Geo Test 1

In which stages of the Demographic Transition is the rate of natural increase (RNI) low?

1/4

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

A climate refugee

What is a universalizing religion(s)?

Actively seeks converts

What is shown in a population pyramid?

Age and sex ratio

Tropical forests are not well-suited for intensive agriculture because ________.

Bad soils

An assemblage of local plants, animals, and insects covering a large area such as a tropical rainforest or a grassland is called a ____

Biome

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

C02

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

Convergent boundary

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

Decolonization

What is geography?

Describes patterns on the earth's surface

What is an ethnic religion?

Does not seek converts

What activities is most likely to occur in the informal economy?

Drug trade

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

Equator & poles

With what bioregion is the term "steppe" associated?

Grasslands

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

Hinterland

Anthropogenic emissions are caused by ________.

Humans

The grid system we use to determine absolute location

Includes lat and long and Is manmade

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

LDCs

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

LDCs

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

LDCs

What world regions are MOST likely to suffer food shortages?

LDCs Africa SE Asia

An element that might define a formal region is

Language religion crops

What are characteristics of culture?

Learned, shared, abstract

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

MDcs

In migration what is a push force?

Makes you leave

In migration what is a pull force?

Makes you want to go to a specific place

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

Nation

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

Nation

What is a stateless nation?

Nation without permeant territory

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

Physical/geomorphology

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

Scale

What are some possible effects of climate change?

Sea level rise, severe storms

Define the Demographic Transition

Shows the change in population over history

In what world region is Swahili a lingua franca?

Sub-Saharan Africa

Define plate tectonics?

The earth's surface is made up of large plates that float on molten rock.

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

The melting of glaciers during the Ice Age

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

industrial and auto emissions

The simple definition of a perceptual (vernacular) region explains that it is a region because It is defined by

its inhabitants

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

the growing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of economic political and cultural change