Physical & Human Geography
While Biogeography looks at flora and fauna, this specific branch of physical geography examines the hardness, permeability, and height differences of landforms like plateaus and volcanoes.
What is Relief?
This statistical field provides the "vital statistics" (size, density, and distribution) necessary for a government to plan for future infrastructure.
What is Demography?
The author of "El Llano el Llamas", "Pedro Paramo" and "El Gallo de Oro".
Who is Juan Rulfo?
This type of nationalism is most likely to lead to the exclusion or persecution of minorities because it bases national belonging on "fixed" traits like heritage or race.
What is Ethnic Nationalism?
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What is Prepa Tec?
A try is the primary method of scoring points in this sport.
What is Rugby?
To find this specific demographic indicator, a researcher must subtract the Crude Death Rate (CDR) from the Crude Birth Rate (CBR).
What is the Natural Increase Rate (NIR)?
This is the metaphorical "location" where different cultures meet, negotiate meaning, and produce hybrid identities.
What is the Third Space?
This form of nationalism defines belonging based on shared political values and citizenship within a state rather than on shared blood or ethnicity.
What is Civic Nationalism?
A mammal that can lay eggs and has a beak.
What is the Paltypus?
If a scientist is studying the 30-year average of rainfall and temperature in the Yucatan Peninsula rather than today's specific storm, they are studying this concept.
What is Climate?
Unlike the "Expansive" pyramid of Niger, this type of population structure—found in the USA—is characterized by a very low Natural Increase Rate and a rising average age.
What is a Low Stationary (or Constrictive) pyramid?
In the "Identity Iceberg" model, elements like the Mexican Flag, the National Anthem, and Gastronomy are located at this specific level.
What is the First Level (Surface Culture/Visible Elements)?
Before the 18th-century Enlightenment, an individual's primary social loyalty was usually directed toward these three things instead of a "nation."
What are a monarch (dynasty), a religious community, or local ties (village/feudal lord)?
Main element that created social cohesion during the colonial occupation of Spain of the Americas.
What is Catholicism?
This interdisciplinary science, also known as Ekistics, goes beyond simple mapmaking to analyze how urban and rural environments evolve to improve human quality of life.
What is Human Settlement Studies?
Mexico is currently in this demographic stage, characterized by a declining birth rate due to urban planning and a transition toward a primarily adult workforce.
What is the Late Expanding stage?
At the deepest level (Level 4) of the Identity Iceberg, you find these—not laws or traditions, but the underlying mental frameworks that allow a society to function.
What are common assumptions or mental frameworks?
These narratives, such as the story of the founding of Tenochtitlan, serve to legitimize political authority and provide a shared origin story regardless of historical precision.
What are Foundational Myths?
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What are 6 points plus and an extra point for the kick conversion?
This is the fundamental distinction between Physical and Human Geography regarding the "agent" of change.
What is that Physical Geography focuses on processes without direct human intervention, while Human Geography focuses on the interaction between natural processes and human activities?
Alfonso García Robles in 1982, for his work in the creation of peace through " El Tratado de Tlatelolco".
Octavio Paz in 1990, for his work in poetry and literature.
Mario Molina in 1995, for his work in chemestry by proving the negative effect of chlorofluorocarbons over the ozone layer.
Who are Mexico's nobel prices?
The disputed territory between Mexico and Guatemala during the 19th century.
What is el Soconusco?
This term describes an "ideal commonwealth" or a project of impossibly idealistic reform that often serves as the goal for societal restructuring.
What is a Utopia?
The location this year's super bowl (not the name of the team hosting the event).
What is Santa Clara or Levi's Stadium?