Basic Geo Concepts
An arc connecting the connecting the North and South Pole, measured by longitude
What is a meridian?
This body of water formally separates the towns of Yarmouth and Dennis
What is the Bass River?
The maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain indefinitely is known as _________________ capacity.
What is carrying?
This region has the highest maternal death rate in the world.
What is sub-Saharan Africa?
This common type of animal that eats nuts and is responsible for the most power outages in the United States
What is a squirrel?
Also known as Coordinated Universal Time, its abbreviation is GMT
What is Greenwich Mean Time?
This is the only Cape Cod town which maintains a Native American toponym.
What is Mashpee?
The total number of births in a year for every 1,000 alive in the society.
What is Crude Birth Rate (CBR)?
This region spends over 10% of its GDP on health care and has since World War II.
What is Western Europe?
This vernacular region is known for its dairy farms, its lakes, and its friendly people.
What is the Midwest?
To say "Hyannis is 30 miles west of Orleans" is an example of this type of location
What is relative location?
The vernacular region of the Lower Cape comprises of these 4 towns.
What are Brewster, Harwich, Chatham and Orleans?
After a country undergoes industrialization, with a high CBR, a rapidly declining CDR, and a very high NIR - we can say that it is in this stage of demographic transition.
What is Stage 2?
This is a widespread occurance of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
What is an epidemic?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
When a region has clearly defined boundaries, for example the state of Ohio, we can say it is this type of region
What is a formal region?
This town has the oldest median age in Massachusetts (hint: it's a town in the Nauset district) at 64.
What is Orleans?
A type of bar graph that displays the percengate of a communities population fo each age and gender.
What is a population pyramid?
This country relied on mass sterilizations to control its population in the 20th century.
What is India?
A pronatalist policy in a country encourages people to do this.
What is "to have more children"?
In the 1800s, Native Americans were forced into Indian boarding schools, stripping of them of their language and culture in a forced process of this.
What is assimilation?
What is Truro?
This type of ratio compares 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 the dependency ratio?
This economist believed that the world's rate of population would eventually outstrip its resources.
Who was Thomas Malthus?
The number of years needed to for a population to multiply by 2, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
What is doubling time?