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What is a remittance?
What kinds of problems can occur with having a refugee camp?
How can you describe rural to urban migration? Is it present today, and how?
Describe the immigration patterns to the United States.
Describe Ester Boserups ideas.
Why have rates of natural increase declined in the last few decades?
Why do denser populations exist in Europe?
When did the worlds population begin to rise rapidly and why?
What is the demographic transition model and what is it based on?
What do lighter colors on a map represent?
Where is the majority of Chinas population located and Why?
What areas were affected by the slave trade?
Where is the population centered in the United States and why?
Describe mass migration and eras in which it has occurred.
What is human trafficking.
What groups of people are most likely to become refugees?
Where did the black death originate?
What is a pull factor and give examples?
What is the main difference between arithmetic and physiologic densities?
Describe and explain the basic demographic equation.
Where is the greatest growth found in the demographic transition model?
Where was the domestication of plants first attempted?
Who was Thomas Malthus and what were his views
What is internal migration?
Who are the neo-malthians and what do they believe? How do they differ from Malthus?
What is distance decay?
What is doubling time?
What is a push factor?
What is RNI?
What is the social construction of space?
What is a cultural hearth?
Who developed one of the first maps?
Describe culture.
How do geographers interpret space?
What is cultural convergence?
What is process?
What did cultural geographers focus on in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
What is Judaism? And what religions did it spawn?
What is GIS and what does it allow geographers to do?
What is the gravity model and what is it used for?
What do geographers consider culture and ethnicity?
How are house styles representative of cultural values?
What are mental maps used for?
What is the Western Wall?
What was created to help measure longitude?
What is popular culture?
Is geography considered a spatial science and if so why?
How is place different from space?
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
What is site and situation according to geographers?
What is Nirvana?
What are the 4 noble truths?
What is regional geography and its characterizations?