University of Missouri–St. Louis



Geog 2001 Test 1

J. Naumann

Chapters 1-3, PowerPoint Presentations, & Why Geography Is Important (downloaded pamphlet)

Use the map below for questions 1 – 5.

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1. On the map of major religions, The 1 color stands for which religion?

2. On the map of major religions, the 2 color stands for which religion?

3. On the map of major religions, the 3 color stands for which religion?

4. On the map of major religions, the 4 color stands for which religion?

5. On the map of major religions, the 5 color stands for which religion?

6. What does the word “geography” mean?

7. What characteristics are true about the geographic concept of place?

8. Culture refers to what kind of behavior?

9. We cannot understand culture removed from what factors of place?

10. In order to investigate the spatial pattern of wheat production in the world, a geographer would investigate what other factors?

11. To describe a grouping of places with similar cultural functions and characteristics, cultural geographers use what term or concept?

12. What is the most basic tool in describing and revealing regions?

13. What are examples of a formal culture region?

14. What are examples of a functional culture region?

15. What is the pattern that formal regions typically exhibit?

16. At a basic level, what does the concept of the vernacular region grow out of?

17. Sushi originated in Japan, but today many countries have restaurants that serve sushi. This illustrates what concept?

18. The migration of Europeans into the western hemisphere included those people introducing Christianity into the Americas, thereby illustrating the process of what type of diffusion?

19. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) stores now exist in Shanghai, China’s largest city, and Beijing, the second major city in China. Soon, other KFC stores will open in other Chinese cities and towns that are smaller in size than Chiang Mai in a decreasing order. What type of diffusion does this process illustrate?

20. Television, videocassette recorders, and videotapes were not permitted in Afghanistan during the regime of the Taliban. Regarding the concept of diffusion, this is an example of what?

21. The process of microscale diffusion whereby a culture trait is quickly adopted in a small cluster around an initial adopter is called what?

22. Culture regions and the invention-diffusion process have what type of spatial arrangement in common?

23. Increasingly, sophisticated communications render the friction of distance virtually meaningless when an innovation is diffused. So, instead of the matter of availability being critical, what is the condition that is the key to the diffusion of an innovation among a population?

24. When geographers focus on the interrelationships between people and their environments, they are following which theme? -

25. On the tropical rainforest island of Borneo, some tribes practice slash-and-burn agriculture, while other tribes have chosen to be fishers. This exemplifies or illustrates which concept?

26. The magnitude and speed of environmental alteration is controlled by what?

27. What is the word that is key to the humanistic approach in cultural geography?

28. Yi-fu Tuan coined the term topophilia to express what?

29. Centrality and dominance of Catholicism in medieval Europe was symbolized by the height of what?

30. What is the best way to view settlement and land-division patterns overall?

31. What are New Orleans at night and Kansas farmlands viewed from a plane? -

32. The Far West and the Deep South are what category of regions?

33. While at opposite ends of the emotional spectrum, a joke spreading quickly throughout the office and cholera claiming a victim from every household in a village are examples of this what type of diffusion?

34. In order to study the distribution of the ranch-style, single-family house in North America, the cultural geographer employs the themes of cultural landscape and culture region plus what other theme(s)?

35. Folk culture is a term most likely to be associated with whom?

36. What are some characteristics of a folk culture?

37. A best contemporary example of folk culture in the United States is that of whom?

38. What are characteristics of popular culture?

39. What are examples of nonmaterial culture?

40. How can folk geography be defined?

41. Which of the following is reflective of folk landscapes?

42. Edward Relph’s term placelessness refers to what?

43. Match the following places to the type of eating/drinking consumption and or production most associated with it:

Places: Alabama, Missouri, Massachusetts, Tennessee, California

Food or drink: fried chicken, pizza, whiskey, beer, wine

44. The geographic pattern of the presence of blowguns demonstrates what about the origin, development, and diffusion of blowguns in the world?

45. When Wal-Mart decided to enter small-town markets prior to big-city ones, it was following which pattern of diffusion?

46. The most effective device for diffusion in popular culture is what?

47. The rapid diffusion of popular culture through the media and internet has rendered which factor affecting diffusion less important?

48. Today, what is the most significant aspect of advertising?

49. The commercial rodeo is an innovation whose adoption and practice is not limited by what social & political factors?

50. What kind(s) of physical place was(were) major migration destinations for Appalachian hill folk between 1830 and 1930?

51. According to the convergence hypothesis, how are people and places being affected?

52. What is the most basic structure constructed by people?

53. What part of North America is each of the house types below associated?

1. dogtrot/

2. bell-cast/

3. shotgun/

4. notched log/

5. Creole/

54. Geographer David Lowenthal has observed that the American landscape reveals Americans’ preoccupation with what quality?

55. One of the most crucial reasons for the preservation of indigenous cultures is the important role those people play in doing what to safeguard our future?

56. Indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) relies upon a tribal people’s detailed local knowledge of what aspects of their area’s?

57. What are some of the characteristics of cultural interaction in a popular culture?

58. Where is the kraal a form of rural family homestead?

59. What are some of the characteristics or descriptors regarding religion?

60. What are some of the characteristics or descriptors regarding Christianity?

61. Coptics, Maronites, and Nestorians are subgroups in which major division of Christianity?

62. The rich array of Protestant sects is best illustrated on the religious map of what part of the world?

63. The core area of Mormonism is in which state of the USA?

64. Where would one find the basis for the “Five Pillars” of Islam?

65. Which Islamic sect/regional leadership is the focus of a major fundamentalist revival that has encouraged the establishment of Islamic republics which enforce the sharia?

66. The majority of Muslims are members of which branch of Islam?

67. What are the “Pillar” of Islam?

68. The holiest place on earth for Muslims is where?

69. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have what in common?

70. Slightly less than half of the world’s Jews now live where?

71. A person who claims to be a Sephardic Jew would most likely come from which country?

72. What are characteristics of Hinduism?

73. Which religion arose from an attempt to unify Hinduism and Islam?

74. Jains and Hindus believe in what principle of life?

75. Which is the most widespread religion in Asia?

76. What is the Sikhs’ most sacred space place in South Asia?

77. Buddhism teaches that proper personal conduct and meditation are essential to overcome desire, eliminate life’s suffering, and escape to a state of peace. What is that state of peace called? -

78. Describe the religion of Animists.

79. What is a syncretic faith existing in the Americas that claims millions of followers in South America?

80. In parts of the world where religion has declined in importance, what is the process they are undergoing called?

81. Mount Sinai is “endowed with special grace.” This is an example of what?

82. The site of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is considered most sacred by whom?

83. Define mystical place.

84. Where do all three of the world’s great monotheistic faiths have their hearths?

85. Christianity spread from Palestine through relocation diffusion to key centers in the Roman Empire and then from there in later centuries across Europe in a two-step diffusion process that features what forms of diffusion?

86. Where did Muslim missionaries follow trade routes and implant Islam hierarchically?

87. Hinduism and Buddhism originated in the lowlands of which rivers?

88. What is a good example of a religion that failed to take hold because of absorbing barriers?

89. Completef the following associations on the chart?

|Religion |Natural Feature |Country |

|Hinduism |Ganges River | |

|Sjhintoism |Mt. Fuji | |

|Christianity |Jordan River | |

|I Am |Mt. Shasta | |

|Christianity |Lourdes grotto | |

90. What does the doctrine of Teleology say about the purpose of the Earth’s creation? -

91. There is as link between godliness and Greenness in which religions?

92. The fact that there is an absence of swine in North Africa and the Middle East today can be most simply attributed to what?

93. Which religion(s) do not permit alcohol consumption?.

94. What religion is associated with each shrine or pilgrimage site:

1) Ise -

2) Lourdes –

3) Mecca –

4) Amritsar –

5) Varanasi -

95. Why do Catholic churches tend to be large and elaborate structures?

96. What building is the most imposing religious structure in the Islamic landscape?

97. If you want to see many Roman Catholic churches and religious toponyms, where would you go in North America?

98. The terms Shiites and Sunnis refer to what?

99. Mahayana and Theravada are sects or schools of thought in which major religion?

100. Jainism and Buddhism have their roots in or emerged from which major religion?

101. Shells and cedars in cemeteries in the southern United States derive from what religious tradition?

102. A Jew whose family roots are deep in the Central Europe, Eastern Europe or Russia from the era of the Romans until the mid-twentieth century is identified by what term?

103. Eastern Orthodoxy, after leaving the Greek-speaking areas, diffused into the Slavic-speaking areas. This in part resulted in the creation of national churches. Name some Slavic-based branchs of Eastern Orthodoxy?

104. Which religion is expected to surpass Judaism as the second-largest faith in the United States?

105. Discontentment with Roman Catholicism resulting in conversion to Protestantism is happening most significantly in what part of the world?

106. Studying the role of religion in habitat modification is known by what name?

107. Religious pilgrimages are particularly significant to all these faiths EXCEPT which one?

108. Seven sacraments are associated with which forms of Christianity?

109. Which religions has been known for its remarkable ability to absorb or incorporate the beliefs of most religions that have been brought to the part of the world where it is the dominant faith?

Study Guide Questions for Why Geography Is Important

1. Learning Geography can create what kind of citizens? Citizens able to understand and do something about some of the major issues and problems facing the US and the world.

2. What are some of the major issues facing the US and the world? Climate change, energy dependence, war & regional conflicts, globalization, and international terrorism

3. Why do Americans need to understand the nature of foreign cultures? (1) economic globalization and job mobility (2) people in foreign cultures represent both a labor force and a market for our products

4. Geographic knowledge can help what kinds of leaders among the states of the world? Political, diplomatic, military, and economic

5. How has the “information revolution” (technology & the internet) affected our geographic horizons? Expanded our horizons from local to global

6. How can geographers help business, industry, and social service organizations? Assist them in finding the best locations (minimizing transportation costs and supporting the greatest efficiency of operation)

7. Why are geographers concerned about environmental issues? Geography is the study of the interacito0n between people, places, and environments.

8. How can geography help us deal with natural hazards? Help in designing effective early warning systems whenever such systems are practical

9. How can geographic study help in the conservation and preservation of our resources? By influencing students (current & future voting citizens) to become better environmental stewards.

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