Unit 1: Thinking Geographically
This term refers to the exact coordinates of a location, while another describes its location in relation to other places.
What is the difference between absolute location and relative location?
This model explains the transition of a country’s birth and death rates over time.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
This is the term for the human imprint on the physical environment.
What is the cultural landscape?
This is a defined area with sovereignty and a permanent population.
What is a state?
This historical shift marks the beginning of agriculture and permanent settlements.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This type of thematic map distorts area to reflect a variable like population.
What is a cartogram?
This East Asian country is often cited as an example of Stage 5 in the DTM.
What is Japan?
This type of culture is traditional and practiced by small groups, while the other is widespread and changes rapidly.
What is the difference between folk culture and popular culture?
This term describes a culturally unified group, and this one describes when that group forms its own country.
What are a nation and a nation-state?
This kind of agriculture is mainly for family or local consumption, not for sale.
What is subsistence agriculture?
This concept explains the arrangement of phenomena across Earth's surface.
What is spatial distribution?
This ecological concept refers to the maximum number of people an area can sustainably support.
What is carrying capacity?
This term describes when a minority group adopts the dominant culture’s traits.
What is assimilation?
This is a unifying force that brings people together within a country.
What is a centripetal force?
This type of farming uses small land areas with high labor input, unlike its counterpart.
What is intensive agriculture?
These are the three main ways to express map scale.
What are ratio (fraction), written, and graphic scales?
This term represents the number of people immigrating minus those emigrating.
What is net migration?
This process happens when languages split due to physical or social isolation.
What is language divergence?
This is the manipulation of voting district boundaries for political gain.
What is gerrymandering?
This model explains the spatial organization of farming around a central market.
What is the Von Thünen Model?
These two types of diffusion describe how ideas and innovations spread.
What are relocation diffusion and expansion diffusion?
This 19th-century geographer developed a set of migration "laws".
Who is Ernst Ravenstein?
This type of religion tries to appeal to all people and spread globally.
What is a universalizing religion?
This term describes an organization where multiple countries work together toward shared goals.
What is a supranational organization?
These are two major effects of the Green Revolution.
What are increased food production and environmental degradation?