World Population Review

Globalization can best be defined as...

• The spread of McDonald's throughout the world

• The growing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of economic, political, and cultural change 

• The trend toward international trade agreements among the countries

• The pattern of increasing telephone and Internet connections around the world

What is global citizenship?

• The idea that one's identity transcends geography or political borders and that responsibilities or rights are derived from membership in a broader class.

• Being a citizen of all countries.

• The growing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of economic, political, and cultural change.

• Crossing borders 

Modern Geography focuses on...

• Location

• Maps

• The Spatial perspective

• GPS

What is scale?

• Scale is the ratio between the distance between two locations on a map and the corresponding distance on Earth’s surface.

• Scale is the circumference of the globe.

• Scale is the distance from the equator to the north or south pole.

• Scale is the distance between lines of latitude and longitude.

This term refers to the spreading of something from one place to another, and might relate to the physical movement of people or the spread of disease, or the spread of ideas, technology, etc.

• Spatial perspective

• Relative location

• Human geography

• Diffusion

The North, the South, the Midwest, the East Coast, and West Coast are all examples of which geographic term?

• Regions

• Diffusion

• Globalization

• Climate zones

The world population is estimated to grow to what size by 2050?

• over 9.8 billion

• over 9.8 million

• less than 3 billion

• 22 trillion

Which of these things indicate continued population growth?

• the youthfulness of the population.

• the death rate of the population

• the old age of the population.

• The number of retirement homes.

What is physiological density?

• A rare bone disease.

• number of physical features in the landscapes

• total number of people in proportion to land area.

• total population in proportion to the area of arable land suited for agriculture.

The total number of people in proportion to the area of land.

• Physiological Density

• Population Density

• a city.

• Poposoilogical Density