Unit 1
The coordinates of a place using latitude and longitude
What is Absolute Location?
Disease where there is a severe loss of cellular immunity
What is AIDS?
large culture that incorporates heterogeneous population, is typically urban, and experiences quick changing traits
What is popular culture?
Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
What is Balkanization?
A force that divides people and countries
What is a Centrifugal force?
The number of farmers per unit of farmland
What is agricultural density?
A complete count of a population
What is a census?
The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape
What is cultural landscape?
A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory
What is an enclave?
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country
What is Nationalism?
The science of map-making
What is cartography?
Total number of child deaths per 1000 live births
What is Child Morality Rate?
Sense of superiority attached to race
What is Racism?
A force that divides people and countries
What is Centripetal force?
Seeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in the response to uncertainty of the modern world
What is neocolonialism?
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout a population
What is contagious diffusion?
Number of people too young or too old to work compared to workers
What is dependency ratio?
A part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups
What is a Ghetto?
Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
What is Gerrymandering?
The imaginary center line of latitude that divides the northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is the Equator?
Contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears
What is distance decay?
Time during the 19th century, major improvements in manufacturing goals and delivering them to market
What is the Industrial Revolution
A language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce
What is lingua Franca?
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states
What is sovereignty?
The study of where and why human activities are located where they are
What is Human Geography?