Thinking Geographically
Population and Migration
Understanding Culture
Political Patterns and Processes
Industrial and Economic Development
Agriculture and Rural Land Use
Cities and Urban Land Use
100
Which map type shows human-created boundaries?
Political Maps
100
What migration types are described here?
Mei was indebted to a gang that took her from Shanghai to Bangkok and forced her to work it off.
Slavery, Transnational
100
What type of diffusion is exemplified here?
News of the World Cup winner spread rapidly around the world via the Internet and other media.
Contagious
100
What term describes the willingness of a person or group to defend the space that they claim?
Territoriality
100
In highly developed countries, which economic sector is the most dominant?
Tertiary
100
What does ‘GMO’ stand for?
Genetically Modified Organism
100
In which model is there more than one Central Business District?
Multiple Nuclei Model
200
What type of data yields findings that are expressed narratively?
Qualitative Data
200
Which of these countries has the highest life expectancy?
Spain, USA, Russia
Spain
200
Dutch and Afrikaans have many similarities in grammar and vocabulary because they are part of the same what?
Language Group
200
Which style of government is best suited to states that are physically very large?
Federal
200
In which stage of Rostow’s Model does social mobility begin?
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Takeoff
200
Which kind of commercial farming is intensive and involves both the growing of crops and the raising of animals?
Mixed Crop/ Livestock Ranching
200
According to the Gravity Model, which of these pairs would have the least interaction?
Boston and Chicago, Nashville and Seattle, LA and New York City
Nashville and Seattle
300
What type of region is a newspaper's Delivery area?
Functional
300
During which stage of the DTM does the birth rate fall below the death rate?
Stage 5
300
Which two religious groups engaged in deadly clashes in Northern Ireland in the 1960s?
Catholics and Protestants
300
What term describes a cultural group that has its state but also stretches across the borders of others?
Multi-State Nations
300
Several car rental companies share the cost of building a communal parking lot for their cars. What is this an example of?
Agglomeration
300
What term describes communities where people primarily rely on fast food restaurants and convenience stores for their meals?
Food Deserts
300
How many cities or large urban centers are there in Central Place Theory?
One
400
Which map projection features slight distortions of shape, size, distance, and direction?
Robinson
400
During which stage of the ETM do degenerative diseases overtake parasitic diseases as the leading cause of death?
Stage 3
400
People belonging to which folk culture were persecuted by the Nazis during WWII?
Roma/Romani
400
What term describes when one state annexes another state’s territory based on shared culture, history, or ethnicity?
Irredentism
400
Which kind of country is Brazil in Wallerstein’s model?
Semi-Periphery
400
Which survey method results in irregularly shaped tracts of land?
Metes and Bounds
400
What term describes large, fast-growing suburbs with populations of more than 100,000?
Boomburbs
500
Does this describe environmental determinism or possibilism?
It is criticized as being a tool of imperialism
Environmental Determinism
500
According to Ravenstein, what is the main reason that migration occurs?
For economic reasons
500
Name four of the six lingua francas.
English, Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, French, Russian
500
The Panama Canal is a narrow waterway used for transit, and if it were blocked, there would be disastrous consequences for world trade. What is this an example of?
Chokepoint
500
Provide an example of a Break of Bulk Point.
Ports, airports, depots, etc. (places where goods are transferred from one means of transport to another) of transport to another)
500
Which settlement pattern would be best for a community that values equality?
Linear (everyone has equal access to the transportation route)
500
In which model is industry located beyond the periphery of the city?
South East Asian Cities Model
