Migration
Which type of intraregional migration is most prevalent worldwide?
Rural to urban
What is wrong with a Mercator projection?
Name the four most concentrated REGIONS in the World
East Asia, South Asia, Western Europe, Southeast Asia
Name ONE difference between popular and folk culture.
Definition: folk is small, homogenous groups, isolated in LDCs, pop large heterogeneous groups, constantly changing, MDCS
Origin: folk relatively unknown, pop specific time and place
Diffusion: folk through relocation diffusion, popular culture hierarchical, use of technology
A growing population, left unchecked, will outgrow its resources.
Malthus' Theory
Money sent back by migrants to their home country is called what?
Remittances
A formal region
arithmetic density
Where did Buddhism originate?
India
Which stage of the Demographic transition has low birth rates and low death rates?
Stage 4 & 5
A person with temporary permission to work in another country is called what?
A guest worker
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
Absolute location: fixed position (coordinates)
Relative location: location relative to another landmark
Describe a country that has a high life expectancy and a high percentage of urban population AND what stage of the DTM would they be?
MDC, North America or Europe, stage 4 or 5
A creolized language is: (define)
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous of the people being dominated.
What challenge will China face in the future based on its population
Providing needs for its aging population
Migrants to a country follow other migrants with whom they share some sort of link (kinship, culture, ethnicity)
chain migration
What type of region would include the following examples? rust belt, sun belt, pizza delivery areas, television signal areas
What is the purpose of anti-natalist policies?
slow population growth, limit, births, lower fertility rate/birth rate
A language of international commerce and communication
Lingua Franca
Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.
Why are asylum seekers leaving Syria?
civil war, political unrest, conflict
Which map is best used for navigation and traveling the seas?
Mercator Projection
Name a problem in a country with high physiological density.
Pressure on the arable land, pressure on the people to produce enough food for the population.
Name the world’s three major monotheistic religions.
Judaism,
Christianity,
Islam
Give an example of a positive AND a negative check
Positive Checks: increase the death rate: disease, war, disaster, famine
Negative Checks: preventative checks- methods that could be used to limit population growth (birth control, abstinence, postponing marriage)