REVISION TEST

1. Describe two geographic definitions of culture.

Culture is the way someone does something like the type of food they cook or eat and
the way there government works there a lot of things inside culture but the main thing
Is religion and ethnicity.
2. Describe geographic approaches to elements of cultural identity such as gender,
ethnicity, and sexuality.
Some ethnicities like African American and Hispanic American are see a lot in the US
and they used to be discriminated cause of there ethnicity and race but now that is
different and there are bunch of ethnicity in the world and most states are multi-ethnic
states .
3. Identify the three properties of distribution across space.
Space Time Compression
4. Summarize geographic thought, with application to the geography of inequality.
5. Explain functional, formal and vernacular Region.
These are all the types of regions and how they are like
6. Where are the world’s people distributed?
Asia, Africa, Europe
7. Why is world population increasing?
Because the Life expentancy is higher ad Higher IMR so more babies and some
countries are telling to make more babies because there population is going extinct so
there are more kids and older people.
8. Why do some places face health challenges?
Because they don’t have the right medical equipment because the countries are not
providing them because they don’t matter to them cause they are still a developing
country.
9. Why might population increase in the future?
Because the IMR is increasing, and most countries are in stage 3 or stage 4 which is
increase and they are staying there.
10. Where are the world’s migrants distributed?
U.S and Europe
11. Where do people migrate within a country?
Interregional migration when they move within the country for a better job or closer
to family.
12. Why do people migrate?
Jobs and Environmental reasons
13. Why do migrants face challenges?
Because they cant support them self with a job and they cant survive in the current
place so they struggle with getting jobs.
14. Summarize two principal ways that popular culture can adversely affect the
environment.
Popular culture makes these places make mreo places changes the cultural landscape
of the current place for example Time Square in new York it is a cultural landscape
and it wasn’t all tvs and billboards before it was a complete plain peace of land .
15. Compare differences in geographic dimensions of folk and popular music.
 Most popular music are spread through the internet which makes it popular and more
people want to see it and that is the type of music those people like for example BTS
is a different group they sing in their language and that ethnic group and the other
people who don’t even speak that language like the song but for folk it is just a song
that is sang withing their group or culture.
16. Compare processes of origin, diffusion, and distribution of folk and popular culture.
Folk culture origin is founded by someone and its diffusion Is within a group or
within their culture and not that popular but popular is the opposite it is found by a
cultural group and it is spread throughout the internet basically it is widely known
through the world.
17. Describe regional variations in popular food preferences.
Popular food preferences
18. Where are folk and popular leisure activities distributed?
Popular is widely distributed because it is known widely and the folk are distrubtuted
within their group or culture.
19. Why do individual languages vary among places?
Because that is where the creater or founder of their language was or the closer places
to it.
20. What geographic factors might account for this changing distribution?
When the job opportunity and Environment problems are there the people move
around.
21. Why do local languages survive?
Because the people there speak that local language and to communicate you need to
know the local language so they stay alive and the government uses that to
communicate with them.
22. Where are the world’s religions distributed?
Islam is South west part of asia and Africa and America north and south is
Christianity buddhist are mostly throughout asia and Hinduism is southern part of
asia.
23. Why do religions have distinctive distributions?
Because when there are religons like Christianity it is all around the world and people
move countries a lot.
24. Why do religions organize space in distinctive patterns?
Because they always try staying close so then they can have all of the same religons in
a closer area.
25. Why do territorial conflicts arise among religious groups?
When they are fighting over holy grounds because that’s where the creator of all of
there religion was so they fight for land.
26. Explain differences between a nation-state and a multinational state.
No perfect nation state there is never a perfect one and a multinational state is
multiple ethnicity than one
27. Describe challenges in creating nation-states in the former Soviet Union.
After they separated the Soviet Union it doesn’t have that much people because most
of the people are from a different place because when they split up half the people
stayed back so there population no that high
28. Describe types of physical boundaries between states.
 Like the Peace arch something that was made before you cross the Canada border
from U.S and it is physical thing that you can see
29. Explain the concept of gerrymandering and three ways that it is done.
Gerrymandering is when one district votes for the other favours the other because it is
a better alliance and vote for them so then they can for boundaries to change.
30. Explain the concept of colonies and describe their current distribution.
It is a territory that is with a state but now there aren’t much of the colonies because
most broke off.