Barrons Practice test 1

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gentrification: During the 1980s an 1990s, Santa Monica, California, became significantly wealthier and more expensive. Tjis process is referred to as ______________
high mass consumption: In Rostow's stages of development model, economic maturity is characterized by_________________________
they consume more resources: advanced economic countries, like the U.S., may produce more pollution than less economically adavanced countries because _____________________________________.
demographic transition model: the _____________________ posits that countries with high level of economic production will have lower birth rates
IStanbul, Turkey: ___________ is strategically located on the border between two continents, and at the intersection of many cultures and religions.
cartography: the art and science of map-making
Namibia: You would expect to find the highest rate of population growth in _________.
thematic layers: Geographic information systems use ________________ to display multiple spatial data sets.
southern Appalachia and the lower Mississippi Valley: Core-periphery patterns exist within countries as well as among them. In the U.S., economic peripheries include _________________
The Great Lakes: ___________________________ experienced rapid industrial growth during the early 20th century, followed by a severe decline and difficult period of economic readjustment.
Imperialism.....colonialism: __________ involves the economic and political domination of one state by another, while ______________ includes official, institutionalized government rule.
territorial organization: States with federal forms of governmetn must also have _______________
central place theory: The theory that explains organization of urban areas, based on their functions and the goods and services they offer, is called _________________
Pleistocene overkill theory: this theory argues that hunter-gatherers caused the extinction of many species aftger the end of the last ice age
Primate Cities: __________________ are those that are disproportionately larger than other cities in a nation.
cultural ecology: The study of the interaction between human cultures and natural ecosystems is called _____________________
increased dramatically: Since 1960, the difference between per capita GRoos National Products of the world's wealthiest countries and the world's poorest countries has _________________________
false: the green revolution is a part of slash and burn agriculture.
versatile and aesthetically pleasing: The NAtional Geographic Society uses the Robinson projection for many of its maps because it is ____________________________________
Cartographic scale: __________________________ refers to the relation between a distance on a map and distance on the ground.
hierarchial diffusion: The spread of rap music to L.A, Oakland, Chicago, and Detroit--without being absorbed by the smaller cities and rural areas is called __________.
break-of-bulk points: Sites where goods are transferred for continued shipping is called ___________________________.
longitude: the angular distance east or west of Greenwich, England
Catholicism: _________________ does NOT qualify as a Protestant denomination.
Mexico City, Mexico: ____________________ qualifies as a primate city.
dependency ratio: The __________________ will increase over the next decade, as baby boomers reach old age and are no longer able tp work and provide for themselves.
Religious fundamentalism: ____________________________ appears to be on the rise in many parts of the world.
2000 years: it took _______years for the Eurasian hunter-gatherers to reach the tip of south america after their initial arrival in alaska.
nutrient-poor: Agricultural techniques developed in the temperate latitudes are frequently inappropriate for wet tropical climates because rainforest soils tend to be ______________________
Eurasian diseases: ___________ is most responsible for the dramtic demographic collapse of Native Americans during the Colonial Period.
population pyramid: this shows the age and sex structure of a population
geography: literally means "earth writing"
Asia: By 2020, most of the world's biggest cities will be located in ________
material consumption: India argued that ____________ had extreme consequences for environmental quality
distance imposes a significant barrier to spatial interactions: in the distance decay function on pg. 301 of Barrons, ___________________________________
New Guinea: The greatest concentration of linguistic diversity on earth is in ______________________.
balm climate: The city of SAn Fransico is known for its ________________________
true: Language extinctions could be several thousand over the next century
Tyson's Corner, Virgina: __________ is an example of an edge city.
latitude: the angular distance north or south of the equator
Von Thunen's model of rural land use: _________________________ is based on the land values decrease farther from the urban center
Reference..........thematic: _______ maps work well for locating and navigating between places, while _____________ maps display one or more variable across a specific place.
influence of "friction of distance": in distnace decay models, the slope of the decay function illustrates ____________________.
Net National Product: The aggregate measure of economic development that accounts for the depreciation of capital and natural resources is called the _____________________
+births-deaths+immigration-emigration: the demographic accounting equation computes future population as a function of current population:
False: Economies are less developed, they rarely suffer from significant pollution.
cultural syncretism: The religious practices of some native american groups combine elements both from their traditional religion and from Christianity. This is an example of a ________________
Buddhism: ___________ originated in northern India and then spread across central and southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Japan.
the north/south divide: the geographic differentation between the colonizing countries of Europe, North America, and eastern Asia and the colonized states of Africa and South America has been called _______________________
shading and coloring: All choropleth maps use _______________________
self-determination: In a 1995 plebiscite, the Canadian province of Quebec sought _____________
Most americans consider environmental issues to be important.: According to public opinion polls, more than 80% of Americans consider them selves "environmentalists". What can you logically conclude from this information?
primary economic activities: __________________ involve the direct extraction of harvest of natural resources
Kurds: the ____________ are an example of an ethnic group that has historial homelands spanning many national borders.
idiographic: geographical research that applies only to one place or region is _________
Azimuthal: This projection places the North or South Poile at the center view.
inversely related: In the gravity model of spatial interaction, population and distance are ___________________________
fertile river valleys: Hearths of early Eurasian agriculture were generally located in ___________________________
a strong central government: _________ is NOT a potential cause of Balkaniztion
natural increase: When the crude birht rate is higher than the crude deasth rate, the difference between the two is called the __________________.
political unrest and ecological degradation: Sources of forced migration include ___________________________________________________
cognitive maps: Maps like the one shown on pg 310 Barrons is referred to as _________________________
true: Asians from a variety of countries are moving to the U.S.
diaspora: The term _____________ decribes a group of people with a common ethnic identity taht is spread out over a large geographic area.
Sector model of urbad development: This model of geography best describes the map on pg.298 in Barrons.
China, India, Turkey, and Mexico: Gearth regions of early agriculture included present-day ________________________________________________
postmodernism: the idea that our impressions and experiences of the world around us are filtered through the lens of our culture and our individual experiences, which critiques the sort of scientific, universalist grand theoriesoffered by modernists is called __________________
environmental racism: The disproportinate siting of power plants and waste disposal facilities in African-American and Latino neighborhoods---independent of other economic and historical factors---is an example of ____________
Chicago: What city's dense urban core became "the birthplace of the skyscraper"?
Europe and North America: In the world systems model, the core nations of the world are located mainly in _________________________________
food production.....population: According to Thomas Malthus, ________________ grows arithmetically, but ________________ grows geometrically.
assimilation: The process by which one ethnic group becomes integrated into a larger culture is called __________________.
cultural extinction: Loss of inddigenous knowledge about ecosystems is an important consequence of _____________________
the city Beautiful movement: Washington D.C.'s Licoln Memorial and Mall, with their dramatic neoclassical architecture and symbolic refrences to democracy and poppulism, are associated with _______________________
boroughs: new york city is divided into 5 ________.

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