Geography Test 2

Physiological Density

A country's density of population per unit of crop land, Ability to support a population.

A poor developing country like Haiti or Afghanistan

A crude birth rate of 43 is most likely to occur in what type of country?

A poor or developing country (Nigeria)

A crude death rate of 24 might be expected in what type of country?

Infrastructure

All a country's fixed assets, such as railroads, highways, pipelines, and the like are referred to as what?

0.2%

Approximate annual population growth increase in Japan?

Infectious and parasitic diseases to degenerative diseases

As countries develop, how do the leading causes of death change?

That there was a definite contact between cultures

Before we can claim that any aspect of culture has diffused, what must we be able to demonstrate?

Africa

Between 1990 and 2000, the rate of population increase was highest in which major division of the world?

Cultural Diffusion

By what process have cultural phenomena achieved the distribution they currently have?

It's learned

How do humans acquire culture?

It affects what people do by parameters of limits

How does the physical environment relate to what humans can do where they live?

Circulation

Interconnections by transportation and communication of goods, people, ideas, capital among places of cultures.

Consequences of European migration to the Americas

Intro of diseases, decrease in native populations, increase degree of racial mixing in Latin America, introduction of European plants and animals

Southern and Central (Eastern) Europe

Large numbers of immigrants arrived in the USA between 1880-1910 from where?

Southeast Asia (Vietnam)

Large numbers of immigrants fled to the U.S in the 1970s and 1980s from where?

Africa (West Africa)

Large numbers were brough to the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries from where?

Central American (Mexico)

Many immigrants enter the U.S illegally from where?

Beringia

Most ancestors of Native Americans hare believed to have migrated to North America by way of what means?

C-Midlatitude Humid Climates

Most of the world's population is concentrated in which Koppen climate family?

Problems with rapidly aging populations

Mostly found in developed (rich) countries, increase % of elderly, increase medical costs, problem of caring for elderly, social problem place a greater burden on a declining worker segments of the population.

Arithmetic Density

Number of people per unit area. United Kingdom and India have nearly the same ....

Barriers to cultural diffusion

Physical features in past rather than today; political regulations, Fundamentalist religious movements such as Iran.

Cold and Dry Climates, Mountainous regions

Population is usually sparse in which types of climate? Landform Regions?

Commercial Agriculture

Raising food to sell

Subsistence Agriculture

Rasing food only for oneself

Migration Chain

Successful immigrants write letters home speaking favorably of their new land, and they provide employment and financial assistance to later migrants. What effect does this promote or create?

Commercial Revolution

The global trade network developed by Europeans between 1650 and 1750 was part of what movement or development?

USA, Canada, Australia, New Zeland

The isolated farmstead settlement pattern is typical and characterizes agriculture in which countries?

Acculturation

The process of adopting some aspect of another culture is called what?

Diffusion

The process where aspects of culture (culture traits) move from their area of innovation to other areas is called what?

The United States

The single largest migration flow for the past 150 years has been to what part of the world?

Ethnocentrism

The tendency to judge other groups by the standards of one's own is called what?

Push Factors

Things that drive people away, Ex. Starvation, political and religious persecution.

Thomas Malthus

This man concluded that the world's rate of population increase was becoming higher than the development of food supplies

Lower than rural areas

Throughout the world, how do fertility rates in urban areas compare to those in rural areas?

How they perceive the world

Upon what do humans base their decisions on how they will act in the real world?

They have increased

What changes, iof any, have occurred in tobacoo-related deaths in most of the world in the last 25 years?

Increase similarity of social customs in different locations

What has been the main effect of modern communications on social customs?

2.1%

What is the approximate replacement fertility rate?

Chinese

What is the dominant ethnic group, at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, in Singapore?

Culture Realm

What is the entire area throughout which the broadest unit of culture (like a family of related cultures) prevails called?

Inertia

What is the force that resists change and attempts to keep patterns and activities stable on the landscape called?

Sterilization

What is the major means of population control used in India?

Culture Hearth

What is the place where a distinctive culture originates called?

Cultural Imperialism

What is the substitution of one set of cultural traditions for another either by force or by degrading those who fail to acculturate and by rewarding those who do, is called?

6.5 Billion

What is the worlds current population?

Cartogram

What name is given to a type of world map drawn so that the size of each country is the reflection of its population rather than its size in land area?

1.5%

What was the average annual increase in population in 1990-1995?

Africa

What was the point of origin of all humankind, at least according to some geneticists?

Low death rate and greatly dropping birth rates

What were the population growth characteristics in Russia in the 1990's?

1993

What year did Iran become serious about birth control?

Chinese policy on birth control

When a family wants to have more than 1 child they must pay a social compensation.

Developing countries like Congo and other African and Latin American countries

Where might one expect 40% or more of the population to be under the age of 15?

Kenya

Which African country had the highest natural population increase rate a few years back?

China

Which is the world's most populous country?

Building materials, settlement patterns, religion, language

Which kinds of phenomena might be examined in the process of defining and delineating culture realms?

E. Asia, S. Asia, Europe from Atlantic-Ural Mountains, E. U.S and Canada, SE Asia

Which regions (continents or large portions) possess a major concentration of population?

digging sticks system

Which system of livelihood was dominant in eastern North America in 1500?

Amish, African Americans

Which types of people best fits the description of a folk culture?

Mustafa Kenal of Turkey

Who would be a good example of a head of state who made a major effort to Westernize his country?

23 years

With an annual population growth rate of 3%, approx how many years would it take for that population to double?

Not serious

Wold wide, how serious has the threat from smallpox been in recent years 1995-present?

Worker's remittances

workers who work in foreign countries and then send money back to their home country.