Unit 1: Geography
The physical environment controls human culture is a concept called ...
Environmental Determinism
Measures of gender inequality, such as the _________________, include reproductive health, indices of empowerment, and labor-market participation.
GII - Gender Inequality Index
Which modern day country is in Stage 1 of the DTM?
There is no country in stage 1
A group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people.....
Culture
______ is identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color.
Race
Central Jersey is considered which type of region?
Perceptual or Vernacular Region
The percentage of a country's adults who can read and write.
Literacy Rate
Who predicted that population would outpace food production ?
Thomas Malthus
Name the type of diffusion: Ideas spreads from person to person very quickly. For example by word of mouth, social media
Contagious Diffusion
Laws in South Africa that legally and physically separated different races into different geographic areas was called _____________________________
Apartheid
Latitude and longitude may be used to determine which of the following characteristics of a place?
Absolute Location
Identify this vocabulary term: Indicator of level of development for each country, constructed by the United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy.
HDI - Human Development INdex
Someone who has migrated to another country in the hopes of being recognized as a refugee is a(n).....
Asylum Seeker
The following statement best describes what type of religion?
These types of religions activtely seeks converts to its faith regardless of their ethnic backgrounds. These religions spread far from their original hearths because existing members feel a mandate to spread their beliefs to others.
Universalizing
A political state whose territory is the same as the area occupied by people sharing a common heritage and value system is best described as…
Nation - State
The Mexican/US Border culture region is an example of this type of region ...
Formal Region
Economic activities that involve the extraction of natural resources, such as lumbering, fishing, mining, and agriculture, are called...
Primary Sector Economic Activities
The number of live births per thousand people per year is called the …
CBR - Crude Birth Rate
Name the type of diffusion: The process by which the English language diffused throughout India under British colonial rule was….
*two acceptable answers
Hierarchial OR Relocation
When districts are drawn specifically to favor a particular political party or voting block, it is called:
Gerrymandering
The inverse relationship between distance and connection is a concept called...
A major historic model for economic growth, postulating that it happens in five basic stages of varying length:
1. Traditional society
2. Preconditions for take-off
3. Take-off
4. Drive to maturity
5. Age of High mass consumption
Rostow's Measures of Development
China's One Child Policy would be an example of which type of population policy?
Anti - Natalist
The largest language family is ...
Indo - European
An attitude that tends to create differences among people in a state and may lead to tension within a state
Centrifugal Force