3. Maps & Projections

4. Population Dynamics

5. Ethnic Conflict

6. Linguistics

7. Pop vs. Folk Culture

8. World Religions

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10. Identify the type of map

11. Mercator Projection

12. Identify the type of map Population 1500

13. Cartogram

14. Identify the type of map

15. Choropleth

16. Identify the type of map

17. Robinson Projection

18. Describe the difference between site and situation.

19. Site refers to the physical character of a place while situation describes a place’s location relative to other places

20. Which two nations have the largest populations?

21. China & India

22. Explain why population growth is low in Stage 1 of the Demographic Transition.

23. Population growth is low or moderate due to high birth and high death rates.

24. Describe Malthusian theory.

25. Malthus thought that populations grow faster (exponentially) than the food supply (arithmetically)

26. What might account for the shape of this age-sex pyramid?

27. Large guest worker population

28. Describe two characteristics of Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration.

29. 1. Majority of migrants move a short distance 2. Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big-cities 3. Urban residents are less migratory than rural 4. Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults 5. Every migration flow generates a return or counter-migration

30. Which ethnic group held power when Rwanda gained its independence?

31. Hutus

32. What are two ways a government can promote feelings of nationalism among its citizens?

33. National anthems Symbols Flags Negative images of other nations Centripetal force: attitudes that unify people and enhance support for a state

34. Where did ghettos originate?

35. Italy - referred to the area of Venice where Jews were required to live

36. What was the civil war being fought over that forced the Lost Boys to flee Sudan?

37. Northerners wanted control of the oil reserves in the south

38. What is blockbusting?

39. Efforts of real-estate agents and real-estate speculators to trigger the turnover of white- owned property and homes to African Americans Resulted in white flight to the suburbs & residential segregation

40. Approximately how many languages exist in the world today?

41. About 6000

42. English is a part of which branch of the Indo- European language family?

43. Germanic

44. Identify an example of an isolated language.

45. Basque Other examples: Albanian, Korean, Zuni

46. What is a creole language?

47. Pidgin language that develops into a more complex structure & vocabulary and becomes the native language of a group of people

48. If English is linguistically related to German, then why are the languages so different?

49. English is the result of influences from 3 invading groups, as well as isolation Germanic Tribes Vikings from Norway Normans from France

50. What type of diffusion is related to immigration?

51. Relocation diffusion

52. WBAL channel 11 services the Baltimore metropolitan area. This best exemplifies which type of region?

53. Functional or nodal region

54. Explain the concept of placelessness.

55. Feeling depression over the fact that all places look the same.

56. In what culture area did the saltbox-type house originate?

57. New England

58. Why is the spread of Walmart considered to be an example of reverse hierarchical diffusion?

59. Because it spread from rural areas around the country before moving into urban areas

60. Identify three universalizing religions.

61. Baha’i Christianity Sikhism Islam Buddhism

62. What is the difference between hierarchical and autonomous religions?

63. Both refer to the type of leadership within the religion Hierarchical has a group controlling how the religion is practiced Autonomous leaves it up to the individual

64. What two religions especially encourage their adherents to make pilgrimages?

65. Hinduism and Islam, also Buddhism and Sikhism

66. What region in India are Indian Hindus and Muslim Pakistanis fighting over?

67. Kashmir

68. Identify the type of structures below and the two religions associated with them.

69. Pagodas – Buddhism & Shintoism