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This is an exact measure of the separation between two points using a standard, such as inches, feet or miles.
What is absolute distance?
This word refers to the long-term patterns of weather in an area
What is climate?
This attitude towards cultural differences involves ethnic groups evaluating other cultural traits based on their own ethnicity's preconceived ideas.
What is ethnocentrism?
Most states around the world fall into this category because they have a strong central government
What is a unitary state?
Gender imbalance was the effect of this longstanding Chinese policy, an effort to control population growth.
What is the one child policy?
These maps show agreed upon boundaries of provinces states and countries.
What are political maps?
This word refers to when people make a permanent move from one place to another.
What is migration?
This vocab word describes a specific type of language. One example of a language of this type is Njerep, a Mambiloid language from Cameroon and Nigeria.
What is a critically endangered language?
Japan is considered the closest example of this type of state in the world.
What is a nation-state?
Once a part of the European Union, the United Kingdom decided to leave the supranational organization, in a leave commonly termed this nickname.
What is Brexit?
Refers to the decreased distance between places measured by the time or cost it takes to travel between them.
What is time space compression?
This refers to the total number of people born in a country per 1,000 people living there.
What is crude birth rate?
This process involves the change of a low-income local area by the arrival of more affluent society members. The result is greater physical and visible development in housing, stores, and infrastructure.
What is gentrification?
This process involves drawing boundaries using legal descriptions and official documentation.
What is delimitation?
What is site?
This geographic concept explains why the same physical feature, like a river or desert, can have different meanings depending on the culture interpreting it.
What is cultural landscape?
While arithmetic density is a useful number, it is more useful to use this concept to determine how many people the land can support.
What is physiological density?
This military leader, whose horse's name was Bucephalus, spread Greek culture through a process called military conquest.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This U.S. law led to the creation of new majority–minority districts.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Russia has justified military and territorial actions in eastern Ukraine by claiming the need to reunite ethnic Russians living outside its borders, an example of this political-geographic concept.
What is irredentism?
This concept refers to the relationship between the geographic location of an object and its meaningful position within a larger spatial system, often used when analyzing globalization and spatial interaction.
What is relative location?
This stage of the Demographic Transition Model is characterized by declining birth rates due to increased access to contraception, urbanization, and expanded educational and economic opportunities for women.
What is Stage 3?
This process explains how cultural traits such as language, religion, or food practices spread outward from a central origin through direct contact rather than mass media or technology.
What is relocation diffusion?
This process occurs when a central government transfers decision-making power to regional or local authorities, often in response to ethnic conflict or centrifugal forces.
What is devolution?
This state became a national case study after courts ruled that its congressional maps used racial and partisan strategies like packing and cracking to dilute minority voting power.
What is North Carolina?