AP human geo final

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most of the malnourished people in the world

all of the answers (have little money, have little power, are women or children)

the set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence of national boundaries are called

globalization

The branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms, climates, soils, and vegetation of the Earth is

physical geography

The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows:

the arrangement and organization on the surface of the earth

which geographical theme would involve the impact of the drainage of part of the Florida Everglades?

human-environment

__________________ refers to the infusing of a locality with meaning and emotion

sense of place

The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network is referred to as:

connectivity

Geographer Carl O. Sauer is most closely connected with

cultural landscape

The coordinates of absolute location are useful mainly in determining exact:

distance and direction

The physical location of a place using the Earth latitude-longitutde grid property called the

absolute location

the location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called

relative location

the mental map you have of places you routinely visit is a map of your

activity space

a good example of a formal region would be a

region of similar language

a good example of a functional regino would be

a city and surrounding region

The cultural geographer Wilbur Zelinsky approached the task of defining and delimiting the perceptual regions of the US and southern Canada by analyzing:

contents of hundreds of telephone directories of metropolitan interviews

cultural geographers identify a single element of normal practice (cattle herding) as

a cultural trait

The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge and skills from their place of origin to other areas where they are adopted is called:v

diffusion

Hagerstand ephasized the role of _________ and distance in diffusion

time

the greater the distance it is from the hearth the less likely an innovation will be adopted. This is referred to as:

distance decay

the lack of diffusion of alcoholic beverages to Islamic regions illustrates the affect of

cultural behaviors

which form of diffusion cannot be transmitted by media

relocation diffusion

Over the past century the pace of human environmental change has

increased significantly

replacement level, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration requires a total fertility of

2.1

Countries with aging populations attempt to stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of rising medical and retirement costs by

promoting immigration

Almost everywhere on Earth, Total Fertility Rates (TFRs) are

falling

the arithmatic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total

population by the total area

The problem with using arithmetic population density to investigate the population pattern of a country is that such a density figure does not take into consideration

internal clustering of people within the country

the number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the _____

physiologic density

the region with the most densly clustered population in North America is _________

the NE Megapolis corridor region

A person who has a well rounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion is officially a

refugee

in 1789, a British economist named Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that while population increased at what he called a geometric rate, the means of subsistence grew only at

a linear rate

Births and _________ add to the population growth of a particular country

immigration

the statistics that report the number of deaths per thousand people in a given year is called

the crude death or mortality rate

low population growth resulting from high CBR is characteristics of stage ______ of the demographic transition

1

a population pyramid with a wide base and narrow top is indicative of

?

a developed country that has reached a stage where the population is most stable will develop a population pyramid that is

rectangular shaped

population policies which favor the promotion of birth control among certain groups in the population (ethnic, religious, or socio-economic groups) are referred to as ____________

eugenics

a vectored infectious disease is

transmitted by an intermediary, such as a mosquito

what is the model which states that spatial interaction between places (e.g migration) is directly related to the population size and inversely related to the distance between them

gravity model

the type of movement that involves journeys that begin at and bring us back to our base daily is called

cyclic

Most nomadic movement takes place according to travel patterns that are

repeated time and time again

which of the identified types of movement creates your activity space

cyclic

which of the following is not one of Ernst Ravenstein's law of migration

the majority of urban migrants are uneducated

a periodic form of movement that involves a system of pastoral farming whereby livestock and their keepers adjust their location to the seasonal availability of pastures is called

transhumance

the long-term relocation of an individual, household, or group to a new location outside the community of origin is called

migration

during the first decades of the twentieth century, African American families in the US migrated primarily to

the North and West

gender studies of migration indicate that men ________ than women

all these responses (are more mobile, migrate farther, have more employment choices and income)

_______________ culture is concieved as small, incorporating a homogenous population, typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits.

Folk

the _________ of a group of people includes the things they construct

material culture

The fact that trends in popular culture (e.g. fashion) proceed from large global centers (Milan, Paris, New York) through a series of progressively smaller cities is an example of

hierarchal diffusion

Government efforts to discourage native practice and languages in the United States and Canada were attempts to _____________ native groups.

assimilate

Anabaptist groups have tried to restrict contact with the outside world by

migrating to rural areas

The building of a sense of community identity around the idea of "Swedish-ness" in Lindsborg, Kansas is an example of

neolocalism

Urban local cultures (such as China Town in San Francisco and the International District in Seattle) are examples of

ethnic neighborhoods

cultural appropriation for purposes of profit (eg. buying a Native American dream catcher) is referred to as an example of

commodification

Geographer David Harvey referres to the increasing speed by which innovation in popular culture diffuse as

time-space compression

Globalized popular culture can be picked up and reproduced by people in the context of their local culture. This is referred to as:

reterritorialization

according to Edwared Relph, the term which best captures the quality of the American landscape which is associated with the spread of popular culture is

placelessness

A cultures assumption about the differences between men and women, their character, roles and divisions of labor are referred to as

gender

According to Gillian Rose identity is

how we make sense of ourselves

In New York, Puerto Ricans moved into the Jewish neighborhood of East Harlem and assumed a dominant presence in the neighborhood. This process is best described as:

succession

All of the following are Latin-based romance languages except

English

A geographic boundary within which a particular lingistic feature occurs is called an

isogloss

The most widely used Indo-European language today is

English

Latin octo (eight) became Italian otto, Spanish ocho, and French huit. This is an example of ____________ over time in a language family.

sound shift

The beleif that inanimate objects (eg. trees, mountains, boulders) contain spirits is

animism

which of the following is not generally a characteristic of a eugenic religion

always polytheistic

The faith that is most widely dispersed over the world is

Christianity

One of the unique characteristics of Hinduism is that it

emerged without a prophet, book of scriptures, and without evolving a bureaucratic structure comparable to those of the Christian religions

Buddhism has its source iin

India

The teaches of Lao-Tsu form the tenants of

Taosim

Most __________ states grained independence after 1940

African

The promotion of the aquisition of wealth through colonization and the protection of home industries and foreign markets during Europe's rebirth was called __________

mercantilism

Kurdistan ________

is a stateless nation

Europe exported its concepts of state, sovereignty, and the nation-stae idea to much of the rest of the world through

colonialism

Wallerstein's views expressed in world systems theory hold that the global integrating force has been

capitalism

Which is not characteristic of unitary state governments?

concerned with fostering diversity of regional cultural expression

The movement of power from the central government is referred to as

devolution

The process of adjustment of the number representatives in the US House of Representatives to reflect shifts in population patterns is known as

reapportionment

A boundary between countries is a

vertical plane that cuts through the rocks below and air above

The boundary between the US and Canada west of the Great Lakes is an example of a

geometric boundary

Geometric boundaries, totally unrelated to any aspects of the cultural or physical landscape, were made considerable use of by the colonial powers in

Africa

Sir Halford Mackinder developed what would become known as the heartland theory which suggested that interior Eurasia contained a critical "pivot area" that would generate a state capable of challenging for world domination. The key to the area according to Mackinder was

Eastern Europe

________ explores the spatial ideas and understandings of political figures, media, and geography. And, how these interact to create gov. policies. For instance, during the Cold War, President Raegan coined the term "Evil Empire" for the Soviet Union

?

Technically spranationalism referres to efforts by ___________ or more states to forge associations for common advantage and in pursuit of common goals.

3

Participation in the United Nations serves the useful purpose of commiting states to ___________

loan money to poorer countries

Among the challenges to the state in the twenty-fist centary are all the following except

the United Nations

Which of the following states fit the morphology description of a fragmented state?

Japan

Since this type of state traverses long (often narrow) section of land, it encompasses diverse types of climates/resources and people.

elongated

forces within a state that encourage unity as _____________and the forces that divide them are _____________

centripetal, centrifugal