GCD CHAPTER 5 EXAM
QUESTONS WITH A GRADE
SOLUTIONS – UPDATED!!!
Which statement is NOT true of an ethnic homeland?
It is home to a sizable population,
It tends to cover a large area,
Its physical location makes its people more susceptible to assimilation over a relatively
short period,
Its residents typically enjoy some measure of political autonomy or self-rule. - Answer-
its physical location makes its people more susceptible to assimilation over a relatively
short period
An ethnic substrate occurs as a result of
language extinction,
migration,
assimilation,
religious conversion. - Answer-assimilation
According to geographer Alice Rechlin, ethnic islands develop because a minority group
will tend to utilize space in such a way as to
maximize contacts with the host culture,
minimize the interaction distance between group members,
assimilate into the host culture,
erect physical barriers to entry into the community. - Answer-minimize the interaction
distance between group members.
An ethnic neighborhood is what type of community?
ghetto,
involuntary,
voluntary,
mixed - Answer-voluntary
After 20 years of living in the Philippines, a group of Han Chinese relocate back to
China. This is an example of
, ethnic cleansing,
involuntary migration,
return migration,
racism. - Answer-return migration
Immigrant groups never introduce their whole culture overseas; instead, they engage
cultural .
cultural ecology,
preadaptation,
simplification,
ethnic isolation. - Answer-simplification
Cultural preadaptation is most likely when migrants
continue speaking the same language they spoke in their homeland,
move to a place environmentally similar to the one they left behind,
change the crops they choose to domesticate,
make use of genetic engineering to replicate successes in the homeland. - Answer-
move to a place environmentally similar to the one they left behind.
Which is an example of environmental racism on a global scale?
Recent Hispanic immigrants live in old tenement buildings in a city,
France sends its nuclear waste to Russia,
Asian immigrants cluster in Californian cities,
Italian immigrants find work in construction and masonry. - Answer-france sends its
nuclear waste to russia
The color red is usually prominent in ethnic neighborhoods.
Irish,
Chinese,
Muslim,
French - Answer-chinese
Race and ethnicity are synonyms.
True
False - Answer-False
There is far more variability within so-called "racial groups" than between them.
True
False - Answer-True
QUESTONS WITH A GRADE
SOLUTIONS – UPDATED!!!
Which statement is NOT true of an ethnic homeland?
It is home to a sizable population,
It tends to cover a large area,
Its physical location makes its people more susceptible to assimilation over a relatively
short period,
Its residents typically enjoy some measure of political autonomy or self-rule. - Answer-
its physical location makes its people more susceptible to assimilation over a relatively
short period
An ethnic substrate occurs as a result of
language extinction,
migration,
assimilation,
religious conversion. - Answer-assimilation
According to geographer Alice Rechlin, ethnic islands develop because a minority group
will tend to utilize space in such a way as to
maximize contacts with the host culture,
minimize the interaction distance between group members,
assimilate into the host culture,
erect physical barriers to entry into the community. - Answer-minimize the interaction
distance between group members.
An ethnic neighborhood is what type of community?
ghetto,
involuntary,
voluntary,
mixed - Answer-voluntary
After 20 years of living in the Philippines, a group of Han Chinese relocate back to
China. This is an example of
, ethnic cleansing,
involuntary migration,
return migration,
racism. - Answer-return migration
Immigrant groups never introduce their whole culture overseas; instead, they engage
cultural .
cultural ecology,
preadaptation,
simplification,
ethnic isolation. - Answer-simplification
Cultural preadaptation is most likely when migrants
continue speaking the same language they spoke in their homeland,
move to a place environmentally similar to the one they left behind,
change the crops they choose to domesticate,
make use of genetic engineering to replicate successes in the homeland. - Answer-
move to a place environmentally similar to the one they left behind.
Which is an example of environmental racism on a global scale?
Recent Hispanic immigrants live in old tenement buildings in a city,
France sends its nuclear waste to Russia,
Asian immigrants cluster in Californian cities,
Italian immigrants find work in construction and masonry. - Answer-france sends its
nuclear waste to russia
The color red is usually prominent in ethnic neighborhoods.
Irish,
Chinese,
Muslim,
French - Answer-chinese
Race and ethnicity are synonyms.
True
False - Answer-False
There is far more variability within so-called "racial groups" than between them.
True
False - Answer-True
