Test Bank For Human Geography Places And Regions In Global Context 4th Canadian Edition by Paul L. Knox

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Human Geography, Cdn. 4e (Knox, et al.)

Chapter 1   Geography Matters

 

1) Human geography can best be defined as:

1. A) the study of the spatial organization of human activity and relationships with their environment
2. B) the mapping of distinct human settlements and cultural landscapes
3. C) the study of human groups and the spatial diffusion of their cultures
4. D) the study of the spatial relationships between human and social structures
5. E) the study of the spatial forms of environmental development

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 5

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

2) These refer to large-scale geographic divisions based on continental and physiographic settings that contain major groupings of peoples with broadly similar cultural attributes.

1. A) subnational regions
2. B) states
3. C) world regions
4. D) world systems
5. E) supranational regions

Answer:  C

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 11

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

 

3) This scale is of interest to geographers because it represents the operational scale for cognition, perception, imagination, free will, and behaviour.

1. A) community
2. B) home
3. C) self
4. D) city
5. E) family

Answer:  C

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 12

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

4) This ancient Chinese practice paid close attention to the location of sites in the landscape.

1. A) zen
2. B) feng shui
3. C) confucianism
4. D) taoism
5. E) shinto

Answer:  B

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 17

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

 

 

5) According to a 2005 Royal Canadian Geographic survey, what percent of Canadians are considered geographically illiterate?

1. A) 33 percent
2. B) 10 percent
3. C) 50 percent
4. D) 25 percent
5. E) 40 percent

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 5

Topic:  Why geography matters

Skill:  Recall

 

6) The first people to develop geographic knowledge significantly were the

1. A) Chinese.
2. B) Romans.
3. C) Mayans.
4. D) Phoenicians.
5. E) Greeks.

Answer:  E

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 14

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

7) As sites of innovation and change, places are often conflated with the movements they inspire. For instance, the ‘hippie’ lifestyle of the 1960s is most associated with this U.S. city:

1. A) Las Vegas
2. B) Seattle
3. C) Los Angeles
4. D) New York
5. E) San Francisco

Answer:  E

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 9

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

8) In the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, geographic knowledge was advanced primarily by

1. A) Greek scholars.
2. B) Middle Eastern and Chinese scholars.
3. C) Scandinavian scholars.
4. D) Charlemagne’s scholars.
5. E) Early Christians.

Answer:  B

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 14

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

 

9) Supranational organizations often challenge this aspect of states.

1. A) sovereignty
2. B) militarization
3. C) bureaucracy
4. D) imperialism
5. E) nationalism

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 12

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

10) The European Union, North American Free Trade Association, and the Association of South East Asian Nations are examples of

1. A) global networks.
2. B) intra-state organizations.
3. C) inter-state organizations.
4. D) supranational organizations.
5. E) subnational organizations.

Answer:  D

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 12

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

 

11) In terms of geographic levels, this is the level at which people’s lives are organized through their work, consumption, and recreation.

1. A) world economy
2. B) human settlements
3. C) world regions
4. D) nation states
5. E) local networks

Answer:  B

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 12

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

12) This early European geographer and philosopher argued that knowledge could be divided between the chronological (time) and the chorological (space).

1. A) Ratzel
2. B) Von Humboldt
3. C) Ritter
4. D) Heidegger
5. E) Kant

Answer:  E

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 15

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

 

13) This famous German geographer emphasized the mutual causality that exists between species, including humans, and their environments.

1. A) Von Humboldt
2. B) Sauer
3. C) Ritter
4. D) Ratzel
5. E) Hettner

Answer:  A

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 16

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

 

14) Geographer Carl Sauer felt strongly that, in a particular landscape,

1. A) physical elements always determine the nature of human elements.
2. B) human elements always determine the nature of physical elements.
3. C) everything is interrelated.
4. D) it is impossible to describe accurately the geography.
5. E) there are more constraints than possibilities.

Answer:  C

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 16

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

15) The medieval T-O map

1. A) reflected and shaped Western Europe’s view of the world during the Middle Ages.
2. B) was the preferred map for European exploration of the middle east.
3. C) inspired the European age of discovery.
4. D) did not include the continents of Europe and Asia.
5. E) was used by Marco Polo in his exploration of China.

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 15

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

16) This reflects an attitude that one’s own race and culture are superior to those of others.

1. A) egocentrism
2. B) racism
3. C) ethnocentrism
4. D) masculinism
5. E) social darwinism

Answer:  C

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 16

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

 

17) The following doctrine had significant weight during the nineteenth century in the discipline of geography, and holds that human activities are controlled by the environment:

1. A) naturalism
2. B) environmentalism
3. C) social darwinism
4. D) possiblism
5. E) environmental determinism

Answer:  E

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 16

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

18) The increased scope and pace of the international financial system has been made possible in large part by

1. A) policies of the World Bank.
2. B) new information technologies.
3. C) the global decline of communism.
4. D) the strength of the U.S. dollar.
5. E) offshore banking centres.

Answer:  B

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 20

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

19) This concept can best be defined as the increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change.

1. A) globalization
2. B) internationalization
3. C) regionalism
4. D) place-making
5. E) multilateralism

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 20

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

 

20) This French explorer provided substantial illustrations of his accounts of travel along the St. Lawrence River.

1. A) Jacques Cartier
2. B) Samuel de Champlain
3. C) Radisson
4. D) Chomedey de Maisonneuve
5. E) Frontenac

Answer:  B

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 17

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

 

 

21) David Thompson, who mapped the entire route of the Columbia River, worked for

1. A) the Northwest Company.
2. B) the Geological Survey of Canada.
3. C) the Hudson’s Bay Company.
4. D) the government of British Columbia.
5. E) the United States government.

Answer:  C

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 17

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

22) This explorer lost his life in his attempt to cross the Northwest Passage in the mid-nineteenth century.

1. A) Sir John Franklin
2. B) David Thompson
3. C) Alexander McKenzie
4. D) Henri Hudson
5. E) John Frobisher

Answer:  A

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 17

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

 

23) Which factor, other than global warming, has recently increased the attention paid to the Northwest Passage?

1. A) protection of Canada’s northern boundaries
2. B) challenges to Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic
3. C) rising oil prices
4. D) new navigation technologies
5. E) mining developments in Nunavut

Answer:  C

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 17

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

24) This renowned Canadian scholar was particularly interested in the role of the St. Lawrence as an axis of development.

1. A) Donald Creighton
2. B) Desmond Morton
3. C) Louis-Edmond Hamelin
4. D) Griffith Taylor
5. E) R. Cole Harris

Answer:  A

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 19

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

 

 

25) This group of Canadian painters is famous for its landscapes of the Canadian Shield.

1. A) Group of Seven
2. B) Automatistes
3. C) Montreal School
4. D) Ontario Naturalists
5. E) Hyperrealists

Answer:  A

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Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

26) The first fully fledged geography department in Canada was established at

1. A) the University of Ottawa.
2. B) the Université de Montréal.
3. C) the University of Toronto.
4. D) the University of British Columbia.
5. E) McGill University.

Answer:  C

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 19

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Recall

 

27) The primary requirement for data to be used in Geographic Information Systems is associated to the following question:

1. A) where.
2. B) when.
3. C) why.
4. D) how.
5. E) what.

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 27

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

28) What is the time-consuming component of GIS work?

1. A) data processing
2. B) data capture
3. C) putting the software in place
4. D) producing synthesis maps
5. E) sorting out the different layers of information

Answer:  B

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 27

Topic:  Why places matter

Skill:  Applied

 

 

29) At the heart of geographic research is

1. A) publication in respected scholarly journals.
2. B) analysis of data.
3. C) collection of facts.
4. D) getting government grants.
5. E) producing maps.

Answer:  B

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 30

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

30) Which among the following statements best describes the basis on which regions can be defined?

1. A) Regions can be defined on the basis of any attribute.
2. B) Regions can be defined only on the basis of one, set-and-defined attribute.
3. C) Regions can be defined only on the basis of combinations of attributes.
4. D) Regions can be defined on the basis of any attribute or combination of attributes.
5. E) Regions can be defined only after a boundary has been established.

Answer:  D

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 30

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

31) Contour lines on topographic maps

1. A) cannot be used to make an isoline map.
2. B) connect points of equal elevation.
3. C) were common on maps made before the nineteenth century, but are rarely used now.
4. D) are required to make sense of a three-dimensional map.
5. E) cannot illustrate negative values.

Answer:  B

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 31

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

32) Chloropleth maps represent data with

1. A) tonal shadings.
2. B) dots.
3. C) special symbols.
4. D) arrows of varying lengths.
5. E) equal value.

Answer:  A

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 31

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

 

33) Which type of map projection presents the true shapes of landmasses, but distorts their relative sizes?

1. A) Mercator projection
2. B) Dymaxion projection
3. C) Mollweide projection
4. D) Robinson projection
5. E) Peters projection

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 33

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

34) This modernist architect devised the Dymaxion projection.

1. A) Mollweide
2. B) Le Corbusier
3. C) Frank Lloyd Wright
4. D) Buckminster Fuller
5. E) Philip Johnson

Answer:  D

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 33

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Recall

 

35) This kind of map projection is used in small-scale thematic maps.

1. A) Dymaxion projection
2. B) proportional projection
3. C) equivalent projection
4. D) Mercator projection
5. E) cartogram

Answer:  E

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 35

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

36) The Prime Meridian

1. A) is essentially a latitude line.
2. B) passes through Greenwich, England.
3. C) forms an angle of 0 degrees with earth’s equator.
4. D) was established by the Greeks.
5. E) is the international date change line.

Answer:  B

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 36

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

 

37) This geographer believed that regional geography is geography. To him, the region “becomes a medal struck in the likeness of a people.”

1. A) Friedrich Ratzel
2. B) Alexander Von Humboldt
3. C) H.C. Darby
4. D) Vidal de la Blache
5. E) Carl Sauer

Answer:  D

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 36

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Recall

38) This component of geographical position is a measure of angular distance north and south of the equator.

1. A) the standard meridian
2. B) longitude
3. C) latitude
4. D) the Equator
5. E) polar bearing

Answer:  C

Diff: 1    Type: MC      Page Ref: 36

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

39) Mental maps are associated to which of the following types of distance?

1. A) absolute distance
2. B) cognitive distance
3. C) socioeconomic distance
4. D) topological distance
5. E) relative distance

Answer:  B

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 39

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

40) Friction of distance is associated to the following type of relationship:

1. A) direct
2. B) inverse
3. C) exponential
4. D) incremental
5. E) power function

Answer:  B

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 39

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

 

41) The utility of a specific place

1. A) varies directly with its distance from a person’s primary place of residence.
2. B) is unaffected by the friction of distance.
3. C) is the same for all people.
4. D) is a measure of usefulness of that place for a certain person or group.
5. E) makes reference to its supply of natural resources.

Answer:  D

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 39

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

42) Which type of space refers specifically to connections between points in space?

1. A) topological space
2. B) dynamic space
3. C) topographic space
4. D) isostatic space
5. E) interactive space

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 40

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

43) Topological space refers to which specific principle of spatial interaction?

1. A) connectivity
2. B) complementarity
3. C) intervening opportunity
4. D) spatial diffusion
5. E) contagious expansion

Answer:  A

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 40

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

44) Social distance is a form of

1. A) economic distance.
2. B) absolute distance.
3. C) relative distance.
4. D) human distance.
5. E) objective distance.

Answer:  C

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 38

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

 

45) In his work on the production of space the following scholar found that space is a cultural and social creation:

1. A) Henri Lefebvre
2. B) Gilles Deleuze
3. C) Claude Levy Strauss
4. D) Michel Foucault
5. E) Jacques Lacan

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 41

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Recall

46) This concept draws its meaning from human activity and experience. It makes reference to a location that has meaning to individuals or groups.

1. A) space
2. B) relative location
3. C) place
4. D) scale
5. E) grid coordinate

Answer:  C

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 41

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

47) This is an activity, deliberate or unintentional, that enables space to develop meaning.

1. A) production of space
2. B) place making
3. C) design
4. D) spatial intervention
5. E) urban planning

Answer:  B

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 42

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

48) The spatial diffusion of phenomena typically tends to follow which type of curve?

1. A) inverse
2. B) power function
3. C) S shaped
4. D) exponential
5. E) straight line

Answer:  C

Diff: 3    Type: MC      Page Ref: 45

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

 

49) The well-known expression “think global, act local” refers to the concept of

1. A) scale.
2. B) place.
3. C) space.
4. D) diffusion.
5. E) interaction.

Answer:  A

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 48

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

50) The initial spread of the HIV-1 virus from a hearth area in Central Africa would be an example of

1. A) relocation diffusion.
2. B) expansion diffusion.
3. C) hierarchical diffusion.
4. D) contact diffusion.
5. E) random diffusion.

Answer:  C

Diff: 2    Type: MC      Page Ref: 45

Topic:  Studying human geography

Skill:  Applied

 

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Human Geography, Cdn. 4e (Knox, et al.)

Chapter 5   Mapping Cultural Identities

 

1) Cultural geography

1. A) is concerned only with material culture.
2. B) is no longer relevant because the world has become homogeneous.
3. C) involves the study of the mutual interactions of space, place, and landscape with culture.
4. D) was denounced for its racist and upper-class bias by Carl Sauer.
5. E) mostly focuses on religion.

Answer:  C

Diff: 1      Type: MC      Page Ref: 206

Topic:  Culture as a geographical process

Skill:  Applied

 

2) This type of music results from a blend of Acadian French, African, and Aboriginal-American influences.

1. A) Cajun music
2. B) world music
3. C) country music
4. D) rhythm and blues
5. E) native music

Answer:  A

Diff: 1      Type: MC      Page Ref: 206

Topic:  Culture as a geographical process

Skill:  Applied

 

3) According to Carl Sauer, a cultural landscape

1. A) can exist prior to human habitation of the given landscape.
2. B) does not require a natural landscape.
3. C) results from the action of a cultural group within and on a landscape.
4. D) is a concept with limited usefulness for the geographer.
5. E) excludes abiotic components.

Answer:  C

Diff: 3      Type: MC      Page Ref: 209

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Applied

4) Who was the nineteenth-century author of the book Man and Nature, which influenced Carl Sauer in his development of the concept of cultural landscape?

1. A) Alexander Von Humboldt
2. B) Charles Darwin
3. C) William Morris Davis
4. D) Paul Vidal de la Blache
5. E) George Perkins Marsh

Answer:  E

Diff: 2      Type: MC      Page Ref: 209

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

 

5) British geographer H.C. Darby

1. A) founded the genre de vie approach to cultural geography.
2. B) used The Domesday Book to create a rich study of eleventh-century England.
3. C) is the most famous student of Carl Sauer.
4. D) focused on ideas prominent in cultures, not material possessions and landscape attributes.
5. E) wrote the classic book The Making of the English Landscape.

Answer:  B

Diff: 2      Type: MC      Page Ref: 211

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Applied

 

6) French geographer Vidal de la Blache

1. A) thought that how people obtained their livelihoods was important for the geographer.
2. B) concentrated on studying large geographical units.
3. C) found that industrialization had only a small impact on rural France.
4. D) wrote the first volume of La Géographie Universelle.
5. E) was an early environmental determinist.

Answer:  A

Diff: 2      Type: MC      Page Ref: 211

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Applied

 

7) The nineteenth-century Ontario farmhouse is an example of

1. A) vernacular architecture.
2. B) Victorian architecture.
3. C) folk architecture.
4. D) utopian architecture.
5. E) colonial American.

Answer:  A

Diff: 2      Type: MC      Page Ref: 212

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Applied

8) Hip-hop has roots in the West African storytelling culture known as

1. A) voodoo.
2. B) rap.
3. C) afrobeat.
4. D) griot.
5. E) djembe.

Answer:  D

Diff: 3      Type: MC      Page Ref: 207

Topic:  Culture as a geographical process

Skill:  Recall

 

 

9) According to cultural critic bell hooks,

1. A) gangsta rap, due to its inner city cultural content, is not popular in the suburbs.
2. B) gangsta rap exists purely as a means by which youth culture expresses itself.
3. C) gangsta rap does not exist in a vacuum but is an extension of white, male dominated capitalist society.
4. D) capitalist society has failed to capitalize on the potential of gangsta rap.
5. E) gangsta rap lyrics are neutral on gender relations.

Answer:  C

Diff: 3      Type: MC      Page Ref: 208

Topic:  Culture as a geographical process

Skill:  Applied

 

10) The writing of this book was instrumental in helping historical geographers understand the cultural landscapes of medieval, feudal Europe.

1. A) the Magna Carta
2. B) the Domesday Book
3. C) the King James Bible
4. D) the Medieval Landscape Treatise
5. E) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of Feudal Landforms

Answer:  B

Diff: 2      Type: MC      Page Ref: 211

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

 

11) Nelson, British Columbia, displays unique cultural features associated with

1. A) a countercultural tradition.
2. B) U.S. southwest type traits.
3. C) First Nations heritage.
4. D) presence of migrant farm workers.
5. E) the nineteenth-century Gold rush.

Answer:  A

Diff: 3      Type: MC      Page Ref: 214

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Applied

12) The cultural system

1. A) doesn’t allow for internal variation.
2. B) requires its members to have a common religion.
3. C) helps shape a group’s collective identity.
4. D) is dependent primarily on language.
5. E) is the product of evolving technologies.

Answer:  C

Diff: 2      Type: MC      Page Ref: 214

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Applied

 

 

13) Diaspora

1. A) occurs when members of a homogeneous group become spatially dispersed.
2. B) occurred frequently during biblical times, but has been rare since.
3. C) has been the most common reason for conversion to Christianity.
4. D) refers solely to the emigration of Greeks before the time of Christ.
5. E) is a term that uniquely applies to the genocide of European Jews by the Nazis.

Answer:  A

Diff: 1      Type: MC      Page Ref: 215

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Applied

 

14) The geographical expansion of Christian missionizing coincides with

1. A) the onset of the Columbian Exchange.
2. B) Portuguese exploration of East Asia.
3. C) European colonialism in Africa.
4. D) the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church.
5. E) the split between the Catholic and Orthodox faiths.

Answer:  A

Diff: 3      Type: MC      Page Ref: 215

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Applied

 

15) Which was the first monotheistic religion?

1. A) Judaism
2. B) Roman Catholicism
3. C) Orthodox
4. D) Islam
5. E) Hinduism

Answer:  A

Diff: 1      Type: MC      Page Ref: 216-217

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

16) Prior to European contact and colonization, the native peoples of the Americas practised

1. A) Shintoism.
2. B) Animism.
3. C) Buddhism and Taoism.
4. D) Sikhism.
5. E) Mormonism.

Answer:  B

Diff: 1      Type: MC      Page Ref: 217

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Applied

 

 

17) If current population growth trends continue, it is expected that the bulk of the world’s Roman Catholics will be located in

1. A) Africa.
2. B) South East Asia.
3. C) Central America.
4. D) Latin America.
5. E) Western and Southern Europe.

Answer:  D

Diff: 2      Type: MC      Page Ref: 219

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

 

18) The most visited European “sacred” site is

1. A) St. James’ Cathedral.
2. B) Lourdes.
3. C) Stonehenge.
4. D) Turin Cathedral of the Shroud.
5. E) Notre Dame.

Answer:  B

Diff: 3      Type: MC      Page Ref: 223

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

 

19) The majority of Canada’s Sikh community concentrates in

1. A) British Columbia.
2. B) the Toronto area.
3. C) southern Ontario.
4. D) the Montreal region.
5. E) the Prairie provinces.

Answer:  A

Diff: 1      Type: MC      Page Ref: 221

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

20) Which Canadian province displays an almost even split between Roman Catholics and Protestants?

1. A) Quebec
2. B) Ontario
3. C) Alberta
4. D) Saskatchewan
5. E) British Columbia

Answer:  B

Diff: 2      Type: MC      Page Ref: 219

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

 

 

21) The dominant religion of Canada.

1. A) Muslim
2. B) Protestant
3. C) Anglican
4. D) Roman Catholic
5. E) Orthodox Christian

Answer:  D

Diff: 2      Type: MC      Page Ref: 220

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

 

22) The following native peoples travel through the landscape on routes known as “Songlines”:

1. A) Navajo
2. B) Australian Aborigine
3. C) Lakota Sioux
4. D) Maori
5. E) Cree

Answer:  B

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Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

 

23) The hajj is the once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage for people practising this religion.

1. A) Hinduism
2. B) Judaism
3. C) Islam
4. D) Jainism
5. E) Buddhism

Answer:  C

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Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

24) This Chinese practice is used to interpret the Earth’s energy lines and more propitious landscapes.

1. A) kabuki
2. B) tae kwon do
3. C) taoism
4. D) feng-shui
5. E) confucianism

Answer:  D

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Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

 

 

25) About 50 percent of the global population speaks languages belonging to this language family.

1. A) Caucasian
2. B) Afro-Asiatic
3. C) Sino-Tibetan
4. D) Indo-European
5. E) Amerind

Answer:  D

Diff: 1      Type: MC      Page Ref: 226

Topic:  Cultural landscapes, traits, systems, and regions

Skill:  Recall

 

 

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