Unit 1
what is a map scale?
What is the relationship between a unit of length on the map and the actual distance on the ground?
What is a mental map?
What is a person's internalized representation of the Earth's surface, shaped by personal experience and perception?
what is arithmetic
What is the number of people per unit area of land?
What is natural increase rate (NIR)
What is the percentage by which a population grows in a year?
What is cultural diffusion?
What is the process by which cultural elements spread from one area or group to another?
what is the difference between site and situation?
What is the distinction between a unit of length on the map and the actual distance on the ground?
What is a reference map?
what is the demographic transition model?
What is a model showing how population growth and death rates change as a country develops economically?
What is doubling time?
What is the number of years it takes for a population to double assuming a constant structure?
What is folk culture?
What is a traditionally practiced culture by a small, isolated group in rural areas?
Define GIS and its purpose?
What is a Geographic Information System, Which stores, analyzes, and displays spatial data?
What is spatial pattern?
What is a spatial pattern, describing how phenomena are distributed across space?
what causes voluntary migration?
What are reasons such as economic opportunity, education, or safety that lead people to move by choice?
What is a population pyramid?
What is a graphical representation of a population's age and gender structure?
What is cultural landscape?
What is the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape?
What is spatial analysis?
What is the process of examining the spatial distribution of phenomena across Earth's surface?
What are map projections?
What is a map which transform Earth's 3D surface to a 2D map, often distorting shape, distance, area, or direction?
What is the gravity model in migration?
What is a model that predicts migration flow based on population size and distance between locations?
What is chain migration?
What is when people migrate to a location because relatives or member of the same culture have previously settled there?
How does language shape place?
What is how language can reflect, reinforce, and shape cultural identity in a region?
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
What is absolute location: the exact position using coordinates, and relative location: a place's location in relation to other places?
What is time-space compression?
what is the epidemiological transition model?
What is a model that explains causes of death and disease patterns as countries develop?
What is demographic trap?
What is a situation where a country is stuck in Stage 2 of the demographic transition, with high birth rates and falling death rates leading to overpopulation and strain on resources?
How does globalization affect local culture?
What is the way global interconnections can spread dominant cultures and threaten local traditions?