CHAPTER 1
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
Permanent movement undertaken by choice
What is Voluntary Migration?
The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method.
The total number of people divided by the total land area.
What is arithmetic density?
A country has net in-migration if emigration ________ immigration.
is less than
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
Chile is an example of what type of state?
The idea of Cultural Landscapes (the cultural properties that represent the combined works of nature and of man) was created by this University of California Berkeley professor.
More developed countries moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition 200 years ago in part because of
invention of new technology
The most important pull factor for migrants to North America today is
economic.
The concept that nationalities have the right to govern themselves is known as the right of
A frontier, in contrast to a boundary,
This scientist and UCLA professor is famous for his writing including Guns, Germs, and Steel and is most associated with Environmental Determinism.
Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition
What is Epidemiological Transition?
Most European guest workers come from which part of Europe?
(north and east, south and west, south and east, north and west, central)
The former Soviet Union used which as the primary centripetal device?
A state which places most power in the hands of a central government.
To geographers, the spread of McDonald's around the world represents
economic and cultural globalization.
England's population pyramid would most likely resemble that of
Geographer Wilbur Zelinsky identified a migration transition, which consists of changes in a society comparable to those in the demographic transition.
In which stage would you find a country at the point when international migration becomes especially important, as does interregional migration from one country's rural areas to its cities?
African Americans migrated out of the American South as a consequence of
increased farm mechanization leading to a decreased demand for farm labor
Boundaries were redrawn in much of Europe after World War I according to the