GEO 207 WEEK 5 Knowledge Check

GEO 207 WEEK 5 Knowledge Check
Global Geography
Match the Key Term with the proper definition:
1.      Apartheid	1.    A local or regional outbreak of a disease.	
2.      Land alienation	2.    One society or culture group taking land from another.  In Subsaharan Africa, for example, European colonialists took land from indigenous Africans and put it to new uses.	
3.      Green Revolution	3.    A national group that aspires to become a nation-state but lacks the territorial means to do so; the Palestinians and Kurds of Southwest Asia are classic examples.	
4.      Epidemic	4.    The trough or trench that forms when a strip of the Earth's crust sinks between two parallel faults (surface fractures).	
5.      Rift valley	5.    Introduction and establisment of the Muslim religion.	
6.      Stateless nation	6.    Literally, apartness.  The Afrikaans terms for South Africa's pre-1994 policies of racial separation, a system that produced highly segregated socio-geographical patterns.	
7.      Islamization	7.    The successful recent development of higher-yield, fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries.	
8.      Expansion diffusion	8.    The theory that cities able to control irrigated farming over larhe hinterlands held political power over other cities.	
9.      Hydraulic civilization theory	9.    The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and its natural environment.	
10.      Cultural ecology	10.    The spreading of an innovation or an idea through a fixed population in such a way that the number of those adopting grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination.