Unit 1: Human Geography
The location method utilizing longitude and latitude on a map projection
What is absolute location?
The number of children a woman gives birth to, on average, during her childbearing years
What is total fertility rate?
When many locations in one region look very similar, making it difficult to differentiate between places
What is placelessness?
The name of a place
What is a toponym?
A nation of people without a state to their name
What is a stateless nation?
The further a cultural trait spreads, the less influence it spreads over the people and landscape
What is distance decay?
The amount of time it takes for the population of a country, city, or town, to double
What is doubling time?
The adoption of another culture's traits into one's own culture, often leading to a loss of cultural identity
What is assimilation?
The religious belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence, or soul
What is animism?
The manipulation of electoral district boundaries to favor a particular political party
What is gerrymandering?
A type of region with a specific purpose to uphold for the greater region it resides in
What is a functional region?
The man who proposed that food supplies grew linearly and population exponentially, causing a population trap
Who is Thomas Malthus?
The traditional practices, customs, and beliefs of small, homogeneous groups of people, often in rural areas
What is folk culture?
A language that has deteriorated over time, and thus has no more native speakers
A form of governance where most, if not all, power resides in the central gov't, making decisions that are binding on the entire state
What is a unitary state?
The spread of ideas from larger places to smaller places
What is hierarchical diffusion?
The population phenomena where population does not increase or decrease
What is zero population growth? (ZGG)
The process of increased interconnectedness and interdependence among countries, economies, cultures, and populations through trade, communication, and tech
What is globalization?
The boundary that separates different religious groups or areas where one religion predominates over another within the context of the world's major faiths
What is an interfaith boundary?
a political/nationalist ideology that seeks to reclaim a territory that the movement's adherents believe rightfully belongs to them
What is irredentism?
An approach or view that examines the arrangement of various phenomena across space and the relationships between them
What is spatial perspective?
People who argue that rapid RNI can lead to soil degradation, environmental disaster, resource depletion, etc, similar to the warnings of Malthus
Who are Neomalthusians?
A group of interrelated cultural traits or practices that are shared by a particular society or community
What is a culture complex?
Forced/involuntary migration of a group
What is diaspora?
Parts of a country's territory that are separated from the main part and are entirely surrounded by other states
What is an exclave?