| Term | Definition |
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| the word geography literally means _____ | earth writing |
| New York City is divided into five ______ in order to better organize social services for millions of people | boroughs |
| In which of the following countries would you expect to find the highest rate of population growth? (Canada, Namibia, Sweden, Chile, or the United States) | Namibia |
| In distance decay models, the slope of the decay function illustrates ______ | the influence of "friction of distance" |
| Which map projection places the North or South Pole at the center of the view? | Azimuthal |
| Rap music first appeared in New York in the 1970's. Later it spread to large cities with vibrant African-American populations-- such as Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago, and detroit-- withought being absorbed by the smaller cities and rural areas in-between. This type of spatioal diffusion is called ________ | hierarchical diffusion |
| Cartography is the art and science of _______ | map-making |
| Which is FALSE regarding slash-and-burn agriculture? | It is part of the Green Revolution |
| A population pyramid ______________ | shows the age and sex structure of a population |
| The pleistocene overkill theory argues that_______ | hunter-gatherers caused the extinction of many species after the end of the last ice age |
| In an address to the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, India argued that, although population growth has placed pressure on the world's natural resources, _______ by industialized nations has also had extreme consequences for environmental quality. | material consumption |
| Geographical research that applies only to one place or region is ______. | Idiographic |
| approximately how long did it take for Eurasian hunter-gatherers to reach the tip of South America after their initial arrival in Alaska? | 2000 years |
| The demographic accounting equation computes future population as a function of current population: | + births - deaths + immigration - emigration |
| longitude is | the angular distance east or west of Greenwich, England |
| the idea that our impressions and experiences of the world around us are filtered through the lens of our culture and our indidvidual experiences which critiques the sort of scientific, universalist grand theories offered by modernists is called _______ | postmodernism |
| the religious practices of some Native American groups combien elements both grom their traditional religion and from Chrisianity. This is an example of _____ | a cultrual syncretism |
| the demographic transition model posits that ____________- | countries with high levels of economic production will have lower birth rates |
| one important consequence of cultural extinction is __________ | loss of indigenous knowledge about ecosystems |
| _________ maps work well for locating and navigating between places, while ___________ maps display one or more variables across a specific space | reference...thematic |
| which religion originated in northern india and then spread across central and southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Japan? | buddhism |
| states with federal forms of government must also have _________ | territorial organization |
| In the world systems model, the core nations of the world are ______ | located mainly in Europe and North America |
| The study of the interaction between human cultures and natural ecosystems is called ____ | cultural ecology |
| Which is NOT a potential cause of Balkanization? | ethnic divisions |
| Which is true about language extinctions? | There could be sever thousand over the next century |
| ______ involves the economic and political domination of one state by another, while ______ includes official, institutionalized government rule. | imperialism....colonialism |
| Sources of forced migration include _______ | political unrest and ecological degradation |
| In a 1995 plebiscite, the Candian province of Quebec sought ________ | self-determination |
| The disproprtionate siting of power plants and wasted disposal facilities in African-American and Latino neighborhoods -- independent of other economic and historical factors-- is an example of ______ | environmental racism |
| Advanced economic countries, like the United States, may produce more pollution than less economically advanced countries because _______ | they consume more resources |
| latitude is _____ | the angular distance north or south of the equator |
| primary economic activities involve _____ | the direct extraction or harvest of natural resources |
| According to Thomas Malthus, _______ grows arithmetically, but _____ grows geometrically. | food production . . . population |
| Since 1960, the difference per capita Gross National Products of the world's wealthiest countries and the world's poorest countries has _____ | increased dramatically |
| In the gravity model of spatial interaction, population and distance _____ | are inversely related |
| Core-periphery patterns exist within countries as well as among them. in the United States, economic peripheries include ____ | southern Appalachia and the lower Missisippi Valley |
| Agriculture techniques developed in the terperate latitudes are frequently inappropriate for wet tropical climates because rainforest soils tend to be _____ | nutrient-poor |
| all choropleth maps use _____ | shading and coloring |
| hearths of early eurasian agriculture were generally located _____ | in fertile river valleys |
| the aggregate measure of economic development that accounts for the depreciation of capital and natural resources is called the ______ | Net national Product |
| The Kurds are an example of an ethnic group that _____ | has historical homelands spanning many national borders |
| which of the following is an example of an edge city | Tyson's corner, Virginia |
| Hearth regions of early agriculture included present-day _____ | china, india, turkey, and mexico |
| Von Thunen's model of rural land use is based on which premis? | land values decrease farther from the urban center |
| washington d.c.'s lincoln memorial and mall with their dramatic neoclassical architecture and symbolic references to democracy and populism, are associated with _______ | The City Beautiful movement |
| The theory that explains the regional organization of urban areas, based on their functionas and the goods and services they offer is called_________-- | central place theory |
| The city of San Francisco is known for its _________-- | 19th centure victorian architecture |
| The geographic differentiation between the colonizing countries of Europe, North America, and eastern Asia and the colonized staes of Africa and South America has been called _____ | the north/south divide |
| which city's dense urban core became the "birthplace of the skyscraper" | chicago |
| The greatest concentration of linguistic diversity on earth is in ___________ | New Guinea |
| By 2020, most of the world's biggest cities will be located in __________ | Asia |
| _____ is strategically located onb the border between two continents, and at the intersection of many cultures and religions | istanbul, turkey |
| cartographic scale refers to _____ | the relation between a distance on a map and a distance on the ground |
| Which factor is most responsible for the dramatic demographic collapse of native americans during the colonial period | eurasian diseases |
| primate cities are those that ______ | are disproportionately larger than other cities in a nation |
| the term ______ describes a group of people with a common ethnic identity that is spread out over a large geographic area | "diaspora" |
| the national geographic society uses the Rovinson projection for many of its maps because _____ | it is versatile and aesthetically pleasing |
| ______ does NOT qualify as a protestant denomination | catholicism |
| during the 1980s and 1990s, Santa Monica, California, became significantly wealthier and more expensive. this process is referred to as ____ | gentrification |
| Which region experienced rapid industrial growth during the early 20th century, followed by a severe decline and difficult period of economic readjustment | The great lakes |
| _______ qualifies as a primate city | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Geographic information systems use _____ to display multiple spatial data sets. | thematic layers |
| break-of-bulk points are ____ | sites where goods are transferred for continued shipping |
| the process by which one ethnic group becomes integrated into a larger culture is called _____ | assimilation |
| The _____ will increase over the next decade, as baby boomers reach old age and are no longer able to work and provide for themselves | dependency ratio |
| When the crude birth rate is highter than the crude death rate, the difference between the two is called the _____ | natural increase |
| In Rostow's stages of development model, economic maturity is characterized by ______ | high mass consumption |
| According to public opinion polls, more than 80% of Americans consider themselves "environmentalists." What could you logically conclude from this information? | Most americans consider environmental issues to be important |
| Religious Fundamentalism ______ | appears to be on the rise in many parts of the world |
| Which is NOT correct regarding the great metropolises of the developing world? | Because their economies are less developed, they rarely suffer from significan pollution. |
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