanish Catholicism.EThe Northwest, because residents are influenced by Russian Orthodoxy.

Which of the following scales of analysis would provide demographic data that could be used to compare one urban neighborhood to other urban neighborhoods across a country?A) State or provinceB) Metropolitan area or urban regionC) County or parish (in Quebec and Louisiana)D) City or municipalityE) Census tract or enumeration area

Nunavut in Canada is a semiautonomous region that allows an indigenous group within Canada to maintain their own culture and local government, reducing the threat of fragmentation. Which of the following best compares the impact of the creation of Nunavut at both local and national scales?AIt created centrifugal forces at both local and national scales.BIt created centrifugal forces at the local scale but not the national scale.CIt created centrifugal forces locally and centripetal forces nationally.DIt created centripetal forces at the national scale but not the local scale.EIt created centripetal forces at both local and national scales.

Which of the following best explains why countries such as Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), Kazakhstan, and Nigeria would construct a new capital city in a different location from the old capital city?

Which of the following best illustrates how the world cities in the table are connected globally in ways that transcend national borders?

Which of the following similarities best explains why cities such as Venice, Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Marseilles were early front-runners in urban development in Western Europe?

The photograph above shows high-density residential housing built in the early 2000s in Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas, developed to accommodate large increases in population in the area. Which of the following best explains the growth in population and housing shown in the image and the census data?

Which of the following best explains the importance of stock exchanges in the cities of Mumbai, India and Shanghai, China?

The map shows urbanized areas. Which of the following additional types of quantitative data will be most helpful to a geographer analyzing expansion of the urbanized areas shown on the map?

Populations are most heavily concentrated at ___ elevations and diminish rapidly as the elevation increases

Physiological density provides insight into whether people can ____ themselves agriculturally

If the total fertility rate is ____ than 2,.1, the population long-term will grow

According to the model, ___ regions, countries, and societies go through the first four stages, and they rarely return to an earlier stage

________ policies generally are fueled by a sense of ethnic or national pride and tend to succeed where there is a strong sense of nationalism or anti-immigrant sentiment

A _____ agricultural density suggests subsistence agriculture

Stages 4 and 5 are more _____ additions to Omran's ETM model

Generalizations or conclusions based solely upon CDRs can be ______; for example, a high number of natural deaths occurring within the oldest portion of the population, when that segment represents a large portion of the population

Generally, the ______ CBR is in Europe and the highest in Africa

Core countries tend to have a ______ CDR than peripheral countries do

The ____ is often considered a better indicator than the CDR in terms of health and health care in a country