Updated: April 2009

Human Geography

Chapter 1

Basic Concepts MapsPop clusters

GeographyPeople

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GAME RULES FINAL ROUND

- Jeopardy -

demography

Category A

100

- Jeopardy -

What is the scientific study of population

characteristics?

Category A

100

- Jeopardy -

ecumene

Category A

200

- Jeopardy -

What is the portion f the Earth’s surface

occupied by permanent human settlement?

Category A

200

- Jeopardy -The population of the area

is too large for the resources of the area to

sustain a basic standard of living

Category A

300

- Jeopardy -

What is overpopulation?

Category A

300

- Jeopardy -

The bar graph that displays the age and gender groups

Category A

400

- Jeopardy -

What is a population pyramid?

Category A

400

- Jeopardy -

The number of people that are too old or to young to

work compared to the number of people of productive work age

Category A

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- Jeopardy -

What is a dependency ratio?

Category A

500

- Jeopardy -

He wrote “An essay on the Principle of Population”

Category B

100

- Jeopardy -

Who is Thomas Malthus?

Category B

100

- Jeopardy -

People that concur that Malthus theory is correct

because of medical technology and the lack of other necessary resources

Category B

200

- Jeopardy -

Who are neo-Malthusians?

Category B

200

- Jeopardy -

This Neo-Malthusian wrote “The Population Bomb”

Category B

300

- Jeopardy -

Who is Paul Ehrlich?

Category B

300

- Jeopardy -

All Americans born after World War II between 1946-

1964

Category B

400

- Jeopardy -

What is the baby boom generation?

Category B

400

- Jeopardy -

How much would you like to bet?

DAILY DOUBLE

- Jeopardy -

He coined the term “Generation X”

to describe the people born in the U.S.A. between 1965-

1980

Category B

500

- Jeopardy -

Who is Douglas Coupland?

Category B

500

- Jeopardy -This area combines all of the

populations of East and West Europe including the European part of Russia to become the

third largest population cluster, comprising 1/9th of the

people of the world

Category C

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- Jeopardy -

What is the Europe population Cluster ?

Category C

100

- Jeopardy -On fifth of the world’s

population lives in this area that includes India,

Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the island of Sri Lanka

Category C

200

- Jeopardy -

What is the South Asia Population Cluster?

Category C

200

- Jeopardy -

How much would you like to bet?

DAILY DOUBLE

- Jeopardy -

Located in the East Asian Population cluster, this is

the world’s most populated country

Category C

300

- Jeopardy -

Category C

300

What is China?

- Jeopardy -This area of the world

has the fourth largest population and is mainly made up of

islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans

Category C

400

- Jeopardy -

What is the Southeaster Asia population cluster?

Category C

400

- Jeopardy -

Several areas of population concentration such as one

in U.S. and Canada, another in Wet Africa.

Category C

500

- Jeopardy -

What is Other Population Clusters?

Category C

500

- Jeopardy -

The number of people occupying an area of land

Category D

100

- Jeopardy -

What is density?

Category D

100

- Jeopardy -

The number of people divided by the total land

area also known as population density

Category D

200

- Jeopardy -

What is arithmetic density?

Category D

200

- Jeopardy -

The number of people supported by a unit of arable land in a region

Category D

300

- Jeopardy -

What is physiological density?

Category D

300

- Jeopardy -

The ratio of farmers to the amount of arable land

Category D

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- Jeopardy -

What is Agricultural density?

Category D

400

- Jeopardy -

Areas of the world where there are few people such as dry lands, wet lands,

cold lands, and high lands

Category D

500

- Jeopardy -

What is sparsely populated regions?

Category D

500

- Jeopardy -

A cylindrical projection that retains the accurate sizes of the world’s landmasses.

Category E

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- Jeopardy -

What is the Peters projection?

Category E

100

- Jeopardy -A map that maintains the

accurate size and shape of landmasses, but completely rearranges directions so that

the cardinal directions (N,S,E,W)

Category E

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- Jeopardy -

What is a Fuller projection?

Category E

200

- Jeopardy -

A map that does not maintain accuracy in size,

shape, distance, or direction but as it tries to minimize errors it is used

most.

Category E

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- Jeopardy -

What is a Robinson Projection?

Category E

300

- Jeopardy -

Place your bets!

DAILY DOUBLE

- Jeopardy -

A map with either the North or South pole featured at the center as if looking up or down from the

pole at the Earth

DAILY DOUBLE

- Jeopardy -

What is a Azimuthal Projection?

Category E

400

- Jeopardy -This map preserves accurate

compass direction but distorts the area of landmasses with the biggest distortion at the

poles

Category E

500

- Jeopardy -

What is the Mercator Projection?

Category E

500

- Jeopardy -Welcome to

Jeopardy!The fun and sneaky way to

review material for the upcoming test!

- Jeopardy -

And now…a brief introduction to the RULES of the GAME…

- Jeopardy -Each group must:

a) SIT TOGETHER, and b) Designate a SPEAKER who will respond to the prompts (You may NOT

change speakers).

- Jeopardy -

The game consists of FIVE categories,

each containingFIVE questions

- Jeopardy -

Questions are randomly arranged, NOT by degree

of difficulty

- Jeopardy -

Each speaker may select only ONE question per

round

- Jeopardy -

Once the selected question is posted on the

screen, the SPEAKER of the team

has 10 seconds to respond.

- Jeopardy -

The speaker may consult with teammates before

responding

- Jeopardy -

During the game, whispering is OK, but LOUD talking and/or disruptions DURING

THE GAME may result in point loss for the entire

team.

- Jeopardy -The response should be

phrased in the FORM OF A QUESTION.

(Words, phrases, and statements – even if correct –

may be disqualified)

- Jeopardy -

A CORRECT ANSWER earns the team the amount of points indicated on the

jeopardy board.

- Jeopardy -If the speaker does not

respond correctly within 10 seconds, the question passes on to the next

team speaker, who has 5 seconds to respond.

- Jeopardy -

The number of points for the correct answer at this stage are the same as for

the previous team.

- Jeopardy -Questions that are not

answered correctly by the selecting team are offered to the other teams in turn until a correct answer is given or

all teams have guessed incorrectly.

- Jeopardy -

For the Daily Double, the speaker designates the

number of points – up to the max. points earned by the team. If correct, the

team earns the designated points; if

incorrect, they lose the designated points.

- Jeopardy -Again, whispering is OK,

but remember, LOUD TALKING and/or

DISRUPTIONS DURING THE GAME may result in point loss for the entire

team.

- Jeopardy -The judge’s decisions

are FINAL and whining, pouting, and/or

complaints will NOT BE ENTERTAINED…

- Jeopardy -

Ready to play?

- Jeopardy -

Final Jeopardy Topic: population terms

You may wager up to the amount of points your team

has earned. Write your wager on a piece of paper and submit

it.

Updated: April 2009

Final Jeopardy QuestionFinal Jeopardy Question

A population group unified by a specific common characteristic, such as age, and

therefore treated as a statistical unit

Updated: April 2009

FundamentalsFundamentals

What is a cohort?