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1 Geography Review

2 ◆ Irondale High School is located about a mile away from the Mermaid is an example of its…

3 ◆ Relative Location

4 ◆ What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?

5 ◆ A system that creates specialized maps from digital map information stored in a data bank.

6 ◆ What is remote sensing?

7 ◆ The acquiring of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method.

8 ◆ The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface is know as…

9 ◆ Toponym

10 What identifies a place by its unique physical characteristics?

11 ◆ Site

12 ◆ Human Geography is principally concerned with the…

13 ◆ Impact of the environment on human understandings and activities.

14 ◆ What is an example of Human environmental interaction?

15 ◆ Minnesotans building sky-ways and tunnels to deal with the cold weather.

16 ◆ An area distinguished by a unique combination of cultural and physical features is known as a…

17 ◆ Region

18 ◆ According to environmental determinism…

19 ◆ The physical environment causes social development.

20 ◆ Distant places in the world are becoming effectively closer together according to what?

21 ◆ The concept of space-time compression.

22 ◆ What do population pyramids represent?

23 ◆ Gender and age groups.

24 ◆ What is the definition of overpopulation?

25 ◆ Too many people compared to available resources.

26 ◆ What is the dependency ratio?

27 ◆ Population under 15 and over 64.

28 ◆ What is Total Fertility Rate?

29 ◆ The AVERAGE number of children a women will have during her childbearing years.

30 ◆ Density, concentration and pattern are…

31 ◆ The three main properties of distribution.

32 ◆ Who thought population would grow more rapidly than food supply?

33 ◆ Thomas Malthus

34 ◆ Agricultural density looks at a country’s…

35 ◆ Farming efficiency

36 ◆ A country with a small amount of arable land and a large amount of farmers would have…

37 ◆ High agricultural density

38 ◆ What is chain migration?

39 ◆ The migration of people to a specific location because of relative or people of the same nationality have migrated there.

40 ◆ Slash and burn agriculture is another name for…

41 ◆ Shifting cultivation

42 ◆ What type of agriculture do most LDCs practice?

43 ◆ Subsistence

44 ◆ What is the primary factor in Von Thunen’s model?

45 ◆ Market location

46 ◆ What type of agriculture typically involves crop rotation?

47 ◆ Mixed crop and livestock farming

48 ◆ Where are most plantations located?

49 ◆ In LDCs

50 ◆ According to the peripheral model, an urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by…

51 ◆ Large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.

52 ◆ The concentric zone model sees the city structured as a series of what?

53 ◆ Rings

54 ◆ Gentrification is…

55 ◆ The controversial process of middle class people buying and renovating inner-city housing.

56 ◆ What is urban sprawl?

57 ◆ Development of new housing sites not nearby to the existing built up area.

58 ◆ According toe the primate city rule, the largest settlement has…

59 ◆ More than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.

60 ◆ An industry in which the inputs weigh more than the final product is a…

61 ◆ Bulk-reducing industry.

62 ◆ What is the break of bulk point?

63 ◆ A location where transfer among transportation modes is possible.

64 ◆ A manufacturing system where materials are scheduled to arrive at a factory moments before they needed is known as…

65 ◆ Just in time manufacturing.

66 ◆ What is distance decay?

67 ◆ Is the decrease in the intensity of a cultural innovation such as music or fashion.

68 ◆ What is a hearth?

69 ◆ Point of origin

70 ◆ What is an official language?

71 ◆ Language of the government.

72 ◆ Main difference between languages in the same family, branch or group is

73 ◆ How recently in time the languages were once the same.

74 ◆ What is an example of an ethnic religion?

75 ◆ Hinduism

76 ◆ What is the world’s largest universalizing religion?

77 ◆ Christianity

78 ◆ Comparing ethnicity and race reveals

79 ◆ Ethnicity is part of a person’s cultural identity but race is not.

80 ◆ Sovereignty is…

81 ◆ A state with control over its internal affairs.

82 ◆ A state that contains more than two nationalities with traditions of self determination is a…

83 ◆ Multination state

84 ◆ What are the three factors taken into account by the UN’s Human Development Index?

85 ◆ A decent standard of living, access to knowledge and a long and healthy life.


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