McConathy Final Exam Review Fall 2023 PDF

1. Define renewable resources. Give at least three examples. 2. Define non-renewable resources. Give at least four examples. 3. Define inexhaustible resources. Give three examples. 4. Identify the stage, level of development (MDC, NIC, LDC), dependency ratio (high, low, elderly, young...

1. Define renewable resources. Give at least three examples. 2. Define non-renewable resources. Give at least four examples. 3. Define inexhaustible resources. Give three examples. 4. Identify the stage, level of development (MDC, NIC, LDC), dependency ratio (high, low, elderly, young or both). What challenges might this stage face in the present or future? Answer these questions for all four pyramids. Country A: Country B: Country C: Country D: 8. Which stages of population pyramids would have a growing population? Which ones would have a declining population? 9. What four things can be inferred in a population pyramid? 10. Define cultural hearth. 11. Define cultural diffusion. Give two examples. 12. What are latitude/parallel lines? Which way do they measure? 13. What are longitude/meridian lines? Which way do they measure? 14. What is the difference between a political map, a physical map and a thematic map? 15. What is a cartogram? 16. What three physical features typically draw the highest populations? 17. What does GPS stand for? What does it do? 18. How does life differ in rural areas compared to urban areas? (culturally) 19. Define polytheistic. Which religion is polytheistic? 20. Define monotheistic. Which religions are monotheistic? 21. Define animistic. 22. Define enculturation. 23. Identify the religion for each column. 24. Identify the religion and the branch of the religion for each color. 25. How does latitude affect climate? 26. Define globalization. Why are some people opposed to globalization? 27. Define subsistence farming. Be able to identify subsistence farming in an example. 28. Define commercial farming. 29. Define a free market economy. What is a word commonly associated with free market economy? What type of government is it usually associated with? 30. Define mixed economy. What is a word commonly associated with mixed economy? 31. Define command economy. What is a word commonly associated with command economy? What types of government are usually associated with command economy? 32. Define primary economic sector. Give at least three examples. 33. Define secondary economic sector. Give at least three examples. 34. Define tertiary economic sector. Give at least three examples. 35. Define quaternary economic sector. GIve at least three examples. 36. Define quinary economic sector. Give at least two examples. 37. Summarize the history of Israel/Palestine. Be able to identify on a map the Palestinian territories. 38. Identify the name of location A. 39. Identify the name of location B. Why is it such an important choke point/strategic waterway in Southwest Asia? 40. Define zionism. 41. What statistic would you look at to determine standard of living? 42. What statistics would you use to determine LDC, NIC, MDC? 43. What rate does the total fertility rate have to be to have a growing population? 44. Define immigrant. 45. Define emigrant. 46. Define refugee. 47. Define internally displaced persons. 48. Define pull factors. Give examples. 49. Define push factors. Give examples. 50. Define asylum seekers. 51. Define formal region. Give two examples and explain why they are formal regions. 52. Define functional region. Give two examples and explain why they are functional regions. 53. Define perceptual region. Give two examples and explain why they are perceptual regions. 54. Identify on a map the Sinai, Anatolian and Arabian Peninsulas. 55. Describe absolute monarchy. 56. Describe presidential democracy. 57. Describe parliamentary democracy. 58. Describe a dictatorship. 59. Describe a theocracy. 60. Define absolute and relative locations. Give an example of each. 61. When looking at Human Environment Interaction…define modification, adaptation and dependency. Give examples of each. 62. Where are the majority of people located in Egypt and why? 63. Define Nation. Give examples. 64. Define state. 65. Define nation state and give examples. 66. Define a stateless nation and give examples. 67. Define commodity dependency. What region of the world needs to diversify their economies the most? 68. Define brain drain. 69. Define standard of living and quality of life. 70. Define Human Development Index. What three things does it measure? 71. Describe the Cold War. 72. Define supranational organization. Give three examples. 73. What is the relationship between total fertility rates and levels of a country's development?