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.