HUMAN–ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
What is the geographic concept that says the environment shapes human actions?
What is environmental determinism?
What scale shows patterns across the entire world?
What is the global scale?
What shape of population pyramid indicates rapid growth?
What is a wide base, triangular shape?
In which DTM stage are both birth and death rates high?
What is Stage 1?
What is a learned behavior shared by a group of people?
What is a cultural trait?
What is the belief that humans can adapt and modify their environment using technology?
What is possibilism?
What do we call a region linked by a node, such as a subway or newspaper delivery area?
What is a functional region?
A country with a shrinking population is likely in which DTM stage?
What is Stage 5?
Which stage shows death rates falling first?
What is Stage 2?
Judging another culture by the standards of your own culture is called what?
What is ethnocentrism?
Solar/wind power, crop rotation, or sustainable fishing. These are Examples of?
What is sustainability
“The Middle East” is an example of what type of region?
What is a perceptual/vernacular region?
What do we call the number of dependents (young + old) compared to the working population?
What is the dependency ratio?
What main factor causes birth rates to drop in Stage 3?
What is women’s education/contraception/urbanization?
Which concept means interpreting a culture by its own standards?
What is cultural relativism?
What do geographers call the study of how humans use Earth’s surface for activities such as farming, cities, transportation, and resource extraction?
What is land use?
A map of income levels by neighborhood uses what scale of analysis?
What is the local scale?
A population pyramid with many elderly people and few children shows what challenge?
What is strain on healthcare/pensions?
What type of diseases dominate in Stage 1 of the ETM?
What are infectious diseases & famine?
Layers left on the landscape by different groups living there over time is called what?
What is sequent occupancy?
A nation adopts strict fishing quotas, reforests cleared land, and invests in renewable energy to protect long-term resource availability. Which major geographic concept does this set of actions represent?
What is sustainability?
Give one example of a formal region.
What is a country, a state, a climate zone, etc.?
A country’s population pyramid shows a large top, a narrow base, and a bulge in the middle. What long-term economic problem is this country most likely to face, and why?
What is a labor shortage due to an aging workforce?
A country has a very low birth rate, rising death rate, and relies heavily on immigration to maintain its population size. Which DTM stage is it in, and what demographic trend explains this situation?
What is Stage 5, explained by population decline caused by very low fertility rates?
What concept explains why some spaces—like business districts or government centers—are used more by men due to cultural expectations?
What is gendered space?