CH. 1-3

Question 1

What is the Global Population Size?

Answer 1

~ 7 Billion

Question 2

Establishment of rule over a foreign population

Answer 2

Colonialism

Question 3

Percent of people who live in cities

Answer 3

Urbanization

Question 4

Hybridization

Answer 4

forms of American pop culture spread abroad and are melded with local cultural traditions

Question 5

What are the four Demographic Transition Stages?`

Answer 5

Preindustrial, Early Industrial, Late Industrial, Post Industrial

Question 6

Which transitional stage had high birth rates and had death rates fall drastically?

Answer 6

Stage 2: Early Industrial

Question 7

Which stage has low birth rates and low death rates?

Answer 7

Stage 4: Post Industrial

Question 8

Which stage has the lowest total population but high birth and death rates?

Answer 8

Stage 1: Preindustrial

Question 9

Which stage is where death rates start to fall and birth rates transition from high to low?

Answer 9

Stage 3: Late industrial

Question 10

N2O, CO2, CFC’s Ch4, O3, H2O are all categorized as what?

Answer 10

Greenhouse Gases

Question 11

Human generated greenhouse gases are what?

Answer 11

Anthropogenic

Question 12

Which greenhouse gas increased by 120ppm due to anthropogenic causes?

Answer 12

CO2

Question 13

Data collected over a long period of time of a region that includes recorded temperature, precipitation, etc.

Answer 13

Climograph

Question 14

Habitat loss in forests due to the construction of highways, cities, and farmland

Answer 14

Deforestation

Question 15

What types of forests are affected by deforestation?

Answer 15

Tropical, Evergreen and Deciduous

Question 16

Created international law that entitled penalties to countries not reaching their CO2 emission reduction targets

Answer 16

Kyoto Protocol

Question 17

What is a bioregion? And what are some of its regions?

Answer 17

Bioregion is characterized by plant and animal life; Tropical Rain Forest, Mediterranean shrubs and woodland, Desert and grassland

Question 18

What are some causes and effects of the Green Revolution?

Answer 18

Increase in global food production but has resulted in heavy use of water, fertilizer, and pesticides

Question 19

What climate region is the Hudson Bay characterized as?

Answer 19

Tundra/Subarctic

Question 20

What climate region is most of California’s coastal side?

Answer 20

Mediterranean/Marine West Coast

Question 21

What climate region is Northeast America?

Answer 21

Humid continental, cool summers/warm summers.

Question 22

What climate region is Southeast America?

Answer 22

Humid subtropical, hot summers

Question 23

In what stage did Europeans begin to move westward and why?

Answer 23

Stage 3: 1850-1910 due to discovery of gold and silver

Question 24

What is the term that defines African American’s migration to major cities for job opportunities?

Answer 24

Black Exodus from the South

Question 25

What is NAFTA and who is included in it?

Answer 25

North American Free Trade Agreement; US, Canada, Mexico

Question 26

What is the process in which immigrants are absorbed by the larger host society

Answer 26

(Cultural) Assimilation

Question 27

What is the term for people leaving large cities for smaller towns and rural areas

Answer 27

Nonmetropolitan growth

Question 28

What percent of North American's live in cities?

Answer 28

80%

Question 29

What are the four sectors?

Answer 29

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary

Question 30

What has happened with the Ogallala Aquifer in the past 50 years?

Answer 30

lowered water tables by as much as 100 feet

Question 31

What is the process of higher income residents replacing the lower income residents of central-city neighborhoods?

Answer 31

Gentrification

Question 32

Which phase of immigration is the highest and where are their origins?

Answer 32

Phase 5; From Latin America/Asia

Question 33

What sector include natural resource extraction?

Answer 33

Primary

Question 34

What sector includes manufacturing/industrial?

Answer 34

Secondary

Question 35

What sector include services?

Answer 35

Tertiary

Question 36

What sector includes information processing?

Answer 36

Quaternary

Question 37

What sectors and what percentage make up North American labor force?

Answer 37

Tertiary/quaternary; 70%