Unit 1
The decrease in time it takes to get from one place to another as technology improves is an example of
space-time compression
What is a pronatalist policy?
A policy designed to encourage women to have more children
What is one example of a lingua franca that is not English
Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, French, etc.
What is an autonomous region?
A part of a country that has a significant degree of independence within a country
What did Thomas Malthus believe?
That population will grow faster than food production if left unchecked
Define a functional region
any region that operates around a central node
What is an ethnic neighborhood?
a place where people of a similar background live
Define relocation, contagious, and hierarchical diffusion
relocation- pick up and move, bringing culture with them
contagious- spreads from person to person, without care of borders
hierarchical- something diffuses from the top of the social order down
Give one example of a stateless nation
the Kurds, Palestinians
What are 2 features that make up the cultural landscape of a place
physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, evidence of sequent occupancy
Describe the concept of sustainability
meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
What are 2 reasons refugees leave their home countries? (no partial points)
Social, political, and environmental (others work, these are the biggest ones)
Describe the difference between assimilation and syncretism
assimilation leads to the loss of the original culture in favor of the dominant culture while syncretism leads to a mixing of multiple cultures
What is one way a nation might express territoriality?
control over people, land, and/or resources
what is a vernacular region?
a region that people perceive to exist
What is possibilism?
The environment sets restrictions on what people can do but humans can modify their culture to overcome those obstacles
Draw the demographic transition model distinguishing between birth and death rates and the line showing total population
I'll tell you if you're right
Give one historic example of relocation diffusion (be specific! give me the people who moved and what they brought)
Examples include: the Spanish and Catholicism and language, the British and English, etc.
what is the definition of a shatterbelt and give 1 example
a region whose internal, geographical, cultural, religious, and political fragmentation is compounded by pressures from external major powers
examples: Caucasus, Malaysia, Eastern Europe, Israel
What term describes the concept of a state having the ability to control its own internal affairs, without interference from outside nations
sovereignty
How does scale impact the way we understand truth?
Scale can obscure or magnify differences or similarities
Define 1 type of FORCED migration
Define 1 type of VOLUNTARY migration
Forced migration: slavery, refugees, IDPs, asylum seekers
Voluntary migration: transnational, transhumance, internal, chain, step, guest worker, and rural-to-urban
What religions are most popular in the following countries: India, Afghanistan, Italy, Israel, Myanmar
India- Hunduism
Afghanistan- Islam
Italy- Catholic/Christian
Israel- Jewish
Myanmar- Buddhist
Define consequent boundaries and give an example of one
drawn in order to separate groups based on ethnic, linguistic, religious, or economic differences.
Ex. India and Pakistan
In 1885, what was the conference that Europeans split up Africa without input from people living on the continent?
The Berlin conference