Ch. 1 - Human Geography

The vast majority of the 1 billion malnourished people on Earth are:

Which of the following regions had the highest percentages of undernourished population on the World Hunger map (1.2)?

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

Baseball is a cultural trait adopted by the Japanese?

Definition: Ideas/innovation spreading from person to person

A region in which the people share one or more cultural traits is a ______ region

This process increases interactions deepens relationships & heightens interdependence regardless of national boundaries.

Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in...

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

The brand Under Armour is an example of contagious diffusion

Which of these South American countries has the highest percent of undernourished population?

You're not likely to find a beef Big Mac at the McDonald's restaurants in India because chicken is much cheaper to raise

T or F? Human Environmental Interaction = Reciprocal relationship between humans & their environment

Definition: Place where we travel to daily & are more accurate than mental maps of places we have never been

Human geographers focus on...

Definition: Location in relation to other human & physical attributes

T or F? Place = All locations have unique human & physical characteristics

Cholera vaccines exist, but the problem is that -

Which of the following regions had the highest level of arable land according to the map on arable land (1.4)?

Which of the following regions seems to be the driest on the Average Annual Precipitation of· the World map (1.11)?

Definition: Area marked by formal, functional or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon

Dr. John Snow discovered that Cholera is a waterborne disease.

The lack of penetration of alcholic beverages in Islamic regions illustrates the effect of what on cultural diffusion?

Ideas & innovations move through connected groups with distance playing a lesser role.

Latitude and longitude will give you the ____ location of a place

T or F? Cultural Hearth = Place of origin of a culture

Definition: Mobility of people, goods, ideas over the planet

Satellite images or aerial photos from a plane are both examples of:

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

What was the nationality of the UN Workers who brought Cholera to Haiti?

T or F?Processes that are increasing interactions and interdependence without regard to country borders is globalization

T or F? All geographers, human or physical, are interested in the spatial distribution of a phenomenon

John Snow's innovations in Medical Geography have had significant impacts in our history, including...

Location = Visible imprint of human activity/culture on landscape

The spread of disease where nearly all adjacent individuals are affected is an example of:

Place of origin of a culture, a source area.

Which of the following had the highest level of Gross National Income according to the Gross National Income Map (1.3)?

A combination of cultural traits is a:

The branch of geography that focuses on natural landforms, climate, soils & vegetation of Earth:

T or F? Contagious Diffusion = Ideas move through connected groups with distance playing lesser role