Thinking Geographically
In the Epidemiological Transition, this is the "stage of pestilence and famine" (high mortality and infectious diseases)
Stage 1
Religions can be broken down into these two categories. Provide an example of each
What are universalizing and ethnic religions?
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea?
What is syncretism?
This city is claimed by all three of the monotheistic religions.
What is Jerusalem?
A computer system with geographic data.
What is GIS (geographic information system)
China instituted this policy in hopes of controlling an out of control population.AND this was a WHAT kind of policy
What is the one child policy? What is antinatalist?
This is the native religion of Japan.
What is Shintoism?
The largest migration, in terms of numbers, that takes place in the US was from where to where? (think more of types of living than an actual location)
What is rural-to-urban?
In which of the following would you expect to find the highest rate of population growth?
A. Canada B. Namibia C. Sweden D. Chile E. USA
What is Namibia
Objects in an area are far apart.
What is dispersed?
The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support
What is carrying capacity?
This term refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint
What is sequence occupancy?
According the DTM, what factor changes FIRST to propel a country into Stage:2 of high growth
What is decline of the death rate?
This shows the age and gender structure of a population
What is a population pyramid?
An area organized around a focal point or node.
What is a functional region.
The two approaches to reducing birth rates in countries that will lead to stage 3 DTM conditions..
What are Education and Contraception?
These are the three kinds of historical CAUSES of diffusion
What are imperialism, colonialism, and trade?
This is the Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage
What is acculturation?
Malthus said that ____ grows arithmetically, while ____ grows exponentially.
What is food production...and population?
The physical environment can limit social development, but human can adjust to their situation.
What is possibilism?
The ratio comparing those who are too young or too old to work compared to the economically active.
What is the dependency ratio?
What are the three types of expansion diffusion? Define each type.
Contagious diffusion - ideas spread through person to person communication; Hierarchical - ideas spread through the force of a power; Stimulus - part of something diffuses, but changes to fit with new location
An idea is spread through people moving to new places.
What is relocation diffusion?
this is a geographic area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
What is a Vernacular/Perceptual Region?