APHG – Midterm Review Sheet:



APHG – Midterm Review Sheet:Directions: These are the following terms, concepts, and ideas that may appear on your midterm. Some of these will not appear, however you are responsible for knowing them all. There are approximately 85 terms here, however in reality some of them have multiple parts (i.e.- types of regions), so there are well over 100 concepts you are responsible for. Chapter 1: Thinking GeographicallyGlobalization & local diversitySiteSituation (relative location)Cultural LandscapePlace (sense of place)RegionTypes of Regions (3- formal, functional, perceptual)Types of maps (reference, thematic)Types of thematic maps (isoline, choropleth, dot, cartograms)Density, Concentration (space), patternGIS, GPS, Remote SensingScale (as a general concept )Map Scale (3 types)Large scale vs. Small scale mapsMathematical location (absolute location)BiomeTime Zones (how many, how are they calculated)Environmental DeterminismPossibilismAcculturationToponymTime-Space compressionFriction of DistanceSpatial AssociationChapters 2-3: Population and MigrationDemographyBrain DrainChain Migrationundocumented migrationguest workersquotasNet Migration (in/out)Internal migration (definition and types of)International migrationCore-Periphery (concept and nations involved)Carrying CapacityDemographic Transition Model (States and their relative characteristics)Epidemiologic ModelThomas MalthusNeo-Malthusian PhilosophyArguments against Malthusian theoryHow to analyze population pyramids )Age/Sex RatioPush/Pull factors for migration (with historical examples)EcumeneRaventstein’s Laws of MigrationTypes of density (physiological, arithmetic, agricultural)Crude Death Rate (CDR)Crude Birth Rate (CBR)Natural Increase Rate (NIR) – how is it calculated?Life expectancyTotal Fertility Rate (TFR)doubling timeAgricultural Revolution (1st and 2nd)dependency ratioCensusPopulation Policies (specifically China’s One Child Policy)Intervening obstacles to migrationrefugeesmobilitycirculationMigration transition (Zelinsky – p. 84 of text)Chapters 4-7: Cultural GeographyDifferences (general) between folk and popular cultureOrigins of Folk & Popular MusicThe AmishDiffusion of sports (p.110)Globalization of popular cultures (means of transmission, examples, negative results thereof)Food preferences and taboos in various culturesBasic differences between ethnic and universalizing religionsDistribution of religions in regions of the U.S.Buddhism, Islam & Christianity (branches, spread thereof, basic beliefs, geographic distribution of followers)Religious Toponyms (where would they be found, for what reasons?)Religious conflicts (examples, reasons for)Religious branches, denominations, and sectsCentripetal and Centrifugal forces (definition and examples)Nation, State, and Nation-State (look in chapter 8 as well for further definitions)Global Ethnic conflicts (examples, reasons for)LanguageDialectideogramisoglosslingua francahieroglyph official languagelanguage family, branch, and groupsGeographic distribution of Indo-European languages (where are they spoken!)Endangered, Extinct, isolated, and revived languages ................
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