Contemporary Human Geography Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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Contemporary Human Geography
Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers

Question: Greenwich Mean Time is measure from
Answer: 0 degrees longitude


Question:first person to use the word geography
Answer: Eratosthenes


Question:science of map making
Answer: cartography


Question:scale is
Answer: relationship between the length of an object on a map and that
feature on the landscape


Question:situation identifies a place by its
Answer: location relative to other objects


Question:frequency of something within a given unit of area
Answer: density


Question:The South can be defined as a vernacular region by
Answer: low high school graduation rates, climate, the baptist church

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Question:arrangement of a feature across earth's surface is its
Answer: distribution


Question:a form of relocation diffusion
Answer: migration


Question:an important feature of the world's population with the most
significant future implications is
Answer: the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries


Question:human beings avoid all EXCEPT which of these regions
Answer: warm lands


Question:most common measure of density, the number of people per area
of land is
Answer: arithmetic density


Question:physiological density is the number of
Answer: people per area suitable for agriculture


Question:a country with a large amount of arable land and a small number of
farmers will have a
Answer: low agricultural density


Question:overpopulation is normally defined as
Answer: too many people compared to environmental capacity

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Question:number of people who are too young or too old to work in a society
compared to the number of working age people is the
Answer: dependency ratio


Question:the highest natural increase rates are found in
Answer: stage 2 demographic transition


Question:the lowest crude birth rates are found in
Answer: stage 4 demographic transition


Question:which stage of demographic transition cannot be found today
Answer: stage 1


Question:the future may hold a new stage of demographic transition marked
by
Answer: a negative natural increase rate


Question:the epidemiological transition focuses on distinctive
Answer: causes of death at different stages of the demographic transition


Question:which stage in the epidemiological transition is known as the stage
of "pestilence and famine"
Answer: stage 1


Question:which stage in the epidemiological transition is known as the stage
of "degenerative diseases