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Spare Change
100
The image provided shows this type of scale of analysis.
What is a (small) global scale?
100
This practice of gerrymandering, involves consolidating as many votes of the opposing party as possible into one district to secure one seat for the opposition while maximizing your party's chances of winning the remaining seats.
What is "packing"?
100
This economic theory illustrates the relationship between land-use patterns and distance from the city center, showing how land values decrease as one moves away from the central business district.
What is the "Bid-Rent Curve"?
100
This index measures gender disparities in health, empowerment, and labor force participation within a country, providing insights into the status of women's rights and gender equality.
What is the "Gender Inequality Index (GII)"?
100
In Greek mythology, these three gods are brothers.
Who are Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades?
200
This limitation in mapping techniques can cause inaccuracies in depicting population distribution, as it distorts the size and shape of landmasses, often exaggerating the area of countries farther from the equator.
What is map projection (distortion)?
200
These regions, often characterized by their geopolitical instability and conflicts arising from competing cultural, political, and economic interests, serve as buffer zones between more stable and powerful countries.
What are "shatterbelt regions"?
200
These large-scale agricultural estates, typically found in tropical regions, specialize in the cultivation of crops such as sugarcane, cotton, tobacco, and coffee for commercial sale and export.
What are "Plantations"?
200
This economic concept describes the clustering of businesses and industries in close proximity to take advantage of shared resources, labor pools, and infrastructure, often leading to increased efficiency and innovation.
What is "agglomeration"?
200
The name of this winged-lemur character.
Who is Momo?
300
These types of policies are implemented by governments to encourage higher birth rates, often offering incentives such as financial rewards or benefits to families.
What are pronatalist population policies?
300
These types of states are defined by a relatively homogeneous population sharing common historical, cultural, and linguistic characteristics, often leading to a strong sense of national identity.
What are "nation-states"?
300
This urban model, developed by sociologist Ernest Burgess in the 1920s, describes a city's structure as a series of concentric rings radiating outward from the central business district, with land use and socioeconomic status decreasing as distance from the center increases.
What is the "Concentric Zone Model"?
300
This composite index, used to measure a country's overall achievement in three key dimensions - health, education, and standard of living - provides insights into the overall well-being and development level of a nation.
What is the "Human Development Index (HDI)"?
300
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
This theory suggested that human behavior and societal development were primarily determined by environmental factors, such as climate and geography.
Environmental Determinism
400
These two categories classify religions based on their scope and appeal. One aims to attract followers worldwide, while the other is more tied to specific cultural or ethnic groups.
What are "universalizing religions" and "ethnic religions"?
400
This type of farming, characterized by large land areas and minimal labor inputs per unit of land, often involves the cultivation of crops or raising livestock on vast expanses of land.
What is "extensive farming"?
400
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This economic indicator represents the total value of goods and services produced by a country's residents, including income earned abroad, minus income earned by foreign residents within the country.
[GDP +(Exports - Imports) = ___]
What is "Gross National Income (GNI)"?
400
The smallest country in the world by land area.
What is Vatican City?
500
Malthus's theory failed to account for these two factors that contributed to the divergence from his prediction of widespread famine due to population growth outpacing food supply.
What are urbanization, led to smaller household sizes and reduced fertility rates, and mechanization of agriculture, which increased food production?
500
This term describes the process by which different cultures blend together to form new cultural practices, languages, and identities, often resulting from colonial encounters or trade routes.
What is "creolization"?
500
This urban planning movement advocates for the creation of walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods with a focus on sustainability, community, and traditional design principles.
What is "New Urbanism"?
500
This theory of economic development outlines a five-stage model of development, suggesting that all countries pass through the same stages of economic growth, from traditional society to high mass consumption.
What is "Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth"?
500
This is the longest-running scripted primetime TV series in the United States, first airing in 1989.
What is The Simpsons?
600
This stage of the Epidemiologic Transition Model is characterized by a decrease in infectious diseases and an increase in chronic diseases, often associated with urbanization and lifestyle changes.
What is the Stage 2 of the Epidemiologic Transition Model?
600
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This concept refers to the merging of different cultural elements, often religious beliefs or practices, resulting in a new, unique culture.
What is cultural "syncretism"?
600
When discussing cities in a postindustrial economy, this statement accurately describes their characteristics, emphasizing the prevalence of technology and information services within their office spaces.
What is "The postindustrial city has a large share of offices housing technology and information services"?
(Tertiary/Service Sector)
600
This urban model describes the layout of cities with a central business district surrounded by a ring road, followed by suburban residential areas and industrial parks extending outward in a wheel-like pattern.
What is the "Galactic/Periphery City Model"?
600
In the Disney Pixar film "Up," this is the name of the elderly protagonist who ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away.
Who is Carl Fredricksen?