Human Geography Questions

International company headquarters, significant global financial functions, and a polarized social structure are defining characteristics of

The basic sector of activities of a city's economy include production of goods and services for

The Tokyo-Yokohama-Kawasaki region is the world's largest

These makeshift neighborhoods, constructed of scrap materials, are found in all of the world's large peripheral cities.

The U.S. Bureau of Statistics defines a central country or counties with at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more, plus adjacent outlying counties with a large number of residents that commute in as a

According to the rank-size rule, the 5th largest city in a country will be

Medical Technology invented in Europe and diffusing for improvement in medical practices

focuses on distinctive health threats in each stage of the demographic transition

Population will ultimately exceed food or another resource ( and already has in selected regions of the developing world )

Population will exceed food supply. Food production would increase ARITHMETICALLY (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) but population would grow GEOMETRICALLY (e. g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ).

a conjunction of major improvements in manufacturing goods and delivering them to markets

government policy that supports higher birth rates (e.g. Japan )

average number of years an individual can be expected to live

number if people who are too young or too old to work compared to the number of people in their productive years ( # non-working age / # age 15-65 )

when the # of people exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living

evolution (antibiotic resistence ), poverty ( lack access to medicine ), and connections (globalization helps transmission )

the scientific study of population characteristics

the branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes

The location of a place relative to another place

a government policy that supports lower birth rates