Vocab Blitz
Define: Push factor
cause people to be dissatisfied with their present location and make them want to move somewhere else.
KPOP Demon Hunters
McDonalds adapting it's menu for cultural differences
are examples of which type of diffusion?
Stimulus Diffusion
People move from rural areas to cities in search of jobs and better opportunities.
Rural-to-urban migration / Urbanization
model shows how crude birth rate (CBR) and crude death rate (CDR), as well as the resulting rate of natural increase (RNI), change over time as countries transition through 5 stages of development
Demographic Transition Model
What is Mr. McNally's twin brother's name?
Chad McNally
Define: Universalizing faith
Universalizing: A religion that actively seeks new members and believes its message has universal importance and application
Ethnic: A religion identified with a particular ethnic or tribal group that does not seek converts
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan is a good example of which urban challenge?
Environmental Injustice
DAILY DOUBLE: Team who picked question is the only team allowed to answer
Can wager their points, must wager 100
the modern set of economic and political strategies by which wealthy and powerful countries indirectly maintain or extend their influence over less wealthy areas.
Neocolonialism
Farmers near a city grow perishable crops like vegetables, while farmers farther away grow grains and livestock
How many wives did Henry VIII have?
+100 - How many were named Anne?
6: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Katherine Parr
2: Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves
Define: Antecedent Boundary
Antecedent: a boundary that was identified before an area was settled. EX: 49th parallel -US Canada border
Consequent: drawn to accommodate existing cultural differences.
Factories closing in the Rust Belt and moving to Mexico is an example of:
Outsourcing / Offshoring / Deindustrialization
A group of people moves to a new country and adopts many aspects of the dominant culture, but still maintains some of their original traditions. What geographic process is this?
Acculturation
Not to be confused with Assimilation
A city develops multiple centers of business activity instead of one downtown.
Multiple Nuclei Model
Name all three actors who have played Spiderman in a live action movie
First and last names
Toby Maguire
Andrew Garfield
Tom Holland
Define: Commodity Chain
is a series of links connecting a commodity’s places of production, distribution, and consumption. Each link along the chain adds value to the commodity, producing differing levels of profit for the place and the people where production occurs.
Ghana relies heavily on exporting cocoa beans to wealthier countries, but when global cocoa prices drop, farmers struggle and the national economy weakens.
What does this illustrate?
Commodity Dependence
A European power draws borders in Africa without considering existing ethnic or cultural groups, leading to long-term conflict after independence. What type of boundary is this?
Super-imposed Boundary
Theory that transportation costs and labor costs play a strong role in determining the location of manufacturing facilities
(Hint: Triangle)
Least Cost Theory
Name every member of the Beatles
First and name
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison
Define: Primate City
Primate city: is much larger than any other city in a country, and it dominates the country’s economic, political, and cultural life. EX: Paris, Lagos, Moscow
Rank size: states that the population of a settlement is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy. (Population is evenly distributed among cities)
The war in Ukraine has largely been caused by Vladimir Putin's desire to recreate the former borders of the Soviet Union
This desire can be characterized as:
Irredentism
The idea is to reclaim historically “lost” territory and thereby reunite the ethnic group within the boundaries of a single nation-state.
During colonial times, the French language was used as a culturally unifying force among linguistically diverse populations.
The French Language can be defined as a:
Lingua Franca
A language of communication and commerce spoken across a wide area where it is not a mother tongue
mathematical model that attempts to predict how places will interact. The equation is the multiplication of two populations divided by the square of the distance between them
Gravity Model
Name all three U.S presidents to have been impeached by the house of representatives (doesn't mean removed from office)
100 pts per president
500 for all three
Andrew Johnson 1868
Bill Clinton 1998
Donald Trump 2019, 2021