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Human Geography GAME RULES FINAL ROUND Chapter 1 Basic Concepts People Pop clusters 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 Updated: April 2009 Geography Maps Category A - Jeopardy - demography 100 Category A - Jeopardy - 100 What is the scientific study of population characteristics? Category A - Jeopardy ecumene 200 Category A - Jeopardy - 200 What is the portion f the Earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement? Category A - Jeopardy - 300 The population of the area is too large for the resources of the area to sustain a basic standard of living Category A - Jeopardy - What is overpopulation? 300 Category A - Jeopardy - 400 The bar graph that displays the age and gender groups Category A - Jeopardy - 400 What is a population pyramid? Category A - Jeopardy - 500 The number of people that are too old or to young to work compared to the number of people of productive work age Category A - Jeopardy - 500 What is a dependency ratio? Category B - Jeopardy - 100 He wrote “An essay on the Principle of Population” Category B - Jeopardy - Who is Thomas Malthus? 100 Category B - Jeopardy - 200 People that concur that Malthus theory is correct because of medical technology and the lack of other necessary resources Category B - Jeopardy - 200 Who are neo-Malthusians? Category B - Jeopardy - 300 This Neo-Malthusian wrote “The Population Bomb” Category B - Jeopardy - Who is Paul Ehrlich? 300 Category B - Jeopardy - 400 All Americans born after World War II between 1946-1964 Category B - Jeopardy - What is the baby boom generation? 400 DAILY DOUBLE - Jeopardy - How much would you like to bet? Category B - Jeopardy - 500 He coined the term “Generation X” to describe the people born in the U.S.A. between 1965-1980 Category B - Jeopardy - 500 Who is Douglas Coupland? Category C - Jeopardy - 100 This area combines all of the populations of East and West Europe including the European part of Russia to become the third largest population cluster, comprising 1/9th of the people of the world Category C - Jeopardy - 100 What is the Europe population Cluster ? Category C - Jeopardy - 200 On fifth of the world’s population lives in this area that includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the island of Sri Lanka Category C - Jeopardy - What is the South Asia Population Cluster? 200 DAILY DOUBLE - Jeopardy - How much would you like to bet? Category C - Jeopardy - 300 Located in the East Asian Population cluster, this is the world’s most populated country Category C - Jeopardy What is China? 300 Category C - Jeopardy - 400 This area of the world has the fourth largest population and is mainly made up of islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans Category C - Jeopardy - 400 What is the Southeaster Asia population cluster? Category C - Jeopardy - 500 Several areas of population concentration such as one in U.S. and Canada, another in Wet Africa. Category C - Jeopardy - What is Other Population Clusters? 500 Category D - Jeopardy - 100 The number of people occupying an area of land Category D - Jeopardy - What is density? 100 Category D - Jeopardy - 200 The number of people divided by the total land area also known as population density Category D - Jeopardy - What is arithmetic density? 200 Category D - Jeopardy - 300 The number of people supported by a unit of arable land in a region Category D - Jeopardy - What is physiological density? 300 Category D - Jeopardy - 400 The ratio of farmers to the amount of arable land Category D - Jeopardy - What is Agricultural density? 400 Category D - Jeopardy - 500 Areas of the world where there are few people such as dry lands, wet lands, cold lands, and high lands Category D - Jeopardy - 500 What is sparsely populated regions? Category E - Jeopardy - 100 A cylindrical projection that retains the accurate sizes of the world’s landmasses. Category E - Jeopardy - 100 What is the Peters projection? Category E - Jeopardy - 200 A map that maintains the accurate size and shape of landmasses, but completely rearranges directions so that the cardinal directions (N,S,E,W) Category E - Jeopardy - What is a Fuller projection? 200 Category E - Jeopardy - 300 A map that does not maintain accuracy in size, shape, distance, or direction but as it tries to minimize errors it is used most. Category E - Jeopardy - 300 What is a Robinson Projection? DAILY DOUBLE - Jeopardy - Place your bets! DAILY DOUBLE - Jeopardy - A map with either the North or South pole featured at the center as if looking up or down from the pole at the Earth Category E - Jeopardy - What is a Azimuthal Projection? 400 Category E - Jeopardy - 500 This map preserves accurate compass direction but distorts the area of landmasses with the biggest distortion at the poles Category E - Jeopardy - 500 What is the Mercator Projection? - Jeopardy Welcome to Jeopardy! The fun and sneaky way to review material for the upcoming test! - Jeopardy And now… a brief introduction to the RULES of the GAME… - Jeopardy Each group must: a) SIT TOGETHER, and b) Designate a SPEAKER who will respond to the prompts (You may NOT change speakers). - Jeopardy The game consists of FIVE categories, each containing FIVE questions - Jeopardy Questions are randomly arranged, NOT by degree of difficulty - Jeopardy Each speaker may select only ONE question per round - Jeopardy Once the selected question is posted on the screen, the SPEAKER of the team has 10 seconds to respond. - Jeopardy The speaker may consult with teammates before responding - Jeopardy During the game, whispering is OK, but LOUD talking and/or disruptions DURING THE GAME may result in point loss for the entire team. - Jeopardy The response should be phrased in the FORM OF A QUESTION. (Words, phrases, and statements – even if correct – may be disqualified) - Jeopardy A CORRECT ANSWER earns the team the amount of points indicated on the jeopardy board. - Jeopardy If the speaker does not respond correctly within 10 seconds, the question passes on to the next team speaker, who has 5 seconds to respond. - Jeopardy The number of points for the correct answer at this stage are the same as for the previous team. - Jeopardy Questions that are not answered correctly by the selecting team are offered to the other teams in turn until a correct answer is given or all teams have guessed incorrectly. - Jeopardy For the Daily Double, the speaker designates the number of points – up to the max. points earned by the team. If correct, the team earns the designated points; if incorrect, they lose the designated points. - Jeopardy Again, whispering is OK, but remember, LOUD TALKING and/or DISRUPTIONS DURING THE GAME may result in point loss for the entire team. - Jeopardy The judge’s decisions are FINAL and whining, pouting, and/or complaints will NOT BE ENTERTAINED… - Jeopardy - Ready to play? - Jeopardy Final Jeopardy Topic: population terms You may wager up to the amount of points your team has earned. Write your wager on a piece of paper and submit it. Final Jeopardy Question A population group unified by a specific common characteristic, such as age, and therefore treated as a statistical unit Updated: April 2009 Fundamentals What is a cohort? Updated: April 2009