Culture
Geography
Population
Political Geography
Random
100
What is the difference between standard and official language?
Standard = widely used, not legal Official = legal language
100
What is the difference in absolute and relative location?
Absolute = exact Relative = compared to another
100
What is the replacement rate to sustain a population?
2.1
100
What is a theocracy?
States that are based on a political government
100
What is another word for diffusion?
spread
200
What is the difference between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism?
Ethno = judgmental view Relativism = nonjudgmental view
200
What is globalization?
set of processes that are increasing and deepening interactions, interdependence, connections and relationships
200
What is the difference between arithmetic and physiologic density?
A = pop/total land mass P = pop/arable land
200
What is the difference between Federal and Unitary states?
Unitary = central government Federal = based on several bodies of government with a common government
200
Explain 2 types of territory morphology.
Perforated. Protruded. Elongated. Fragmented. Compact.
300
What is 2 differences in pop and folk culture?
pop = individual folk = communal
300
What is a perceptual region?
characterizied by a general agreement of cultural and physical traits
300
What best describes the difference between population density and distribution?
Density = spread of pop Distribution = arrangement of pop
300
What is the difference in a subsequent and antecedent boundary?
Subsequent = where to groups meet Antecedent = pre-made boundary (physical feature)
300
What is the difference in centripetal and centrifugal force in political geography?
centripetal = binds a state centrifugal = divides a state
400
What does it mean to be a syncretic religion?
Religion incorporated by other parts of another religion
400
Walmart is an example of what type of diffusion?
Reverse Hierarchical and Contagious
400
What is the difference between geometric and arithmetic growth?
Geometric = exponential Arithmetic = linear
400
What is a major-minority district?
Gerrymandered district used to lump a minority group to make the majority in one district alone.
400
Define Geopolitics.
politics, especially international relations, as influenced by geographical factors
500
What is a lingua franca language?
language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different
500
Explain Time-Distance Decay.
the farther (time or distance) from the source the harder it is to diffuse
500
Who is Thomas Malthus? What did he believe? What happened with his theory?
Wrote an essay proving exponential growth. He believed in overpopulation based on outgrowing food source. Ester Borsup said we will advance and keep up with growth with techonolgy.
500
What happened at the Berlin Conference?
European countries divided up Africa aka "scramble of Africa"
500
Name all types of boundary disputes. Explain one of them.
Locational. Operational. Allocational. Definitional.
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