DEFINE: A geographical area that encompasses
or seems to encompass a definite, specific
culture or ethnic group.
What is a Cultural Region?
100
DEFINE: Using resources in ways that meet the
needs of people today without hurting the ability
of future generations to meet their own needs.
This means finding ways to use resources without
using them up.
What is Sustainable Development?
100
DEFINE: An epidemic of infectious disease that
has spread through human populations across
a large region; for instance multiple continents,
or even worldwide.
What is a Pandemic?
100
DEFINE: movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups.
What is Migration?
100
DEFINE: The tendency for cultures to become more
alike as they increasingly share technology
and organizational structures in a modern
world united by improved transportation and communication.
What is Cultural Convergence?
200
DEFINE: The unequal distribution of wealth
or resources in a geographic area.
What is spatial inequality?
200
DEFINE: The policy or practice of acquiring full or
partial political control over another country,
occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it
economically
What is Colonialism?
200
DEFINE: Degradation of land and vegetation, soil erosion and the loss of top soil and fertile land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations.
What is Desertification?
200
DEFINE: The distribution of ideas, products, culture,
technology, innovation, languages, disease,
etc across space to other people.
What is Spatial Diffusion?
200
Which of the following is most in danger of desertification?
a. croplands
b. forested areas
c. marginal lands
d. wilderness areas
c. marginal lands
300
DEFINE: The overall level of comfort and well-being of a group or a country.
What is Standard of Living?
300
DEFINE: The unequal distribution of wealth and resources in a specific geographic area.
What is spatial inequality?
300
a. overgrazing.
b. deforestation.
c. long-term drought.
(Causes of...?)
What are causes of desertification?
300
b. clean energy.
c. flood control.
d. irrigation water.
(Benefits of...?)
What are benefits of hydroelectric dams?
300
What is a reason diseases more easily spread in the modern world?
a. Flu viruses are constantly changing.
b. Physical barriers help to separate
people in different regions.
c. Pandemics would have effects on the
economy and daily life.
d. People are more connected due to increased
travel and increased international trade.
D. People are more connected due to increased travel and increased international trade.
400
DEFINE: differences among many different groups over how best to use the rainforest
What is land use conflict?
400
The landform where the Panama Canal is located.
What is an isthmus?
400
The world's longest river.
What is the Nile?
400
DEFINE: RIVER BASIN
What is the area drained by a river and its tributaries
?
400
The three dimensions of the Human Development Index.
What are:
- a long and healthy life (health),
- access to knowledge (education)
- a decent standard of living (income).
500
The largest urban center in Latin America north of the equator?
What is Mexico City?
500
DEFINE: People who are native to an area and who practice traditional ways while often adapting modern culture as well.
What is indigenous peoples?
500
EFFECT: conflict between the Igbo and other ethnic groups in Nigeria due to favoritism.
What is the cause?
What is British colonialism?
500
DEFINE: power generated by the falling water of dams.
What is hydroelectricity?
500
Define: The exchange of people, ideas, diseases and food between the Old World and the New World.