Geography Q&A: Regionalism, Culture, and Population

Posted on Mar 28, 2025 in Security and Emergencies

  1. The largest (most extensive) popular region is: The West
  2. What is another term for a grassroots form of regionalism? Regional Backlash
  3. Where is the weakest regional identity in the following? The Northeastern US
  4. Which is the weakest vernacular region of the following? The Middle Atlantic
  5. What is the most populous and sturdiest of the 14 vernacular regions? The South
  6. Punctuated meaningfulness throughout a meaningless expanse of area describes: Places
  7. The fact that our knowledge of the world is always starting from and based around places as centers of our “care” about the world is related to: Embedded Knowledge
  8. Human beings only become able to think and act through being-in-the-world describes: Embedded Knowledge
  9. Places are not just sets of accumulated data, but they involve human intentions for these places as well. This defines: Phenomenology
  10. In what state did the tradition of the American agricultural fair have its origin? Massachusetts
  11. According to the textbook, which two states are dominated by “Gray Power”? Florida and Arizona
  12. Neolocalism is… the seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
  13. The accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs is called… Authenticity
  14. With respect to popular culture, geographers explain reterritorialization as… the process when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own.
  15. Globalization is… A spatial standardization that diminishes regional variety; this may result from the spread of popular culture, which can diminish or destroy the uniqueness of place through cultural standardization on a national or even a worldwide scale.
  16. What do geographers call landscapes that express the values, beliefs, and meanings of a particular culture? Symbolic landscape
  17. What term do geographers use to connote the objective, quantitative, theoretical, model-based, economics-oriented type of geography that seeks to understand spatial systems and networks through application of the principles of social science? Space
  18. What do geographers call that school of thought based on the belief that humans, rather than the physical environment, are the primary active force; that any environment offers a number of different possible ways for a culture to develop; and that the choices among these possibilities are guided by cultural heritage? Possibilism
  19. All of the following are partial explanations for the migrations of women, except: The forced expulsion of women to lower a country’s birthrate
  20. Which statement is NOT true of isolated farmsteads? They do not exist in Japan or Europe
  21. Farm villages are common in all of the following regions except: North America
  22. How are the populations of the two countries of Hispaniola best described? Population density is much higher in Haiti than in the Dominican Republic.
  23. The population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area, and derived by dividing the population of the areal unit by the number of square kilometers or miles that make up the unit, (is/are) _____________ Arithmetic Population Density
  24. All of the following are considered language hotspots except: Central Africa
  25. According to Table 6.1 in the article, Displaced Livelihoods, Africa has the highest percentage of: Camp refugees
  26. The diffusion of religion in East Asia experienced an absorbing barrier in the twentieth century in the form of: Chinese governmental repression
  27. The Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of Mohammad is called (a/an): Hajj
  28. Orthodox religions originated from movements to get back to the founding principles of religion. – False
  29. The territorial outer region from which a country grows in an area over time, often containing the national capital and the main center of commerce, culture, and industry is called the core area. – False
  30. A state is a centralized authority that enforces multiple political, economic, and legal systems within its territorial boundaries. – False
  31. Territoriality is a learned cultural response rooted in American history that produced the external bounding and internal territorial organization characteristics of modern states. – False
  32. Gerrymandering is the drawing of county boundaries in an awkward pattern to enhance the voting impact of one constituency at the expense of another. – False
  33. An ethnic homeland is sizeable area inhabited by a racial minority that exhibits a strong sense of attachment to the region and often exercises some measure of political and social control over. – False