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True or false:
Supranational Organizations often lead to increased conflict among member states.
False
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The northwest corner of Wyoming is at 45 degrees north latitude, 111
degrees west longitude. This describes it’s
Absolute location
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How people, goods, and ideas get from one location to another
Movement
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How humans interact with their environment and vise-versa
Human Environmental interaction
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Where something is
Location
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Location, Place, Human Environmental Interaction, Movement, Region are known as what?
5 themes of geography
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opening of a new factory is an example of a pull or push factor?
Pull factor
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How many examples of true nation states exist today?
0
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The Berlin Conference created what kind of political boundaries in Africa?
Superimposed
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Name one of the historical events that we discussed that influenced the modern world map?
Berlin Conference
Treaty of Versailles
Fall of the Soviet Union
Formation of Israel
Decolonization and Independence movements
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Areas with unifying characteristics
Region
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The physical and human characteristics of a location
Place
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This is an example of what kind of map?
Political map
200
This line splits the north and south hemispheres at 0 degrees of latitude
Equator
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maps that show and label the human created boundaries and designations of an area
Political maps
200
People building their beach houses on high poles to prevent flooding is
an example of...
human environmental interaction
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7.2%
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When bodies of water or mountains create boundaries between states, they are:
Physical boundaries
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The United States is an example of
A. Multinational state
B. Stateless nation
C. Multistate nation
D. Semi autonomous region
A. multinational state
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A state with only one nation within its borders
Nation state
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This is an example of what kind of map?
Choropleth map
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Parallel lines running east to west around the Earth
Latitude
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You are getting ready to move to a new state, but you want to make sure you don't move to somewhere really crowded. What kind of map could you look at to find out which states to avoid?
Choropleth map
Dot map
Cartogram map
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the use violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal
Terrorism
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A boundary that no longer exists, but has left some imprint on the local cultural or environmental geography
Relic
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Which continent has been negatively impacted by the European disregard for historical borders?
Africa
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The Sahara desert and Himalayan mountains are examples of which type of boundary?
Antecedent or physical
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States that have control over their own affairs possess:
What is Sovereignty?
300
Free points!
Woohoo!
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If a state has many different ethnic groups residing in it, it could be classified as a:
Multinational state
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Which of the following types of governments typically exist in large countries
Federalism
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Centrifugal forces _____, while centripetal forces _____.
Divide, unite
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When a political party draws political district boundaries to maintain or extend their political power
Gerrymandering
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he large-scale emigration of talented people.
Brain Drain
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Government funded policies to encourage child births
pro-natalist
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What are the 5 factors that affect population distribution? (CHEPP)
Culture
History
Economic
Physical
Political
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The state boundaries of Colorado are examples of what kind of boundary?
Geometric boundaries
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The use of economic, political, cultural or other pressures in order to control or influence other countries
Neocolonialism
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If an ethnic group is dispersed across states, they could be referred to as a:
Multistate nation
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A strategic strait or canal which is narrow, hard to pass through and has competition for use.
Choke Point
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People who flee their homes due to some event but do not leave their country/state
Internally displaced persons
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Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city
Step migration
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Physiological density is the number of
people per area of land suitable for agriculture
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The Kurds would like their own state, therefore they desire:
Self-determination
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India and the United Kingdom have approximately the same arithmetic density. From this we can conclude that the two countries have the same
number of people per area of land
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Wakanda had a stable doubling time of 25 years from 1900 to the year 2000. If the population of Wakanda was 2 million in 1900, what was their population in the year 2000
32 million
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The United States has how many Congressional Districts and US House Representatives?
435
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Yugoslavia, Cold War Berlin, and Vietnam during the Vietnam war are all examples of what?
Shatter belts
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Free trade, Increased freedom of movement, and interdependence are all commonly associated with....
Supranational organizations
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Physical geography, terrorism, Irredentism, ethnic cleansing, ethnic separatism, and social and economic problems are all factors that can lead to...
Devolution of states
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What is the absolute location of dot K?
45N 30E
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Rapidly declining crude death rates are found in which stage of the
demographic transition?
Stage 2
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If the physiological density is much larger than the arithmetic density,
then a country has
a small percentage of land suitable for farming
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Increase the amount of food that farmers can grow
Develop new technologies that converts non-farmable land into farmable land
Reduce the amount of resources needed for the population to survive
All of these are ways that a country can increase its...
Carrying Capacity
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What 5 characteristics must all states possess?
Permanent population
Defined borders
Government
Sovereignty
Recognition from other states
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What are the 3 requirements for US voting districts?
Similar population size
Contiguous
Compact
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What are the 3 challenges to state sovereignty that we discussed in class?
Devolution
Supranational Organizations
Advancements in Communication Technology
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If a nation-state called "Kurdistan" were to be created out of territory owned by other states, that would be an example of
Irredentism
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A decline in a country's crude birth rate would result in an increase in the country's
doubling time
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Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that
both have low growth rates