AP Human Geography

Chapter 6 Study Guide (Part 4)

Ethnicity in the Landscape
1. What is ethnic geography?

2. What are ethnic imprints on the landscape known as?

3. What has the study of ethnoscapes recently broadened to include (list

all examples)?

4. In the United States, what does the study of ethnic imprints typically
overlap with?

5. What three models have been developed to depict and explain ethnic
interaction?

6. Which model is the oldest?

7. Which model is the most recent?

8. What is specifically referred to by assimilation?

9. What view does the assimilation model promote?

10.
How does the pluralism model differ from the assimilation
model?

11.

What geographic concept does the pluralism model give rise to?

12.

What are these?

13.

What is the meaning of the term heterolocalism?

14.
What four characteristics are critical for the development of
heterolocalism (summarize)?

15.

What are the three common types of ethnic settlements?

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What areas are ethnic islands typically associated with?

17.

How large are they by physical geographic area typically?

18.

How large are they by population?

19.

Where do ethnic neighborhoods typically develop?

20.

How large are they by physical geographic area?

21.

What is the historical definition of the term ghetto?

22.

What has the term been used to describe more recently?

23.

What characteristics define modern-day ghettos?

24.

What defines an ethnoburb?

25.

What two factors play a role in their formation?

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What has contributed to the multiethnic composition of
ethnoburbs?

27.
What is the fundamental difference between an ethnic
neighborhood and an ethnoburb?

28.

What does the location quotient measure?

29.

What does a location quotient of 1 indicate?

30.

What does a location quotient of more than one indicate?

31.

What does a location quotient of less than one indicate?

32.

What are general examples of ethnic imprints (list at least 3)?

33.
What ethnic restaurants are most prevalent in both the United
State and the United Kingdom?

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Why do some observers view public festivals in a negative light?

35.

What is symbolic ethnicity?

36.

What are examples of symbolic ethnicity (list at least 2)?

37.
Why might participation and attendance of festivals be
meaningful within a particular ethnicity?

38.
Why do many human geographers find the term ethnic conflict to
be particularly difficult?

39.
What are other causes of ethnic conflict or than ethnic
differences (list all)?

40.

What is the ethnic conflict in Darfur, a region of Sudan, rooted in?

41.

What is the difference between the two groups?

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What common cultural characteristic do they all share?

43.

How had they settled disputes in the past?

44.
What political and economic factors have contributed to the
esscelation of conflict in Darfur (summarize as best you can in your
own words)?

45.

What happened in 2003?

46.

How did the national government respond?

47.

Who did the Sudanese government give support to?

48.

What does the word Janjaweed mean?

49.

Where did the members of the Janjaweed come from?

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What was their purpose?

51.

Who else did they target that led to a humanitarian crisis?

52.
According to Figure 6.12 on pg. 182, what was the approximate
death toll of the conflict in Darfur?

53.

How many people were displaced?

54.
What environmental issue can contribute to tension among
ethnic groups?

55.

What does equity mean?

56.

How did the environmental justice movement start (summarize)?

57. Where is most of the worlds contaminated waste exported to

(generally speaking)?