Unit 2 Physical Geography
Wind blowing sand from one location to another
What is Erosion?
The official count or survey of a population
What is Census?
Most recently (during the third wave), migrants to the United States have been from ____ and ____
What is Latin America and Asia?
Way of life of a large, heterogeneous group.
What is Pop Culture?
The term Chicano/Chicana
What is Mexican Americans?
Flood water pounding against a canyon wall and wearing it down
What is Weathering?
The crude birth rate and the crude death rate in Stage 1 of the Demographic Transition can best be described as:
What is very high?
Colonial migration in the 17th and 18th Centuries from Africa to North America would best be described mostly as ____ migration.
What is Forced Migration?
Food Taboos are more prevalant in these societies
What is Folk Culture?
Identity with a group of people who share cultural traditions that are tied to a certain homeland or hearth
What is Ethnicity?
The scale that is used to report the strength of an earthquake
What is the Richter Scale?
The major causes of death in Stage 3 of the Demographic & Epidemiologic Transition?
What is Heart Disease and Cancer?
The #1 reason for voluntary migration
What is Economic Opportunitiy?
A person moves to America and gives up their old language in favor of only speaking English
What is Assimilation?
The act of uniting or bringing together people of different races
What is Integration?
The three climate regions
What is Tropical Temperate, and Polar
Fill in the blank: Medical advancements for degenerative diseases that allow people to live longer are common in stage ___ of the Demographic & Epidemiologic Transition.
What is stage 4?
Syrians leaving and migrating to Europe due to the Syrian Civil War are ____ migrants.
What is Forced?
A person moves to America and switches between their old language and English depending on the situation
What is Acculturation?
The years that the Great Migration took place
What is 1916-1970?
The three tectonic plate boundaries
What is convergent, transform, and divergent?
The branch of science concerned with the study of diseases
What is Epidemiology?
Can be BOTH a push and pull factor
What is Economic Opportunity?
The MAIN obstacle in accessing popular culture
What is Lack of Income?
The President that ended Apartheid
Who is Nelson Mandela?