Midterm Review

Which words are best associated with pop culture?

Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movement that recur on a regular basis:

Which is an example of a nodal/functional region?

Frequent repetition of an action; characteristic of a group of people:

Difference between CBR & CDR in a year, times 1000:

Tool used to project population growth/decline & predict markets for goods/services:

The act of migrants sending money to family in their home country is termed:

A country with a relatively low agricultural density is likely an:

Physiological density is...

The level of details and amount of area covered on a map depend upon its:

The International Date Line is a line of longitude at which degree?

A small scale map shows a _____ amount of area but a ____ amount of detail.

"clustered" and "dispersed" are further descriptions of which property of distribution?

The word "geography" was invented by the ancient Greek scholar named:

Remittances and the diffusion of language, religion, ideas, and diseases all result from:

Shintoism originated in which country?

Which projection is good if you want accurate information about distance across oceans?

Which is NOT a site characteristic?

According to Rubenstein, geography is:

A map of which geographic area shows the largest scale of analysis?

Zero degrees longitude is known as:

People who are forced from their homes but do not leave their home country:

According to Rubenstein, a geographer's most important tool for understanding the Earth is:

Series of shorter, less extreme migrations from a person's place of origin to final destination:

All of the following play a major role in the decline in birth rates except:

In a functional region, the "node" is a/the:

Unbalanced sex ratios within a population can lead to:

The process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power is called

Number of people too old or too young to work: must be supported by middle aged workers:

One problem with small scale map is:

Which is an anti-natalist policy (law)?

In a map scale ratio of "1:24,000, the "1" refers to the size of a feature on:

Which could be an example of a social push factor?

Situation characteristics are useful when

The number of people or objects in a standardized unit of space/area (ex. square mile):

The portion of the Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settled is called the:

The number of people the physical Earth can support is known as:

A state which places most power in the hands of the central government is

Agricultural density can help us make inferences about...

What is the dominated church affiliation in Southeast of the United States?

Large-scale emigration of educated, talented people:

Which boundary is established after it has been settled that considers the social and cultural characteristic of an area

As life expectancy increases, one challenge might be:

What does "cultural landscape" mean?

Elderly voters tend to vote more _______ than do younger voters

Agricultural density is...

Nearly _______ of Earth's people live in East Asia

All of the following are examples of thematic maps except:

Folk cultures are typically more __________ than pop cultures.

The use of Earth's resources in ways that ensure resource availability in the future is called:

This theory suggests that humans are reproducing too rapidly to continue to feed themselves:

People tend to feel a sense of personal identity in connection with all of the following except

Moving from a small town to a big city to go to college is an example of:

Which map projection greatly distorts Earth's polar regions while preserving other land areas?

What is a toponym?

If there are many subsistence farmers in a country, it's likely a(n):

In geographic terms, "scale" refers to:

The average number of children born to women in their childbearing years:

Which is an example of a political pull factor:

Perceptual/vernacular regions are often best seen through:

Seeing Christmas decorations all over homes and city streets is a way to read/interpret:

Data about Earth's surface using satellites orbiting Earth/other images taken from a distance:

The amount of time required for a population to grow to at least twice its current size:

Which is an example of an intervening obstacle?

All of the following area properties of distribution across space except:

A map of downtown Minneapolis is a relatively ___________ scale map.

The spatial phenomenon of diminishing contact/connectivity between people as distance increases

Greater religious freedom in a new destination is an example of a(n):

Increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and regions in the periphery:

A large scale map shows a __________amount of detail

Throughout most of human history, human populations have grown...

The vertical axis of a population pyramid shows:

Culture found in large, heterogeneous societies; widespread, shared cultural traits:

If a country's maternal mortality rate is relatively high, it likely means:

A region can consist of...