Unit 1 - Nature and Perspective
Geographic Informational System
Someone who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
A Refugee
Define religion.
A system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities.
What is a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent?
A colony.
What is Agriculture?
The science or occupation of cultivating land and rearing crops and livestock.
Define possibilism.
The environment constrains but does not determine geography.
What is infant mortality rate?
The number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1,000 births.
The physical manifestations of human activities includes tools, campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture.
Material Culture.
The Kurds are an example of what form of nation?
A stateless nation.
What is the #1 subsistence crop in the world?
Rice.
What is cartography?
The practice or science of drawing maps.
A right-side up population pyramid is an example of a
LDC
What model says that culture is very concentrated at some points and less concentrated at others?
The core-domain-sphere model.
Koreans are considered to be a part of a(n)
Multistate Nation.
Commercialization and industrlizationtrialization of the food production process has led to the development of what modern farming concept?
Agribusiness.
Define distance-decay.
The effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions
Define nationalism.
A firm belief in the superiority of one's ethnic group.
Which of the following is an example of an ethnic religion?
A.) Hinduism
B.) Christianity
C.) Buddhism
A.) Hinduism
Define colonialism.
The process by which one nation exercises near complete control over another country which they have settled and taken over.
What area in the Middle East is commonly referred to as the "cradle of civilization"?
The Fertile Crescent.
What type of map projection is a map projection of a world map that shows the entire world at once?
The Robinson projection.
What model shows that the interaction between two places can be determined by the product of the population of both places, divided by the square of their distance from one another?
The Gravity Model
Chinatown, San Francisco is an example of what?
An Ethnic Enclave
What is a fragmented state?
A state that is separated into many noncontiguous parts, usually by water.
What does Von Thunen's model explain?
How agricultural land usage varies in relation to the proximity of that land to urban centers.