Geography: Its nature and Perspectives | Population and Migration | Cultural Patterns and Processes | Political Organization of Space | Agriculture, Food Production, Rural Land Use |
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What is a mercator map?
Shapes and direction are maintained but the sizes of continents are distorted and inaccurate (size of Iceland to size of Africa)
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What is a population pyramid?
A graph that shows the age-sex distribution in a given population
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What is Creole?
Complex structured pidgin language that has become the native language
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What is a stateless nation?
People united by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state
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What is climate based off of?
Distance from equator, wind and ocean currents, proximity to nearest body of water, topography
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What is a Robinson map?
More distorted countries towards the central meridian
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What is the DTM?
A graph that represents the pattern of birth and death rate across countries as they become more industrialized and therefore advanced
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What is cultural syncretism?
The process of innovation combining different cultures into something new (can create new ideas, values, or practices)
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What is balkanization?
The chaotic and often violent separation of a state into smaller independent nations; a form of devolution
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What is extensive farming?
Relatively few inputs and little investment in labor and capital and have lower outputs than farmers who practice intensive agriculture
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What is the reason why maps are never perfect?
The earth is sphere-shaped but maps are flat rectangles
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What are factors that impact population distribution?
Environmental (climate/water/land), political, cultural, historical
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What is a cultural landscape?
A landscape modified by humans to include their cultural beliefs, traditions, and values
The human imprint on the landscape, and it offers clues about cultural practices and priorities, both past and present |
What are examples of supranational organizations?
NATO, UN, EU, ASEAN
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What is the Von Thunen Model?
What farmers produce changes with distance from the town, with livestock raising farthest from town
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What are the types of diffusion?
Hierarchical, Contagious, Sequential
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What is the Malthusian argument?
The idea that only things like famine or natural disaster or severe war/genocide will be enough to regulate the human population at this point
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What is distance decay?
A principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have
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What is gerrymandering?
Party that controls majority of seats in state legislature typically draws legislative maps with partisan advantage
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What are the economic activity sectors?
Primary (resources), secondary (using resources), tertiary (selling resources), quaternary (managing resources)
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What are the five themes?
Movement, Location, Place, Region, Human-Environment Interaction
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What is the dependency ratio?
Amount of people within the working range by the amount of people outside the working age range
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What are monotheistic religions?
Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism
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What is the structure of unitary states?
Top down power structure - starts with federal and funnels down to local units; County and municipal authority granted by federal government
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What is the fair trade movement?
A global campaign to fix unfair wage practices and protect the ability of farmers to earn a living ; Meant to improve the lives of farmers and workers in peripheral and semi-peripheral countries by providing more equitable working and trading conditions
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