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Geography |
What is the term that involves the evolving character and organization of earth's surface? |
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World Population Distribution |
What is basically the term (consists of three separate words) that means the pattern of where people live. |
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Crude Birth Rate |
Number of life births per 1000 population (male + female) in a given year |
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Crude Death Rate |
Annual number of deaths per 1,000 population. |
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Natural Increase |
Birth Rate - Death rate= |
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Net migration |
Immigration - emigration = |
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Toponym |
place name: the name by which a geographical place is known |
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Cultural Ecology |
This is the study that deals with the relationship between the earth and humans; the outcome of this relationship is the cultural landscape. |
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Exclave |
a small piece of territory separated from the main part of the territory of a state and entirely surrounded by the territory of another state. OR (Small) area outside of the compact national territory. |
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Enclave |
A tract or territory enclosed within another state or country. |
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Latitude |
the distance north or south of the equator of a point on the earth's surface. This distance is measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds. |
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Longitude |
Geographic distance east or west of the prime meridian expressed in degrees and minutes. |
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Chain Migration |
Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. Importance pull factors for migrants. |
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Brain Drain |
Countries lose educated, talented emigrants (true for many Asian countries) |
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Internal Migration |
Migration within a country |
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Map Scale |
Distance on the map represents distance on the ground proportionately |
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Carrying Capacity |
The resource base of an area supports a sustainable population |
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Folk Culture |
refers to the localized lifestyle of a subsistence or otherwise inward looking culture. It is usually handed down through oral ...--More isolated-- |
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Popular Culture |
culture and knowledge passed on through mass media, magazines, television, radio, Internet. OR consists of widespread cultural elements in any given society. Such elements are perpetuated through that society's vernacular language or an established lingua franca. ...--Spread by diffusion-- |
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Nation State |
An ethnostate (examples are: denmark, israel, japan) The Palestinians want to be a __________. a state in which all citizens share a common nationality OR An independent state or country. |
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Formal Region |
An area organized around a focal point/ node (center). Uniformity and shared characteristics; like citizenship |
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Functional Region |
It has a node or center. Example: Business Territory region that is defined and classified by patterns of spatial interaction or spatial organization. ... |
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Vernacular Region |
It varies according to what the criteria is or who you ask. Example: The Midwest. --Also known as perceptual region; an area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity. |
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Relocation Diffusion |
Example: The quakers - The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |
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Expansion Diffusion |
Examples: Hierarchical (USA in Iraq) , Contagious (Coke/ McDonalds) , Stimulus (The Apple Mouse) --The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. |
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Acculturation |
A dominant group absorbs or integrates the culture of a less-dominant group. May happen through conquest or through spread of pop culture. |
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Centripetal force |
(ANSWER IS TWO WORDS AND SINGULAR) What brings people together into a nationality; example- language, customs, history, etc. -- An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. |
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Centrifugal force |
(ANSWER IS TWO WORDS AND SINGULAR) Forces that may lead to devolution (decentralizing) or Balkanization (breaking up) of a state. These may include ethnic differences, uneven development, proruption, allegiance to a substate over the national state (e.g., loyalty to the Confederacy by Southerners)), or even local control when national control is difficult because of distance decay. |
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Distance Decay |
Also called "friction of distance" When distance from a core region increases, efficiency or control decreases; The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |
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Unitary State |
Central government has the power. (Example: Russia) An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials. |
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Federal State |
Example: U.S. -- Power is shared by Central government and its sub-state territorial units (state, country, etc.) ; An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. |
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Self-Determination |
(TWO WORDS WITH - IN BETWEEN) A substate wants to rule itself. Example: Chechnya, Quebec in 1955, Palestinians since 1948 |
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Colonialism |
Involves being ruled by the mother country. Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. |
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Imperialism |
Implies economic and political domination. ; Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society. |
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Forced Migration |
Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. Example: Africans because of tribal warfare. Natural Disasters. (Sudan, Cajun Diaspora) |
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Universalizing religion |
Seeks new members, A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular region. |
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Ethnic religion |
A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated. |
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Geographic Information System |
(not abbreviation) This system uses layers of computer data. Organizes information such as the geographic setting of streets and neighborhoods; used to organize/ analyze/ observe the geographic information collected. |
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Global Positioning System |
Used to give EXACT location with satellites. (Not the abbreviation) |
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Census tract |
Used by the _____ Bureau to canvas neighborhoods and collect data. (consists of two words so DON'T fill in the blank) |
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North American Free Trade Agreement |
Canada, USA, Mexico is all involved in this. Economic balance with trade. |
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European Union |
20 + European States are in this and their last decision was to make the common currency all Euros. This is: |
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
They organize how oil is distributed and taken from countries within the Middle East and Venezuela. , emerged as the major petroleum pricing power in 1973, when the ownership of oil production in the Middle East transferred from the operating companies to the governments of the producing countries or to their national oil companies. ...was set up in 1960 to co-ordinate prices and supply policies of the major petroleum exporting countries. The UK is not a member. |
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World Trade Organization |
Newer than OPEC and aims to decrease world trade barriers. |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
West vs. East; democracies vs. Communist States. THE ANSWER was AGAINST the ______ Pact ***DO NOT FILL IN THE BLANK!*** |
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Warsaw Pact |
The military alliances during the cold war. NOT NATO... |
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Prorupted State |
An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension (example: Thailand) |
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Compact State |
A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly. (example: Poland) |
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Perforated State |
A state that completely surrounds another state. (Example: South Africa) |
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Elongated State |
A state with a long, narrow shape. (Example. Chile) |
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Fragmented State |
A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory. (Example: Indonesia) |
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Thomas Malthus |
Who had the theory that Food will increase arithmetically; population increases exponentially; food WILL run out. |
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World Population Distribution |
The concentrations of this term are in the Northern Hemisphere (larger land masses, better climate are the reasons why) |
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Africa and Asia |
The fastest growth is occurring in the poorer countries of these two continents; their cities are growing rapidly. |
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China |
This country's crude birth rate is lower than ours because of birth control; one-child policy |
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Birth Rate - Death rate + immigration - emigration |
The formula of a country's population change in one year is : (do not abbreviate) |
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Total Fertility Rate |
Other than the original way, what is another way population growth is measured? |
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Gerrymandering |
The purpose of this is to benefit one group or political party in creating congressional districts. |
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Map projection and distortion |
Happens when a round surface is made flat; distortion may be in size or shape of land forms, distance between land forms, or in direction. |
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Stage 1 |
This stage of the demographic transition model has a high birth rate, a high death rate, and low conditions/ outcomes. |
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Stage 2 |
This stage of the demographic transition model has high birth rates, low death rates, and high growth. |
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Stage 3 |
This stage of the demographic transition model has decreasing birth rates, low death rates, and a better infant mortality rate; moderate growth. Started large migration to the New World because of European wars. |
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stage 4 |
This stage of the demographic transition model has a low birth rate, a low death rate, a stabilized condition and low growth. Involves urbanization and even falling birth rates in some countries. |
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India |
Cultural Center for Hindus (country) |
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Israel |
Cultural Center for Jews (country) |
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North Africa and Southwest Asia |
Cultural Center for Muslims (country) |
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Rivers |
In world history it has been the significance of this that has gotten city-states to begin within Mesopotamia; in Europe the earliest and largest cities ran on this for necessary transportation. |
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Great Britain and France |
Who were the major colonial powers in Africa? |
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Urban |
We are more ____ and have been more ____ since the 1920s (talking about the U.S.) |
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Sun Belt |
Population is shifting from the Rust Belt to the ____ ______, as businesses seek cheaper land, lower costs. Federal government has spent more money in the ____ _____ in recent years, and elderly have sought retirement in the ___ ______. |
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Boston to Washington |
Our core area is from ______ to _________ (make sure you include the word "to" in between your two answers) |
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Transnational Corporations |
These corporations look out for themselves by seeking locations abroad where their labor is cheap and the laws are more lax. They move locations of production often. |
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Mesopotamia, China, India, Mexico |
Where were the early cultural hearths? (sorry the names are in a certain order and you have to get it in that order... so if you get all of them in a different order just consider it right.) |
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Site |
Deals with a description relative to physical features- like near a harbor or mountain |
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Situation |
Deals with a relative location- near by or close to some other place. |
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Cultural Landscape |
Religions affect food production-- religions may ban the eating of certain foods. This is in the ______ ______. (fill in the blank) |
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Religion, language, ethnicity |
What are the causes of clashes between groups? |
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Family to branch to group to language to dialect |
Parts of language are? |
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mortality, war, influx of guest workers, boomer generation |
What can population pyramids show? |
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Guest Workers |
These people come from other countries for money and cannot stay permanently. |
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15 degrees |
A new time zone is every how many degrees? (take note: China does not use the international time zone) |
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Cultural Extinction |
This is a problem in places like the rainforest because mankind may lose knowledge about the ecosystem and medicinal customs. |
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Language Extinction |
This occurs usually by acculturation or take-over by a hierarchical group. |
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Reference Map |
This is used for location purposes for places or regions |
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Thematic map |
This term shows certain variables that may be located, compared, analyzed |
