Geography Final
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akkimademo on December 13, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 World Population | 7 billion people |
| 4 Population Clusters? | East Asian, Indian, European, North East US |
| 3% population growth is called... | Exponential Growth |
| The World Population Doubles every... | 50 years |
| Malthus checks include... | Famine, Wars, Disease |
| The 4 Paradigms are... | Env. Determinalism, Possibilism, Probablism, Cognitive Behavioralism |
| The 4 Human Advantages are... | Bipedalism, Opposable Thumbs, Stereo-scope vision, Brain size |
| 5 stages of Food Production... | Unspecialized Food Gathering, Unspecialized Food Collecting, Specialized Food Gathering, Specialized Food Collecting, Incipient Food Production |
| What was the Wild Dooryard Garden? | Compost Leftovers that began to grow plants |
| Plant Domestication happened... | 30,000 years ago |
| Animal Domestication happened... | 10,000 years ago |
| Old World civilizations include... | Mesopotamia, Nile, Indus River Valley |
| New World Civilizations include... | Meso-America, Andean |
| 8 primary factors in food choices include... | Environment and Technology, Tradition, Unfamiliarity, Overfamilirity, Social Status, Perceived Properties, Group Membership, Time and Place |
| Reasons for a dialect include... | Settlement History, Imprinted, Migration, Physical Geography, Cultural Centers, Social Structure, Immigration |
| The biggest religion is... | Christianity (2.2 billion members) |
| 2 different types of religions include... | Universal and Ethnic |
| British Industrial Revolution took place in... | The 1700's |
| The Steam Engine was invested by... | James Watt |
| The assembly line was invented by... | Ford |
| 4 primary market factors are... | Raw Material Availability, Market Factors, Moving goods, Government activity |
| Transfer costs include... | Insurance and security |
| Direct Costs include... | Cost of shipping- pipeline, ship, train, truck, air |
| Secondary Market Factors include... | Agglomeration (sharing), personal reasons, energy, labour |
| The main energy source during the Industrial Revolution was... | Coal |
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