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