Unit 1 Thinking Geo
Unit 2 Pop/Migration
Unit 3 Culture
Unit 4 Political
Wildcard
100
Geographers use various map projections--Mercator, Good-Homolosine, Robinson--because projecting a round earth onto a flat map always leads to this.
Distortion
100
What is the replacement level of fertility? (looking for a number not definition)
about 2
100
Sikhism mixing elements of both Hinduism and Islam makes it an example of this course concept.
Syncretism
100
The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence.
Genocide
100
What is a hearth?
The place of origin
200
The "Middle East" is an example of this type of region.
Vernacular (Perceptual) Region
200
The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support
Carrying Capacity
200
The process of making indigenous people adopt the dominant culture and abandon their own culture
What is assimilation
200
A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
Multi-National State
200
Vocab term for government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase
Anti-Natalist Policies
300
The fact that the great civilizations of the Roman Empire and Han China had little to no interaction can be explained by this course concept. (FAR AWAY PLACES HAVE LITTLE CHANCE OF SHARING INFO)
Distance Decay
300
Define the term remittance.
Earnings sent back to family still living in country of origin.
300
Popular culture is practiced by a ______ group of people.
What is heterogeneous (people across identities and across the world)?
300
A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.(Hint named after an area that went through this process)
Balkanization
300
These financial instruments have helped alleviate poverty by helping women to start businesses in LDCs.
Microloans
400
Below is an example of this type of thematic map at this scale of analysis. (2 parts)
Cartogram Map; Sub-national OR State Scale
400
Explain the difference between immigration and emigration.
What is immigration is people coming in, emigration is people leaving an area.
400
Religion is this type of force in Saudi Arabia, but it's this other type of force in Myanmar. (2 parts)
Centripetal; Centrifugal
400
What are the 4 requirements for a place to be considered a state?
Permanent Population, Sovereignty, Boundaries (land), Recognition
400
What are the 4 Highly Developed regions/countries
North America
Europe
Japan
Australia (Oceania)
500
When using Google Maps to drive from Henderson to Las Vegas, you are using this navigation technology with a map at this scale. (2 parts)
GPS; Large Scale Map
500
Name three of the top five most populated countries in the world.
China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan
500
A Tik Tok Video going viral is this type of diffusion, but the reason you are able to understand it and laugh at it may be better explained by another type of diffusion. (2 parts) Hint-the video is in English.
Contagious; Hierarchical
500
At this 19th century meeting, European states decided the fate of many African nations by creating these. (2 parts)
Berlin Conference; Superimposed Boundaries
500
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite measure of these three indicators of development.
Life-expectancy (Health), education, per-capita income (wealth)
600
The projections has very little shape distortion and is a rectangular shape, but it’s relative size is distorted especially near the poles. While this projection preserves relative size, but appears to be stretched horizontally and doesn't enlarge areas well.
Mercator Projection; Peters Projection
600
The main characteristics of the third stage of the DTM. (There should be 3)
Declining Birth Rates, Declining Death Rates, Population growth begins to slow.
600
Starting in the 16th century, these three developments helped establish European languages (later predominately English) as global lingua franca.
Colonialism, imperialism, and trade
600
The Philippines has accused China of encroaching on this, as defined by this. (2 points)
Exclusive Economic Zone; United Nations Convention on the Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS)
600
China has cheap labor, which strengthens this sector, as well as a strong consumer market, which strengthens this sector. This combination would classify China as this type of country under this theory of development. (4 parts)
Secondary; Tertiary; Semi-Peripheral; Wallerstein's World Systems Theory