DEMOGRAPHICS
MIGRATION
FOLK AND POP. CULTURE (mostly)
LANGUAGE
RELIGION/ETHNICITY
100
The farther a place is from the hearth, the less likely an innovation is to be adopted is called this.
What is time-distance decay?
100
The world's population is currently growing by about 90 million per year; the bulk of this growth and rapid urbanization is occurring in which areas.
What is poorer countries (LDC)?
100
These are the groups that popular culture is typical of.
What are large heterogenous groups?
100
These three tribes made up the Germanic invaders of England that led to the English language.
Who are the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes?
100
This is the world largest ethnic religion? Is it monotheistic or polytheistic?
What is Hinduism? Polytheistic.
200
The frequency of something within a given area is called this.
What is density?
200
The term that urban geographers use to refer to huge agglomerations such as the Northeastern section of the United States.
What is Megalopolis?
200
This is the diffusion process for most folk cultures.
What is RELOCATION diffusion?
200
This is an isogloss.
What is a linguistic boundary between regions?
200
After WWII, the newly-formed United Nations placed Jerusalem under their administration in attempts to divide which area?
What is Palestine?
300
The physical environment causes social development to flourish or stagnate.
What is environmental determinism?
300
This is the reason that most migrants move.
What is economic factors?
300
The rapid diffusion of popular customs can adversely affect the environment in these two ways.
What are the depletion of scarce resources and pollution?
300
2 parts: This is the language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers in the world. It is the branch of the _________ tree.
What is Mandarin and it is part of the Sino-Tibetan tree.
300
Gandhi tried to abolish this system of Hinduism. Today it is essentially illegal but still commonly practiced.
What is the caste system?
400
The invention of this (especially in agriculture and in textiles) led countries out of stage one into stage 2 (where the factories and mechanized equipment led to industrialization).
What is technology?
400
A body of water, high unemployment, or any factor that hinders migration is called this.
What is an intervening obstacle?
400
This is how popular culture spreads.
What is through hierarchical diffusion from nodes of innovation.
400
A group of languages that share a common origin but have diverged into individual languages (such as Spanish and French from the original Vulgar Latin).
What is a language branch?
400
This is what happened in the region of Tibet, (region of southwestern China) that explains the religious situation.
The leader of buddhism (Dali Lama) was exiled in Nepal because the government of China discouraged observance or organized religion?
500
A city, that was under the control of four different nationalities with the expression of these four different cultures on the city landscape is known as.
What is Sequent Occupance?
500
This is the trend of moving out from the urban areas to smal towns and rural areas.
What is counter-urbanization?
500
This model predicts the interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them.
What is the Gravity Model?
500
This is why different dialects of English developed within England.
What happened when different Germanic invaders settled in different regions of the island.
500
This describes apartheid.
What is the racist government of South Africa for over 300 years, which was in place until black South Africans were all given the right to vote in the 1990s?
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