APHG 3rd Quarter Exam Review
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- popularity of national parks in Costa Rica
- example of ecotourism
- wheat
- in terms of tonnage, is the leading export crop in the world
- the prescence of waterways
- Prior to 1850, the location of all major North American cities was related chiefly to
- Germany
- ___________ did not have long lasting colonialism in Africa in 1920
- maquiladoras
- manufacturing outsourcing plants
- cultural landscape
- the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans
- periodization is to history
- regionalization is to geography as
- Rank-size rule
- a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement
- environmental determinism
- temperate regions have the most productive settlements
- Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan
- the 4 Asian economic tigers
- the EU
- has fostered the most economic growth by eliminating import tariffs between member states
- Caucasus
- the greatest linguistic fragmentation is in the realm of
- agglomeration
- the clustering of doctor's offices and pharmacies near hospitals is best explained by
- Law of the Sea
- The UN has set the _____ ____ _____ ______ at 12 nautical miles
- New Zealand
- has low population growth
- Africa
- In the early 21st century, the largest number of refugees was located in
- per capita income
- the literacy rate of any country correlates most closely with the
- the poles
- lines of longitude meet at
- rural to urban migration
- greatest in the 19th to 20th century in intraregional areas worldwide
- an increase in the use of energy and technology
- dramatic increases in global grain production since 1950 have been made possible by
- desertification
- is a problem associated with Africa
- Rostow's modernization model
- is concerned with economic development
- Southwest Asia
- The 3 monotheistic religions of the world originated in
- Core-Periphery Model
- describes relationship of power and transfer of resources from less to more developed countrie
- land parcels in the American Midwest tend to be rectilinear
- ____________________________ because of the federal survey system adopted in the late 18th century which imposed a geometric pattern on the landscape
- The United States
- consumes the most fossil fuels per capita population
- computer chip industry
- an example of a footlose industry
- Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana
- the largest concentrations of Amish are found in
- cartography
- the science of mapmaking
- the EU, Arab League, and United Nations
- supranational organizations
- multicropping
- is a characteristicof shifting agriculture
- Judaism
- example of ethnic religion
- aging population
- most characteristic of societies in the last stage of the Demographic Transition Model
- resolution
- size of a map's smallest discernable unit
- nickel smelting
- locates close to the source of raw materials
- refrigerated ships
- In the first half of the 21st century, ________ ______ facilitated the transportation of beef over long distances to global markets
- quaternary economic activities
- are those that involve the collection, processing, and manipulation of information
- urban center
- Is disproportionately larger than the 2nd largest city, and it dominates the country's social, political, and economic activities as a primate city
- Argentina
- has few people per unit of arable lands
- Internet
- is reshaping traditional economic arrangements by expanding the importance of express package delivery systems
- architects and planners from the City Beautiful Movement
- have introduced beauty and imposed order in chaotic industrial cities
- shatter belt
- an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values
- wheat
- _________ was probably domesticated earliest in Southeastern Turkey
- overharvesting of breeding stock for commercial fishermen
- is an immediate concern to policy makers in New England
- Industrial Revolution
- spanned vast manufacturing centers
- Christaller's model of central place
- useful for describing a settlement node whose primary function is to provide support for the population in its hinterland
- hearths of early agriculture
- the first cities arose in
- importance of belief systems shaping early cities
- alignment of ancient Chinese cities towards the cardinal directions best illustrates
- Von Thunen's Law
- emphasizes factors of agricultural land based on transportation and rental costs
- Nunavut
- is an area in Canada for the native peoples
- agriculture practiced in California
- ____________ __________ _____ __________________ uses more irrigation on farms than in other Mediterranean Agriculture regions
- balkanization
- refers to the fragmentation of a region into smaller units
- a single person at the age of 25
- describes the population group that is most likely to migrate
- Honolulu
- __________ is an important gateway city
- subsistence farming
- production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer
- world cities
- international company headquarters, significant global financial functions, and a polarized social structure are defining characteristics of
- Indonesia
- is a fragmented state
- trucking
- transportation characterized by low terminal cost, high line cost, and high route flexibility
- modern architecture
- stresses efficiency and geometrical order
- corporate farms have gained a greater advantage over the family farm
- because of improvements in transportation and systems of agriculture
- Sector Model of North American cities
- members of low income groups tend to live in linear residential areas radiating from the city's center outward
- colonial cities
- some prominent Native American cities later became
- Iran
- _______ is a country in which the majority of the people are Shiite Muslim
- less developed countries
- one would expect to find a population with a relatively young age structure in
- the colonial countries were export oriented
- most South American population centers are located at or near the coast because
- popular culture
- incorporates traits that diffuse quickly to a wide variety of places
- cultural diffusion
- the process by which cultural characteristics or cultural patterns spread from one group of people to another and from one culture to another