Personal Final Review

Question 1

What is a choropleth map?

Answer 1

Maps with areas shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable.

Question 2

What is a Cartogram?

Answer 2

Maps in which the geometry or size of a region is distorted in order to convey some variable.

Question 3

What is a Mercator Projection?

Answer 3

Designed to help sailors navigate around the globe. Mercator’s projection laid out the globe as a flattened version of a cylinder. All the latitude and longitude lines intersected at 90-degree angles.THE ORIGINAL ONE

Question 4

What is a Peters Projection?

Answer 4

A representation of the world that prioritizes the accuracy of land masses’ areas over their shapes. THE STRETCHY ONE

Question 5

What is the Robinson Projection?

Answer 5

a compromise in that it attempts to minimize errors in distance, relative size, and compass direction but does not accurately depict any one of these factors wholly. THE ROUNDED ONE

Question 6

Arithmetic Density

Answer 6

Total population to land units.

Question 7

Physiological Density

Answer 7

Total population to arable land

Question 8

Agricultural Density

Answer 8

Farmers to arable land

Question 9

Why dose the population continue to increase even it the TFR is 2?

Answer 9

Demographic Momentum.

Question 10

Longitude

Answer 10

Lines go up and down but degree measures east and west

Question 11

Latitude

Answer 11

Lines goes left and right but degree measures north and south.

Question 12

Isogloss

Answer 12

Different Slang Pop vs. Soda.

Question 13

Functional Region

Answer 13

Outward for a Node.

Question 14

Balkanization

Answer 14

Division of a multinational state into smaller ethnically homogeneous entities.

Question 15

Gravity Model

Answer 15

The gravity model uses two variables to predict or estimate the volume of spatial interaction between or among places, be they cities, counties, or regions. These are (1) population totals of the places and (2) the distance separating these places or the time or cost of overcoming distance.

Question 16

Central Place Theory

Answer 16

Seeks to explain the number, size and range of market services in a commercial system. THE HEXAGONS ON A MAP FOR BUSINESSES.

Question 17

Rostow’s Model Stage 1

Answer 17

Traditional Society: This stage is characterized by a subsistent, agricultural based economy, with intensive labor and low levels of trading, and a population that does not have a scientific perspective on the world and technology.

Question 18

Rostow’s Model Stage 2

Answer 18

Preconditions to Take-off: Here, a society begins to develop manufacturing, and a more national/international, as opposed to regional, outlook.

Question 19

Rostow’s Model Stage 3

Answer 19

Take-off: Rostow describes this stage as a short period of intensive growth, in which industrialization begins to occur, and workers and institutions become concentrated around a new industry.

Question 20

Rostow’s Model Stage 4

Answer 20

Drive to Maturity: This stage takes place over a long period of time, as standards of living rise, use of technology increases, and the national economy grows and diversifies.

Question 21

Rostow’s Model Stage 5

Answer 21

Age of High Mass Consumption: At the time of writing, Rostow believed that Western countries, most notably the United States, occupied this last “developed” stage. Here, a country’s economy flourishes in a capitalist system, characterized by mass production and consumerism.

Question 22

Remittance

Answer 22

When migrants send home part of their earnings in the form of either cash or goods to support their families.

Question 23

Site

Answer 23

An area of ground on which a town, building, or monument is constructed.

Question 24

Situation

Answer 24

The location of a place relative to other places.