Mid-Term Review

By the Numbers

100

Located at 0 degrees latitude and located at 180 degrees longitude.

Equator and Prime Meridian

200

There are this many Pillars of Islam.

5

300

There are this many Nobel Truths in Buddhism.

4

400

Around this many languages are spoken in the world today.

7,000

500

Number of Stages in the Demographic Transition Model.

5

Language

100

A language learned out of necessity.

Lingua Franca

200

Variants if a single language.

Dialect

300

According to our lecture slides this country has two official languages: Flemings speaking Dutch and Walloons speaking French.

Belgium

400

According to our lecture slides this country has 4 official languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh (Latin).

Switzerland

500

According to our lecture slides this country's official language is English but there are over 500 languages spoken there?

Nigeria

Culture/Population

100

What is a mentifact and what is an artifact?

Mentifact: ideas, beliefs, philosophy...

Artifacts: tools, books, pottery...

200

He believed that world population would grow faster than the Earth's food supply.

Thomas Malthus

300

The rate of babies who die before their first birthday.

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)

400

Country that practiced a One-Child Policy and Country that incentivized female sterilization.

China and India

500

Type of culture that diffuses rapidly through hierarchical  diffusion and the type of culture that diffuses slowly through relocation.

Popular and Folk

Religion and Migration

100

Leaving a country is?

Coming into a country is?

Emigrating

Immigrating

200

Factors that compel people to leave a country?

Factors that compel people to move into a country?

Push

Pull

300

This brought a lot of immigrants to California in 1849.

The Gold Rush

400

Name the city, regarded to be a holy city by 3 of the top 5 world religions.

Jerusalem

500

Name the top 3 Universalizing religions and the top 2 Ethnic Religions.

Universalizing: Christianity, Islam and Buddhism

Ethnic:Hinduism and Judaism

Geography 101

100

Set of imaginary lines that provide a framework in locating absolute locations on the globe.

Geographic Grid

200

Lines that run E and W but measure N and S.

Lines that run N and S but measure E and W.

Latitude and Longitude

300

Term used to describe how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place.

Globalization

400

Projection map used in navigation but it does distort the size of land masses.

Mercator

500

List the 5 themes of Geography.

Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location and Place