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Human Geo Unit 6
Irondale Human Geo Unit 6 Review cards by Libby Darling
Question | Answer |
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What are the four too's? | Dry, cold, wet, and mountainous |
Four main regions of the world? | Western Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia |
What was Thomas Malthus' theory? | There would be too many people in the world for the available resources |
What are the five themes of geography? | Region, movement, human environment interaction, place, and location |
What are the four different types of map distortions? | Shape, distance, relative size, and direction. |
What are the four main Geographic Analysis tools? | GPS, GIS, Remote Sensing, and Mash Ups |
What is a toponym? | A name given to a place on Earth. |
What are the main types of distribution? | Density, Concentration, and Pattern. |
What are examples of Commercial Agriculture Regions? | Dairy farming, mixed crop and livestock, grain farming, livestock raising, commercial gardening and fruit farming, and Mediterranean agriculture |
What are examples of Subsistence Agriculture Regions? | Shifting Cultivation, Pastoral Nomadism, Intensive Subsistence Agriculture, and plantation agriculture. |
What ring is Forestry in the von Thunen model? | 2nd |
What is the main practice of sustainable agriculture? | Limited use of chemicals. |
What is the Industrial Revolution? | A series of improvements in industrial technology that changed how to manufacture goods. |
What are the three main site factors that influence the location of a factory? | Labor, Land, and Capital |
What is a service? | Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. |
Who created the Central Place Theory? | Walter Christaller. |
What is urbanization? | process by which the population of settlements grow |
What is the Central Business District (CBD)? | Usually the 'downtown' area of most cities. Most well-known and visually attractive area. |
How does the Concentric Model move outwards? | In rings. |
How does the sector model move outwards? | In wedges. |
What is gentrification? | Process when mid-class move and renovate houses in deteriorating inner-city neighborhoods. |
What is the largest universalizing religion? | Christianity. |
Is Hinduism an ethnic or universalizing religion? | Ethnic. |
Is ethnicity or race a part of someone's cultural identity? | Ethnicity. |
What is a state? | Area organized into a political unit. |
What are the five shapes of states? | Elongated, fragmented, prorupted, compact, perforated. |
What are the three types of physical boundaries? | deserts, mountains, and water ways. |
What three factors are used to measure the Human Development Index (HDI)? | standard of living, education, and life-span. |
The ____ is the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. | Range |