Population Factors
This Human Factor determines population density, including things like jobs and trade in urban areas.
What are Economic Opportunities?
This U.S. immigration station, which opened in 1892, primarily processed immigrants entering the U.S. from the East.
What is Ellis Island?
This is the general academic discipline that encompasses the study of human societies, cultures, and their development.
What is Anthropology?
The Berlin Conference established rules for this activity in Africa.
What is the colonization of Africa?
The state in which we live.
What is Illinois?
This type of land is less suitable for building and farming, leading to lower population density.
What is mountainous or steep areas?
This specific group of people were restricted by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Who were Chinese laborers?
This branch of anthropology deals with studying the tangible remains of a culture.
What is Archaeology?
This person was the main individual in charge of harvesting rubber in the Congo Free State, leading to brutal exploitation.
Who was King Leopold II?
The state at the northern-most point on the eastern coast?
What is Maine?
This description of a climate type is moderate with predictable rainfall and makes an area more attractive for settlement.
What is a characteristic of a favorable climate?
This location served as the main immigration station for Asian immigrants on the West Coast.
What is Angel Island?
The branch of anthropology that explores the meaning and evolution of language to learn about a culture.
What is Linguistic Anthropology?
The number of African nations that attended the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885.
What is Zero (0)?
The state to the left of North Dakota.
What is Montana?
These two geographical features are noted to support denser populations due to their rich, fertile soil.
What are Fertile Floodplains and Volcanic Soil?
The main reason immigrants were detained or turned away at Ellis Island.
What were failed medical or legal inspections?
This branch is concerned with tracing evolutionary changes and the genetic diversity of the human species.
What is Biological Anthropology?
True or False: The African nations attained wealth through the selling of their natural resources during the Scramble.
What is False?
This state is bordered by Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
What is Louisiana?
This is the general term for a condition like political stability or good infrastructure, which is key for high population density.
What is a Human Factor?
The Immigration Act of 1924 is significant because it did this to immigration through the use of quotas.
What is greatly restricted immigration?
Anthropologists from this branch live within a community to observe their customs and understand their practices.
What is Cultural Anthropology?
The Berlin Conference did this to the colonization of Africa, despite its stated purpose to prevent conflict.
What is increased/accelerated the colonization?
This state contains an upper and lower peninsula.
What is Michigan?