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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define assimilation. | To give up your standard form of culture and adapt fully to another one. |
| Define hearth. | a point of origin. |
| Define folk culture. | a small, rural, ISOLATED, community |
| Define ethnicity. | Your ethnic background or where you were born. |
| Local Culture | a group of people in a certain place who see themselves as a community, and like to distinguish themselves from others. |
| Define barrio | a Hispanic zone. |
| Define ethnic cleansing | the cleansing of a culture, like Hitler and the Jews. |
| What is perception of place? | a sense that we develop about places we've never been through media. |
| Why do astronauts learn about geography? | So that when they take a picture from space, or need to give a report to Earth about they are, they tell by looking at the at the geographic features around the world. |
| Describe the suffis. | People who love their god and love to worship him with the passion. |
| In the 'A migrants heart' video, how were the Punjaabi separated from the whites. | The government built a blockade. |
| When did the Imperial Age start? | In the 1200s. |
| It has been estimated that 98 percent of Egypt's population occupies only __________ percent of the country's total area. | 3% |
| The arithmetic density or population for a country is determined by dividing the total what? | Population by total area. |
| Define step migration. | Moving a little at a time, step by step. |
| Countries with aging populations attempt to stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of rising medical and retirement costs by doing what? | PROMOTING migration. |
| Is Japan a country that does not resort to immigrantion to offset problems? | Yes, it is. |
| Define cultural landscape. | The obvious appearance of human activity on a landscape. |
| Define cartography. | The art/science of making maps. |
| A 'reference map' is a what? | A map that shows where places and geographic features are. |
| What is a thematic map? | Locations determined by a frame of reference (usually by latitude and longitude) |
| What does GPS stand for? | Global positioning system |
| Define activity space. | Places we travel daily in a routine. |
| What does a generalized map show? | The average of annual precipitation around the world. |
| What does GIS stand for? | Global INFORMATION system. |
| What is formal region? | An area that is marked and remembered by obvious, unchanging features. |
| Describe a functional region. | A type of region characterized by its function. |
| Name the 5 themes of geography. | Location, place, human-enviroment interaction, movement, and region. |
| Where does most of Kenya's income come from? | Coffee and tea production. |
| The coorinates of absolute location are useful mainly in determining exact what? | distances and directions! |
| Define nationalism. | When people think that they're country is better than everyone else's. |
| Define identity. | who we are. |
| What does GNI stand for and what is it? | Gross National Income; how much many the country is bringing in. |
| The European population axis is directly related to what? | Orientation of Europe's rivers. |
| Where are the world's 3 largest population concentrations found (on what landmass)? | Eurasia. |
| The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is what? | Physiologic density. |
| Define commodification. | When something (name, good idea, ect.) that wasn't MEANT to be sold or bought becomes one. |
| Define cultural landscape. | The landscape which results from many generations of human occupancy. |
| Define custom. | A practice that a group of people routinely follow. |
| Define placelessness. | Where everything is the same. |
| Popular culture. | Music, fashion, what everybody is currently into. |
| Is the term 'race' real or fake? | Completely fake. |
| Define reterritoriallazation. | Readjusting border lines to meet your needs. |
| Define sex ratio. | When ratios in terms of men and women. |
| What is a realm? | A space bigger than a region. |
| Define maladaptive diffusion. | Bad diffusion, or bad adaption. |
| What is cyclic movement? | The seasonal movement of people. |
| Define refugee. | Someone who is FORCED to leave. Remember: You are NOT a refugee if you are FLEEING A NATURAL DISASTER. |
| The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called. | Relative location. |
| Would a city and its surrounding region be a good example of a functional region? | YES. |
| While it is not possible to measure the diffusion of cultural aspects quantitively, it is possible to trace what? | DIRECTION of movement. |
| Define diffusion. | The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge, and skills from their places of origin to other areas. |
| Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in: | India! |
| What is satellite imagery? | Pictures of Earth of other planets made by artificial satellites. |
| What is culture complex? | When more than one one culture shows a certain culture trait. |
| Define a cultural hearth. | A place where culture traits are made and diffuse. |
| Define glocalization. | When people in a local place alter the regional, national, and global process |
| In what year did the cholera pandemic start, and where? | 1842: London |
| What is gravital model? | Why people migrate, like a pull factor. |
| How do people shape places? | By making their mark on a natural element. Like Mt. Rushmore. |
| Define Independent Invention. | A trait with lots of cultural hearths that developed independently. |
| What is nonmaterial culture? | Non-material culture includes THE BELIEFS OF IDEAS THAT THE CULTURE FINDS IMPORTANT. |
| What is hierchical diffusion? | Where an idea or innovation is spread by trickling down from larger to smaller adoption units. |
| Cultural appropriation. | The process where other cultures embrace new customs and knowledge and use them for their own. |
| What are the three major types of folk housing. | tidewater, new england, and mid-atlantic. |
| What is a replacement rate and where should a country's be? | The number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration;2.1 |
| What is overpopulation? | Too many people for an area |
| Define region. | ameans of handling large amounts of information. They are not geographically real. |
| What is gloBALIzation | A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders. |
| Alfred Wegener developed a hypothosis explaining the jig-saw like fit of the continental land masses on opposite sides of the North and south Atlantic Oceans called what? | Continental drift. |
| What does spatial approach show? | The arrangement and organization of the things on the surface of the Earth. |
| What branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms, climate, soils, and vegetation of Earth. | Physical geography. |
| How do places shape people? | By changing the way people are thinking. |
| What is culture? | Music, literature, art, dancing, and entertainment influenced by attitudes, practice, and ancestors. |
| Define ethocentrism. | The idea that one group is better than the other. |
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