| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Thomas Malthus | Who had the theory that Food will increase arithmetically; population increases exponentially; food WILL run out. |
| World Population Distribution | The concentrations of this term are in the Northern Hemisphere (larger land masses, better climate are the reasons why) |
| Africa and Asia | The fastest growth is occurring in the poorer countries of these two continents; their cities are growing rapidly. |
| China | This country's crude birth rate is lower than ours because of birth control; one-child policy |
| Birth Rate - Death rate + immigration - emigration | The formula of a country's population change in one year is : (do not abbreviate) |
| Total Fertility Rate | Other than the original way, what is another way population growth is measured? |
| Gerrymandering | The purpose of this is to benefit one group or political party in creating congressional districts. |
| Map projection and distortion | Happens when a round surface is made flat; distortion may be in size or shape of land forms, distance between land forms, or in direction. |
| Stage 1 | This stage of the demographic transition model has a high birth rate, a high death rate, and low conditions/ outcomes. |
| Stage 2 | This stage of the demographic transition model has high birth rates, low death rates, and high growth. |
| Stage 3 | This stage of the demographic transition model has decreasing birth rates, low death rates, and a better infant mortality rate; moderate growth. Started large migration to the New World because of European wars. |
| stage 4 | This stage of the demographic transition model has a low birth rate, a low death rate, a stabilized condition and low growth. Involves urbanization and even falling birth rates in some countries. |
| India | Cultural Center for Hindus (country) |
| Israel | Cultural Center for Jews (country) |
| North Africa and Southwest Asia | Cultural Center for Muslims (country) |
| Rivers | In world history it has been the significance of this that has gotten city-states to begin within Mesopotamia; in Europe the earliest and largest cities ran on this for necessary transportation. |
| Great Britain and France | Who were the major colonial powers in Africa? |
| Urban | We are more ____ and have been more ____ since the 1920s (talking about the U.S.) |
| Sun Belt | Population is shifting from the Rust Belt to the ____ ______, as businesses seek cheaper land, lower costs. Federal government has spent more money in the ____ _____ in recent years, and elderly have sought retirement in the ___ ______. |
| Boston to Washington | Our core area is from ______ to _________ (make sure you include the word "to" in between your two answers) |
| Transnational Corporations | These corporations look out for themselves by seeking locations abroad where their labor is cheap and the laws are more lax. They move locations of production often. |
| Mesopotamia, China, India, Mexico | Where were the early cultural hearths? (sorry the names are in a certain order and you have to get it in that order... so if you get all of them in a different order just consider it right.) |
| Site | Deals with a description relative to physical features- like near a harbor or mountain |
| Situation | Deals with a relative location- near by or close to some other place. |
| Cultural Landscape | Religions affect food production-- religions may ban the eating of certain foods. This is in the ______ ______. (fill in the blank) |
| Religion, language, ethnicity | What are the causes of clashes between groups? |
| Family to branch to group to language to dialect | Parts of language are? |
| mortality, war, influx of guest workers, boomer generation | What can population pyramids show? |
| Guest Workers | These people come from other countries for money and cannot stay permanently. |
| 15 degrees | A new time zone is every how many degrees? (take note: China does not use the international time zone) |
| Cultural Extinction | This is a problem in places like the rainforest because mankind may lose knowledge about the ecosystem and medicinal customs. |
| Language Extinction | This occurs usually by acculturation or take-over by a hierarchical group. |
| Reference Map | This is used for location purposes for places or regions |
| Thematic map | This term shows certain variables that may be located, compared, analyzed |
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