Belan Midterm Review Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Created the first map of the known world | Anaximander of Miletus |
Coined the word geography | Erasthosthenes |
Wrote 17 volumes about geography using the regional approach to describe distinctive relationships between nature and society | Strabo |
Extensive use of coordinates to describe places | Ptolemy |
Which two geographers concentrated on how the physical environment affect people (environmental determinism)? | Humboldt and Ritter |
Established differences between space and time to differentiate between geography and history | Kant |
Which two geographers believed in the idea of possibilism? | Ratzel and Sauer |
Believed that unless controlled, population will outstrip food supply (food will not support the population) | Malthus |
How do agriculture and efficient agriculture relate? | High agricultural density = not necessarily high efficiency |
What is the most fundamental concept in geography? | Location |
How many climate regions does the Koppen system divide the world into? | 5 |
What are the types of expansion diffusion? | Hierarchical, contagious, and stimulus |
What is the number of people living per unit of arable land? | Physiological Density |
What is the arrangement of objects along a river, road, or valley? | linear |
What is the extent of a feature's spread over an area? | concentration |
What is the reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place? | time-space prism |
What is the number of farmers per unit of arable land? | agricultural density |
What is the number of people for each unit of land? | arithmetic density |
What is the region of the globe that has the wettest climate? | between 0 to 20 degrees North and South of the Equator |
What is the formula to calculate the natural increase rate? | CBR - CDR |
What is the formula to calculate doubling time? | 70/(CBR - CDR) |
Which country has the highest physiological density? | Netherlands |
What system has been set by the US government to control the flow of immigrants? | Quota System |
Which country encouraged interregonal migration by moving its capital city, in 1960, from the overcrowded coastline to the sparsely populated interior? | Brazil |
Most of the migration in the world today is going from the _____ to ______ areas. | rural to urban areas |
Where has the center of the populaton in the United States moved to over the past 200 years? | continuosly to the west |
What is migration from urban to rural areas? | counterurbanization |
What are the slums in Brazil caused? | Favalas |
Which religion does not have a taboo against eating certain meat? | Christianity |
What is the adoption of cultural traits of another culture? | Acculturation |
a language of international communication | lingua franca |
what is the lingua franca of east Africa? | swahili |
What is the lingua franca of South Asia? | Hindustani |
What was the lingua franca of the former Soviet Union? | Russian |
What is the official dialect used by many African Americans? | Ebonics |
What 3 German tribes invaded the British Isles and influenced the language there? | Jutes, Saxons, and Angles |
What is the standard dialect of England? | British Recieved Pronunciation |
What is a word-usage boundary? | Isogloss |
What is the Kurgan hearth theory? | a theory that the Kurgans (lived near Russia), were responsible for the origin and diffusion of the Indo-European branch |
What are religions that preach in order to convert people? | Proseyltic |
What if the first recorded religion to preach monotheism? | Judiasm |
80% of all Muslims are... | Sunnis |
What two countries does the Auzou Strip lie between? | Chad and Libya |
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