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Key Issue 1: Why Is Geography a Science?
Key Points
1 ★ Geography has ancient and medieval roots.
★ Maps are tools of reference and increasingly tools of communication.
★ Reading a map requires recognizing its scale and projection.
★ Contemporary mapping utilizes electronic technologies, such as GPS and GIS.
2- Receding Pandemics Pandemics: diseases that affects a lot of land and Cholera (Late 1900s)
people - this stage has improved sanitation, nutrition
and medicine so infectious diseases are reduced
3- Degenerative Diseases Longer Life Expectancies Cause This Cancer and Heart Attacks
4- Delayed Degenerative Improved Medicine Delays or Rids of Major ^^^same but delayed or
Diseases Degenerative Causes of Death ridden
2 ★ The NIR measures population growth as the difference between births and deaths.
★ The crude birth rate and crude death rate are the principal measures of population
change in a society as a whole.
★ The demographic transition has four stages characterized by varying rates of births,
deaths, deaths, and natural increase
3 ★ Birth rates have declined in nearly all countries through a variety of family-planning
approaches.
★ The percentage of younger and older people in a country impacts its provision of
health care.
★ The provision of health care varies sharply between developed and developing
countries.
Chapter 3: Migration
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Key Issue 1: Where Are the World’s Migrants Distributed?
● American Migration has declined from 20% in the 1980s to 11% today
● 3 Largest Flows of Migration: From Latin America to North America, From South Asia to
Europe, and From South Asia to Southwest Asia
Distance of
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Migration Migration
The United States Has Had Three Main Eras of Immigration (Pgs. 84-85)
● Colonial Settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
○ Europe-
○ Sub-Saharan Africa-
● Mass European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
○ 1840s and 1850s: Ireland and Germany-
○ 1870s: Ireland and Germany-
○ 1880s: Scandinavia-
○ 1905-1914: Southern and Eastern Europe-
● Asian and Latin American Immigration In The Late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
○ Latin America-
○ Asia-
Key Issue 2: Where Do People Migrate Within a Country?
Interregional Migration in the United States (Pages 86-87)
● More than ½ of Recent Immigrants move to California, Florida, New York or Texas.
1790: Hugging The Coast
1800-1840: Crossing The Appalachians
1850-1890: Rushing To Gold
1900- 1940: Filling In The Great Plains
1950-2010: Moving South
US Population Center Has Changed >>
Key Points
1 ★ Migration is the permanent move to a new location.
★ Migration can be international (voluntary or forced) or internal (interregional or
intraregional).
★ The number and place of origin of immigrants to the US have varied over time.
3 ★ People migrate for a combination of political, environmental, and economic push and
pull factors.
★ Most people migrate in search of work.
★ Most migrants are young adults.
Key Issue 2:Where Are Folk and Popular Material Culture Distributed?
● Folk and Popular Culture can clash
● Folk Clothing typically has a environmental component
● Occupation and Income affect Popular Clothing Styles
● People eat food that's available to them (terroir)
○ Ex.: areas near water typically eat fish
● Areas have food taboos, people refuse to eat particular plants and animals due to religious law
or social custom
● US Snack and Fast Food Regional preferences
● Utah has low consumption of alcohol- due to concentration of members of the Church of
Jesus Christ and the Latter-day Saints
● Texans prefer tortilla chips- due to high concentration Hispanic Americas
● Westerners prefer multigrain chips- due to a greater concern on nutrition and health
● Wine consumption is relatively high in California
● Southerners prefer pork rinds- due to large number of hogs
● Northerners prefer popcorn and potato chips - due to more potatoes and corn being
grown
○ Folk housing and popular housing differs
2 ★ Regional variations in folk food, clothing and shelter derive from the physical
environment, as well ad from religion and other cultural values.
★ Popular preferences in food, clothing, and shelter vary more in time than in place.
However, some regional variations in preference persist.
Chapter 5: Languages
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● Indo-Iranian Branch
○ Most speakers
○ South Asia
○ Iranian (Western Group)- Persian, Pashto, Kurdish
○ Indic (Eastern Group)- Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri,
Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, and Urdu
■ India
● Balto-Slavic Branch
○ East Slavic and Baltic- Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian
○ West And South Slavic Groups- Polish, Czech and Slovak
● English is currently the Lingua Franca, Chinese may be the Next
● Dialects differentiate in Vocab, Spelling, and Pronunciation
● Hebrew is a growing language
Key Points
1 ★ Languages are classified as institutional, developing, vigorou, in trouble and dying.
★ Languages are organized into families and branches.
★ Eighteen language families are used by at least 9 million people.
4 ★ Man languages have become extinct and others are threatened with extinction.
★ Some endangered language are being preserved and protected.
★ Some lesser-used languages are growing in number of speakers. Other languages
are being invented, in some cases through combination with English.
Chapter 6: Religions
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Key Issue 1: Where Are the World’s Religions Distributed?
★ Religions can be classified into two major categories: universalizing and ethnic.
★ The three largest universalizing religions are Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.
Christianity predominates in Europe, North America, and Latin America; Islam in Southeast
Asia, Central Asia, Southwest Asia and North Africa; and Buddhism in East Asia.
★ The largest ethnic religion is Hinduism, which is found primarily in South Asia.
★ Most of the other religions have clustered distributions.
Intensive Subsistence, wet-rice dominant: East and South Asia Mixed Crop and Livestock: U.S. Midwest and central Europe
Intensive Subsistence, crops other than rice dominant: East And Dairying: Near Population Clusters in Northeastern U.S., South-
South Asia (where growing rice is difficult) Central Canada and Eastern Europe
Pastoral Nomadism: Drylands of Southwest Asia and North Grain: North-Central United States, South-Central Canada and
Africa, Central and East Asia Eastern Europe
Shifting Cultivation: Tropical Regions of Latin America, sub- Ranching: Drylands of western North America, southeastern Latin
Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia America, Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the South Pacific
Plantation: Commercial Agriculture found in Tropical and Mediterranean: Lands near Mediterranean Sea, western U.S.,
Subtropical developing countries of Latin America, sub-Saharan southern tip of Africa, and Chile
Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia
2 ★ Most food is consumed in the form of cereal grains, especially wheat, rice, and maize.
★ People in developed countries consume more total calories in a higher percentage through
animal products.
★ Most humans consume more than the recommended minimum calories, and the number who
are undernourished is declining, but under-nourishment is still common in Asia and sub-
Saharan Africa.
3 ★ Agriculture can be divided into 11 major regions, including five subsistence and six
commercial regions.
★ In subsistence regions, pastoral nomadism it’s prevalent in drylands, shifting cultivation in
tropical forest, and intensive subsistence in regions with high population concentrations.
★ In commercial regions, mixed crop and livestock is the most common form of agriculture.
Dairy, commercial gardening, grain, Mediterranean, and livestock ranching are also
important.
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