Unit 1: Geography
Unit 2a: Population
Unit 2b: Migration
Unit 3a: Culture/Language
Bonus: Geographers
100
A computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data
What is GIS? (Geographic Information System) Pg. 12
100
a type of physical environment that people avoid clustering in *more than one answer*
What is Wet Lands, Dry Lands, Cold Lands, or High Lands? pg. 49
100
War is a type of what factor? (Think Migration)
What is a Push Factor? Pg. 82 Push: A reason inside your country that makes you want to leave. Pull: Something that tempts you to another area.
100
type of culture found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
What is Popular Culture? pg. 106
100
believed that there was not enough food production for the population because population grew exponentially while food production grew arithmetically.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
200
the idea that the environment directly affects human activities
What is Environmental Determinism? pg. 24 Determinism: physical environment directs actions Possibilism: physical environment limits some human activities, but people have the ability to adjust.
200
a country with low birth rates and low death rates would be in stage (demographic transition)...
What is Stage 4? (Possibly 5)
200
movement within one region
What is Intraregional Migration?
200
This threatens Folk culture
What is *any answer as long as I accept it*? pg. 125
200
believes in the 5 stages of development that every country will go through, ending with Mass Consumption
Who is W.W. Rostow (Walt)?
300
The type of corporation that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters and principal shareholders are located.
What is Transnational Corporation? Pg. 30 Globalization has been led primarily by Transnational Corporations.
300
2/3rd of the world's population is clustered in 4 regions; East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and ....
What is Europe? pg. 47 1. East Asia: 1/4th of World's People ie. Eastern China, Japan, Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan. 2. South Asia: 1/4th of World's People ie. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the island of Sri Lanka. 3. Europe: 1/9th of the World's People, has 4 dozen countries. 4. Southeast Asia: ie. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines
300
Long distance migrants are usually... *more than one possible answer*
What is male or adults (single)? pg. 84 Males: more likely to be employed Adults: no children
300
a language that is dominant (other than English) that is spoken by people over the age of five in their homes in the U.S.
What is Spanish?
300
this person believes in the least cost theory, that you want to put your production plants where it would cost the least for transportation from the raw resources to the plant to the market.
Who is Alfred Weber?
400
The forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans.
What is Cultural Landscape? pg. 17 When you talk about Cultural Landscape versus Ecology, Landscape talks about the way our culture affects the environment while Ecology talks about the study of the relationship humans have with the environment.
400
In a region, the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land is called...
What is Physiological Density? pg. 51 Arithmetic: #of objects in an area. Physiological: #of people supported by a unit area of arable land Agricultural: #of farmers to the amount of arable land
400
migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
What is Chain Migration? pg. 90
400
Swahili is a type of ___ in Africa as English is to the World. (think languages)
What is Lingua Franca? pg. 156
400
these 2 people work on an model that made the model because of the less importance of the CBD which features a lot of separate nodes of different neighborhoods
What is Harris and Ullman?
500
Montana, Wheat and Corn belt and regions that are characterized by predominant Republicans, are examples of what type of region?
What is a Formal Region? Pg. 19 The difference between a Formal Region and Vernacular Region with something like the Corn belt is that Formal can distinct the Corn belt and the Wheat belt apart. While with Vernacular people see different characteristics for the same region, and is a believed thing (not exactly political).
500
3 reasons help to explain the possible emergence of a stage 5 of the epidemiologic transition, name one.
What is Evolution, Poverty, or Improved travel? Pg. 72 Evolution: diseases will be resistant to drugs Poverty: Expensive treatments can't be afforded Improved travel: Easier spread of disease
500
these continents are most often associated with refugees coming to the U.S. (name 1)
What is Asia or Africa (Sub Saharan Africa)? pg. NA Asia and Africa face the most political and ethnic conflicts so refugees will most likely come from these 2 areas. South America may migrate the most, but most of the migration is for economic reasons and not refugees.
500
a group that learns English or another lingua franca may learn a simplified form, this form is called
What is a Pidgin Language? pg. 162
500
believed that peoples activities were chosen by the environment and started the seeds of environmental determinism.
Who is Friedrich Ratzel?
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