AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY MIDTERM REVIEW

JEORPARDY! Culture Religion Geography Population Pot Luck 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

100 Name for a Perceived Region of declining Industrial States in the N Eastern USA whose population is currently declining. What is the “Rust Belt?”

200 DAILY DOUBLE!!!! A region defined by the movements and interactions of those people and places within it. What is a Functional / Nodal Region?

300 DAILY DOUBLE!!! Term that means part of one state / people separated / isolated from the main body by a foreign state. What is an Exclave?* Bonus 100 pt. Q!!! Accept / Decline? Though separated from the main state, what type of land /area /space CANNOT be an Exclave? What is an ISLAND?

400 The two countries that connect North and South America. What are Panama and Colombia?

500 VISUAL MAP Q!!! Send down 2 Rep’s!! Write the 10 states which border the Mississippi River What are MN, WI, IA, IL, MO, KY, TN, AR, MS, LA?

100 Saying RE-search in the USA, compared to re-SEARCH in England, illustrates what concept of language? What is DIALECT?

What is Sequent Occupance? 200 This term describes successive cultures leaving their mark on the cultural landscape. What is Sequent Occupance?

300 DAILY DOUBLE!!!! This type of diffusion describes that which spreads through a population, but only to those who are susceptible to being affected by it. What is Hierarchical Diffusion?

400 A basic / limited language, derived from the languages of various groups that have come in contact with each other. What is a PIDGIN language?

500 Argument stating that human development is controlled by natural / physical influences. What is ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM?* Bonus 100 pt. Q!!! Accept / Decline? What makes it possible for humans overcome these natural / physical influences and control their own developmental fate? What is INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY?

100 Within Indian Hindu society, this is the rigid social structure of class segregation. What is the Caste System?

200 DAILY DOUBLE!!! The ideology of Jewish faith that they should remain an independent and united nation throughout efforts to obtain a homeland Jewish State. What is ZIONISM?

300 Explain two factors which could account for the global diffusion of Christianity / Islam? What is migration, missionary work, colonization, conquest, assimilation?

400 In the city of Belfast, in N. Ireland, Catholics have settled in one area of the city, and Protestants in another. This has produced what type of cultural boundary. What is a Religious INTRA-FAITH BOUNDARY?

Name the 5 Pillars of Islam? 500 Name the 5 Pillars of Islam? What are: Witnessing (One True God) Daily Prayer Fasting during Ramadan Pilgrimage to Mecca Charity to the Poor

100 A Forced Migration designates those affected as being classified as what? What are Refugees?

200 Explain how a government would most likely cause a decline in its country’s population? What are restrictions on immigration levels or fertility levels?

300 Explain what information the Demographic Transition Model conveys in general. What is, a correlation between a country’s progress through 5 stages of development and its birth and death rates (dropping).

The basic assumption behind Malthusian Population Theory. 400 The basic assumption behind Malthusian Population Theory. What is population increases more rapidly (exponentially) than food supplies needed to support it (arithmetically)?

500 This concept explains the number of those whose work supports young and old populations as they cannot work to support themselves. What is the Dependency Ratio?

100 This type of “map” guides individual spatial behavior. What is a Mental (Cognitive) Map?

200 DAILY DOUBLE!!! This term describes the rehabilitation of a depressed & dilapidated area through investment, rebuilding, and price rising, often forcing out the existing population. What is GENTRIFICATION?

300 This term describes a movement to a destination being interrupted by a factor in a different destination along the way. What is an INTERVENING OPPORTUNITY?

400 The fact that Mr. Lane knows more about, and interacts more with Chicago, than Los Angeles, illustrates this concept. What is DISTANCE DECAY?

What is Relative Distance? 500 It taking Mr. Lane 25 minutes, a dollar in gas, and a lot of stress to commute to and from work each day illustrates what concept? What is Relative Distance?