Physical geography
Which continent is home to the Great Victoria Desert?
List the four types of economies.
Market, command, mixed, and traditional
What is a Cultural Hearth ?
Cultural hearths are regions where civilizations first developed and are a source or point of origin of particular cultures or major innovations.
What is the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a global intergovernmental organization
What is enviromental geography?
How people and natural enviroment interact.
What is the largest river system in the world?
Amazon.
What are anti-natalist policies and pro-natalist policies?
Anti-natalist polies are anti birth while pro-natalist are pro birth.
What is a taboo ?
Taboos are cultural rules that forbid certain behaviors or actions and often involve behaviors, objects, or ideas that are considered sacred, dangerous, or offensive.
What is soverignty?
Sovereignty means that this state has ultimate authority to rule itself without other countries interfering in its decisions.
What were the three developments of the agricultural revolution?
1. Domestication of animals
2. Irrigation system
3. Mechanical tools and practices
What river flows from Paris to the English Channel.
Seine River.
What is population density?
Number of people living
What is enthocentrism?
Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own culture is superior to others.
What is a Stateless Nation?
An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation-state.
What was paired with the second agricultural revolution?
Industial Revolution
What physical feature in Australia separates the heavily populated areas to the non-populated areas?
The Great Dividing Range.
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill are home to prestigious universities like Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which produce highly educated workforce; this is a example of.....
Research Triangle
What are the three types of Expansion diffusion ?
Contagious Diffusion
Hierarchical Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
What are the Pros of having a Larger Country?
more ports, more natural resources, more diverse population, less dependent
WHat are the positives of the Green Revolution?
- Increased productivity of crops
- Increased overall health and population of developed world
-Less poverty and hunger
The Indus river, Huang He, and the Ganges river are all in what continent?
South Aisa
What is Human Development Index (HDI)?
Health, education, and standard of living
Ex. Life expectancy
What is a Caste system?
The caste system are hereditary, rigid social structures that assign people to groups at birth
What is the region India and Pakistan fight over?
The Kashmir Region.
Why did the Aral Sea drain?
-Too much drainage for irrigation use
-Soil salization cause the water to dry out and leaving dried out land