1. AP Human Geography Semester Exam Review Fall 2015

2. Main categories of Push/Pull factors…..

3. Economic Political Enviromental

4. Where is the majority of interregional migration occurring in the United States?

5. Today, the trend is northeast to southwest

6. Which traits are associated with folk culture?

7. Small, homogenous, traditional communities – Housing styles – Clothing – Customs

8. What is assimilation?

9. Assimilation- adopting the host culture, while giving up parts of your native culture

10. What is an example of a folk culture living in an urban environment?

11. Hasidic Jews

12. What is globalization?

13. Interconnectedness : beliefs, dress, housing styles, economics

14. Why do humans living in different areas have different appearances? (according to studies)

15. Physical Environmental conditions

16. What is a maquiladora? Who works there?

17. A manufacturing operation in Mexico, where factories import certain material and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly, processing, or manufacturing and then export the assembled

18. What is……….. Expansion DiffusionRelocation

19. Expansion DiffusionRelocation Diffusion Hierarchical – spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places Spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another Ex. Language brought to a new locale by a migrant Contagious Rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population Stimulus Spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse.

21. Hierarchical – spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places Rich to poor Big Cities to smaller towns Fashion Industry

23. Contagious Diffusion- Rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

24. Stimulus Diffusion Spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse.

25. What is reverse hierarchal diffusion? http://grist.org/list/map-walmart-stores-america/

26. What is a core country? What is a periphery country?

27. Demographic Transition Model (DTM)

28. Which Map projection?

30. Which map projection?

31. The most famous, large-scale U.S internal migration

32. Migration Transition

33. What is the most common environmental threat to forced migration? (Think Syria to Europe)

36. Marco Polo’s Explorations

37. Explorations of Columbus

38. Formal, Functional, and Perceptual Regions AKA homogeneous, nodal, and vernacular regions

39. Infrastructure

40. Mobility

41. Circulation

43. Which type of density?

46. Important to Arabs and MuslimsImportant to Jews The fact that these are shared religious sites have led to an ongoing Arab – Israeli conflict Dome of the Rock built over the Temple Mount Western wall or “Wailing Wall”

47. The Old City of Jerusalem is divided in many ways politically, but there are four different quarters that divide the city culturally, religiously and even historically: The Christian Quarter. The Jewish Quarter. The Muslim Quarter, and the Armenian Quarter.

48. Apartheid was a racist political policy in South Africa demanding segregation of the nation's white and non-white populations.

49. European colonization caused many problems in Africa that still linger to this day.

50. In the world of globalization it is becoming increasingly important to maintain ones ethnicity to ensure a diverse landscape.

51. A sect is a type of religious group that is distinguished by having broken away from a larger organization, usually a church. Members of sects are predominantly lower class and have usually attained membership through conversion. The power structure in a sect is informal and leaders are untrained and typically chosen by the members. In relation to other religious organizations, sects tend to be nonconformist and oppositional, although they are less so than cults.

52. The world’s largest universalizing religion is????

53. Christianity

54. The world’s largest ethnic religion is???

55. Hinduism

56. The worldview that non-human entities—such as animals, plants, and inanimate objects—possess a spiritual essence belongs to ?????

57. Animists

58. Literary tradition - A language that is written as well as spoken Example: English with Roman Alphabet Application: Having a literary tradition(as most countries do) shows a certain degree of development

59. In order for any society to exist and maintain all aspects of it’s culture… it must have the support of a strong military, and a stable government.

60. A language branch is a newer, or less commonly spoken language that has a older "parent language"

61. Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century

62. Pop Culture Folk Culture

63. Communications + Globalization = Sameness

64. Habit A recurrent, often unconscious, pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition Custom the long-established habits or traditions of a society collectively

65. Like the first reason in the illustration, above all else people have historically migrated to improve their economic status.

66. The ability to move or be moved freely and easily?

67. Mobility

68. Circulation is the regular movement, or pattern of movement, in our daily lives.

69. John Snow vs. Cholera

70. Like most modern refugees, the Jewish people fled for their lives when their culture, or way of life was threatened.

73. These corporations are becoming increasingly powerful. As profits are naturally the most important goal, damaging results can arise, such as violation of human rights, lobbying for and participating in manipulated international agreements, environmental damage, child labor, driving towards cheaper and cheaper labor, and so on. They claim that their involvement in foreign countries is actually a constructive engagement as it can promote human rights in non-democratic nations. However, it seems that that is more of a convenient excuse to continue exploitative practices and hiding profits in offshore banking institutions. What are they?

74. Transnational Corporations

78. Few people have traditionally lived in unhospitable locations but “possiblism” is making some remote areas more habitable.

80. What is causing the population pyramid to invert?

81. An aging population Consequently some countries are encouraging immigration and/or its people to work to an older age.

82. Good luck, study hard and prepare for the essay writing assignment!!!