Geo Basics
The exact coordinates of a place on Earth.
absolute location
The number of people per unit of arable land.
physiological density
The process by which urban areas grow and spread into rural areas.
urban sprawl
An invisible line marking a state's territory.
Border
A restriction on behavior imposed by social customs.
Taboo
The decreasing importance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Distance Decay
A permanent move to a new location.
migration
The increase in economic and cultural interactions across the globe.
globalization
A country completely surrounded by land.
Landlocked
A language no longer spoken in daily use but still studied or used in rituals.
Dead Language
The physical and human characteristics that make a location unique.
Place
People forced to flee their country due to persecution or violence.
refugees
A city that dominates the economic, political, and cultural life of a country.
Primate City
A political boundary that ignores cultural divisions, often drawn by colonizers.
superimposed boundary
The process by which people lose their original cultural traits when they come into contact with another culture.
assimilation
A flat representation of Earth's surface that can be distorted.
map
A model showing how population changes as a country develops.
DTM
The theory that explains the spatial layout of agriculture based on transportation costs.
von Thunen's Model
The belief that political power is tied to control over land and resources.
geopolitics
A sacred site in Jerusalem important to Judaism.
Western Wall
The term for the gap or interval between objects.
space
The tendency of migrants to follow others from the same region.
Chain migration
The division of the economy into core, semi-periphery, and periphery countries.
Wallerstein's World Systems
The splitting of voting districts to benefit a political party
Gerrymandering
A linguistic boundary that separates regions based on word usage or pronunciation.
Isogloss