A country's population pyramid has a very wide base and narrows sharply toward the top. What does that shape indicate?

A geographer divides the number of people in a county by its land area in square miles. What measure is being calculated?

Most residents live along a river valley while the dry interior has few settlements. What human geography term names this pattern of where people live?

In a demographic transition model, death rates fall because sanitation improves, but birth rates remain high. What stage best fits this country?

A country has low birth rates, low death rates, and slow population growth. What demographic transition stage is it usually in?

Births outnumber deaths in a country, and immigration equals emigration. What population process will make the population grow?

A population pyramid has a narrow base and a large middle-aged and elderly share. What does that age structure suggest?

Water and arable land limit how many people an island can support without degrading resources. What concept is being described?

A geographer divides a country's total population by only its arable land area. What density measure is this?

A country has many children and elderly people compared with working-age adults. What measure would be high?

A long drought destroys harvests, and farming families leave their land for a distant city inside the same country. What kind of migration is this?

A worker leaves home because another country offers higher wages and many open jobs. What migration factor is attracting the worker?

Families cross an international border to escape persecution and cannot safely return home. What migration status best describes them?

Farm laborers travel to a harvest region for three months, then return home when the season ends. What movement pattern is this?

A young adult moves from a village to a nearby town, then later to the national capital. What migration pattern is shown?

Migrants choose a destination because relatives from the same hometown already live there and can help them find work. What process is this?

Young adults leave farms for factory and service jobs in a city within their country. What type of movement does this describe?

A style of music from one large city spreads first to other large cities around the world and only later reaches small towns. Which diffusion is this?

A slang word spreads quickly as classmates use it with nearby friends during the school day. Which diffusion pattern is this?

Immigrants bring their religion and language with them when they settle in a new country. Which diffusion process is this?

Terraced fields, roadside shrines, and house styles show the visible imprint people leave on a place. What term names this?

A simplified trade language becomes the first language of children in a port city. What has the contact language become?

Merchants with different native languages use Swahili to trade across East Africa. What role is Swahili playing?

A religion actively seeks converts and has followers in many world regions. What type of religion is it?

Migrants learn the host country's language and work customs but keep many foods and holidays from home. What process is this?

An agricultural idea begins in one river valley and spreads outward to nearby regions. What is the starting area called?

A group shares a language, history, and identity, has no state of its own, and lives across three borders. What is that group?

A sovereign political unit has recognized borders, a government, and authority over its territory. What is it called?

A country is made up mostly of one nation that controls its own sovereign state. What political geography term fits best?

A boundary follows the center of a major river for hundreds of miles. What type of boundary is this?

A desert border follows a straight line along a line of latitude. What kind of boundary is it?

A constitution divides powers between a national government and provinces, and both levels make laws. What system is this?

Voters elect a legislature, and the majority party's leader becomes head of government. What system does this describe?

One city holds more than half of a country's urban residents and dominates its economy, media, and politics. What is such a city called?

A report divides a country's total economic output by its population. What development indicator is being calculated?

An index combines life expectancy, education, and income per person to compare development. What is the index?

Workers mine copper, cut timber, and harvest crops. What sector of the economy are they in?

Nurses, hair stylists, restaurant workers, and bus drivers provide services directly to people. What economic sector is this?

Street vendors and day laborers earn income outside official records and often pay no business taxes. What economy is this?

Housing subdivisions and shopping centers spread outward over former farmland at the edge of a city. What process is occurring?