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Maps-Population & Health, & Migration
Chapters 1-3
Unit 1: Maps, Population, Health & Migration
Study Guide
Vocabulary
arable land
biosphere
climate
counter urbanization
crude birth rate
crude death rate
cultural landscape
doubling time
ecumene
hearth
lithosphere
migration
natural increase rate
ploder
population pyramid
site
situationChapter 1 Maps
What is scale and how does it give information about places on maps? Page 8-9
What are three different types of map projections and what are their differences? Page 9
What is the geographic grid system and how does it work? Pages 10-11
What three new technology tools help create maps and what purpose does each one serve? Pages 12-13
What are four different types of regions and what are examples of each? Pages 16-19
Explain three ways objects are distributed through space. pages 22-23
Explain three ways cultural attributes can be identified through space on maps. Pages 24-25
What is the difference between relocation and expansion diffusion? Pages 26-27
What are four ways geographers explain interaction between space? Pages 28-29
What are the three pillars of sustainability and what is one criticism of sustainability? Page 30-31
What is the difference between environmental determinism and possibilism and why is that important? Page 34-35
Chapter 2/Key Issue #1 Lecture Notes
Chapter 2/Key Issue #2 Lecture Notes
Chapter 2/Key Issue #3 Lecture Notes
Chapter 2/Key Issue #4 Lecture Notes
Chapter 2 Population and Health
What are population clusters and what are the four largest in the world? Page 46
In what type of places are there not large numbers of people? Why? Page 47
What are three types of population density and how are they different? Pages 48-49
What are the four stages of demographic transition and how is each different? Pages 56-57
What is the Malthus theory of overpopulation and why is it challenged? Pages 60-61
What are the likely characteristics of a 5th stage of demographic transition? Pages 62-63
What are the four stages of disease (epidemiologic) transition and what are the causes of each stage? Pages 64-65
What are two reasons for a possible stage five of disease transition? Pages 67-68
What are characteristics of good and bad health care around the world? Pages 70-72
Chapter 3/Key Issue #1 Lecture Notes
Chapter 3/Key Issue #2 Lecture Notes
Chapter 3/Key Issue #3 Lecture Notes
Chapter 3/Key Issue #4 Lecture Notes
Chapter 3 Migration
What are five types of migration? Page 80
What are the three international migration patterns and how are which countries are gaining the most people? Page 81
What are five examples of U. S. migration patterns? Pages 82-83
How have people migrated from one region to another in the countries of Canada, China, and Brazil? Pages 88-89
What are two factors that cause people to migrate and what are examples of each? Page 92-95
What are five obstacles that immigrants face when they try to migrate? Pages 96-103