UNIT 1/2
Define "chain migration"
The process by which some people's migration to a new place leads their family members, friends, and others to move to the same place.
Define "toponym"
Define "antecedent boundary"
A boundary that was identified with an area before it was settled
Define a "food desert"
Area with limited access to fresh, nutritious foods. (A food desert is NOT just an area with no food)
Define "non-point source pollution"
Contamination originating from multiple, diffuse sources (there isn't just one single identifiable source)
Give an example of reverse-hierarchical diffusion
Anything that involves someone on the top of the social hierarchy adopting the practices of someone at the bottom.
How does Globalization lead to placelessness?
Globalization, the increased interconnectedness of the world causes ideas to spread globally more easily. Since cultures are using the same ideas, they start to become more similar.
What's the difference between a federal state and a unitary state?
Give one example of a machine from the second agricultural revolution.
Seed drill, mechanical reaper, agrichemicals, steel plowe
What's the difference between GDP and GNP?
GDP is made by a country, while GNP is made within a country
What is one disadvantage of the Goode-Homolosine projection?
What language family is Arabic in?
Afro-Asiatic
Explain a real life example of irridentism
Example: China taking Taiwan or Somalia taking part of Ethiopia, to reunite a previous empire or ethnic group
During the Columbian Exchange, list two things that diffused from the Western Hemisphere, and two things that diffused from the Eastern Hemisphere.
West: Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers
East: Cattle, tobacco, smallpox, guns
What does "slow-growth" development use to stop urban sprawl?
Zoning
What are the top four most populated countries, in order?
India, China, USA, Indonesia
What is an example of an orthodox religion, and why?
Orthodox Judaism... or any religion that emphasizes purity of faith and not open to blending
Give a real life example of a consequent boundary.
Consequent = drawn to accommodate existing cultural differences. Example given is the boundary between Northern Ireland and Ireland, separating the protestants and catholics.
What are the four rings of the Von Thunen model, in order?
From CBD outward: Dairy farming, forest, grains, ranching
What is an example of an "absolute advantage" and a "competitive advantage"
Absolute advantage compare countries, while a competitive advantage compares TNCs (transnational corporations)
Which of the following is correct?
a. Births - deaths - out-migration - in-migration = population per time
b. Births + deaths + out-migration + in-migration = population per time
c. Births - deaths + out-migration - in-migration = population per time
d. Births + deaths - out-migration + in-migration = population per time
e. Births - deaths - out-migration + in-migration = population per time
Globalization and modernization have accelerated changing cultural patterns. What is a result of these changes?
a. Most indigenous societies leverage modern tech to reassert cultural strength beyond their homeland
b. The movement and rapid cultural changes leave most societies more multicultural and intermixed than ever before.
c. As the Internet has created larger communities, the differences between societies has created less cultural differences globally
d. Economic and political processes have minimal impacts on global cultural patterns
e. Environmental change is occuring on a global scale, and consensus on how to act has created a tighter global community
Answer: B
Which of the following principles in political geography describes Hawaii in relation to the distribution of U.S. national territory?
a. Enclave
b. Perforated State
c. Fragmented State
d. Exclave
e. Sovereign Nation
Answer: D
Which of the following identifies and explains the type of agricultural settlement that developed in the United States?
a. Clustered, because the tradition of clustered settlements was hard to abolish
b. Linear settlements in areas settled by the French, because there were many navigable rivers
c. Dispersed settlements because individual pioneer families prefered a family own farm as opposed to communal ownership
d. Linear settlements in the far West because the force of religion for Mormon settlers
e. Dispersed settlements in the mountains, because the landscape provided farmers with natural defense
Answer: C
Which of the following is one assumption from Christaller's central place theory?
a. The region will differ in its transportation networks around the central city
b. There are differences in wealth evident among the population
c. Goods and services will be available based on physical features in different locations
d. The surface area is an isotropic plane
e. The agricultural productivity will be dependent upon climate conditions