Two physical geographic barriers create the boundaries of the South Asia population cluster are the Himalaya Mountains

Two countries with very high percentages of arable land are:
Rwanda and Poland

Two physical geographic barriers create the boundaries of the South Asia population cluster are
the Himalaya Mountains to the north and the mountains west of the Indus River Valley in Pakistan.

The statistics that report the number of deaths per thousand people in a given year is called:
the crude death or mortality rate.

Cultural appropriation for purposes of profit (e.g., naming a beer for a Lakota chief) is referred to as an example of
commodification

In terms of total number of refugees, _____ is the geographic realm most severely affected by refugee problems.
tropical Africa

Births and _______ add to the population growth of a particular country.
immigration

Efforts to conserve local cultures often focus on the local ____________.
customs

All of the following are examples of periodic movements except
commuting to work

European global exploration was a consequence of European colonization and the need for geographical information.
False

Which US states experienced net outmigration during the 1990s & net immigration from 2000-2004?
Wyoming, Maryland, Maine

Major routes of human migration before 1950 include all of the following except:
China to India.

The rise of NASCAR from a regional Southern sport to its national prominence on television and advertising has not affected its status as a local cultural phenomena.
False

Countries with aging populations attempt to stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of rising medical and retirement costs by
promoting immigration.

Between 1788 and 1838, tens of thousands of convicts were shipped from Britain to which of the following continents?
Australia

A good example of a formal region would be a:
region of similar language

The type of movement that involves journeys that begin at and bring us back to our home base is called
cyclic.

Government efforts to discourage native practice and languages in the United States and Canada were attempts to _____________ native groups.
assimilate

Migration of individuals is not a form of diffusion.
False

Mandarin, the language in and around the Chinese capital Beijing, was chosen as the standardized form of Chinese for the whole country.
True

A series of concrete pillars _________ the northern boundary of Kuwait with Iraq.
demarcates