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Which of geography's five themes examines the
arrangement of road networks?
Replacement rate, the number of births needed to
keep a population at a stable level without
immigration, requires a total fertility of
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A people who are a part of a culture that does not
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Use your mental map to classify the boundaries that
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have a written language are said to be:
define Colorado:
Regions that have achieved high levels of
socioeconomic prosperity and are dominant players
in the global economic game are:
What invention has most affected the development
of suburbs in the United States?
When certain maps identifying the physical features
of a place or region include contour lines, their
purpose is to show what?
The problem with using arithmetic population density
to investigate the population pattern of a country is
that such a density figure does not take into
Culture
groups have varying ideas and attitudes
consideration
about space, place, and territory. This is called:
Robert Sack’s view of human territorial behavior
implies an expression of control over space and
time. This control is closely related to the concept
The
of location of Europe's primary industrial regions
still reflects
The term Urban Realm came into use to describe
the spatial components of a metropolis of what
decade?
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What term does a geographer use to identify
such human phenomena as roads, ports, and rail
systems?
Countries with aging populations attempt to
stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of
rising medical and retirement costs by
Which was the major result of the journeys and
voyages of Marco Polo and Christopher
Columbus?
At the global scale, political geographers study
the spatial manifestations of political processes
expressed in the organization of territories with
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What does a large scale map show?
The arithmetic density of population for a country
is determined by dividing the total population by
what?
The imprint of cultures on the land creates
distinct and characteristic
___________________.
The present number of countries and territories in
the world is around
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Alfred
Weber
developeddefined
a model
for theand
location
permanent
population,
territory
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On what principle is the hierarchy of urban places
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Where is urbanization occurring most rapidly?
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The situation of a place is best described by:
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of
manufacturing
establishments
government.
These
spatial units called:
are called
primarily based?
What is a map in which data are assigned to
class intervals and colors or patterns are used to
distinguish magnitude of occurrences called?
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The number of people per unit area of
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From their sources, cultural innovations and ideas
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agriculturally productive land is the
spread to other areas. This process is called
The Peace of Westphalia is the seminal moment
in the emergence of the European state. This
marked the end of
Which region of the world is the fastest growing
industrial region?
The term hinterland refers to:
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Four major industrial regions have developed.
They are all located in which hemisphere?
The world’s three largest population
concentrations are all found on the same
landmass, which is
This area deals with the role of culture in human
understanding, use and alteration of the
environment
The promotion of the acquisition of wealth
through plunder, colonization, and the protection
of home industries and foreign markets during
Europe’s rebirth was called
What countries make up the four tigers?
This term refers to the process by which a city
attracts tourists to come and visit, and then uses
the money to pay for road improvements and
other city expenses:
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Small area
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Infrastructure
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Movement
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population by the total area
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promoting immigration
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2.1
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cultural landscapes
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Northern
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increase in trade among the world's regions
states
least cost theory
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preliterate
geometric
core
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poorer, less developed countries
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population and their function and services
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the automobile
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where it is located in respect to other places
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Choropleth map
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Differences in elevation
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Eurasia
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physiologic density
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internal clustering of people within the country
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cultural environments
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cultural diffusion
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cultural perception
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mercantilism
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the Thirty Years War.
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sovereignty
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South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore
commercialization
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East Asia
the land beyond the city
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the spatial diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
1990's
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Hierarchical diffusion is a type of which diffusion?
Associated with the East Asian population cluster
are ribbon-like extensions of dense population
penetrating the interior. These extensions represent
These are sources, or crucibles, of cultural growth
and achievement that developed in Eurasia, Africa,
and America.
What ultimately proved to be the undoing of
monarchical absolutism and its system of patronage
during Europe’s rebirth?
The term that refers to the collection, processing,
and manipulation of information and capital is:
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The minimum market size needed to support a
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What is the maximum number of degrees of latitude
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central place function is called:
that can be measured on the Earth?
In comparison to Asia, the percentage of the
population living in urban places in Germany and
the United Kingdom is
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Culture complexes have traits in common, so it is
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The European state idea spread throughout the
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possible to group certain complexes together as:
world through
The clustering of financial firms on Wall Street, in
New York, is an example of:
A market area is an example what type of region?
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Latitude and longitude may be used to determine
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About ___ percent of the world’s population is
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which type of location?
concentrated in China.
A single attribute of a culture is a
The rise of the modern state idea, where territory
defined society rather than society defining
territory, swept through Europe in the
When did the industrial revolution begin?
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The maximum distance people are willing to
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What is the one problem common to all map
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Births and _______ add to the population growth
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travel to obtain a central place function
projections?
of a particular country
More than one culture may exhibit a particular
culture trait, but each will consist of a discrete
combination of traits. This is referred to as a
One of the most powerful impacts of colonialism
was the construction of global order characterized
by great differences in
The idea that resources should be conserved so
that people living today can meet their needs
without limiting the ability of future generations to
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do thevalue
same________
is called: as distance from CBD
_______.
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The prime meridian from which longitude is
measured runs through which city in Great
Britain?
The European population axis is directly related
to the
An assemblage of culture regions forms the most
highly generalized regionalization of culture and
geography on the world map, a:
Yugoslavia was a prime example of a
________________take advantage of geographic
differences in wages, labor laws, environmental regulations,
taxes and the distribution of natural resources by locating
various aspects of their production in different countries.
The position of a city within the hierarchy is
determined by
The location of a place in relationship to other
places or features around it is called:
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Today, world population doubling time is
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Sub Saharan Africa is an example of a:
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The highly uneven distribution of economic and
political power that developed from colonialism
was due to the concentration of wealth brought to
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Economic activities which surround and support
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The transformation of large areas of land from
large-scale activities are
rural to urban uses is called:
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Greenwich
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Absolute
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Expansion Diffusion
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orientation of Europe’s coalfields
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About 1/6
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basins and lowlands of China’s major rivers.
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culture realm
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culture trait
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culture hearths
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multi-state nation
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1600s
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growing economic power of merchants
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transnationals
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began in England in the 18th century
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quaternary industries
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types of central place functions it provided
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range
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threshold
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Relative location
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Distortion
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180®
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increasing (i.e. taking longer to double)
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immigration
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greater than Asia
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culture realm
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culture complex
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culture systems
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Europe
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economic and political power
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European colonialism
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ancillary activities
suburbanization
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sustainable development
Decreases, increases
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agglomeration
functional region
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The spread of ideas, knowledge, and skills from
their places of origin to other areas where they are
adopted is called:
At the present rate of births and deaths in the
world, we are adding about _____ million
inhabitants every year.
The wearing of a turban in Muslim society is an
example of a:
Wallerstein’s views expressed in world systems
theory hold that the global integrating force has
been
The author of the world-system theory was:
The high cost of a downtown location now outweighs the
advantages of locating near other like industries. Publishing
companies have begun to move from New York to as far
away as Florida and Texas. The process referred to is:
Name Pattison’s Four Traditions.
In the 1970’s, the government of India used this
method to reduce the population growth rates in
certain areas of the country.
This type of diffusion takes place through
populations that are stable and fixed, so that the
innovation, idea or disease does the moving:
The movement of power from the central
government regional governments is referred to as
An accountant would be considered a part of this
economic activity
Where are the fastest growing megacities located?
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How is the spatial perspective demonstrated?
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In 2002, the world population grew at a rate of
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The ancient culture hearths all achieved
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The emergence of a global capitalistic economy
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A fisherman would be considered a part of this
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just over ___ percent.
breakthroughs in:
began to develop about
economic activity:
The earliest civilization was found in:
The imprint of cultures on the land creates
distinct and characteristic cultural
___________________.
The statistics that report the number of deaths
per thousand people in a given year is called:
The process by which a culture is substantially
changed through interaction with another culture
is called:
Which country has experienced violent
devolution?
The development of a manufacturing sector takes
place in which stage of Rostow's development
model
Outskirts are to towns, as _________ are to
cities:
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What is diffusion?
Most of the countries with low population growth
rates are also among the wealthiest. An
exception to this would be
The spread of Islam is an example of: what type
of diffusion?
The boundaries of independent African states
were drawn at the Berlin Conference and were
essentially drawn
President Bush would be considered a part of
this economic activity
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The least urbanized and most rapidly urbanizing
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The notion that successive societies leave their
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realm in the world is
cultural imprints on a place is a definition of:
Low population growth resulting from high CBR
and very high CDR is characteristic of stage
____ of the demographic transition
Regional variants of a standard language are:
In 1997 Scotland took a major devolutionary step
with the establishment of
Very little technology and a static, unchanging
society are common in this stage of Rostow's
model:
What percent of the world's population is
urbanized?
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the spread of ideas or knowledge from areas of
origin to places where they are adopted
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Through the use of maps
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Diffusion
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Russia
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1.4
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80
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both contagious and expansion diffusion
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agriculture
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culture trait
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arbitrarily
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1450
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capitalism
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Wallerstein
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quinary
Africa south of the Sahara
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sequent occupance
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primary
Mesopotamia
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Earth-Science tradition, Culture-Environment
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Landscapes
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the crude death or mortality rate
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forced sterilization of males
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dialects
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acculturation
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expansion
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the Scottish Parliament
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Yugoslavia
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devolution
quaternary
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Traditional Society
50
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deglomeration
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Take-Off
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suburbs
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tradition, Location Tradition, Area-Analysis
Tradition
South and East Asia
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What brings us closer to knowing what Geography
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In Europe the marked decline of the birth rate was
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This term refers to denote any common language
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is all about?
the result of
spoken by peoples with different native tongues:
In Italy, the Northern League’s desire for independence
was based on the economic difference between the
northern Po region and the southern Mezzogiorno. These
differences are attributed to
Maquiladoras are found in:
A settlement's functions as well as its economic
reach produce a measure of its ___________
A graduated circle map is a type of
Highest rates of infant mortality are found in this
region.
This was an invented language based on Latin and
a combination of words from modern European
languages. It was meant to create a world language
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Who is responsible for the term cultural
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A population pyramid with a wide base and
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important form of language replacement is referred to as:
Distance, remoteness and marginal location
enhance the potential for devolution. This form of
devolution is referred to as
An economic measurement defined as the total
value of goods and services produced within the
borders of a country during a given year is called
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The lowest infant mortality rate among countries
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Spanish, Italian and French all derived from what
The current economic boom on the Pacific Rim is
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compact and clustered
were replaced by an ever more complex pidgin. This
Fashion may spread through which type of
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dispersal of the US and today remain more
following the first involuntary migration faded away and
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P
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African languages here in the Caribbean in the years
A locational factor the affects the development of
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Cities in which region have not yet experienced the
narrow top is indicative of
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that would eventually become the first or second
A boundary between countries is a
language of all peoples everywhere
based largely on:
landscape?
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cities and towns is known as:
diffusion?
with large populations is in
language?
The boundary between the United States and
Canada west of the Great Lakes is an example of
a(n) ___________ boundary.
The term Black Towns was applied to early
industrial towns in the:
Jobs in which workers are engaged in either the
production of goods or performance of services for
areas and people outside of the city, constitute which
sector of the city's total economic structure?
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According to environmental determinism, where is
the ideal culture?
A developed country that has reached a stage
where the population is most stable will develop a
population pyramid that is __________.
A country is considered _________ if only one
language is spoken:
The process of adjustment of the number of
representatives in the U.S. House of
Representatives to reflect shifts in population
China
has
patterns
is successfully
known as integrated these into their
industrial and economic environment:
The creator of Central Place Theory was:
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The type of diffusion in which industrialization
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s high mortality rate is
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spread to parts of Africa would be:
strongly influenced by
This involved the analysis of discrete stages of
settlement at a given location, the differences
between stages representing geographic change
Geometric boundaries, totally unrelated to any
through time:
aspects of the cultural or physical landscape, were
made considerable use of by the colonial powers in
For most industrial goods, which method of
transport is cheapest over short distances?
Jobs in which workers support themselves by producing
goods and services for consumption within the city or
by residents of the city and do not generate new money
for the city are:
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Western Europe
N
Carl Sauer
N
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rectangular shaped
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developing countries
P
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monolingual
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creolization
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lingua franca
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gerrymandering
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spatial devolution
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core-periphery processes
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special economic zones
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Gross Domestic Product
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How the location of places affects other places
the effects of Industrialization, urbanization, and
general modernization.
Mexico
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Christaller
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both site and situation
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centrality
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Stimulus
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Hierarchical
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proportional symbol map
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AIDS
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Japan
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Central Africa
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sequent occupance
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Latin
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Esperanto
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Africa
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geometric
P
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truck
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service or nonbasic sector
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British midlands
basic
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vertical plane that cuts through the rocks below
and air above.
labor
Europe
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In which type of diffusion would the number of
people knowing the information increase?
Population policies which favor the promotion of
birth control among certain groups in the population
(ethnic, religious, or socio-economic groups) are
referred to as
The youngest world religion is:
The first political geographer who studied the state in detail
was Friedrich Ratzel who postulated that the state resembles
a biological organism. His organic theory identified
______________ as a state’s essential life giving force.
Europe's greatest industrial region is called
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The maximum distance consumers will travel to
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It is estimated that _____ of the world’s population
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True/False: More than half of the world’s entire
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The spread of Islam from its Arabian source area is
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obtain a product or service refers to:
is seriously malnourished.
population is concentrated in East Asia
a classic example of what type of diffusion?
Technically supranationalism refers to efforts by
______ or more states to forge associations for
common advantage and in pursuit of common goals.
Japan's dominant industrial district is:
The idea of a metropolitan statistical area came
from:
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The theory that human behavior is strongly
affected by, and even controlled or determined
by, the environment refers to:
True/False: The majority of Egypt’s 70 million
inhabitants are distributed evenly around the
country.
The predominant Baptist region of the United
States is found:
Ratzel’s organic theory was converted into a subfield of political
geography called geopolitics which was subsequently translated
into practical national policies by
some of his students. What
country used geopolitics as a philosophy of expansion?
One of Russia's oldest and still thriving
manufacturing areas is:
Situation refers to :
Much of Kenya’s income comes from:
True/False: In all demographic cases, the higher
the birth rate, the shorter the doubling time
The world's most populous Muslim nation is:
The League of Nations was created in 1919 as the first
international organization that would include all nations
of the world. Its success was dealt a serious blow by
the failure of what country to join?
The HDI is calculated using what indicators?
The layout of a city, the physical form and
structure, is referred to as
N
In which type of diffusion would the number of
people knowing a piece of information stay the
same?
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Census records are not accurate for all countries.
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Buddhism was born in:
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Following the disintegration of the former Soviet
Union the only surviving superpower was
With the Pacific Rim development, China now
ranks as the world's ____ largest economy.
These are part of the new suburban landscape, found
at the intersections of highway networks often including
offices, residences, and entertainment venues:
The set of processes that are increasing
interactions, deepening relationships and
heightening interdependence regardless of
True/False: Some countries have declining
national boundaries are called __________
populations, which is a negative population
growth rate.
The idea of a homeland for the Jewish people
developed into the ideology of:
One move by the old League of Nations that
would have a critical impact in the second half of
the twentieth century involved
The most efficient mode of transport for high
value or perishable goods is:
Human communities have existed for 100,00
years, but some did not start to grow into larger
places until about _______ years ago.
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Relocation diffusion
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environmental determinism
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both expansion and contagious
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True
P
False
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eugenics.
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northern India
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in the deep South
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Islam
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the United States.
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Nazi Germany
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space
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St. Petersburg
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third
the Ruhr
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edge cities
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relative location
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range
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globalization
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coffee and tea production
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1/6th
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True
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False
P
False
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Zionism
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Indonesia
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Both contagious and expansion diffusion
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maritime boundaries
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the United States
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three
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air
8,000
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literacy rate, GDP per capita , life expectancy
urban morphology
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Kanto Plain
the U.S. Bureau of the Census
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The branch of geography that focuses upon natural
landforms, climate, soils and vegetation of the Earth
is:
True/False A population with both a high fertility
and a high mortality rate has a broad-based
population pyramid.
The two sects of Islam are:
Participation in the United Nations serves the useful
purpose of committing states to
The most efficient mode of transport over long
distances when available is
Where did the first urban development originate?
Which geographical theme would involve the study
of the impact of the drainage of part of the Florida
Everglades?
True/False Low life expectancy in Africa can be
partly attributed to the ravages of AIDS.
Anatolia is modern day:
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The Marshall Plan was a post-WW II endeavor by
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Which region in Russia was formed out of the state
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the United States to economically revive
planning process?
Which feature typical of ancient urbanization was
not present in the Nile River Valley hearth?
N
The importance of the spatial approach that
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True/False During the demographic transition, the
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The first language ever spoken by Homo sapiens
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geographers use in their studies is that it shows:
drop in birth and death rates is equal.
was called:
The United Nations is not a world government,
but in recent years individual states have asked
the United Nations to do a number of different
things, the most expensive of which is
What might occur at a break of bulk location?
Ancient towns and cites owed much of their
success and growth to certain site advantages.
Which of the following was not one of these
N
_________________
refers to the infusing of a
advantages?
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Cuban illegal immigrants who actually make it to
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locality with meaning and emotion.
the United States’ shores will be
Animistic religions are centered on the belief that:
What country do members of the European
community worry will dominate the entire group?
Which major world industrial region has flourished
despite a permanent lack of natural resources?
Ancient cities were not large by modern
standards. The cities of Mesopotamia and the
Nile Valley probably had populations of
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By the time the last great cholera pandemic
began in 1865, people knew to take precautions
against _____ and ended the great waves of
True/False Women tend to outlive men and in
cholera.
Russia their life expectancy may be 14 years
longer than the male population.
According to the agricultural theory, the proposed
source of the Proto-Indo-European language is
located where?
The first major experiment in regional
supranationalism was undertaken in Europe
before World War II and involved the three
Which
region in Russia is known to be very
countries
similar to the London or Paris region?
What structures dominated the urban landscape
of the ancient Mesopotamian cities?
The degree of direct linkage between one
particular location and other locations in a
transport network is referred to as:
Today, an estimated ___________ illegal
immigrants live in the United States.
The caste system is a part of which religion?
As of 2005, which major European Union nation
has not entered the Euro Monetary Zone?
Specialization occurs when:
Athens may have been the largest city in the
world at the time of its existence, with a
population estimated at
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contaminated water
N
P
True
P
C
Anatolia
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the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
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Central Industrial Region
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physical geography
False
P
True
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the Mother Tongue
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Sunni and Shiite
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peacekeeping
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international standards of behavior
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temples
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connectivity
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10,000,000
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Hinduism
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Great Britain
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a country or business becomes an expert in the
production of one or two goods
250,000
the arrangement and organization of things on the
surface to the Earth
items are transferred between different modes of
transport
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ship
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Southwest Asia
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human-environment
allowed to stay.
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True
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inanimate objects possess spirits
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Turkey
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Germany
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Europe
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good supplies of coal and iron
Sense of place
Kanto Plain
10,000 to 15,000
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Volga
defensive walls
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Geographer Carl O. Sauer is most closely
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The vast majority of legal agricultural workers in
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connected with:
Canada are
This theory said that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European
spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier
inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of
Latin, Germanic, and Slovonic languages
The European Union’s future expansion into the
Muslim realm by the inclusion of __________ is
highly controversial and strongly opposed by
________________ processes in the commodity
Greece.
chain involve technology, education, research and
development, and high wages.
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The Parthenon of Athens is a structure typical of
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The location of a place in relationship to other
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Most nomadic movement takes place according to
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The term meaning indifference to or rejection of
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True/False Belgium is an example of a nation-state
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ancient Greek cities. It is a(n)
places or features around it is called:
travel patterns that are
religious ideas is:
where nation and state coincide within boundaries.
Gross national product (GNP) measures the total
value of goods and services produced by a
country’s corporations and individuals. It is
standardized by
The relative location of a city refers to its
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The coordinates of absolute location are useful
mainly in determining exact:
The type of movement that involves journeys that
begin at and brings us back to our home base is
called
The Proto-language had words for certain
landforms, trees and other features of the natural
landscape. Such information:
True/False In Europe prior to the mid-1600s,
sovereignty was expressed over people rather
than over a territory
The word “development” implies
Rome created a huge urban system. The
integration of the Roman Empire was greatly
facilitated by a
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The mental map you have of places you routinely
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Which type of movement creates your activity
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Which language is changing the cultural
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True/False According to Hartshorne, centrifugal
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visit is a map of your:
space?
composition of the United States?
forces work to build a nation-state.
Gross domestic product measures only
The manufacturing city (post Industrial
Revolution) first emerged in
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The physical location of a place using the Earth
P
Commuters in Washington, DC may travel up to
C
P
latitude-longitude grid is properly called the:
_____ miles each way to work daily.
Long ago, people speaking different languages
were forced to find ways to communicate for
trade. This need resulted in the emergence of:
True/False Once a body of people is
incorporated within a political boundary they are a
nation.
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Modern ideas of development are
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Expanding on the Greek city's theater, the
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Except for South and Southeast Asia, what ocean
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P
I
U
related to what historical event?
Romans built the world's first
influences the moistest areas of the world?
A periodic form of movement that involves a
system of pastoral farming whereby livestock and
their keepers adjust their location to the seasonal
Where
doesof the
majority
the world's Hindu's
availability
pastures
is of
called:
live?
True/False As a federal state Nigeria vests judicial
power in the various states. This is illustrated by the
prevalence of Sharia law in Nigeria’s Muslim north.
A large component of survival in countries with
low per capita GNP is
Which is not related to urbanization processes of
the second urban revolution?
N
absolute location
N
distance and directions
N
cultural landscape
P
100
P
cyclic
P
Mexicans.
C
a lingua franca
C
C
Conquest Theory
P
False
P
P
Turkey
I
Core
I
the Industrial Revolution
I
helps reveal the environment in which a language
may have developed
True
progress
U
stadium
U
transportation system
U
acropolis
N
Atlantic
N
activity spaces
N
relative location
P
transhumance
P
cyclic
P
repeated time and time again.
C
India
C
Spanish
C
secularism
P
True
P
False
P
False
I
U
the informal economy
cities as theocratic centers
I
U
production only within a country
the British Midlands
I
U
by being calculated on a per capita basis
situation
N
The concern of geography with space puts
P
. A common form of periodic movement involving as
C
What belief system did the Soviet Union try to force
P
True/False The Rio Grande River is a geometric
I
U
_________ at the center of its agenda.
many as 10 million Americans is
upon its people?
boundary separating the United States and Mexico.
High levels of development can be determined by
measurement of access to railways, roads, airline
connections, telephones, radio and television, etc.
In a model urban hierarchy, the population of a city, town or
These are collectively referred to as
village is inversely proportional to its rank in the system (i.e. if
the largest city is 4 million the second will be 2 million or
1
N
P
C
P
I
U
1
2 , the third will be 3 and so on). This is known as
The concept of culture is closely identified with:
In the United States during the late twentieth
century, internal migration streams were moving
people from
In terms of popular culture, cities like Paris, New
York, and Milan are referred to as
True/False Disputes over water (e.g. among Syria,
Turkey, and Iraq over the Euphrates) are examples
of allocational boundary disputes.
The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow’s
model of economic development is known as
The response of the urban system of the American South
and Southwest to the influx of migrants over the past
three decades conforms with predictions of central place
theory. This is called the ________ phenomenon.
N
P
C
P
I
A good example of a formal region would be a:
The long-term relocation of an individual,
household, or group to a new location outside the
community of origin is called
________________ culture is conceived as
small, incorporating a homogeneous population,
typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits
True/False Devolution is affecting many countries
in the world today.
Dependency ratio measures
U
A hinterland reveals the _________ of each
N
Cultural geographers identify a single element of
P
On average, an American citizen moves
C
P
settlement.
normal practice (e.g. cattle herding) as:
approximately every ___ years.
The fact that trends in popular culture (e.g.
fashion) proceed from large global centers
(Milan, Paris, New York) through a series of
True/False The League of Nations intervened to
progressively smaller cities is an example of
aid Ethiopia when attacked by Italy in the mid1930s.
I
The continuation of economic dependence even
U
In Burgess' concentric zone model, the zone of
after political independence is referred to as
transition became
N
P
C
A good example of a functional region would be:
During the first decades of the twentieth century,
African American families in the United States
migrated primarily to
A group of people in a particular place who see
themselves as a community and who share
experience, customs, and traits are referred to as
P
True/False
Gerrymandering refers to electoral
a
I
Rostow’s model, developed in the early 1960s,
U
N
P
C
P
I
U
redistricting in order to gain a political advantage.
was based upon the experience of
Paris and Mexico City are many times larger than
the second-ranked city in their respective
countries. Their disproportionate size illustrates
A cultural complex is defined as
Internal migration in Peru is fairly simple with the
majority of migrants moving to
The changes in local culture brought about by the
onslaught of popular culture tend to disrupt
__________.
True/False Mackinder’s heartland theory of
geopolitics maintained that world domination
would be exercised through sea power.
Theories which hold that economic disparities are
built into the global economic system are referred
to as
Peter Muller's analysis of suburbanization
indicated that suburbs were
N
a city and its surrounding region
N
region of similar language
N
scale
P
the north.
P
migration.
P
military service.
C
local culture
C
Folk
C
Atheism
P
True
P
True
P
False
I
U
N
Western modernization
the concept of the primate city
a discrete combination of traits, for example Masaai
cattle herding
I
the number of young plus the number of elderly
per 100 workers
I
infrastructure
U
economic reach
U
rank-size rule
N
a culture trait
N
anthropology
P
Lima.
P
6
P
east to west and north to south.
C
customs
C
hierarchical diffusion
C
hearths
P
False
P
False
P
True
I
U
structuralist theories
evolving into a self-sufficient urban entity with its
own economic and cultural components.
I
U
neocolonialism
deteriorated with more CBD encroachment.
I
U
dependency theory
Sunbelt
N
P
C
P
I
U
N
P
C
P
I
U
The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge and
skills from their place of origin to other area where
they are adopted is called:
Irish migration to North America in the mid-1800s is
an example of
Government efforts to discourage native practice
and languages in the United States and Canada
were attempts to _____________ native groups
True/False . NAFTA is a North American
supranational association for mutual economic
benefit.
Countries in which tier of the world economy
(region) have high birth and death rates and low
life expectancy at birth?
The multiple nuclei model of urban structure developed by
Harris and Ullman arose from the idea that _______ was
losing its dominant position in the metropolitan city.
The lack of penetration of alcoholic beverages in
Islamic regions illustrates the effect of
______________________ on cultural diffusion.
Between 1788 and 1838, tens of thousands of
convicts were shipped from Britain to which
continent?
The building of a sense of community identity
around the idea of “Swedish-ness” in Lindsborg,
Kansas is an example of
Why are capital cities of interest to political
geographers?
Economic development in some African states (e.g.
Malawi and Zimbabwe) is hampered by
After 1970, new suburban downtowns (edge cities)
were spawned in the outer city of Los Angeles, with
their leading concentrations where?
N
Hagerstrand emphasized that culture hearths
should be viewed in the context of
______ as
well as space.
P
Gender studies of migration indicate that men
C
Efforts to conserve local cultures often focus on
P
I
U
N
P
C
P
I
U
______________ than women.
the local ____________.
True/False Critical geopolitics emphasizes the
analysis of diplomatic and power relations
between various state groupings.
Young girls trafficked from the periphery to
wealthier regions most often work as
The core of a city is called the
The diffusion of the idea of the hamburger to
India but with a vegetable patty instead of the
religiously prohibited beef is an example of:
What is the model which states that spatial
interaction between places (e.g. migration) is
directly related to the population size and
Urban local cultures as in Brooklyn, New York
inversely related to the distance between them?
and North End Boston, Massachusetts are seen
as positive examples of _____________, places
Political
geographers
of cultural
persistence.argue that progress toward
a unified Europe depends on:
Mexico has established export processing zones
with special tax, trade and regulatory
arrangements for foreign firms. This phenomena
In the Latin American city, where are the homes
is referred to as
of the most impoverished and unskilled
residents?
N
P
C
P
I
U
The greater the distance form the hearth the less
likely an innovation will be adopted. This is
referred to as:
The smallest number of slaves involved in the
Atlantic slave trade was sent to
Buying a Native American styled dream catcher
at a Wal-Mart store would possibly be an
example of
True/False . Huntington’s thesis in The Clash of
Civilization is similar to Wallerstein’s view that
international relations are reducible to economic rather
than cultural
factors. is headed by a U.S. citizen, is
Which
organization
headquartered in Washington, D.C. and is
charged with combating poverty in peripheral
What term came into use to describe the spatial
countries?
components of the metropolis of the late twentieth
century?
N
The spread of disease where nearly all adjacent
P
According to Ravenstein, migrants who move
C
individuals are affected is an example of:
longer distances tend to choose
Geographer, David Harvey, refers to the
increasing speed by which innovations in popular
culture diffuse as
P
What best characterized the purpose of the North
I
In peripheral countries it is not unusual for hotels
U
Atlantic Treaty Organization?
in tourist areas to be owned by
A structural element of many Latin American
cities, the disamenity sector, is illustrated by the
N
distance decay
N
P
British North America.
P
C
cultural appropriation
C
customs
C
assimilate
P
False
P
False
P
True
I
World Bank
time
are more mobile , migrate farther, have more
employment choices and income
N
P
diffusion
migration which reflects both forced and voluntary
aspects of migration.
I
domestic workers/street vendors
I
periphery
U
urban realms
U
central business district (CBD).
U
the CBD
N
contagious diffusion
N
stimulus diffusion
N
cultural barriers
P
big-city destinations
P
gravity model
P
Australia
C
time-space compression
C
ethnic neighborhoods
C
neolocalism
P
military alliance
P
I
U
multinational corporations
barrios or favelas.
I
U
the establishment of a common and stable
currency
maquiladoras
on the outermost zone or peripheral fringe
P
I
U
Typically capital cities symbolize the cultural and
historic identity of their countries.
corrupt governments
near key freeway intersections.
N
True/False:
Chicago would appear larger on a
map with a scale of 1:50,000 than on a map with
a scale 1:1,000,000.
P
What push factor compelled more than 50,000
C
The growth in the size of the audience of Phish in
P
I
U
N
P
C
P
I
U
Asians to leave Uganda in 1972?
its college band days was the result of
Some nations are stateless; this means:
Many tourist areas in peripheral regions are beach
resorts. In 2004 Thailand’s beach resort areas
were ravaged by
Most African central cities actually have how many
CBD's?
True/False: At the scale of the metropolitan area,
the tendency over the last century has been a
spreading out of the population to suburbs.
In terms of total number of refugees, _____ is the
geographic realm most severely affected by refugee
problems.
True/False A group of people in a particular place
who see themselves as a collective or a
community, who share customs and traits are
The
wordtostate
from the Latin word status,
referred
as a comes
local culture.
meaning:
A look at the maps of Nigeria, Pakistan and Brazil
would show that when governments established
new post-colonial capitals, they moved away from
Comparing Luanda, Angola to a suburb of Tokyo, one is
struck by the fact that the urban morphology reflects the
fact that Angola lacks a __________ class.
N
P
C
P
I
U
N
P
C
P
I
U
True/False: A general reference map displays a
single category of data or a specific spatial
distribution.
European migration to colonies reached its peak
during the period
Globalized popular culture can be picked up and
reproduced by people in the context of their local
culture. This is referred to as
The political system in which the leader is
deemed to be under divine guidance is called:
Establishment of government quotas on imports
(e.g. cotton shirts or steel) to the U.S. has led to
The focal point of the Southeast Asian city is the
True/False: When describing the scale of a
printed map as a ratio or fraction, the unit of
measurement for distance is irrelevant.
The intervention of what country in the civil war in
Afghanistan caused great numbers of refugees to
leave the country?
True/False Popular cultures can change rapidly
in periods as short as days or even hours.
The European state model first diffused from:
Twenty thousand nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs) in Bangladesh constitute what can be
called
If cities in the poorer parts of the world share a
common characteristic, it may result from
N
P
C
P
I
True/False: A large-scale map depicts a smaller
area with more detail than a small-scale map
European colonialism stimulated the movement of
___________ to the cities (islands of
development) of Southeast Asia where they have
According to E. Relph, the term which best
become a significant minority population.
captures the quality of the American landscape
which is associated with the spread of popular
One
of is
the three stages of boundary evolution is
culture
delimitation. This stage consists of:
Governments in both core and periphery often
create wealth by focusing well paid government
jobs
U
In Southeast Asian cities the alien commercial zone
N
True/False: Isolines on maps never split,
P
Today, the largest refugee numbers in Southeast
C
True/False Local cultures are distinctive in that
P
I
U
is dominated by
intersect, or cross each other.
Asia are reported from
they are stable over time
The European state model was exported through
migration and colonialism, but it has not always
worked well. In which part of the world has it been
True/False Gross national product (GNP)
least effective?
measures the value of officially recorded goods and
services produced within a country.
Segregation in the United States was reinforced by
the financial practice known as
N
True
N
False
N
true
P
Chinese
P
1835-1935.
P
Ugandan leader Idi Amin expelled them.
C
placelessness
C
reterritorialization
C
contagious diffusion
P
theocracy
P
they do not possess a national territory
P
I
marking the boundary on the ground by steel posts
or fences
in the capital city
I
a shifting of production form country to country in
the periphery and semi-periphery
I
a tsunami
U
Chinese
U
old colonial port zone
U
three
N
True
N
True
N
true
P
Myanmar (Burma).
P
the Soviet Union
P
tropical Africa
C
False
C
True
C
True
P
non-Western
P
Greece
P
standing
I
U
False
redlining
I
U
a parallel state
an absence of enforced zoning regulations
I
U
coastal port areas
middle
N
P
C
P
I
U
N
P
C
P
I
U
True/False: The five themes of geography are
location, time, region, movement, humanenvironment interaction.
In 1995, the collapse of which of the following
European countries produced the largest refugee
crisis in Europe since the end of World War II?
True/False The spread of clothing styles from Paris
or New York to regional mall stores and finally to
shops near your local college, is an example of
hierarchical diffusion
Territorial morphology refers to:
True/False . In Africa and other developing regions
the output in the subsistence agricultural sector is
not included in GNP calculations.
In core area cities the practice of buying up and
rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the
raising of housing values and a social change in
neighborhoods
called
What
type of is
map
shows daily weather map of high
temperatures, featuring lines connecting points
registering equal temperatures?
In the period from 1882-1907, the United States
Congress passed exclusionary immigration laws
designed to keep __________ out of the immigrant
A culture’s assumptions about the differences
stream.
between men and women, their character, roles and
divisions of labor are referred to as
Which boundary disputes may involve conflict over
resources?
True/False Core-periphery theory can operate at a
number of scales. For example, Los Angeles can
be described as the core of Southern California.
Marxist geographer David Harvey is one of the strongest
critics of _____________, the privatization of public space
and loss of “character” of neighborhoods.
N
P
C
P
I
U
N
P
C
P
I
U
True/False: Métis are people with mixed
Aboriginal and European ancestry.
In 1997, the only country in the western
hemisphere that had a serious refugee problem
was
True/False Notting Hill festival (London) was
appropriated by West Indian migrants to express
their cultural distinctiveness. This is an example
The term meaning "zone" of separation, an area
of assimilation
between communities, clusters, groups, and
states is:
True/False The use of energy efficient process
and devices may actually lower GNP.
The core area suburbs are experiencing a process of
the tearing down of existing suburban homes and the
building of very large, standardized-looking homes
known as
Level of aggregation refers to:
The practice of excluding people with criminal
records, health problems, or subversive political
beliefs from immigrating is referred to as
Groups in Northern Ireland and gangs in major
U.S. cities create “exclusive” areas by
Which boundary disputes center on the
delimitation and possibly the demarcation of a
border?
True/False One compensation of being in a
peripheral region of the world economy is that
goods and services are low cost, thus making
Gated
communities
have
__________
as their
education
free of cost
in most
of the region.
chief objective.
N
The key theme in human geography is:
P
Which is not an example of a fortified barrier to
C
True/False Commodification of local culture often
P
Which of the boundary disputes focus on legal
I
U
migration?
leads to stereotypical images of that culture.
language of the boundary agreement?
True/False A high percentage of laborers engaged
in the production of food staples indicates a low,
overall level of development.
The decline in density and the spread of cities associated
with the building of freeways in the second half of the
twentieth century has been pejoratively referred to as
N
Rural counties receive more visual emphasis than
P
Since September 2001, there has been a greater
C
When places are “designed” either for women or
P
What did Mackinder claim to be the source of
I
U
urban counties on a choropleth map because:
concern about immigration control to
men they are said to be
world power?
True/False Recent developments in China’s
coastal provinces have created greater regional
economic disparities with interior regions.
Ethnic neighborhoods in European cities reflect
migrants from
N
Space
N
True
N
False
P
the United States - Canadian border
P
Colombia.
P
Yugoslavia
C
True
C
False
C
True
P
definitional
P
P
territorial shape
I
True
I
boundary
True
I
True
U
urban sprawl
U
McMansions
U
gentrification
N
rural counties cover a larger area
N
the size of the spatial unit of analysis
N
Isoline map
P
selective immigration
P
Chinese
P
prevent terrorism.
C
gendered
C
graffiti demarcating territories
C
gender
P
Eurasia's mainland
P
locational
P
allocational
I
U
True
former colonies
I
False
I
U
safety
U
True
new urbanism
N
A more recent dot map would show an increase in
the phenomena being measured compared with an
earlier dot map by:
N
On an isoline map, lines close to each other
The world's ____ largest population
P
What is the purpose of an age-sex pyramid?
P
C
In India the breaking of a dowry contract may lead
C
P
Which boundary disputes involve neighbors who
to
differ over the way their boundary should function?
I
True/False Port Gentile is an example of an island
U
The growth of ethnic neighborhoods in _________
N
The explanation of the graphic symbols on a map is
P
The relocation of thousands of non-Serbian
of development.
is less than in other European countries.
found in the
Kosovars by Slobodan Milosevic is a form of:
C
The crucial element in language is
P
Which country recently devolved peacefully?
I
U
True/False Industry actually developed long before
the Industrial Revolution.
True/False The second urban revolution is
associated with the Industrial Revolution and the
rise of industrial cities.
P
I
U
indicate:
concentrations all lie on the Eurasian landmass:
Barrio is the Spanish term for
According to Spykman's theory, which country
could possibly become the next power?
True/False Governments have least control over
wealth generating processes at the point in the
commodity chain where goods enter the country.
True/False Urbanization occurred in all urban
hearths at about the same time.
N
To map the surface of the earth, geographers use
P
The population of a country changes as a result of
different projections because:
four conditions. What are the 4 conditions?
C
Most of the workers in maquiladoras are
P
What was the first multinational union?
I
U
True/False The world economic system works to
the disadvantage of the periphery countries.
True/False Early cities were often theocratic
centers with temples being a prominent urban
feature.
N
The key theme in human geography is:
N
P
Population distribution is best represented by a:
P
Countries with a high rate of increase will also
C
A geographic boundary within which a particular
C
P
I
U
Dialects are most often marked by actual
differences in
The Territorial Sea permits states to delimit their
territorial seas up to ___ nautical miles from their
shoreline
True/False Weber’s industrial location theory
considered labor to be the most important cost.
True/False A trade area is the area of economic reach
of a particular city, town or village and reflects
economic and spatial interaction between the settlement
and its surrounding area.
P
I
U
Level of aggregation refers to:
have a:
linguistic feature occurs is called a/an
Geopolitics studies the power relationships among:
True/False Since 1960, the Ruhr has entered a
stage of rapid deindustrialization.
True/False Burgess' concentric zone model emphasized
homogenous pie-shaped wedges of land use extending
from the CBD to the city's edge.
N
P
no projection is ideal for the purpose of every map
natural increase, births , deaths , emigration
N
a rapid change in the variable
N
P
3
P
C
young females
C
neighborhood.
C
P
Benelux
P
China
P
more dots
to show the population structure of a country
a beating or killing of the wife (dowry death).
operational
I
True
I
False
I
U
True
U
False
U
the Netherlands
N
The size of the spatial unit of analysis
N
space
N
map legend
P
short doubling time
P
dot map
P
forced migration
C
isogloss
C
vocabulary
C
vocalization
P
states
P
12
P
Czechoslovakia
I
False
I
False
I
True
U
False
U
True
U
True
True
N
N
N
P
P
P
C
C
C
P
P
P
I
I
I
U
U
U
N
N
N
P
P
P
C
C
C
P
P
P
I
I
I
U
U
U
N
N
N
P
P
P
C
C
C
P
P
P
I
I
I
U
U
U
N
N
N
P
P
P
C
C
C
P
P
P
I
I
I
U
U
U