What perspective unites all geography sub-disciplines?

Concepts and Populations
1. What perspective unites all geography sub-disciplines?
2. What is the cultural landscape? Does it change over time? What is the natural landscape?
3. What are the characteristics of a region?
4. What is a formal and a functional culture region?
5. What is global warming?
6. What are the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors of the economy?
7. What is natural increase?
8. What is a sovereign state? A nation? A nation-state? Nationalism?
9. What is demography?
10. What is a population pyramid? The demographic burden? The demographic transition model?
Maps
11. What properties are preserved by the globe?
12. What is a map projection? What are the types of projections? Which is used to show the world? Poles? Regions?
13. What is scale? What does a large scale map show? What does a small scale map show?
14. What are the three ways scale is expressed on a map?
15. What is the grid coordinate system? What are the properties of latitude and longitude?
What are the significant parallels?
16. What are reference maps? What are thematic maps? What are the two types of thematic maps?
Europe
17. What is a buffer zone?
18. The Pyrenees mountains separate which two countries?
19. After World War II, what German city was divided between two countries, one under democratic rule, the other under Communist rule?
20. What mountain range is sometimes used to mark the boundary between Europe and Asia?
21. What river is London located on?
22. What is a primate city? Which cities in Europe are primate cities?
23. A central business district is a central nucleus within a city, with mostly what kind of land use?
24. What is the best reason why Europe’s population is growing so slowly at present?
25. Which of the following led to attempts at ethnic cleansing in the late 20th century?
26. What is “Balkanization”?
27. In the 1990s, the most extreme example of ethnic cleansing occurred in the ________ region.
28. What is Xenophobia?
29. What is the United Nations Kyoto Protocol?
30. What is the European Union? What is the currency called? When was the EU established?
Middle East and North Africa
31. What are the two major freshwater river systems in the region? What is the longest river in the world?
32. Which country gets most of its fresh water from desalinization?
33. What was the culture hearth of Islam? What type of diffusion was responsible for the spread of Islam? What are the types of expansion diffusion?
34. What do the Kurds and Palestinians have in common?
35. Where are most Kurds located? When did Palestinians leave Israel? What is the political status of the West Bank and Gaza strip?
36. What was the intifada?
37. What is the Maghreb?
38. What was the Arab Spring? What is the domino effect (theory)?
39. What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
40. What are the two major branches (sects) of Islam?
41. Do Muslims need to be able to read Arabic?
42. What is the chador? What is the Burqa?
Sub-Saharan Africa
43. What was the Scramble for Africa? The Berlin Conference? Which country envisioned Cape-to-Cairo control?
44. What is the landform that dominates the continent? What is the tallest mountain on the continent?
45. What infectious disease killed over 10,000 people in West Africa in 2014?
46. What are blood or conflict diamonds? What is the Kimberley Process? Where are most diamonds mined?
47. What are the types of boundaries? How did superimposed boundaries influence African countries?
48. What is a landlocked country? How many exist in Africa?
49. What is morphology? What are the types?
50. What was Apartheid? When was it first established in South Africa? What was the significance of SOWETO? Who was the first black president of South Africa?
51. What countries saw the ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in the early 1990s?
North America
52. What percentage of North America is urban?
53. What phase of the Demographic Transition model is Canada and the U.S. in?
54. Where are the population clusters in the U.S. and Canada?Where are the two capital cities located relative to the natural landscape?
55. What is a megalopolis? Where are they located in the U.S.?
56. What is the average life expectancy in North America?
57. Which colonial power was most influential in Canada and the U.S.?
58. Recently, what was the largest source of immigrants to the U.S?
59. Which wave of immigration to North America was dominated by Irish and Germans?
60. Mormons are concentrated in which state?
61. What is the largest religion in the U.S.?
62. What are the different types of immigration?
63. What are migration pull and push factors?

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