Sem. 2 review

Which of the following projections places the North or South Pole at the center for the view

The city of San Francisco is known for which of the following?

Which of the following does NOT qualify as a Protestant denomination?

Geographical research that applies only to one place or region is

Von Thunen's model of rural land use is based on which of the following premises?

The demographic accounting equation computes future population as a function of current pop.

Which religion originated in India and spread across Asia

Primate cities are those that

In the Pre-industrial phase of urban settlement in the US was dominated by

According to Thomas Malthus, _______ grows arithmetically, but _______ grows geometrically

The Kurds are an example of an ethnic group that

In distance decay models, the slope of the decay function illustrates

Which of the following US regions has seen the most population growth since 1945?

The greatest concentration of linguistic diversity on earth is in

Which of the following is NOT an example of a frontier?

The National Geographic Society uses the Robinson projection for many of its maps because

NYC is divided into five ___ in order to better organize social services for millions of people

Which of the following is true about language extinctions?

In a spatial context, multinational corporations tend to

Religious fundamentalism

Multinational corporations take advantage of geographic differences in

Balkanization may result from all the following factors EXCEPT

Latitude is

The weakly defined political boundary regions of Antarctica and the Amazon basin are

Isolines are common on which of the following?

In which country would you expect to find the highest rate of population growth?

The three world cities that exercise the greatest degree of global economic dominance are

Which of the following does NOT represent an international organization?

In the gravity model of spatial interaction, population and distance

Longitude is

By 2020, most of the world's biggest cities will be located in

In the world systems model, the core nations of the world are

Sources of forced migration include

The study of the interaction between human cultures and natural ecosystems is called

Geographic information systems use ___ to display multiple spatial data sets

The process by which one ethnic group becomes integrated into a larger culture is called

Hearth regions of early agricultural included present-day

All choropleth maps use

Religious practices, language, and dietary preferences, when combined, form a

How long did it take for H-Gs to reach South America after arrival in Alaska

When the CBR is higher than the CDR, the difference between the two is called the

One important consequence of cultural extinction is

Which of the following is an example of a nation without a state?

Which of the following qualifies as a primate city?

Mecca represents the geographical focal point of which religion?

Swidden agriculture can have negative environmental impacts if

Break-of-bulk points are

A population pyramid

Slash-and-burn ag. meets all of the following conditions EXCEPT

Mexico's maquiladoras are located within

The Italian language varies significantly between Milan, Rome, Naples, Palermo. These are

In Rostow's stages of development model, economic maturity is characterized by

The center place of origin of a cultural tradition is called a

The term "transhumance" refers to

The United Nations is a(n)

Advanced countries like the US, may produce more pollution than less advanced countries because

Cartographic scale refers to

The Green Revolution included which of the following?

Overgrazing, deforestation, and agricultural mismanagement are all significant causes of

In a 1995 plebiscite, the Canadian province of Quebec sought which of the following?

Nomadic herding is associated with

Cartography is the art and science of

The demographic transition model posits that

Which of the following is an example of an edge city?

The degree of connectedness between places is referred to as

States with federal forms of government must also have

Primary economic activities involve

The demographic Transition Theory states that, as a nation develops economicaly

The language family spoken by most people on Earth today is

Which of the following could qualify as a barrier to spatial diffusion?

____ describes a group of people w/ a common ethnic identity that is spread over a large area

Heaths of early Eurasian agriculture were generally located

Which city's dense urban core became the "birthplace of the skyscraper"?

Core-periphery exists within and among countries. In the US, economic peripheries include

The word "geography" literally means