Semester Exam Review

Question 1

ASSIMILATION

Answer 1

Joining the DOMINANT culture and losing MOST of or ALL of your ORIGINAL culture

Question 2

ACCULTURATION

Answer 2

Adopting certain aspects of DOMINANT culture but KEEPING some of OG culture

Question 3

TIME-SPACE COMPRESSSION

Answer 3

REDUCTION of TIME it takes to diffuse something to a DISTANT place

Question 4

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

Answer 4

Using ANOTHER culture as your OWN

Question 5

COMMODIFICATION

Answer 5

Process in which something is given MONETARY value

Question 6

PLACELESSNESS

Answer 6

Loss of UNIQUENESS of cultural landscape

Question 7

POSSIBILISM

Answer 7

People can OVERCOME their environmental OBSTACLES (Japan)

Question 8

ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM

Answer 8

European theory- Temperate zones are where the best countries will be

Question 9

LARGE SCALE

Answer 9

SMALL area, LOTS of details

Question 10

SMALL SCALE

Answer 10

LARGE area, LITTLE detail

Question 11

FORMAL REGION

Answer 11

Has ONE thing in common

Question 12

FUNCTIONAL REGION

Answer 12

SOCIAL or ECONOMIC function

Question 13

PERCEPTUAL REGION

Answer 13

Boundaries drawn in people’s MINDS

Question 14

ARITHMETIC DENSITY

Answer 14

Total # of People/ Total Land

Question 15

PHYSIOLOGICAL DENSITY

Answer 15

Total # of People/ Arable Land

Question 16

AGRICULTURAL DENSITY

Answer 16

Total # of Farmers/ Arable Land

Question 17

CENTRIPETAL FORCE

Answer 17

UNITE the state and ENHANCES support for it

Question 18

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE

Answer 18

TEAR apart political and ethnic groups

Question 19

THOMAS MALTHUS

Answer 19

Believed there would NOT be enough FOOD to SUPPORT the people

Question 20

ESTHER BOSERUP

Answer 20

Proved Thomas WRONG, TECHNOLOGY would be invented to be able to support the people

Question 21

PRONATALIST

Answer 21

WANTS people to have MORE kids

Question 22

ANTINATALIST

Answer 22

Want people to STOP having kids

Question 23

TOTAL FERTILITY RATE (TFR)

Answer 23

AVERAGE # of children born to WOMEN in their lifetime

Question 24

ZERO POPULATION GROWTH

Answer 24

Birth and death rates are EQUAL

Question 25

REPLACEMENT RATE

Answer 25

Number of births needed to keep a population STEADY

Question 26

BASQUE LANGUAGE

Answer 26

ISOLATED language

Question 27

LARGEST LANGUAGE FAMILY

Answer 27

Indo-European family

Question 28

ISOGLOSS

Answer 28

A word usage BOUNDARY

Question 29

RUST BELT

Answer 29

New York— Midwest (Manufacturing)

Question 30

SUN BELT

Answer 30

South & West U.S.

Question 31

MOST CROWDED PLACES

Answer 31

Europe, South Asia, East Asia

Question 32

COUNTRIES IN STAGE 1

Answer 32

None

Question 33

TABOO

Answer 33

Behaviors that are DISLIKED by a culture

Question 34

FOLK CULTURE

Answer 34

SMALL, homogeneous groups who are ISOLATED & SLOW CHANGING

Question 35

POP CULTURE

Answer 35

LARGE, heterogenous groups who are NEW & YOUNG, WIDESPREAD and FAST-CHANGING

Question 36

TOPONYM

Answer 36

Name of a place that has SIGNIFICANCE

Question 37

GLOBALIZATION

Answer 37

The increasing CONNECTIONS around the world due to improvements in TECHNOLOGY

Question 38

REMITTANCES

Answer 38

Money SENT BACK to a HOME country from foreign (guest) workers

Question 39

CASTE SYSTEM

Answer 39

SOCIAL class system found in INDIA

Question 40

ETHNIC RELIGIONS

Answer 40

Judaism, Hinduism

Question 41

UNIVERSALIZING RELIGIONS

Answer 41

Islam, Buddhism, Christianity

Question 42

CARRYING CAPACITY

Answer 42

The number of people a place can support using RESOURCES and TECHNOLOGY

Question 43

MEGALOPOLIS

Answer 43

Boston to DC

Question 44

DEPENDENCY RATIO

Answer 44

How many people need to be SUPPORTED by the WORKING class

Question 45

ASYLUM

Answer 45

PROTECTION granted to REFUGEES

Question 46

CYCLIC MOVEMENT

Answer 46

Takes place DAILY

Question 47

PERIODIC MOVEMENT

Answer 47

MONTHLY or SEASONAL movement

Question 48

TRANSHUMANCE

Answer 48

SEASONAL movement of LIVESTOCK

Question 49

LINGUA FRANCA

Answer 49

An INTERNATIONALLY used language (ENGLISH)

Question 50

ROMANCE LANGUAGES

Answer 50

French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Question 51

CREOLE LANGUAGE

Answer 51

Mix of INDIGENOUS and COLONIAL languages

Question 52

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

Answer 52

The PHYSICAL imprint on the ENVIRONMENT cause by HUMANS

Question 53

CULTURAL BARRIERS

Answer 53

PREVENT cultural DIFFUSION

Question 54

CULTURAL REALMS

Answer 54

PERCEPTUAL regions of the world (Middle East, Latin America, East Asia)

Question 55

ISLANDS OF DEVELOPMENT

Answer 55

Areas in LDCs that have RESOURCES and MODERN technology

Question 56

RACE

Answer 56

People distinguished by PHYSICAL traits

Question 57

ETHNICITY

Answer 57

People who share an IDENTITY

Question 58

POPULATION TRENDS

Answer 58

Growing at a rate of 0.84%

Question 59

RELOCATION DIFFUSION

Answer 59

People migrate and take their culture with them

Question 60

EXPANSION DIFFUSION

Answer 60

When innovations spread to a NEW place while staying STRONG in the original location

Question 61

STIMULUS DIFFUSION

Answer 61

When an idea diffuses OUTWARD from the hearth, but the idea is CHANGED by the new ADOPTERS

Question 62

HIERARCHICAL DIFFUSION

Answer 62

Innovation is spread through people of POWER or INFLUENTIAL people