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**Movement is considered migration when**
It is a permanent move
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**The average # of children born to a woman of childbearing age is**
Total fertility rate
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**Which of the following describes devolution:**
Movement of power from a large central government to smaller local governments
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**Shintoism is a major religion in**
Japan
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**Toponymy is the study of**
place names
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**All of these states were divided into 2 separate states except**
Japan
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**Natural features, weather, climate, and the interaction b/w people and their environment is**
Physical geography
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**A cultural landscape is an idea of:**
outcomes of humans and their natural environment
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**The spread of the use of chopsticks in Southeast Asia with the influx of Chinese immigrants is an example of:**
Relocation diffusion
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**A consequence of the one-child policy in china has been:**
Increase in female infanticide
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**A collection of languages related by a common ancestor that has existed for a few thousand years:**
Language family
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**Number of people per unit of arable land:**
Physiological density
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**Toponyms in southern California reflect which of the following:**
The cultural heritage of the settlers
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**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
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**World systems theorists divide the world into**
Core, semi-periphery, and periphery
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**The images of layers on a map**
GIS
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**Which factor is most responsible for the increase in Japan’s dependency ratio:**
An increase in life expectancy
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**Which statement best describes population growth patterns in the world today:**
Fertility rates have fallen over the past 25 years
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**Countries adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit:**
Appropriation
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**The further an innovation must travel from the source the less likely it is to be adopted is the concept of:**
Time-Distance decay
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**In the beginning of the 21 century which country had the lowest TFR:**
South Africa
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**A culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women:**
Gender
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**Carring capacity is based on its:**
physiological density or # of units of arable land
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**The spread of fashion is an example of:**
Hierarchical diffusion
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**Thomas Malthus believed that**
population grew geometrically, food grew arithmetically
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**Who would have the largest activity space:**
a middle aged suburban male
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**Longitude is to prime meridian as latitude is to:**
equator
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**The spread of Walmart is an example of which type of diffusion**
reverse hierarchical
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**The area of Eastern Turkey, Northern Iraq, and Western Iran identifies the stateless nation of the:**
the Kurds
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**An inverse relationship with the level of economic development is:**
Birth rate
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**A cultural hearth is where:**
cultural traits develop and diffuse
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**A barrier to diffusion would be:**
lack of infrastructure
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**Top 4 population clusters:**
South Asia, East Asia, SE Asia, and Europe
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**Which continent is most severely afflicted by dislocation**
Africa
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**The rapidly changing tastes and customs of a group of people is characterized as:**
popular culture
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**The study of politics, economies, religion, languages, population, and art is:**
human geography
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**Why is there such a global appeal for American made movies:**
popular culture
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**In which of the following countries has the diffusion of christianity met the most resistance:**
China
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**A collection of UN member countries is known as an international organization / another name for a group of 3+ countries is:**
supranationalism
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**A border that used to exist but no longer exists but you can feel its influence:**
relict border
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**Transnational migrants sending money back to their home country to support their families is called:**
remittances
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**Crossing which of the following borders encourages free flow of people and products because of few if any formalities:**
Netherlands-Belgium border
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**The regional organization that most clearly reflects the trend toward integration in the world today is:**
The EU
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**CBR-CDR affecting the rate of natural increase:**
DTM
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**Boundaries drawn by european countries for newly independent countries in Africa have been problimatic becuase they:**
often ignored tribal cultural boundaries
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**What data would help you determine which country has a higher physiologic density:**
the amount of arable land
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**Moving from California to New York would be considered:**
Interregional migration
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**Environmental Determinism implies that:**
The physical environment exclusively shapes humans and their actions
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**During which of the following centuries has population doubling time been the shortest:**
20th century
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**The key to to global power lies within a large swath of land that touches oceans and seas:**
Rimland theory
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**Which is not associated with Hinduism:**
It’s a universalizing religion
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**The common cold spreads via:**
Contagious diffusion
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**Which force makes a state stronger:**
Nationalism
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**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
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**Spatial perspective is demonstrated in all of the following except:**
Automobiles constructed in a factory
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**A group of people bound by a common ancestry not DNA:**
Ethnicity
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**People follow previous family members or friends to a new country:**
Chain migration
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**A population with a relatively young age structure would most likely be found in:**
Sub-Saharan Africa
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**The state shape that is most likely to promote efficient government is:**
Compact
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**The continent that has the most landlocked states is:**
Africa
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Centripetal vs. Centrifugal
Join vs. Divide
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**South Africa’s former state-sanctioned policy of segregating the races:**
Apartheid
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**The gullah language a combo of english and african dialects is an example of:**
Creolized language
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**Why would refugees leave a region:**
Ethnic conflict
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**The study of maps and mapmaking:**
Cartography
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**The tendency for migration to occur in short stages:**
Step Migration
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**Common usage of the word vaquero south of a line, but not north of a line - this boundary is known as an:**
Isogloss
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**Which of the following is true of folk culture:**
Traditional customs and beliefs usually practiced with a small group of people
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**All of the following were colonized by France except:**
Cuba
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**Which of the following pairs has / had negative population growth:**
Japan and Germany
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**Which is not true of the DTM:**
**Children are not an economic liability in stage 2.**
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**A language that can be spoken by many people even though they speak another language at home is considered a:**
lingua franca
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**A unitary system of government**
**A unitary system of government**
has a central government with all of the power
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**Sikhism and baha’i are universalizing religions because:**
they attempt to appeal to all people
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**Which of the following is an example of a shatterbelt region:**
1. Eastern Europe
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**A variant of a language that the intellectual elite promote for daily use:**
Standard language
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**Example of a geometric boundary:**
**Example of a geometric boundary:**
Line of Latitude
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**Until about 1750 the worlds population increase slow primarily because of:**
high birth and high death rates, low growth
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**An ethnic neighborhood is a:**
Voluntary urban community where people of similar origin reside
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**Relative location defines a place by:**
Location in terms of other places
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**Total fertility rate:**
the average number of children born ti a women of childbearing age
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**Match the religion with its hearth:**
Buddhism/India
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Stage 1 of the DTM
high births, high deaths, low pop growth
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**All of the following languages are apart of the Indo-European family except:**
Dravidian
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**Popular culture is typical of** :
large heterogenous groups
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**Electoral districts moved according to population shifts + how often**
Reapportionment, 10 years
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**Not associated with Hinduism** :
it’s universalizing
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**A pop with a young age structure would most likely be found in:**
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ide**a that morals should be adhered to but without connection to afterlife:**
secularism
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**Iceland is an example of a** :
Nation-state
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**A pandemic is**
a worldwide outbreak of a disease
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**Not apart of state**
common language
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