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Ethnicity
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Random Geography
100
He reputedly coined the term “geography”?
Who is Eratosthenes?
100
The Industrial Revolution caused countries to move into what stage of the demographic transition?
What is stage 2?
100
A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population
What is a ethnoburb?
100
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
What is a universalizing religion?
100
This is the largest of the Great Lakes?
What is Lake Superior?
200
Two questions that Geographers always ask:
What is where and why?
200
What four areas contain the vast majority of the world's population?
What is Europe, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia?
200
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood
What is blockbusting?
200
This language is the only example of a vigorous isolated language in Europe
What is Basque?
200
The average American watches this amount of Television a day
What is 5 hours?
300
"The South" is an example of this type of region
What is a Vernacular or perceptual region?
300
The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate
What is the natural increase rate (NIR)?
300
key figure in ending apartheid in South Africa and became the countries first black president
Who is Nelson Mandela?
300
A language of international communication
What is a lingua franca?
300
Islam is divided into these two principal branches
What is Sunni and Shiite?
400
The term describing the average number of births a woman will bear in her lifetime is
What is total fertility rate (FFR)
400
Large-scale emigration by talented people
What is brain drain?
400
an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
What is centripetal force?
400
This is the most used language in the world
What is Mandarin?
400
The single most important data source for population geography in the U.S.
What is the census?
500
When using the dependency ratio, the age group considered to be the least dependent is
What is 15-64 years?
500
Permanent movement from one region of a country to another
What is interregional migration?
500
The three most numerous U.S. ethnicities
What are Hispanic, African, and Asian American?
500
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
What is Taboo?
500
As Sudan's religion-based civil war was winding down, an ethnic war erupted in this region
What is Darfur?
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