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Movement is considered migration when

It is a permanent move

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The average # of children born to a woman of childbearing age is

Total fertility rate

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Which of the following describes devolution:

Movement of power from a large central government to smaller local governments

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Shintoism is a major religion in

Japan

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Toponymy is the study of

place names

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All of these states were divided into 2 separate states except

Japan

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Natural features, weather, climate, and the interaction b/w people and their environment is

Physical geography

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A cultural landscape is an idea of:

outcomes of humans and their natural environment

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The spread of the use of chopsticks in Southeast Asia with the influx of Chinese immigrants is an example of:

Relocation diffusion

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A consequence of the one-child policy in china has been:

Increase in female infanticide

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A collection of languages related by a common ancestor that has existed for a few thousand years:

Language family

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Number of people per unit of arable land:

Physiological density

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Toponyms in southern California reflect which of the following:

The cultural heritage of the settlers

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Which of the following regarding possibilism is true: (basically just define it)

physical environment may set limits on human actions but people have ability to adapt

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World systems theorists divide the world into

Core, semi-periphery, and periphery

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The images of layers on a map

GIS

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Which factor is most responsible for the increase in Japan’s dependency ratio:

An increase in life expectancy

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Which statement best describes population growth patterns in the world today:

Fertility rates have fallen over the past 25 years

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Countries adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit:

Appropriation

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The further an innovation must travel from the source the less likely it is to be adopted is the concept of:

Time-Distance decay

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In the beginning of the 21 century which country had the lowest TFR:

South Africa

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A culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women:

Gender

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Carring capacity is based on its:

physiological density or # of units of arable land

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The spread of fashion is an example of:

Hierarchical diffusion

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Thomas Malthus believed that

population grew geometrically, food grew arithmetically

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Who would have the largest activity space:

a middle aged suburban male

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Longitude is to prime meridian as latitude is to:

equator

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The spread of Walmart is an example of which type of diffusion

reverse hierarchical

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The area of Eastern Turkey, Northern Iraq, and Western Iran identifies the stateless nation of the:

the Kurds

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An inverse relationship with the level of economic development is:

Birth rate

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A cultural hearth is where:

cultural traits develop and diffuse

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A barrier to diffusion would be:

lack of infrastructure

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Top 4 population clusters:

South Asia, East Asia, SE Asia, and Europe

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Which continent is most severely afflicted by dislocation

Africa

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The rapidly changing tastes and customs of a group of people is characterized as:

popular culture

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The study of politics, economies, religion, languages, population, and art is:

human geography

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Why is there such a global appeal for American made movies:

popular culture

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In which of the following countries has the diffusion of christianity met the most resistance:

China

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A collection of UN member countries is known as an international organization / another name for a group of 3+ countries is:

supranationalism

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A border that used to exist but no longer exists but you can feel its influence:

relict border

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Transnational migrants sending money back to their home country to support their families is called:

remittances

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Crossing which of the following borders encourages free flow of people and products because of few if any formalities:

Netherlands-Belgium border

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The regional organization that most clearly reflects the trend toward integration in the world today is:

The EU

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CBR-CDR affecting the rate of natural increase:

DTM

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Boundaries drawn by european countries for newly independent countries in Africa have been problimatic becuase they:

often ignored tribal cultural boundaries

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What data would help you determine which country has a higher physiologic density:

the amount of arable land

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Moving from California to New York would be considered:

Interregional migration

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Environmental Determinism implies that:

The physical environment exclusively shapes humans and their actions

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During which of the following centuries has population doubling time been the shortest:

20th century

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The key to to global power lies within a large swath of land that touches oceans and seas:

Rimland theory

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Which is not associated with Hinduism:

It’s a universalizing religion

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The common cold spreads via:

Contagious diffusion

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Which force makes a state stronger:

Nationalism

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The dispute in the Artic ocean between Canada, Russia, Norway, Denmark, and the United States is over:

the right to claim and extract natural resources

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Spatial perspective is demonstrated in all of the following except:

Automobiles constructed in a factory

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A group of people bound by a common ancestry not DNA:

Ethnicity

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People follow previous family members or friends to a new country:

Chain migration

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A population with a relatively young age structure would most likely be found in:

Sub-Saharan Africa

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The state shape that is most likely to promote efficient government is:

Compact

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The continent that has the most landlocked states is:

Africa

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Centripetal vs. Centrifugal

Join vs. Divide

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South Africa’s former state-sanctioned policy of segregating the races:

Apartheid

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The gullah language a combo of english and african dialects is an example of:

Creolized language

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Why would refugees leave a region:

Ethnic conflict

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The study of maps and mapmaking:

Cartography

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The tendency for migration to occur in short stages:

Step Migration

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Common usage of the word vaquero south of a line, but not north of a line - this boundary is known as an:

Isogloss

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Which of the following is true of folk culture:

Traditional customs and beliefs usually practiced with a small group of people

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All of the following were colonized by France except:

Cuba

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Which of the following pairs has / had negative population growth:

Japan and Germany

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Which is not true of the DTM:

Children are not an economic liability in stage 2.

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A language that can be spoken by many people even though they speak another language at home is considered a:

lingua franca

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 A unitary system of government

has a central government with all of the power

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Sikhism and baha’i are universalizing religions because:

they attempt to appeal to all people

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Which of the following is an example of a shatterbelt region:

  1. Eastern Europe

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A variant of a language that the intellectual elite promote for daily use:

Standard language

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Example of a geometric boundary:

Line of Latitude

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Until about 1750 the worlds population increase slow primarily because of:

high birth and high death rates, low growth

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An ethnic neighborhood is a:

Voluntary urban community where people of similar origin reside

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Relative location defines a place by:

Location in terms of other places

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Total fertility rate:

the average number of children born ti a women of childbearing age

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Match the religion with its hearth:

Buddhism/India

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Stage 1 of the DTM

high births, high deaths, low pop growth

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All of the following languages are apart of the Indo-European family except:

Dravidian

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Popular culture is typical of :

large heterogenous groups

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Electoral districts moved according to population shifts + how often

Reapportionment, 10 years

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Not associated with Hinduism :

it’s universalizing

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A pop with a young age structure would most likely be found in:

Sub-Saharan Africa

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Idea that morals should be adhered to but without connection to afterlife:

secularism

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Iceland is an example of a :

Nation-state

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A pandemic is

a worldwide outbreak of a disease

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Not apart of state

common language

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