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Movement is considered migration when

Movement is considered migration when

It is a permanent move

The average # of children born to a woman of childbearing age is

Total fertility rate

Which of the following describes devolution:

Movement of power from a large central government to smaller local governments

Shintoism is a major religion in

Japan

Toponymy is the study of

place names

All of these states were divided into 2 separate states except

Japan

Natural features, weather, climate, and the interaction b/w people and their environment is

Physical geography

A cultural landscape is an idea of:

outcomes of humans and their natural environment

The spread of the use of chopsticks in Southeast Asia with the influx of Chinese immigrants is an example of:

Relocation diffusion

A consequence of the one-child policy in china has been:

Increase in female infanticide

A collection of languages related by a common ancestor that has existed for a few thousand years:

Language family

Number of people per unit of arable land:

Physiological density

Toponyms in southern California reflect which of the following:

The cultural heritage of the settlers

Which of the following regarding possibilism is true: (basically just define it)

physical environment may set limits on human actions but people have ability to adapt

World systems theorists divide the world into

Core, semi-periphery, and periphery

The images of layers on a map

GIS

Which factor is most responsible for the increase in Japan’s dependency ratio:

An increase in life expectancy

Which statement best describes population growth patterns in the world today:

Fertility rates have fallen over the past 25 years

Countries adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit:

Appropriation

The further an innovation must travel from the source the less likely it is to be adopted is the concept of:

Time-Distance decay

In the beginning of the 21 century which country had the lowest TFR:

South Africa

A culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women:

Gender

Carring capacity is based on its:

physiological density or # of units of arable land

The spread of fashion is an example of:

Hierarchical diffusion

Thomas Malthus believed that

population grew geometrically, food grew arithmetically

Who would have the largest activity space:

a middle aged suburban male

Longitude is to prime meridian as latitude is to:

equator

The spread of Walmart is an example of which type of diffusion

reverse hierarchical

The area of Eastern Turkey, Northern Iraq, and Western Iran identifies the stateless nation of the:

the Kurds

An inverse relationship with the level of economic development is:

Birth rate

A cultural hearth is where:

cultural traits develop and diffuse

A barrier to diffusion would be:

lack of infrastructure

Top 4 population clusters:

South Asia, East Asia, SE Asia, and Europe

Which continent is most severely afflicted by dislocation

Africa

The rapidly changing tastes and customs of a group of people is characterized as:

popular culture

The study of politics, economies, religion, languages, population, and art is:

human geography

Why is there such a global appeal for American made movies:

popular culture

In which of the following countries has the diffusion of christianity met the most resistance:

China

A collection of UN member countries is known as an international organization / another name for a group of 3+ countries is:

supranationalism

A border that used to exist but no longer exists but you can feel its influence:

relict border

Transnational migrants sending money back to their home country to support their families is called:

remittances

Crossing which of the following borders encourages free flow of people and products because of few if any formalities:

Netherlands-Belgium border

The regional organization that most clearly reflects the trend toward integration in the world today is:

The EU

CBR-CDR affecting the rate of natural increase:

DTM

Boundaries drawn by european countries for newly independent countries in Africa have been problimatic becuase they:

often ignored tribal cultural boundaries

What data would help you determine which country has a higher physiologic density:

the amount of arable land

Moving from California to New York would be considered:

Interregional migration

Environmental Determinism implies that:

The physical environment exclusively shapes humans and their actions

During which of the following centuries has population doubling time been the shortest:

20th century

The key to to global power lies within a large swath of land that touches oceans and seas:

Rimland theory

Which is not associated with Hinduism:

It’s a universalizing religion

The common cold spreads via:

Contagious diffusion

Which force makes a state stronger:

Nationalism

The dispute in the Artic ocean between Canada, Russia, Norway, Denmark, and the United States is over:

the right to claim and extract natural resources

Spatial perspective is demonstrated in all of the following except:

Automobiles constructed in a factory

A group of people bound by a common ancestry not DNA:

Ethnicity

People follow previous family members or friends to a new country:

Chain migration

A population with a relatively young age structure would most likely be found in:

Sub-Saharan Africa

The state shape that is most likely to promote efficient government is:

Compact

The continent that has the most landlocked states is:

Africa

Centripetal vs. Centrifugal

Join vs. Divide

South Africa’s former state-sanctioned policy of segregating the races:

Apartheid

The gullah language a combo of english and african dialects is an example of:

Creolized language

Why would refugees leave a region:

Ethnic conflict

The study of maps and mapmaking:

Cartography

The tendency for migration to occur in short stages:

Step Migration

Common usage of the word vaquero south of a line, but not north of a line - this boundary is known as an:

Isogloss

Which of the following is true of folk culture:

Traditional customs and beliefs usually practiced with a small group of people

All of the following were colonized by France except:

Cuba

Which of the following pairs has / had negative population growth:

Japan and Germany

Which is not true of the DTM:

Children are not an economic liability in stage 2.

A language that can be spoken by many people even though they speak another language at home is considered a:

lingua franca

 A unitary system of government

has a central government with all of the power

Sikhism and baha’i are universalizing religions because:

they attempt to appeal to all people

Which of the following is an example of a shatterbelt region:

1. Eastern Europe

A variant of a language that the intellectual elite promote for daily use:

Standard language

Example of a geometric boundary:

Line of Latitude

Until about 1750 the worlds population increase slow primarily because of:

high birth and high death rates, low growth

An ethnic neighborhood is a:

Voluntary urban community where people of similar origin reside

Relative location defines a place by:

Location in terms of other places

Total fertility rate:

the average number of children born ti a women of childbearing age

Match the religion with its hearth:

Buddhism/India

Stage 1 of the DTM

high births, high deaths, low pop growth

All of the following languages are apart of the Indo-European family except:

Dravidian

Popular culture is typical of :

large heterogenous groups

Electoral districts moved according to population shifts + how often

Reapportionment, 10 years

Not associated with Hinduism :

it’s universalizing

A pop with a young age structure would most likely be found in:

Sub-Saharan Africa

Idea that morals should be adhered to but without connection to afterlife:

secularism

Iceland is an example of a :

Nation-state

A pandemic is

a worldwide outbreak of a disease

Not apart of state

common language