1. Geography Review

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

3. ◆ Relative Location

4. ◆ What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?

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

6. ◆ What is remote sensing?

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

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

9. ◆ Toponym

10. What identifies a place by its unique physical characteristics?

11. ◆ Site

12. ◆ Human Geography is principally concerned with the…

13. ◆ Impact of the environment on human understandings and activities.

14. ◆ What is an example of Human environmental interaction?

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

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

17. ◆ Region

18. ◆ According to environmental determinism…

19. ◆ The physical environment causes social development.

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

21. ◆ The concept of space-time compression.

22. ◆ What do population pyramids represent?

23. ◆ Gender and age groups.

24. ◆ What is the definition of overpopulation?

25. ◆ Too many people compared to available resources.

26. ◆ What is the dependency ratio?

27. ◆ Population under 15 and over 64.

28. ◆ What is Total Fertility Rate?

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

30. ◆ Density, concentration and pattern are…

31. ◆ The three main properties of distribution.

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

33. ◆ Thomas Malthus

34. ◆ Agricultural density looks at a country’s…

35. ◆ Farming efficiency

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

37. ◆ High agricultural density

38. ◆ What is chain migration?

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

40. ◆ Slash and burn agriculture is another name for…

41. ◆ Shifting cultivation

42. ◆ What type of agriculture do most LDCs practice?

43. ◆ Subsistence

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

45. ◆ Market location

46. ◆ What type of agriculture typically involves crop rotation?

47. ◆ Mixed crop and livestock farming

48. ◆ Where are most plantations located?

49. ◆ In LDCs

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

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

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

53. ◆ Rings

54. ◆ Gentrification is…

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

56. ◆ What is urban sprawl?

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

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

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

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

61. ◆ Bulk-reducing industry.

62. ◆ What is the break of bulk point?

63. ◆ A location where transfer among transportation modes is possible.

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

65. ◆ Just in time manufacturing.

66. ◆ What is distance decay?

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

68. ◆ What is a hearth?

69. ◆ Point of origin

70. ◆ What is an official language?

71. ◆ Language of the government.

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

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

74. ◆ What is an example of an ethnic religion?

75. ◆ Hinduism

76. ◆ What is the world’s largest universalizing religion?

77. ◆ Christianity

78. ◆ Comparing ethnicity and race reveals

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

80. ◆ Sovereignty is…

81. ◆ A state with control over its internal affairs.

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

83. ◆ Multination state

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

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