Question 1

What term describes the long-term redistributions of population as people move to areas of greater economic opportunity?

Accepted Answer

A)  demographic cumulative causation 
B)  rural-to-urban migration 
C)  demographic dividend 
D)  economic migration 
A)  demographic cumulative causation 
B)  rural-to-urban migration 
C)  demographic dividend 
D)  economic migration A

Question 2

What was a result of the forced migrations of the slave trade?

Accepted Answer

A)  profits accumulated in Europe and Americas 
B)  over eight million West and Central Africans died 
C)  entirely new cultures emerged in the New World 
D)  all of these 
A)  profits accumulated in Europe and Americas 
B)  over eight million West and Central Africans died 
C)  entirely new cultures emerged in the New World 
D)  all of these D

Question 3

What best describes a daily space-time path?

Accepted Answer

A)  Each person's daily traces through space and time. 
B)  Daily space-time paths are constrained by fixed pegs. 
C)  Path prisms vary in their space-time availability ranges. 
D)  All of these. 
A)  Each person's daily traces through space and time. 
B)  Daily space-time paths are constrained by fixed pegs. 
C)  Path prisms vary in their space-time availability ranges. 
D)  All of these. D

Question 4

Where would you expect to find the lowest average age of a woman giving birth to her first child?

Accepted Answer

A)  Honduras 
B)  Japan 
C)  Hong Kong 
D)  Europe 
A)  Honduras 
B)  Japan 
C)  Hong Kong 
D)  Europe

Question 5

Where in the world would the lowest female participation rates likely be found?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cambodia 
B)  United States 
C)  Afghanistan 
D)  Zambia 
A)  Cambodia 
B)  United States 
C)  Afghanistan 
D)  Zambia

Question 6

What example best illustrates the intersection between transhumance and rural to urban migration?

Accepted Answer

A)  Scottish sheepherders appear each spring in town to shear and sell their wool. 
B)  The Maasai in Eastern Africa pick up tourists in Kinshasa for tours of nearby reserves. 
C)  Coastal Inuits follow the summer's shift in day length northward to hunt seals. 
D)  The Bracero Program of 1942 allowed Mexicans entry to work in US as farm laborers. 
A)  Scottish sheepherders appear each spring in town to shear and sell their wool. 
B)  The Maasai in Eastern Africa pick up tourists in Kinshasa for tours of nearby reserves. 
C)  Coastal Inuits follow the summer's shift in day length northward to hunt seals. 
D)  The Bracero Program of 1942 allowed Mexicans entry to work in US as farm laborers.

Question 7

What, ultimately, does the current distribution of population reflect?

Accepted Answer

A)  desire for coastal settlements 
B)  reliance on agriculture 
C)  desire for moderate climates 
D)  reliance on raw materials 
A)  desire for coastal settlements 
B)  reliance on agriculture 
C)  desire for moderate climates 
D)  reliance on raw materials

Question 8

What is NOT one of the characteristics of a gateway city?

Accepted Answer

A)  destination of international migrants 
B)  high percentage of foreign-born residents 
C)  political and economic capital of a country 
D)  site of diasporic communities and hybrid identities 
A)  destination of international migrants 
B)  high percentage of foreign-born residents 
C)  political and economic capital of a country 
D)  site of diasporic communities and hybrid identities

Question 9

What is a remittance?

Accepted Answer

A)  An important commodity for attracting investment capital from overseas. 
B)  A hypermobile form of investment capital that flows between wealthy countries. 
C)  A form of capital that economic migrants send back to their home country. 
D)  An aggregate measure of all the money a country earns from its economic migrants. 
A)  An important commodity for attracting investment capital from overseas. 
B)  A hypermobile form of investment capital that flows between wealthy countries. 
C)  A form of capital that economic migrants send back to their home country. 
D)  An aggregate measure of all the money a country earns from its economic migrants.

Question 10

In developed countries with many dense cities, a high percent urban population, and a low percent rural population, what type of internal migration would you expect to be foremost?

Accepted Answer

A)  suburbanization 
B)  urban-to-urban migration 
C)  rural-to-urban migration 
D)  transhumance 
A)  suburbanization 
B)  urban-to-urban migration 
C)  rural-to-urban migration 
D)  transhumance

Question 11

What term best describes the notion that social groups will mutually change one another and society as they interact in complex ways over successive generations?

Accepted Answer

A)  assimilation 
B)  polyculturalism 
C)  melting pot 
D)  multicultural society 
A)  assimilation 
B)  polyculturalism 
C)  melting pot 
D)  multicultural society

Question 12

What is transhumance?

Accepted Answer

A)  Traditional movement of migrating herders between greener sites for pasture. 
B)  Seasonal, instinctual migratory wild animal herds pursued by hunter-gatherers. 
C)  Traditional movement of mountain herders from summer to winter pasture. 
D)  Seasonal migrations of human hunter-gatherer groups between hunting grounds. 
A)  Traditional movement of migrating herders between greener sites for pasture. 
B)  Seasonal, instinctual migratory wild animal herds pursued by hunter-gatherers. 
C)  Traditional movement of mountain herders from summer to winter pasture. 
D)  Seasonal migrations of human hunter-gatherer groups between hunting grounds.

Question 13

What term describes the way that societies construct and use racial categories in ways that embody political power?

Accepted Answer

A)  socioeconomic categories 
B)  ethnicity 
C)  racialized groups 
D)  segregation 
A)  socioeconomic categories 
B)  ethnicity 
C)  racialized groups 
D)  segregation

Question 14

What is NOT a likely reason for the emergence of a racial/ethnic neighborhood cluster?

Accepted Answer

A)  People often prefer to live with people like themselves. 
B)  Such areas provide a comfortable, supportive role in a new society. 
C)  People often are forced to live with people like themselves. 
D)  Such areas allow minorities to assimilate with majority society easier. 
A)  People often prefer to live with people like themselves. 
B)  Such areas provide a comfortable, supportive role in a new society. 
C)  People often are forced to live with people like themselves. 
D)  Such areas allow minorities to assimilate with majority society easier.

Question 15

What is the best description of an imposed ethnicity?

Accepted Answer

A)  In the Persian Gulf, ethnic identities come from long histories of tribal distinctions. 
B)  Latinos in the US Census have been given distinct labels from the white majority. 
C)  In Canada, ethnically and linguistically French persons protect their distinct culture. 
D)  Kurds have retained their homogeneity and homeland across Syria, Turkey, and Iraq. 
A)  In the Persian Gulf, ethnic identities come from long histories of tribal distinctions. 
B)  Latinos in the US Census have been given distinct labels from the white majority. 
C)  In Canada, ethnically and linguistically French persons protect their distinct culture. 
D)  Kurds have retained their homogeneity and homeland across Syria, Turkey, and Iraq.

Question 16

What model of population movement represents the comparative assessment of characteristics between origin and destination that often characterizes the decision-making of voluntary migrants?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ravenstein 
B)  Gravity 
C)  Lee's Push-Pull 
D)  Zelinsky 
A)  Ravenstein 
B)  Gravity 
C)  Lee's Push-Pull 
D)  Zelinsky

Question 17

Besides having a large population, what else do the most powerful countries in the world today also typically have?

Accepted Answer

A)  strong culture 
B)  abundant land 
C)  strong economy 
D)  abundant resources 
A)  strong culture 
B)  abundant land 
C)  strong economy 
D)  abundant resources

Question 18

When is rural to urban migration NOT a permanent move?

Accepted Answer

A)  when it is seasonal and circular 
B)  when the migrant arrives alone 
C)  when it is one-way and anytime of the year 
D)  when the city job is only temporary 
A)  when it is seasonal and circular 
B)  when the migrant arrives alone 
C)  when it is one-way and anytime of the year 
D)  when the city job is only temporary

Question 19

What is NOT a category of social difference?

Accepted Answer

A)  Age 
B)  Biological organs 
C)  Gender 
D)  Race/ethnicity 
A)  Age 
B)  Biological organs 
C)  Gender 
D)  Race/ethnicity

Question 20

Where in a hypothetical, developed country would the population with the least economic importance or political power relative to their size be located?

Accepted Answer

A)  rural areas 
B)  urban areas 
C)  capital cities 
D)  coastal cities 
A)  rural areas 
B)  urban areas 
C)  capital cities 
D)  coastal cities

What term describes the long-term redistributions of population as people move to areas of greater economic opportunity?

What was a result of the forced migrations of the slave trade?

What best describes a daily space-time path?

Where would you expect to find the lowest average age of a woman giving birth to her first child?

Where in the world would the lowest female participation rates likely be found?

What example best illustrates the intersection between transhumance and rural to urban migration?

What, ultimately, does the current distribution of population reflect?

What is NOT one of the characteristics of a gateway city?

What is a remittance?

In developed countries with many dense cities, a high percent urban population, and a low percent rural population, what type of internal migration would you expect to be foremost?

What term best describes the notion that social groups will mutually change one another and society as they interact in complex ways over successive generations?

What is transhumance?

What term describes the way that societies construct and use racial categories in ways that embody political power?

What is NOT a likely reason for the emergence of a racial/ethnic neighborhood cluster?

What is the best description of an imposed ethnicity?

What model of population movement represents the comparative assessment of characteristics between origin and destination that often characterizes the decision-making of voluntary migrants?

Besides having a large population, what else do the most powerful countries in the world today also typically have?

When is rural to urban migration NOT a permanent move?

What is NOT a category of social difference?

Where in a hypothetical, developed country would the population with the least economic importance or political power relative to their size be located?

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Exam 9: The Geography of Population

What term describes the long-term redistributions of population as people move to areas of greater economic opportunity?

What was a result of the forced migrations of the slave trade?

What best describes a daily space-time path?

Where would you expect to find the lowest average age of a woman giving birth to her first child?

Where in the world would the lowest female participation rates likely be found?

What example best illustrates the intersection between transhumance and rural to urban migration?

What, ultimately, does the current distribution of population reflect?

What is NOT one of the characteristics of a gateway city?

What is a remittance?

In developed countries with many dense cities, a high percent urban population, and a low percent rural population, what type of internal migration would you expect to be foremost?

What term best describes the notion that social groups will mutually change one another and society as they interact in complex ways over successive generations?

What is transhumance?

What term describes the way that societies construct and use racial categories in ways that embody political power?

What is NOT a likely reason for the emergence of a racial/ethnic neighborhood cluster?

What is the best description of an imposed ethnicity?

What model of population movement represents the comparative assessment of characteristics between origin and destination that often characterizes the decision-making of voluntary migrants?

Besides having a large population, what else do the most powerful countries in the world today also typically have?

When is rural to urban migration NOT a permanent move?

What is NOT a category of social difference?

Where in a hypothetical, developed country would the population with the least economic importance or political power relative to their size be located?

The Home Planet

The Nature of Geography

Population Dynamics

Population and Food

Population and Resources

People and the Environment

The Geography of Three Economic Sectors

The Economic Geography of Uneven Development

The Geography of Religion

The Geography of Language

Creating a Global Economy

The Global Geography of Culture

World Orders

The Nation-State

The Urban Transformation

Networks of Cities

The Internal Structure of the City

Filters