Test Bank for Contemporary Human Geography 2nd Edition Neumann

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

1. If every place on Earth were identical, we would not need a spatial perspective.
a. True
b. False

2. Modern globalization both makes people more alike and enables recognition of the differences between
groups of people.
a. True
b. False

3. A typical dispersed settlement form would be a city.
a. True
b. False

4. Ford and Griffin's model of the Latin American city conforms to all cities in that region.
a. True
b. False

5. Placelessness is something experienced at a war memorial.
a. True
b. False

6. When you go to your polling place, you are visiting a node in a functional region.
a. True
b. False

7. Groups that form in opposition to the dominant culture, such as hip-hop or punks, are referred to as diaspora.
a. True
b. False

8. Blaut and Ormrod have argued that non-diffusion is more prevalent than diffusion.
a. True
b. False

9. Scholars of possibilism believe that the higher the technological level of a culture, the stronger the influences
of the physical environment.
a. True
b. False

10. A good example of a functional node is your state or provincial capital.
a. True

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b. False

11. Vernacular regions often lack the organization necessary for functional regions.
a. True
b. False

12. Cowboys are an example of folk culture in the United States.
a. True
b. False

13. Transnational migration is uncommon in a globalizing world.
a. True
b. False

14. Natural hazards are often the result of a combination of natural and human-influenced (or human-created)
forces.
a. True
b. False

15. Globalization is a key shaper of culture and is in turn shaped by it.
a. True
b. False

16. Globalization is solely a modern phenomenon.
a. True
b. False

17. McDonald's is an example of popular culture.
a. True
b. False

18. Ultimately, agricultural patterns cannot be explained by the characteristics of the land and climate alone.
a. True
b. False

19. Geographers who study power and ideology tend to focus more on diversity within cultures rather than on
differences between cultures.
a. True
b. False

20. Vernacular regions, like most regions, generally lack sharp borders.
a. True

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b. False

21. Modern mass media have greatly accelerated diffusion, augmenting the impact of time–distance decay.
a. True
b. False

22. The ancient Kingdom of Zimbabwe was located in what is modern-day Botswana and Namibia.
a. True
b. False

23. A vernacular region is sometimes based on a specific economic, political, or historical characteristic.
a. True
b. False

24. The relationship between people and nature is a two-way interaction, in which each affects and is affected
by the other.
a. True
b. False

25. Stepwise migration refers to the phenomenon of migrants going back to their place of origin after long-term
residency elsewhere.
a. True
b. False

26. Google Maps on your phone can track your location using the signal from two satellites that find you in
time and space.
a. True
b. False

27. In general, migration follows a pattern from areas of low employment or low wages toward areas of higher
employment or higher wages.
a. True
b. False

28. The word space is employed mostly by those who build models, while the word place is used mostly by
those with a more humanistic view of geography.
a. True
b. False

29. Culture is best understood as a process, not as a static, fixed pattern.
a. True
b. False

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30. The adoption of new innovations generally increases with distance and time, a phenomenon known as
friction of distance.
a. True
b. False

31. Vernacular regions are usually homogeneous.
a. True
b. False

32. If a human geographer studies the landscape produced by a human community, that landscape reflects the
culture of this group.
a. True
b. False

33. The study of contemporary human geography is best understood in the context of cultures (plural) rather
than a fixed, singular culture in any given region.
a. True
b. False

34. Food preferences and crop choices are influenced by survival needs alone, not belief systems.
a. True
b. False

35. The modern-day country of Zimbabwe took its name from the Great Zimbabwe National Monument.
a. True
b. False

36. The increase in greenhouse gas emissions and resulting climate change is one of the key events of the
Pleistocene.
a. True
b. False

37. Rural farming areas generally tend to be highly nucleated.
a. True
b. False

38. The Great Zimbabwe National Monument was built completely without mortar.
a. True
b. False

39. Environmental determinism was used as a justification for European colonial activity.
a. True

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