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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 Geographically

  1. Globalization & local diversity
  2. Site
  3. Situation (relative location)
  4. Cultural Landscape
  5. Place (sense of place)
  6. Region
  7. Types of Regions (3- formal, functional, perceptual)
  8. Types of maps (reference, thematic)
  9. Types of thematic maps (isoline, choropleth, dot, cartograms)
  10. Density, Concentration (space), pattern
  11. GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing
  12. Scale (as a general concept )
  13. Map Scale (3 types)
  14. Large scale vs. Small scale maps
  15. Mathematical location (absolute location)
  16. Biome
  17. Time Zones (how many, how are they calculated)
  18. Environmental Determinism
  19. Possibilism
  20. Acculturation
  21. Toponym
  22. Time-Space compression
  23. Friction of Distance
  24. Spatial Association

Chapters 2-3:Population and Migration

  1. Demography
  2. Brain Drain
  3. Chain Migration
  4. undocumented migration
  5. guest workers
  6. quotas
  7. Net Migration (in/out)
  8. Internal migration (definition and types of)
  9. International migration
  10. Core-Periphery (concept and nations involved)
  11. Carrying Capacity
  12. Demographic Transition Model (States and their relative characteristics)
  13. Epidemiologic Model
  14. Thomas Malthus
  15. Neo-Malthusian Philosophy
  16. Arguments against Malthusian theory
  17. How to analyze population pyramids )
  18. Age/Sex Ratio
  19. Push/Pull factors for migration (with historical examples)
  20. Ecumene
  21. Raventstein’s Laws of Migration
  22. Types of density (physiological, arithmetic, agricultural)
  23. Crude Death Rate (CDR)
  24. Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
  25. Natural Increase Rate (NIR) – how is it calculated?
    Life expectancy
  26. Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
  27. doubling time
  28. Agricultural Revolution (1st and 2nd)
  29. dependency ratio
  30. Census
  31. Population Policies (specifically China’s One Child Policy)
  32. Intervening obstacles to migration
  33. refugees
  34. mobility
  35. circulation
  36. Migration transition (Zelinsky – p. 84 of text)

Chapters 4-7: Cultural Geography

  1. Differences (general) between folk and popular culture
  2. Origins of Folk & Popular Music
  3. The Amish
  4. Diffusion of sports (p.110)
  5. Globalization of popular cultures (means of transmission, examples, negative results thereof)
  6. Food preferences and taboos in various cultures
  7. Basic differences between ethnic and universalizing religions
  8. Distribution of religions in regions of the U.S.
  9. Buddhism, Islam & Christianity (branches, spread thereof, basic beliefs, geographic distribution of followers)
  10. Religious Toponyms (where would they be found, for what reasons?)
  11. Religious conflicts (examples, reasons for)
  12. Religious branches, denominations, and sects
  13. Centripetal and Centrifugal forces (definition and examples)
  14. Nation, State, and Nation-State (look in chapter 8 as well for further definitions)
  15. Global Ethnic conflicts (examples, reasons for)
  16. Language
  17. Dialect
  18. ideogram
  19. isogloss
  20. lingua franca
  21. hieroglyph
  22. official language
  23. language family, branch, and groups
  24. Geographic distribution of Indo-European languages (where are they spoken!)
  25. Endangered, Extinct, isolated, and revived languages