Coming to terms with Geography
People are people
He's really going places!
Can we talk?
I'm lost. Get out the map!
100
This term is defined as "the science of mapmaking".
What is cartography?
100
This term refers to the surface area of the Earth that is occupied by human settlement and agriculture.
What is the Ecumene?
100
An American family from Aubrey Texas moves to Tokyo, Japan because the mother has found a job as a University Lecturer at a prestigious university. This is an example of this type of immigration.
What is voluntary immigration?
100
The name for this language family. It is also the language family with the most speakers worldwide
What is the Indo-European Language Family?
100
On this type of map, each dot represents an equal quantity.
What is a dot density map (dot map)
200
This term is defined as "a place from which an innovation originates" (such as a culture, language or religion).
What is a hearth?
200
This type of density refers to the population occupying arable land.
What is physiological density?
200
This term refers to a society's loss of large amounts of creative and intelligent people possibly limiting future advancement or innovation.
What is brain drain?
200
Someone who speaks multiple languages.
What is a polyglot?
200
On this type of map some circles (or dots) can vary in size depending on the quantity of what is being measured?
What is a graduated symbol map?
300
This term refers to the spread of something (culture, language, people) across an area.
What is diffusion?
300
This term refers to the total number of live births per every 1000 people.
What is the crude birth rate?
300
An example of these is the following scenario, "Mohammed and his sister Aisha have been forced flee from their home in Syria. They have arrived in Portugal and are hoping to be granted permanent residency in the European Union."
What are asylum seekers?
300
One of the world's four main writing systems, used primarily in Southwest Asia.
What is Arabic (Arabic Alphabet)?
300
This type of map uses arrows or lines to indicate movement or transfer.
What is a flow line map?
400
0 longitude, this line also runs through Greenwich, UK
What is a the Prime Meridian?
400
In this stage of the Demographic Transition, societies have very high growth because people are actively involved in agriculture, fishing and herding livestock instead of hunting and gathering food.
What is Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition?
400
An example of forced migration when the United States government removed Native American Tribes from their homes in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia and relocated them (on foot) to reservations in present-day Oklahoma.
What was the Trail of Tears?
400
One of the world's four main writing systems, used primarily in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
What is Cyrillic (the Cyrillic Alphabet)?
400
This type of map has concentric lines and is often used in analysis of climate or migration patterns.
What is an isoline map?
500
The Prime Meridian and the Equator meet off the East coast of this continent.
What is Africa?
500
This key model of Geography determines the relationship between two points by multiplying the populations of two points and dividing that result by the square of their distance.
What is the gravity model?
500
A term for money earned by immigrants working (legally or illegally) in a country sent back home to family (in the home country).
What is / are remittance(s)?
500
Known in the languages as "putong-hua", this is the official form of Chinese in the People's Republic of China.
What is Mandarin?
500
A Mercator Projection is not often used because it causes this to occur, particularly at the North and South Poles.
What is distortion?
600
This is the name of a system (on all of our smartphones) that uses satellites to determine our precise location on Earth.
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
600
This type of Natural Increase Rate is pictured in the population pyramid above.
What is a negative NIR?
600
Migration factors (reasons) such as: environmental disaster, religious persecution, or war.
What are push factors?
600
The five main languages in this language branch (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian) share similarities with Latin. They are in the Indo-European Language Family.
What are the Romance Languages? / What is the Romance Branch?
600
This type of map alters the shape of land masses to correspond to different amounts of what is being measured.
What is a cartogram?
700
This term, a type of diffusion, flows from "the top down", similar to a command structure.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
700
This is the Total Fertility Rate (or average number of children) a woman would need to have in her lifetime in order for the population of any group to remain constant and have zero population growth.
What is 2.1 children?
700
Migration factors (reasons) such as: lack of job opportunities, high taxes, or nicer weather.
What are pull factors?
700
This type of language is the result of a mixing of indigenous languages with the language of a colonizing culture.
What is a creole language?
700
This type of map is considered on of the most accurate flat projections of the Earth.
What is a Goode's Homolosine Map?