GEOG TEST 1 PART 1

Question 1

geographic abstraction

Answer 1

is the process of using geographic tool or lenses to make sense out of what we see in the world

Question 2

abstraction

Answer 2

is the process of how we make sense of this world by selecting what is important

Question 3

Geography(as defined by class)

Answer 3

a process of abstraction which is concerned with the location of human and physical phenomena and the spatial relationships between those phenomena

Question 4

Tools of Abstraction

Answer 4

• maps(data symbology,projection)
• regions
• scales

Question 5

Globalization

Answer 5

• increasing interconnectedness of people and places through converging economic, political, and cultural activities
• continual reorganization of global and local geographers

Question 6

Controversy About Globalization

Answer 6

-Economic Convergence
-Multinational Organizations
(World Bank, IMF ,and WTO)
“The Electronic Herd”

Question 7

Pros of Globalization

Answer 7

• logical and inevitable expression of contemporary international capitalism
• enhances competition
• allows for the flow of capital to poor areas
• encourages spread of new ideas and technology

Question 8

rate of natural increase

Answer 8

• provides the annual growth for a country or region as a percentage
• the standard statistic used to express natural population growth per year

Question 9

Total Fertility Rate

Answer 9

• is an artificial and synthetic number that measures the fertility of a statistically fictitious, yet average group of women moving through their child bearing years

Question 10

population density

Answer 10

the average number of people per area unit

Question 11

culture

Answer 11

learned and shared behavior by a group of people that gives them a distinct way of life
-culture is made up of material(technology,tools, and abstract(speech,religion,values etc.)

Question 12

mono vs. polytheistic

Answer 12

mono-one good

polytheistic-many gods

Question 13

nation

Answer 13

describes a large group of people with shared sociocultural traits such as language, religion, and identity

Question 14

state

Answer 14

refers to an internal political entity with clearly defined delimited boundaries, control over its internal space, and recognition by external political states

Question 15

nation-state

Answer 15

a relatively homogenous cultural group with its own political territory

Question 16

colonialism

Answer 16

refers to the formal establishment of rule over a foreign population

Question 17

decolonialization

Answer 17

refers to the process of a colony gaining control over its own territory and establishing a separate, independent government

Question 18

What happens when plate tectonics meet or separate?

Answer 18

• mountain building

- earthquakes

Question 19

Demographic Transition Model

Answer 19

Stage 1
-high birth rates
-offset by high death rates
Stage 2
-death rates decline
Stage 3
-decline in birthrates
Stage 4
-low birthrates and low death rates
Stage 5
-no or even negative natural growth

Question 20

monsoon cycle

Answer 20

• the product of large meteorological forces of land and water heating, the resulting pressure gradients, and jet-stream dynamics
• produces distinct wet and dry season

Question 21

functional region

Answer 21

is where a certain activity or a cluster of activities take place

Question 22

formal region

Answer 22

take their name from the these regions are defined by some aspect of physical form

Question 23

vernacular region

Answer 23

defined solely in people’s minds as spatial stereotypes that have no visible boundaries in the physical landscape
(ex. the South,the Midwest,Southern California, and New England)

Question 24

regions

Answer 24

units of spatial similarity

Question 25

population growth rate

Answer 25

• measure population

- birth,deaths,and migrations

Question 26

scale

Answer 26

a partitioning of space within which human or social processes take on a particular social characteristic