Unit 1 and 2

Question 1

Site

Answer 1

A place’s absolute location on earth and its physical characteristics

Question 2

Situation

Answer 2

A place’s connections to other places

Question 3

Scale

Answer 3

The area of the world being studied

Question 4

Node

Answer 4

What a functional region is focused on

Question 5

Periphery

Answer 5

Countries that are less developed and have low levels of economic development

Question 6

Core

Answer 6

Countries that are more developed and profit the most from the world system

Question 7

Semi-periphery

Answer 7

Countries that are neither core nor periphery, but somewhere in the middle

Question 8

Absolute distance

Answer 8

Distance that can be measured using a standard unit of length

Question 9

Absolute direction

Answer 9

Using the cardinal directions (North, South, East, West)

Question 10

Relative distance

Answer 10

Distance measure in terms of relative things such as time and money

Question 11

Relative direction

Answer 11

Direction based on people’s perceptions (Left, Right, Up, Down)

Question 12

Census

Answer 12

An official count of the number of people in an area

Question 13

Choropleth map

Answer 13

A map that uses colors or shading to represent categories of data for certain areas

Question 14

Cartogram

Answer 14

A map that shows the size of an area based on a particular attribute.

Question 15

Isoline map

Answer 15

A map where lines connect data points of the same value

Question 16

Demographic Transition Model (DTM)

Answer 16

A model that shows how population is changing around the world over time.

Question 17

Doubling time

Answer 17

The number of years it will take a population that is growing at a certain rate to double

Question 18

Land degradation

Answer 18

Long-term damage to the soil’s ability to support life

Question 19

Agricultural density

Answer 19

The total number of farmers per unit of arable land

Question 20

Arable land

Answer 20

Land that can be used to grow crops

Question 21

Arithmetic density

Answer 21

The total number of people per unit area of land

Question 22

Total fertility rate (TFR)

Answer 22

The average number of children a woman had during her child bearing years

Question 23

Population distribution

Answer 23

Where people live within a geographic area

Question 24

Population density

Answer 24

The number of people occupying a unit of land

Question 24

Mortality

Answer 24

Deaths as a component of population change

Question 25

Carrying Capacity

Answer 25

The maximum population an enviroment can sustain

Question 26

Dependency Ratio

Answer 26

The number of people in a dependent age group divided by the number of people in the working age group, times 100

Question 27

Demographics

Answer 27

Data about the structures and characteristics of human population

Question 28

Overpopulation

Answer 28

A population that exceeds its sustainability size

Question 29

Anti-Natalist

Answer 29

Ideas that discourage citizens from having children

Question 30

Pro-Natalist

Answer 30

Idea that encourage births and aim to grow a population

Question 31

Brain drain

Answer 31

loss of trained or educated people to the lure of another country

Question 32

Distance decay

Answer 32

How distance effects interactions between places. Greater distance = fewer interactions

Question 33

Immigration

Answer 33

Movement to a location

Question 34

Emigration

Answer 34

Movement away from a location

Question 35

Intervening obstacles

Answer 35

An occurrence that holds immigrants back from continuing their journeys

Question 36

Intervening opportunity

Answer 36

An occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice

Question 37

Diffusion

Answer 37

The spread of cultural traits through migration

Question 38

Push factor

Answer 38

Factors that push migrants out of a location

Question 39

Pull factor

Answer 39

Factors that pull someone towards a new location

Question 40

Friction of Distance

Answer 40

The longer a distance is the more it will cost, the longer it will take, and the more effort it will take.

Question 41

Transhumance

Answer 41

The action of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another. It occurs in a seasonal cycle

Question 42

Chain migration

Answer 42

The process by which family moves to the places that their family members have immigrated to.

Question 43

Step migration

Answer 43

The process by which some migrants move to intervening locations before they arrive at their final destination.

Question 44

Guest workers

Answer 44

Temporary laborers who work in another country

Question 45

Asylum

Answer 45

Protection in another country

Question 46

Repatriate

Answer 46

To return to their home country

Question 47

Quotas

Answer 47

A law that places a limit on the maximum number of people who can immigrate to a country in a year.