HUMAN GEOGRAPHY STUDY

• A map is


  A scale model of the real world
• The purpose of Ptolemy's "Guide to Geography" was to

  Introduce The concept of geography information systems
• If Jim rented a car and wanted to drive from New York to Los Angeles he would be best advised to a rent a car with ________, in order to reach Los Angeles in the most efficient way, going the shortest distance.

  GPS unit
• An advantage of a Mercator projection map is


  A shape distorted very little
• The term mash up would most likely be used by

  GIS unit
• Because Japan is culturally homogeneous, Geography would say it is an example of a

  Formal region
• Insurance companies look at maps with similar spatial distribution of cancer rates to determine whom to cover. This is known as

  Spatial association
• The idea that Geographers should apply the law of natural science to understanding relationships between the physical environment and human actions was first describe by

  Alexander von humboldt and Carl Ritter
• The three main properties of distribution that geographers look at are

  Density, concentration, pattern
• I'm Order to determine a country's farming efficiency, geographers would look at what type of density?

  Agricultural
• The introduction of the euro allowed Geographers to study what type of diffusion?

  Relocation
• The gap in economic activity between the core and the periphery is known as

  Uneven development
• Chinese population clusters differ from those of Japan because

  Japanese are concentrated in rural areas and Chinese are in urban areas
• The largest population cluster in the Western Hemisphere is in the

  Northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada
• The most common measure of population change in a country is determined by looking at:

  Crude birth rate, crude death rate and natural increase rate
• Which revolution causes a country to move from Stage 1 to Stage 2 on the demographic transition model?

  Industrial Revolution
• The dependency ratio shows demographers


  The number of people too young or too old to work
• Why is Russia currently attracting many immigrants

  There are economic opportunities
• Which contemporary analyst believes that a large population could actually stimulate food production?

  Ester Boserup
• Slavery and political instability are examples of what type of migration

  Cultural
• According to Wilbur Zelinsky's migration transition, international migration is more likely to occur in countries at what stage of the demographic transition model?

  Stage 2
• Which country houses the largest number of international migrants?

  United States
• Most immigrants to the U.S. during the 1840-1850's came from

  Ireland and Germany
• Popular cultural is based on rapid simultaneous global connections made by

  Television, internet, high speed rail, text messaging(all of the above)
• Istanbul, turkey has around 1,000 bostans which are run by many immigrants, their purpose is to


  Provides small plots of land where variety of vegetables can grow
• According to Jean Brunhes, the house is


  A product of cultural tradition and natural conditions
• The northeast corner of a house is most sacred in

  Madagascar
• The three modes of folk forms of housing in the U.s. Are

  Middle Atlantic, lower Chesapeake, and southwestern
• By using a thorough geographic analysis of human geography, we can ascertain that this state would have a relatively low rate of Alcohol consumption

  Utah
• The official language in 56 countries is


  English
• Modern English is a co-mingling of


  English spoken by the commoners and that of the normans
• A map showing word usage boundaries uses ____________ to illustrate where one word is most often used

  Isoglosses
• The indo-European language family includes these branches

  Indo-Iranian, romance, Germanic
• Hottentots, a language using click sounds is part of the

  Khoisan
• The extinction of many languages once spoken in Peru is a result of

  Political dominance and conversion
• Lingua Franca are most commonly diffused through

  Expansion diffusion
• A universalizing religion would seek to

  Appeal to all people
• This group of christians is clustered predominantly north of Israel, in what is today called lebanon

  Mormons
• Which country is comprised of population that is 90% shiite

  Iran
• Mahayanist Buddhist are found primarily in

  China, Japan, and Korea