world studies final

Which pair are both considered ethnic religions?

A country can move along the continuum from less developed to more developed by means of:

Many United States high tech companies have been outsourcing many of their technical jobs to

Core-periphery models attempt to analyze

These forces tend to bind together the citizens of a state.

The difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person is…

Which of the following industries would most likely beresource oriented (bulk reducing)?

Nearly half of the people in the world speak a language from this language family

Ethnic religions (2 answers correct)

The most practiced economic activity in the world is

Carrying capacity is the

Presently, most population growth in the world is occurring in

Squatter settlements (2 answers are correct)

The Gravity Model predicts spatial interaction comparing distance to what other variable

A primate city is

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves is referred to as

Unrestricted low-density development of residential and commercial activities

Geography may be described as the study of spatial distribution

Term for a population that no longer increases in size

Nonrenewable resources

When a country suffers from a “brain drain”, it is an

Which region has the lowest overall Human Development Index (HDI)?

Remittances are

A GIS database

Idea that multiple countries acting in short-term self-interest can destroy shared resources is

In LDC's, the underground or informal economy as a share of gross domestic product is 

The percentage of the labor force in the United States that works directly in agriculture is

Ethnic cleansing implies

Capital city that is sited in a state’s interior to connect rural areas to economic growth

Population of 4th largest city using rank-size rule where largest city is 1 million

Tendency of a population to continue growing even after reaching replacement fertility is

Agricultural density is

Relocation diffusion is

Every map projection has some degree of distortion because

Which of the following is an example of a nation seeking its own territory?

Region that historically is caught between stronger colliding forces (former Yugoslavia)

What is the doubling time of world population growth of 1.3%?

A state whose territory closely corresponds to an ethnicity that has become a nationality

Politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government

An example of a restrictive population program is (read carefully)

What does the term globalization refer to?

Apartheid, a policy of racial segregation from 1948-1990, took place where?

The largest internal migration in history is

A pidgin language

System of lines measure distances East and West of the Prime Meridian

Which of these modern languages spread globally predominantly as a result of religion?

In large cities, people with the same culture often live in segregated areas called

The three most important “world cities” are

In the next 50 years, the population of the world

A common language used for trade is...