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What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?
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They both are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do. |
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Why is the beach at Ipanema Brazil a good example for study of human and physical geography? |
It has distinct physical land formations that affect to population nears these land formations. |
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What is a cartographer? |
A person who makes a map |
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What balances do cartographers have to make in creating maps? |
1. How much of Earth's surface to put on the map (map scale). 2. How to transfer a spherical Earth to a flat map (projection). |
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What is Scale? |
The level of detail and the amount of area covered |
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What is GIS? |
computer system that captures, stores, and queries, analyzes, and displays geographic data. |
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What is the International Date Line |
A meridian that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude. When you cross the international date line heading east (Toward america), the clock moves back 24 hours, and when you go west toward asia the clock moves ahead one day. |
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Where is Greenwhich mean time measured? |
the time at the prime meridian ( 0 degree longitude), the the master reference time for all points on Earth. |
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What does the spread of fast food places, like McDonalds's, represent to geographers? |
Globalization of culture (pg.19) |
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What are the four major Earth systems? What happens in each? |
Atmosphere - a thin layer of gas surrounding the earth Hydrosphere - all of the water on or near the earths surface lithosphere - earths crust and a portion of the upper mantle directly below the crust biosphere - all living organisms on earth, including plants and animals, as well as microorganisms
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What is overpopulation? |
A threat where an area's population exceeds the capacity of the environment to support it at an acceptable standard of living. |
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What part of the world is surrounded by the Indus and Ganges rivers? |
south asia |
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What regions of the Earth do Humans avoid? |
Humans avoid lands that are too wet, too dry, too cold, or too mountainous for activities such as agriculture. |
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What is the world's most populous country? Why?
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China |
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What is dependency ratio? How does one calculate it? |
The number of people who are considered too young or too old, compared to the number of people in their productive years. People 0-14 and 65+ considered dependent |
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What is a population pyramid? |
is a bar graph that displays the percentage of place's population for each age and gender |
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What is physiological density? |
the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land |
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What is infant mortality rate? How does one calculate it? |
is the annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age for every 1,000 live births. |
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What are the stages of demographic transition? |
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What is natural increase rate? |
NIR is the percentage by which a population grows in a year |
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Who was Thomas Malthus? What was his theory? |
English economist who was the first one to argue that the world's rate of population increase was far outruning the development of food supply |
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What is migration? |
a permanent move to a new location |
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Who was Wilbur Zelinsky? What was his model? |
Geographer. |
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What is net in-migration? |
the difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants |
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What source area dominated migration to the US in the 1800's? |
United Kingdom and Africa |
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What source area dominated migration to the US in the late 1900's? |
Europe. Ireland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Norway. |
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Why do people migrate to the suburbs in the united states? |
For the suburban lifestyle instead of because of jobs. |
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What is counterurbanization? |
Net migration from urban to rural areas |
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What are push and pull factors? Think of some examples for both. |
Political, economic, and environmental |
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What are refugees? What is the primary reason for their migration? |
people who are forced to migrate from their homes and cannot return for fear of persecution because race, religion, or nationality |
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What has been the main effect of modern communications on social customs? |
causes rapid diffusion of popular customs |
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Why is the use of a hose and buggy an example of folk culture? |
Horse and buggy is only used by small isolated groups of people. |
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What is a habit? |
a repetitive act that a particular individual performs |
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What is a custom? |
repetitive act of a group |
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What is popular culture? |
culture found in a large, heterogenous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
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Why is popular music written? |
written with the purpose of being sold to a large number of people |
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What is a taboo? |
a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom |
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Which groups have a taboo around pork? |
muslims and jews |
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What is the most popular global sporting event? |
soccer |
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What is golf a good example of? |
popular culture imposed on the environment |
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What are world's two largest language families? |
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan |
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What is a language family? Branch? Group? |
Family - A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded recorded history. Branch - |
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What do we mean by literary tradition? |
language that is written as well as spoken |
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Why were the citizens of Hong Kong exposed to a lot of English? |
signs are written in both english and whatever |
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What language family does English belong? |
West Germanic |
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What is a language spoken in a local area? |
dialect |
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What is Hebrew an example of in regard to language? |
revived extinct language |
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Why is Spanish increasingly important in the United States? |
because of large scale immigration |
