The Basics
A region people think exists as a part of their cultural identity; normally accompanied by material traits
What is Vernacular or perceptual region?
Where are the 4 major population clusters in the world?
What are South Asia, East Asia , Southeast Asia and Europe?
Explain the difference between immigration and emigration.
What is immigration is people leaving, emigration is people coming into a given area.
Net migration is measured by subtracting the total number of emigrants from the total number of immigrants.
Define the term cultural landscape.
What is the impact a certain culture has on the physical environment in which it inhabits.
Define isogloss.
What is the perceived boundaries of a language or language dialect.
What is the name for the location of a place in relationship to the characteristics of its' surroundings?
What is situation?
Define total fertility rate.
What is the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her child-bearing years?
Explain the phenomenon of counter-urbanization.
What is in MDC's people seek to escape large urban areas by reversing the pattern of migration and seeking to move from urban to rural areas.
What is placelessness?
What is the phenomenon of an area losing its' characteristics due to the overwhelming effects of popular culture on the surrounding landscape.
Define lingua franca.
Give an example.
What is a default language used when to speakers of different language rely on to communicate effectively.
English is the most common lingua franca in the world.
What is the name of the science of map making?
What is cartography?
How is arithmetic density measured?
What is the total number of people divided by the total land area?
Define the term transhumance.
What are the seasonal migratory patterns of moving livestock to higher elevations in summer and lower elevations in winter.
Define acculturation.
Provide a relative example.
What is when a lesser known or powerful culture is forced under pressure to adopt the culture and practices of a dominator culture.
Ex. Native American culture losing customs and traits in favor of Christianity, western cultural dress norms and pressure to follow American language and non-material cultural traits.
What are the two major language families in the world?
What are Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan?
List 3 major types of map projections.
Explain the phenomenon of distortion.
What are Mercator, Robinson, Gall-Peters?
Distortion occurs when mapping a 3D object like land forms and bodies of water onto a 1-dimensional piece of paper. Masses may appear larger or smaller or sometimes even misshaped.
Explain population characteristics of LDC's and MDC's.
What is LDC's have a high birth/death rate, low rate of natural increase, high fertility, lack of medical resources, life expectancy is usually low.
MDC's are normally industrialized with dependence on technology, modern medicine, higher life expectancy, birth/ death tends to slow down significantly.
Define the term refugee and give a few examples that would cause this common form of migration.
What is a person who is forced to leave their country for political (war), economic (poverty) or social (religious discrimination) reasons.
What is a taboo?
Give 2-3 examples.
What is edgy or marginalized behavior normally not accepted by mainstream society?
-piercings
-punk rock, heavy metal, rave music, etc.
-tattoos
-certain romantic behaviors
List 3 of the Romance languages.
What are French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian.
List 3 major types of diffusion and give a relevant example of each.
What are relocation, contagious, hierarchical and stimulus?
Answers may vary.
Explain why geographers use the DTM.
At what stage in the model does the most natural rate of increase occur?
What is the Demographic Transition Model helps geographer track and measure shifts in demographics through various stages of development.
Under normal circumstances, the highest population growth will occur in stages 2 and 3.
According to Ravenstein, give several characteristics of migrants.
What is migrants tend to:
-most migrants only move short distances
-most migrants tend to be young adult males
-economic causes are the main incentive for migrants
-each migration pattern creates a counter-pattern
-most migration occurs from rural to urban
What is the difference between a custom and a habit?
What is a custom is performed by a uniformed group of people and a habit is a repetitive act performed by an individual.
How many languages are there in the world?
How many of them are spoken by 1 million or less people?
What is 7,100.
6,700 are spoken by 1 million people or less!