hgap

**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

Ide**a 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