The Basics
A region with an area organized around a focal point (node)
This can be
Economic (downtown of a city)
Location (transportation hubs)
etc.
What is functional region?
What theory does this graph show?
(Ms. Rowe will show it on the board.)
What is Malthusian Theory?
Name an example push factor.
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Bonus: Name an environmental push factor. (Hint: essential to human life)
Define the term cultural landscape.
What is the impact a certain culture has on the physical environment in which it inhabits.
Define centripetal forces.
What are those that unify a group of people or region?
ex. common language and religion
a shared heritage and history
ethnic unity and tolerance
What is the name for the location of a place in relationship to the characteristics of its' surroundings?
What is situation?
Define total fertility rate.
What is the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her child-bearing years?
Bonus: Name something that will lower fertility rates. (Think women in society.)
Explain dependency ratio.
What is the comparison between the size of the potential workforce (ages 14-64) and the dependent population (those too young or old to work).
What is placelessness?
What is the phenomenon of an area losing its' characteristics due to the overwhelming effects of popular culture on the surrounding landscape.
Define lingua franca.
Give an example.
What is a default language used when to speakers of different language rely on to communicate effectively.
English is the most common lingua franca in the world.
Hindi
Swahili
What are the two theories of cultural ecology?
What are environmental determinism and possibilism?
Bonus: Which is favored?
How is arithmetic density measured?
What is the total number of people divided by the total land area?
Define the term remittance.
Earnings sent back to family still living in country of origin.
Define assimilation.
Provide a relative example.
What is when a lesser known or powerful culture is forced under pressure to adopt the culture and practices of a dominator culture.
Ex. Native American culture losing customs and traits in favor of Christianity, western cultural dress norms and pressure to follow American language and non-material cultural traits.
What are the two major language families in the world?
What are Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan?
List 3 major types of map projections.
Explain the phenomenon of distortion.
What are Mercator, Robinson, Gall-Peters?
Distortion occurs when mapping a 3D object like land forms and bodies of water onto a 1-dimensional piece of paper. Masses may appear larger or smaller or sometimes even misshaped.
Explain population characteristics of LDC's and MDC's.
What is LDC's have a high birth/death rate, low rate of natural increase, high fertility, lack of medical resources, life expectancy is usually low.
MDC's are normally industrialized with dependence on technology, modern medicine, higher life expectancy, birth/ death tends to slow down significantly.
Define the term refugee and give a few examples that would cause this common form of migration.
What is a person who is forced to leave their country for political (war), economic (poverty) or social (religious discrimination) reasons.
Define multiculturalism.
What is the coexistence of several cultures in one society with the ideal of all cultures being valued and worthy of study.
List 3 of the Romance languages.
What are French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian.
List 3 major types of diffusion and give a relevant example of each.
What are relocation, contagious, hierarchical and stimulus?
Answers may vary.
Explain why geographers use the DTM.
At what stage in the model does the most natural rate of increase occur?
What is the Demographic Transition Model helps geographer track and measure shifts in demographics through various stages of development.
Under normal circumstances, the highest population growth will occur in stages 2 and 3.
According to Ravenstein, give several characteristics of migrants.
What is migrants tend to:
-most migrants only move short distances
-most migrants tend to be young adult males
-economic causes are the main incentive for migrants
-each migration pattern creates a counter-pattern
-most migration occurs from rural to urban
What is the difference between a custom and a habit?
What is a custom is performed by a uniformed group of people and a habit is a repetitive act performed by an individual.
How many languages are there in the world?
How many of them are spoken by 1 million or less people?
What is approximately 7000.
6,700 (Most) are spoken by 1 million people or less!