Human Geography Unit 2 Test – Flashcards
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Responsible use of resources requires cooperation at what levels?
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Local,national, and global
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The population growth is influenced by what?
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Birthrate,death rate,immigration, and emigration
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Factors of poverty in LDCs
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Lack of education opportunities, lack of technology,overpopulation, and uneven distribution of wealth
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Traditional economic system
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•Custom decision making •Private ownership •Production driver by custom •Job choice decided by custom •Wages determined by N/A
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Command economic system
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•Government Decision making •Government and private ownership •Production driven by government goals •job choice by government •wages determined by government
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Market economic system
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•private decision-making •private ownership •Production driven by consumer demand •Job choice determined by individual •Wages determined by employee/employer
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Mixed economic system
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•decision-making government, private •ownership by government, private •Production driven by government, private •Job choice determined by individual •wages determined by employee/employer negotiation; minimum-wage maybe sat by government
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Acid rain
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Precipitation that has become acidic through the absorption of pollutants in the atmosphere, such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides
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Biomass energy
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Power produced through the decomposition or burning of plants and/or organic waste
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Bubonic plague
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A deadly, very contagious disease, carried by fleas and rats
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Cultural convergence
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The contact and interaction of cultural groups
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Cultural diffusion
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The process whereby one culture adopts traits of another culture
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Cultural divergence
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Government policy that attempts to restrict the access of its population to outside culture
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Cultural mosaic
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Groups living near each other while maintaining their unique cultures
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Emigration
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Leaving one's homeland to settle in a new place
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Immigration
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The movement of people to a new country
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Ethnic cleansing
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Policy whereby one group of individuals of common ancestry is removed from an area by another group of individuals of common ancestry, either through death or expulsion
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Geothermal energy
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How are produced from heat inside the earth
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Hydroelectric energy
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How are produced in the movement of water
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Pandemic
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The world wide spread of a deadly disease, e.g.,The plague
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Sustainable development
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The ability to meet current needs without reducing the ability to meet future needs
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Possible solutions to today's environmental issues
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Increased use of geothermal energy, rain forest preservation, recycling, sustainable development
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Global development
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Increased peoples exposure to new ideas, created a global culture, reduce the number of people living in rural areas
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Recycling
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A way to reduce solid waste
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Renewable energy sources
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Biomass geothermal wind solar and hydroelectric
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People interaction with their environment
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Changes to the earth environment can be harmful. People adapt to their environment. People change their environment. Changes to the earth environment can be beneficial.
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Migration
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Moving from one place to another
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Descriptions of the importance of the management of the Earth resources
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Resource management becomes more important as the population increases. Resource management is a global, local, and national issue
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Over urbanization
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More people live in an area than the area can provide services for
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Unsustainable development
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Resources are being used up at a faster rate than they can be replaced
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T/F:culture is seldom a factor in world conflict
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False
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T/F:The connections between the countries of the world are likely to increase in the future
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True
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More developed countries:
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Use more of the worlds resources
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Left about countries:
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Have more of the worlds resources
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Acid rain:
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Affects our health, is a greater concern in more developed countries, and makes the soil less able to use the poor agriculture
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Disadvantages of wind power:
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Not available at all times, can't be used everywhere, and noisy
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Pandemics:
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Easily spread to new areas, highly contagious disease, and the bubonic plague and
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Reasons why geographers study religion:
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To explain the role of religion in regional conflict and it to understand religions affect on the physical environment
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Possible solutions to air pollution:
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Develop cost efficient methods to use solar energy, improve fuel efficiency and automobiles, increase the use of wind power, and reduce the use of coal and oil
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Rain forest:
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Provides variety of food for the world, species found in rain forest have been used to cure disease, species found in the rain forest decreased every day, cures for diseases have been developed from resources in the rain forests
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In which Area just clean drinking water present the biggest problem?
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Cities in LDCs
