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Cultural hearth
Leaves
on a tree
The Greek goddess Hera
The place from which an idea originates
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What is cartography?
car racing
map making
landforms
exploring
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Thomas Malthus
Claimed all countries go through the demographic transition
Claimed that population growth stimulates food production
Claimed people are attracted to larger cities when migrating
Claimed that poulation is growing faster than food
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Dependency ratio refers to
the number of people in the working age group
how many people are on welfare
how many people are not working ages (elderly or under 20) v how many work
a fraction of the population that is disabled
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A Direct Democracy means that
Music makes everyone happy
Only the king or ruler makes decisions
No one votes on anything
Everyone votes on everything
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What is carrying capacity?
The amount of water a container can hold
The most amount of organisms of a species that can be sustained
The amount of people that can fit in an elevator
16 wolves
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Whats an example of Absolute location
Borders the united states
23.6345° N, 102.5528° W Mexico
1,964,375km2
Mexico, North America. West of gulf of mexico
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What is a demographic transition?
The change in the size of a population
The change in the structure of a population
The decline in death and birth rates in countries over time
The change of different demographics in a population
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What is population Density
How dumb the average population of a city is
The Mass of the entire population
The amount of people per capita
The amount of people in a place
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What is GDP?
All goods made by a country outide the border of a country
The dollar value of all goods and services in The USA
The dollar value of all goods and arrived in the whole world
The dollar value of a Specific good & service in the USA
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An absolute Monarchy is
King and a representative assembly rule unequally.
King is a head of a government, but has no power.
King or queen has complete control.
King and a representative assembly have equal power.
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What makes the Authagraph map hard to use?
Size is inaccurate
Location is inaccurate
Shape is inaccurate
The directions aren't consistent
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The Mercator Map uses which map projection?
flat-plane
great-circle route
conic
cylindrical
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What is theocracy?
A melting pot.
The hatred of women.
Government and God are inseparable.
Witchcraft.
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A Representative Democracy is a ______?
A thing
Elected officials Representing a group
A king ruling his people
A village in North Korea
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Crude birth rate
The number of babies born per year
The number of births per 100/year
The number of live births per year per woman
The number of live births per 1000/year
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What is positive about the Winkle- Triple map
Nothings positive
Accurate size
Preserves the shape of continents
Pleasant balance between size and shape distortion
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what is a region
an area that has definable chracteristics but not always fixed boundries
the small part of your brain that helps you laugh
an area that has more power then another place
a small place in a city
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Oligarchy means
All power lies within
A judgement
A fair and balanced ruling
Government that is ruled by a few people
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what is a relative location
are defined by peoples perception of the area
regions or areas that have similar characteristics
the position of one place relative to another
and exact position on the map
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in communism...
economics are not divided evenly among the people
it is a popular option for government
wealth is divided evenly among the people
don't know
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GIS stands for..
Global industrial system
Geographic information system
Global information system
Geographic informatics science
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What is dictatorship?
Rule of a single, unelected leader by force
Rule by aristocrats
Rule by a small group
Rule by a king or queen
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Child Mortality
The percent of children that die before age 7
when it can be proved that all children are indeed mortals
The percent of children that die before age 3
The percent of children that die before age 5
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What is a PULL factor?
a factor that makes people hate an area
a factor that makes people leave an area
a factor that makes people want to live in an area
a factor that makes people go on holidays
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Crude death rate
The number of deaths in a country
How long people will live from birth
The number of deaths in a country as a % of the population
The number of deaths per 1000/year
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Which of the following is a pull factor?
earthquakes
lack of food
civil war
job opportunities
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All of the following are examples of push factors except
Lack of religious and political freedom
Natural Disasters
War
Access to high levels of employment
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constitutional monarchy
The queen's representative in Canada. Acts on behalf of the Queen.
The Queen's power is limited by law.
The Queen or Governor General approves a law.
A law that states how a country will operate and who has power.
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This pyramid has an expansive population
False
True
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How does GIS get its images?
Satellites
Camera Roll
Google
Snapchat
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What does GIS do?
It gives you good battery life
it helps you locate destinations
It captures, stores, manipulates, analyzes, and manages data
It helps you copy and paste stuff
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A Robinson map is distinguishable because the edges are...
Curved
Straight
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If the population pyramid of a location is “upside down” then it has a large population of :
females
elderly people
infants
immigrants
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What is GPS??
global positioning system- can determine absolute location
height of land surface above sea level
shortest distance between two points on Earth
map that emphasizes a single idea or info about an area
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What is overpopulation?
the state of being extremely poor.
Too many people, not enough resources for all these people
Having too many toys in one room
Everyone being called the same name
