The Human Geography Quiz! Trivia Facts
Do you know what human geography entails? Do you understand a sufficient amount to pass this quiz? Human geography is a branch of the social sciences that studies the world and its people, societies, and cultures with an accent on relationships of and across space and place. There are five elements in human geography, including the world in spatial terms, areas, and regions, physical, and human systems, environment, and society. Take this quiz and discover more about human geography.
- 1.What happened in 1914 on Shakeltons Antarctic Expedition?
- A.
Anartic was one of the last known places
- B.
The ship that they were traveling on became stuck in ice
- C.
The crew left the ship - camped on the ice for 5 months
- D.
All of the above
- 2.What continent is expected to experience the greatest growth in the next 40 years?
- A.
Africa
- B.
Asia
- C.
Latin America
- D.
North America
- 3.The migration which takes place on the migrants own initiative is
- 4.Baby boomers are those that are
- 5.Events and conditions that impel an individual to move from a location is called what?
- 6.A population in equilibrium with a growth rate of zero achieved when births plus immigration equal deaths plus emmigration is what kind of growth?
- 7.What are Core Countries?
- A.
Core Countries include the United States
- B.
Are the industrialized capitalist countries on which periphery countries and semi-periphery countries depend on
- C.
Are countries that live in a fast world
- D.
All of the above
- 8.Slow growth happens in what countries?
- A.
United States
- B.
Africa
- C.
Asia
- 9.Are countries that have a marginal role in the world economy and are thus dependent on core producing societies for their trading relationships.
- 10.A representation of the population based on its composition according to age and sex.
- 11.People, places, and regions whose participation in the transnational industry, modern telecommunications materialistic consumption, and international news and entertainment is limited.
- 12.People, places, and regions directly involved as producers and consumers in the transnational industry modern telecommunications, materialistic consumption, and international news and entertainment.
- 13.In 1865 he wrote a paper on genetics but it was not recognized until the 20th century.
- 14.In 1859 he wrote the origin of species in which isolation + mutations = adaptations that fit environmental niches ( survival of the fittest)
- 15.Alternative Philosophers
- 16.A symbol is not a proxy for an object a symbol is a vehicle for conception who said this?
- 17.Underlying framework of services and amenities needed to facilitate productive activity is called
- 18.Globalization increases interconnectedness of people and place due to
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