Define these terms:
1. Globalization-
2. Pandemic-
3. Culture Hearth-
4. Cartography-
5. GPS-
6. GIS-
7. Expansion diffusion-
8. Relocation diffusion-
9. Possibilism-
10. Arithmetic population density-
11. Physiological population density-
12. Megalopolis-
13. Cyclic movement-
14. Activity Space-
15. Periodic movement-
16. Transhumance-
17. Migration-
18. Emigrant-
19. Immigrant-
20. Local culture -
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21. Custom -
22. Cultural appropriation -
23. Barrioization -
24. Absolute location -
25. Centrality -
26. Functional Region
27. Diffusion -
28. Time-distance decay -
29. Perceptual region -
30. Life expectancy -
31. Carrying capacity-
32. Demography-
33. Crude Death Rate-
34. Crude Birth Rate-
35. Arable Land-
36. Forced migration-
37. Voluntary migration-
38. Intervening opportunity-
39. Genocide -
40. Islands of development -
41. Remittance -
42. Repatriation
43. Quotas -
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44. Authenticity-
45. Succession-
46. Ethnic neighborhood-
47. Racism-
48. Sense of place-
49. Commodification-
50. Assimilation-
51. Placelessness-
52. Race-
53. Dowry death-
54. Gender-
Answer these questions:
55. What is globalization? Know at what scales it occurs.
56. Geographers are most interested in how places are laid out, organized and arranged on
Earth, and how they appear on the landscape. This is called ________________________.
57. What did Dr. John Snow do to trace cholera deaths in London to water pumps?
58. Know the five themes of geography.
59. What are the two categories used to classify the spread of diffusion? List the forms each of the two categories take and an example of each form of diffusion.
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60.
Geographers argued that the natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture. This is an example of opposition to the long held belief of environmental determinism. This view is true of what vocabulary term?
61. In reference to population, what do East Asia, South Asia and Europe have in common?
62. What was Thomas Malthus’s theory regarding population growth?
63. What is natural increase? Where in the world has the highest rate of natural increase?
64. Explain what happens at all 4 stages of the demographic transition model and give examples of countries at each stage.
65. Explain level of growth for different types of population pyramids and give a country example of each type of growth.
66. List some examples of cyclic and periodic movement.
67. What is the difference between internal and external migration?
68. List Ernst Ravenstein’s laws of migration.
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69. List some characteristics that would describe a refugee.
70. List characteristics of popular culture.
71. List examples of material culture.
72. List examples of non-material culture.
73. Why is Mexicali important when discussing ethnic neighborhoods?
74. What does the book mean when it says places can be gendered?
75. How do people express power relationships?
76. Why aren’t the number of women in the “official” labor force increasing in sub-Saharan Africa?
77. According to the book, due to power relationships and gendered work roles, do most women in
Africa have legal ownership of their land?
78. Different ethnic groups living in a multi-cultural neighborhood don’t always get along.
Why?
79. Where in the world would you find high population density areas?
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80. What is a mental map?
81. Give an example of sequent occupance.
82. Give an example of time-distance decay.
83. What part of the world has the lowest life expectancies? Why?
84. What does a population pyramid do?
85. When would a geographer want to use physiological population density?
86. List the ways governments can affect population change
87. What type of map would a geographer use to study population distribution?
88. What is infant mortality rate? What is child mortality rate? Can IMR vary by region, ethnicity and social class within the United States?
89. What impact is AIDS having on Sub-Saharan Africa?
90. Know the difference between push and pull factors and the other names they go by. Also, list examples of each.
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91. Know types of migration and examples of each.
92. List reasons why people migrate. What’s the best reason?
93. Give an example of the scales of migration. Local? Regional? National? Global?
94. What do you have to prove to gain asylum?
95. Know the first way we construct our identities.
96. What is the most apparent way people are gendered?
97. List descriptors of cultural identity.
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