Geography Review

◆ Irondale High School is located about a mile away from the Mermaid is an example of its…

◆ Relative Location

◆ What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?

◆ A system that creates specialized maps from digital map information stored in a data bank.

◆ What is remote sensing?

◆ The acquiring of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method.

◆ The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface is know as…

◆ Toponym

What identifies a place by its unique physical characteristics?

◆ Site

◆ Human Geography is principally concerned with the…

◆ Impact of the environment on human understandings and activities.

◆ What is an example of Human environmental interaction?

◆ Minnesotans building sky-ways and tunnels to deal with the cold weather.

◆ An area distinguished by a unique combination of cultural and physical features is known as a…

◆ Region

◆ According to environmental determinism…

◆ The physical environment causes social development.

◆ Distant places in the world are becoming effectively closer together according to what?

◆ The concept of space-time compression.

◆ What do population pyramids represent?

◆ Gender and age groups.

◆ What is the definition of overpopulation?

◆ Too many people compared to available resources.

◆ What is the dependency ratio?

◆ Population under 15 and over 64.

◆ What is Total Fertility Rate?

◆ The AVERAGE number of children a women will have during her childbearing years.

◆ Density, concentration and pattern are…

◆ The three main properties of distribution.

◆ Who thought population would grow more rapidly than food supply?

◆ Thomas Malthus

◆ Agricultural density looks at a country’s…

◆ Farming efficiency

◆ A country with a small amount of arable land and a large amount of farmers would have…

◆ High agricultural density

◆ What is chain migration?

◆ The migration of people to a specific location because of relative or people of the same nationality have migrated there.

◆ Slash and burn agriculture is another name for…

◆ Shifting cultivation

◆ What type of agriculture do most LDCs practice?

◆ Subsistence

◆ What is the primary factor in Von Thunen’s model?

◆ Market location

◆ What type of agriculture typically involves crop rotation?

◆ Mixed crop and livestock farming

◆ Where are most plantations located?

◆ In LDCs

◆ According to the peripheral model, an urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by…

◆ Large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.

◆ The concentric zone model sees the city structured as a series of what?

◆ Rings

◆ Gentrification is…

◆ The controversial process of middle class people buying and renovating inner-city housing.

◆ What is urban sprawl?

◆ Development of new housing sites not nearby to the existing built up area.

◆ According toe the primate city rule, the largest settlement has…

◆ More than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.

◆ An industry in which the inputs weigh more than the final product is a…

◆ Bulk-reducing industry.

◆ What is the break of bulk point?

◆ A location where transfer among transportation modes is possible.

◆ A manufacturing system where materials are scheduled to arrive at a factory moments before they needed is known as…

◆ Just in time manufacturing.

◆ What is distance decay?

◆ Is the decrease in the intensity of a cultural innovation such as music or fashion.

◆ What is a hearth?

◆ Point of origin

◆ What is an official language?

◆ Language of the government.

◆ Main difference between languages in the same family, branch or group is

◆ How recently in time the languages were once the same.

◆ What is an example of an ethnic religion?

◆ Hinduism

◆ What is the world’s largest universalizing religion?

◆ Christianity

◆ Comparing ethnicity and race reveals

◆ Ethnicity is part of a person’s cultural identity but race is not.

◆ Sovereignty is…

◆ A state with control over its internal affairs.

◆ A state that contains more than two nationalities with traditions of self determination is a…

◆ Multination state

◆ What are the three factors taken into account by the UN’s Human Development Index?

◆ A decent standard of living, access to knowledge and a long and healthy life.