Politics
A country diversified with more than one ethnicity represented by the state
What is a Multinational State?
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
What is doubling time?
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.
What is a universalizing religion?
This region was given status as a semi-autonomous nation in 1999.
What is Nunavut?
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He was bald.
The transfer of power from the central government to regional governments within the state.
What is Devolution?
the number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years
What is Dependency Ratio?
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
What is a Language Branch?
This country is a great example of both nation-states and unitary governments
What is Japan?
What month of the year has 28 days?
What is all of them?
A state that is surrounded entirely by another state or states.
What is an Enclave?
Largest number of individuals of a population that an environment can support
What is Carrying Capacity
Yiddish, Picard, Romani, Lombard, Ligurian, Campidanese, and Tamaceq are all examples of what kind of languages?
What are endangered languages?
partitioned in 1921 this island nation has been divided ever since.
what is Ireland?
What question can you never answer yes to?
Are you Asleep yet?
This is the Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition
What is the Epidemiological transition model?
a religion that is identified with a particular tribal group.
What is an ethnic religion
Founded in 1932 this country is now de-facto leader of OPEC and is an Islamic fundamentalist theocracy
Saudi Arabia
a man shaves every day, but his beard stays the same. Why?
He is a barber.
Name at least separatist movements that exist in the world today
Catalonians, Basques, Scottish, Kurds, Quebecois
Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because, in his view, population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Jollibee is a fast-food restaurant that started in the Philippines but can now be worldwide even here in Dallas. This is an example of what kind of diffusion?
What is Reverse Hierarchical Diffusion
This country's Houthi rebels have been attacking container ships near the Strait of Hormuz in the last month
What is Yemen
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
A language tree.