Exam 1: Human Geography: A Cultural Approach

On the tropical rain-forest island of Borneo, some tribes practice slash-and-burn agriculture, while other tribes have chosen to be fishers. This exemplifies:

Natural hazards are often the result of a combination of natural and human-influenced (or human-created) forces.

World crop distributions can be explained by land and climate characteristics alone.

It is possible to understand a culture removed from its physical setting.

From ground level, the most visible evidence of a particular cultural landscape is architecture.

Globalization means that, as a whole, people across the world are becoming quite similar in terms of their general level of well-being.

How many satellites are necessary for a GPS receiver to be precisely located in time and space?

Which would NOT be considered a subculture?

Suppose a family moves from the Russian countryside to Moscow, and then across the Russian border into Ukraine. This type of migration is:

Cowboys are an example of folk culture in the United States.

In a large city with multiple neighborhoods at different elevations, one part of the city is located at a higher altitude, and the people living in that neighborhood call it The Hills. The Hills is an example of a:

Which of the following is an example of absolute location?

Because cultures overlap and mix, formal region boundaries are often:

Globalization is a key shaper of culture and is in turn shaped by it.

The cultural landscape offers possibilities for subjective, artistic impression as well as objective, scholarly analysis.

Modern globalization both makes people more alike and enables recognition of the differences between groups of people.

In some Islamic cities, the mosque is by far the largest building in the area, thus showing the importance of religion in the city. In this case, we might say that the mosques are an important part of the:

Which is NOT an accurate definition of culture?

A geographer seeking to understand why people are reserved and quiet at memorials would be examining:

-According to the model shown here, the transitional area between the mature zone and the periphery is found in Sector: