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26 Cards in this Set
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Currently, the global population is about:
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7.1 Billion
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Friction of distance
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is dependent in part upon an individual's cognitive distance.
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When one expresses the distance between home and her favorite restaurant as "a $6.00 cab ride," she is referring to the ________ distance between them.
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relative
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The baby boom population was born between the years of
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1946 and 1964
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The world's first cities:
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were essential to future technological development
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The utility of a specific place
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is a measure of usefulness of that place for a certain person or group.
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Writing on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, Thomas Malthus argued that population growth
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would exceed the ability of people to feed themselves.
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Semiperipheral regions
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often exploit peripheral regions.
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Chloropleth maps represent data with
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Tonal shadings
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In general, this region has the highest crude birth rates:
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Africa
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The demographic center of the United States
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has been moving westerly for the last two hundred years.
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Faced with problems associated with law of diminishing returns, world empires characteristically________ in order to feed and provide for their populations.
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colonized nearby lands
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The first wave of industrialization resulted in a technology system based on:
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Water power and steam engines
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Domination over the world economy, exercised by one national state in a particular historical epoch through a combination of economic, military, financial and cultural means is called:
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Hegemony
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The difference between the slow world and the fast world is best described in terms of:
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the relative availability of information technology
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Which of the following are NOT reasons suggested by Jared Diamond for the ability of Europeans to dominate the Incas?
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The genetic intellectual superiority of the Europeans
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The clustering together of functionally related activities is referred to as:
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Agglomeration
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______________ refers to the economic and political strategies by which powerful states in core economies indirectly maintain or extend their influence over other areas or people.
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Neocolonialsm
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Which of the following factors does NOT influence accessibility:
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Supply and Demand
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U.S. factory extensions located in Mexico (within 12miles/19km of the border) that allow products to be assembled and then shipped duty free back across the border for export.
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Maquiladora
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Actual geographic space in the real world. Geographers approximate this space when they try to represent it in a model or map.
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Concrete Space
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Abstract Space
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Geographic model or representation of the real world
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A tangible partitioning of space or time within which different processes are played out.
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Scale
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is the increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common process of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change.
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Globalization
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a social society with a single cultural base and a reciprocal social economy.
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Minisystem
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The first agricultural revolution consisted of:
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Conversion from hunting-and-gathering to agrarian minisystems 9000-7000 B.C.
-Technological Preconditions -Fire -Grindstones -Food preparation and storage -slash-and-burn agriculture -livestock domestication |
