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Chapter 3 Homework
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Section 1: World Population
1. Forty years ago China was referred to as the “Bicycle Kingdom”. What has changed?
What are some negative outcomes of the shift from bicycles to modern transportation?
2. Around 1800 the world’s population was 1 billion. What is it today?
3. What is the death rate?
What has happened to the death rate in the last 200 years (be specific!):
4. What is the birth rate?
What has happened to the birth rate in the last 200 years (be specific!):
5. Explain the following challenges of population growth:
a. Technology –
b. Famine –
c. Services –
6. Why do humans live on ~15% of the Earth’s surface?
7. What features are desirable for people to live in an area?
8. What five regions contain livable resources?
9. Why do more people live in cities (urban areas) than rural areas?
10. What is population density?
11. What is the term when people move within the same country? Give an example as well:
12. Explain the term “urbanization”
13. Explain the following terms:
a. Emigration
b. Immigration
14. Factors that force people to leave their homes are called:
Can you think of any?
15. Factors that attract people to a new place are called:
Can you think of any?
16.
Emigration
Positives
Immigration
Negatives
Positives
Negatives
Section 2: Global Cultures
17. What is culture?
What are some elements of culture?
18. Social groups have rules of behavior that group members learn. What is the process called as people
adjust their behavior to these rules?
19. What is an ethnic group?
20. What does dialect mean?
21. What “language family” is dominant in North America? (language thematic map on p. 83):
22. What are the 5 major religions in the world?
23. How does history play a cultural role? Can you name a holiday that relates to a specific culture?
24. Define democracy:
Dictatorship:
Monarchy:
25. Where were the 4 earliest river civilizations located?
26. What is cultural diffusion and how did/does it occur?
27. What is a culture (cultural) region?
Name two examples of culture regions:
28. What is globalization?
Section 3: Resources, Technology, and World Trade
29. Define natural resources, and give examples:
30. What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources?
Examples of renewable
Examples of non-renewable
31. The three key questions of economic systems are:
a.
b.
c.
32. What is the difference between a command economy and a market economy?
33. What is a developed country, and give examples?
34. What is a developing country, and give some examples?
35. What are newly industrialized countries, and give some examples:
36. Define export:
37. Define import:
38. What is a tariff?
39. What is a quota?
40. When countries work to get rid of trade barriers they engage in:
41. Explain interdependence: