Human and Physical Geo

Question 1

What is matauranga?

Answer 1

Traditional Maori knowledge

Question 2

What is the definition of site?

Answer 2

The exact location of a place

Question 3

What is the definition of a situation?

Answer 3

The location relative to other places

Question 4

What is the definition of a region?

Answer 4

Areas defined by distinctive characteristics

Question 5

What is concentration?

Answer 5

Distance between things

Question 6

What is density?

Answer 6

number of things per KM

Question 7

What is distance decay?

Answer 7

Effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions

Question 8

What is the difference between area and spatial analysis?

Answer 8

Area: Integrates the geographic features of an area or place

Spatial analysis: Interactions among places

Question 9

What is a formal region?

Answer 9

Essential uniformity in one or more physical characteristics

Question 10

What is a functional region?

Answer 10

Interactions among places

Question 11

What is a Vernacular region?

Answer 11

Widespread population perception

Question 12

What is contiguous diffusion?

Answer 12

Occurs from one place to another through direct contract

Question 13

What is hireachical diffusion?

Answer 13

Contact up and down a country

Question 14

What is the difference between conformal and equal area maps?

Answer 14

Conformal: Distort size but preserves the size

Equal area: Preserve size but distorts the shape

Question 15

What is physical geo?

Answer 15

Examines the physical land and processes that affect them

Question 16

What is a key factor contributing to population growth that was initiated in the early 20th century?

Answer 16

The industrial revolution

Question 17

What is the largest factor contributing to population growth?

Answer 17

Biological factors -fertility rate, age distribution

Question 18

Two words: population and birth rate

Which one is increasing and/or decreasing?

Answer 18

Birth rate: decreasing

Population: increasing

Question 19

How many children will there be in 2050 if there are 2 billion children now?

Answer 19

2 billion

Question 20

What are some important social, political and economic factors contributing to population growth?

Answer 20

Global warming, infrastructure, emmigration.
Government policies
Role of women

Question 21

What is the DTM?

Answer 21

Demographic Transition Model.

It describes pop growth

Question 22

What happens in stage 1 of the DTM?

Answer 22

Pre-industrial society

A lot of birth, A lot of death

Question 23

What happens in stage 2 of the DTM?

Answer 23

Industrial revolution - death rate decline

Social conditions improve, the Birth rate is still high due to old attitudes

Question 24

What happens in stage 3 of the DTM?

Answer 24

Further improvement in all aspects of life

Urbanization, more education and employment available

Question 25

What happens in stage 4 of the DTM?

Answer 25

Birth rates drop and match death rates, total population is high and stable

Question 26

What happens in the new, stage 5 of the DTM?

Answer 26

Birth rates drop below death rates due to government policies and economic standing

Question 27

What are some ways of decreasing birth rates in the future?

Answer 27

Improved health care to reduce mortality Changing attitudes about family planning Education of women

Question 28

What are two reasons why populations are changing?

Answer 28

Population dynamics, Migration

Question 29

What is a cartogram?

Answer 29

A map which displays countries the size of their populations

Question 30

What is Arthritimitic density?

Answer 30

Number of people per unit of area

Question 31

What is physiological density?

Answer 31

Number of people per unit of crop land

Question 32

What is carrying capacity?

Answer 32

Maximum number of people that land can sustain

Question 33

What do crude rates measure?

Answer 33

per 100,000 people

Question 34

What does the epidemiological transition explain?

Answer 34

The curve of death rates

Question 35

What is a positive check?

Answer 35

Premature Death

Question 36

What is a preventative check?

Answer 36

Human choices to limit reproduction

Question 37

What did Paul Elnrich advocate?

Answer 37

immediate action against the threat of population change

Question 38

What did Thomas Malfus uncover?

Answer 38

People will outgrow the land. Food grows linearly. Population grows exponentially.

Question 39

Carry Capacity?

Answer 39

Provides resources that people need

Question 40

Overshoot?

Answer 40

Using more resources than the planet can provide

Question 41

Ecological Footprint?

Answer 41

Impact of a person on the environment

Question 42

What is the IPAT equation?

Answer 42

A measure to quantify human impact

Question 43

What are the multiples of the IPAT equation?

Answer 43

Population x Affluence X Technology

Question 44

What are the staples of emerging economies?

Answer 44

Increased GDP and consumption per person

Question 45

How many earths do humans need?

Answer 45

1.7 earth's