Geography Review: Regionalism, Culture, and Population

Posted on Mar 14, 2025 in Security and Emergencies

Geography Review Questions

  1. The largest (most extensive) popular region is: the West.
  2. Regional backlash is another term for a grassroots form of regionalism.
  3. The weakest regional identity is in the Northeastern US.
  4. The weakest vernacular region is the Middle Atlantic.
  5. The most populous and sturdiest of the 14 vernacular regions is 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. The tradition of the American agricultural fair originated in Massachusetts.
  11. According to the textbook, Florida and Arizona are dominated by “gray power”.
  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. Geographers call landscapes that express the values, beliefs, and meanings of a particular culture: symbolic landscape.
  17. Geographers use the term space 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.
  18. Geographers call that school of thought based on the belief that humans, rather than the physical environment, are the primary active force; that the 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. The following 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. The populations of the two countries of Hispaniola are best described as: 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: 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: 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 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 a 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