GEO Test 1 Review

14. As climate is defined in the textbook, what reflects a climatic change?

- A documented or predicted change in the temperature, winds, and precipitation patterns that differs from the current or recent climate

24. What is an ethnic religion?

- A religion that is identified with a specific ethinic, tribal, or national group

19. In migration, what is a pull force?

- A social, political, economic, or environmental attraction to a new area that draws people from a previous location.

18. In migration, what is a push force?

- A social, political, economic, or environmental force that drives people from a location

9. Ninety percent of the world's population growth occurs in which part of the world?

- Africa - South and east asia - Latin america

34. What world regions are MOST likely to suffer food shortages?

- Africa and south asia (less developed countries)

35. What type of pollution is the greatest cause of acid rain?

- Airborne pollutants from industries

10. Define the Demographic Transition.

- As a country goes through industrialization, its population moves through these 5 stages that track death/birth rates over time Population growth is low because high birth rates are offset by high death rates Rapid growth takes place as death rates decline Decline in birth rates occurs Balance occurs with low birth rates and low death rates Negative growth rate can occur here if the death rate exceeds the birth rate 11. In which stages of the Demographic transition is the rate of natural increase (RNI) low?

23. What is a universalizing religion(s)?

- Attempt to appeal to all peoples, regardless of location or culture (actively seek converts)

29. What substance accounts for more than half of the human-generated greenhouse gases?

- Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels

36. What is an individual who relocates to a locality that is less vulnerable to global warming?

- Climate refugee

28. By what name do we know the place where two tectonic plates are forced together?

- Colliding plate boundary

21. What are the characteristics of culture?

- Culture is learned, and is behavior held in common by a group of people empowering them with what is commonly called "a way of life."

26. What is the process of a colony's gaining (or regaining) control over its territory and establishing a separate, independent government?

- Decolonization

13. Define plate tectonics

- Earth's outer consists of large geographic platforms, or plates, that move slowly across its surface. Driving these plates is heat exchange deep within earth

22. In what world region is swahili a lingua franca?

- Eastern Africa

38. What term refers to the situation in which a group of people with a common background and history identify with one another?

- Ethnicity

5. An element that might define a formal region is

- Ethnicity - Language - Religion - Laws

33. With what bioregion is the term "steppe" associated?

- Grassland

6. A functional region is defined in terms of the relationship between a (usually urban) node a

- Hinterland

8. Latitude, one element of the grid system used for absolute location, includes

- International equator

7. The simple definition of a perceptual (vernacular) region explains that it is a region because

- Its inhabitants

20. What countries are the percentage of its population living in cities probably less than 75 percent?

- Less Developing countries

15. What activities are most likely to occur in the informal economy?

- Low waged and untaxed work

30. What are some possible effects of climate change?

- Major shift in agricultural areas: Whea belt could become warmer and drier, lower grain yield, canada, and russia could become warmer, southern regions of the united states and europe could become warmer and drier requiring irrigation

16. What term is used in the book to describe a group of people who share a common culture, language, and political identity?

- Nation

25. What is a stateless nation?

- Nation that does not have a defined state

12. Researchers in which field of geography study the processes by which the physical landscape is shaped?

- Physical Geographers

1. What refers to the relationship between the distances shown on the map and the actual distances on the earth's surface?

- Scale

32. What world region is experiencing the highest RATE of tropical deforestation?

- Southeast Asia (less developed countries)

17. What is shown in a population pyramid?

- The percentage of a population that's male or female in different age classes from young to old

2. What is geography?

- The study of our planet's surface and the processes that shape it.

27. According to the core-periphery model, which of the following countries is part of the core?

- US, Japan, western Europe, and Canada (more developed countries)

3. The grid system we use to determine absolute location.

- latitude and longitude

4. How do the authors of your text (Diversity Amid Globalization) define globalization?

- the increasing interconnectedness of people and places through the converging processes of economic, political, and cultural change

31. Tropical forests are not well

-suited for intensive agriculture because most nutrients are absorbed by extensive tree root systems