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Ms. Paunov
A.P. Human Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Newest major religion | islam |
| largest nationality in the world with out a state | kurds |
| the scientific study of pop. characteristics | demography |
| what country did buddhism come from? | india and southern nepal |
| what are the 4 motives of european colonization? | greed,gold,god,glory |
| what are the 4 major world religions | buddhism,hinduism,christianity and islam |
| whats the largest state in the world | russia |
| name the largest piece of land that is not a state | Antartica |
| what is the study of how human activity is organized spatially and the relationship between people and places? | human geography |
| name the projection that presents the true shapes of landmasses but distorts their sizes ex.)greenland is bigger than south america | mercator |
| rap music was intially spread by what type of diffusion | heirarchical |
| Newest major religion | islam |
| largest nationality in the world with out a state | kurds |
| the scientific study of pop. characteristics | demography |
| what country did buddhism come from? | india and southern nepal |
| what are the 4 motives of european colonization? | greed,gold,god,glory |
| what are the 4 major world religions | buddhism,hinduism,christianity and islam |
| whats the largest state in the world | russia |
| name the largest piece of land that is not a state | Antartica |
| what is the study of how human activity is organized spatially and the relationship between people and places? | human geography |
| name the projection that presents the true shapes of landmasses but distorts their sizes ex.)greenland is bigger than south america | mercator |
| eating black eyed peas on new years day in south america is an exampleof this.. | custom or cultural trait |
| what is the use of a language distinctive to a particular group | dialect |
| the number of people per unit of measure | arithmetic density |
| "philadelphia is about 90 miles south to new york" this is an example of.. | situation or relative location |
| forced migration of the native americans from the u.s. to oklahoma in the 1830's | trail of tears |
| "I'm sorry the pizza at dominos isnt as good as the pizza in napoli italy" explains the problem of.. | distance decay |
| after this war states were created in europe based on language ex.)Poland | world war 1 |
| prior to the arrival of europeans;native americans practiced.. | aminism and shamanism |
| religious ceremonies for 12 and 13 year olds are often referred to as these.. | rights of passage |
| this has resulted in greater international interdependence | globalization |
| this type of religion actively seeks converts | universalizing |
| the art and science of map making | cartography |
| a standard language understood by people of various linguistic traditions that is used for buisness and commerce | lingua franca |
| the region where innovative ideas originate, like the fertile crescent | hearth |
| about 50% of the world's population seak a language from this family | indo european |
| the othermane foe zero degrees long which passes through greenwich, england | prime meridian |
| these people move temporarilyto other countries for jobs and send remitance payments home | guest workers |
| involves permenant move FROM a location | emigration |
| process where new ethnic group becomes integrated into a larger culture | assimilation |
| during the great migration beginning around 1915, african americans moved from the rural south to these | cities |
| continent that probably has the most tv sets per 1000 people | north america |
| the absolute distance between 2 places is typically measured in | miles or kilometers |
| encompasses the largest number of languagesd | language family |
| hinduism originated in | india |
| human built objects such as farm and vineyard are examples of | cultural landscape |
| the scientific study of population characteristics | domography |
| population theorist believed that the world's rate of population increase was far outrunning the production of food supplies | malthus |
| according to guns, germs, and steel, this was the cause of the dramatic collapse of native americans population diring the colonial period | eurasion diseases |
| around here, one is probably more likely to shop at citrus park than international plaza becuse of this factor | friction of disatance |
| europe entered this stage of the deomographic transition in the 19th century, but most of the rest of the world did so in the 2oth century as a result of advances in medical care and declining death rate- big population growth resulted | stage 2 |
| the death of this man would lead to the split between the shi'a and sunni over the issue of the succession of leadership in Islam | mohommad |
| where are microstates? | european islands,carribean island, pacific |
| second largest religion and also the newest | islam |
| where does stage four of the demographic transition model end? | at 0 |
| where is islams cultural hearth located | iran |
| what happens to an economy to go into stage 3 | when people get richer;more money for birth control. CBR goes down causes stage 3 |
| the exact measure of the seperation between two points using a standard measure | absolute distance |
| laws no longer in effect in south africa that physically seperated different races into different geographic areas | apartheid |
| process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture | assimilation |
| process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities | balkanization |
| the science and study of map making | cartography |
| the complete enumeration of a population done every 10 years | census |
| also called genetic political boundaries because it has to do with the evolution of boundaries | boundary origins |
| define centripetal and centrifugal forces | centripetal-attitude that tends to unify ppl.and enhance support for a state centrifugal-attitude that tends to lead to the breakup of a state |
| Because of its numerous ethnic groups, this existing country would be extremely unlikely to engage in cultural nationalism | United States |
| Before 1994 in South Africa, this system controlled the actions of Blacks on almost everything but their choice of religion | Apartheid |
| The formula for Natural Increase | Crude Birth Rate minus Crude Death Rate |
| The population pyramid for Naples, Florida would probably look like this | inverted |
| This organization has significantly reduced the importance of individual states, especially those using its currency | european union |
| In order to satisfy the demands of competing nationalities, states have often adopted this form of government | federal |
| It appears from the archaeological evidence that the first city-states began here | fertile crescent |
| According to Mackinder, if you want to rule the world, you should be this country | russia |
| An area of land that has territory, government and population | state |
| In the 19th Century, European countries divided up this continent to protect established interests | africa |
| This is the prevalent form of Christianity in South America | Roman Catholicism |
| Because of these, Geographic Information Systems have become successful | computers |
| This country is said to have so many colonies in the 19th and early 20th centuries that the sun never set on its empire | great britain or british empire |
| The Shi’a branch of Islam is the official religion in this country | iran |
| The push factor that led to so many people from Ireland settling in the US in the 1840s | the potato famine |
| territories that are legally tied to a soveriegn state rather than completely independent | colonies |
| attempt by one country to establish settlements and impose its political economic and cultural principles in another territory | colonialism |
| regulated european colonization and trade in africa during the new imperialism period and coincided with germany's sudden emergence as imperial power | conference of berlin (1884) |
| the total # of living births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in society | crude birth rate |
| the total # of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in society | crude death rate |
| the frequency with which something exists with in a given unit of area | density |
| the ratio # of farmers to the amount of arable land | agricultural density |
| the 3rd of the worlds major universalizing religions | buddhism |
| the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | distance decay |
| identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions | ethnicity |
| international organization comprised of western european countries to promote free trade among members. (established in 1958) | european union |
| an internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government | federal |
| control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society | imperialism |
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