This type of region has agreed upon borders and official names
Formal Region
A situation where the number of people exceeds the carrying capacity
Overpopulation
This religion believes their Messiah ascended to heaven in Jerusalem, after he was crucified by the Romans
Christianity
This type of state uses a strong central power to govern the whole state as one.
Unitary State
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of arable land
Agricultural Density
An area next to urban areas that is left intentionally for nature to grow, to break up the urbanization
The standard measure of the value added created through the production of goods and services (products) in a country during a certain period.
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Danahey's score on the AP test when he took it as a kid
4
And he's way dumber than you
All of the water on Earth's surface is called the
Hydrosphere
A rate that decreases the population of a country, in a morbid but natural way
CDR (Crude Death Rate)
When older architecture occupies the same place as modern buildings, this is an example of:
Sequent occupation
This force causes people to seperate.
Centrifugal
he exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas
Columbian Exchange
The relative value of a location based on other locations
When a large number of companies and industries cluster together and benefit from the cost reductions and gains in efficiency that result from this proximity
Agglomeration
Danahey's favorite superhero is...
Spiderman
The word for a "trailing off phenomenon" that results in people drifting apart due to farther distances
Distance decay
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
TFR (Total Fertility Rate)
When two language groups can't understand each other, they form this form of rough language to communicate
Pidgin Language
This type of boundary is usually used before there is a high population and is pre-existing, and usually falls on physical population
Antecedent
This area was the birthplace of a number of technological innovations, including writing, the wheel, agriculture, and the use of irrigation
Fertile Crescent
A city that is at least twice as large as the next largest city in the country and is the dominant city in the country
primate city
This was created to determine the location of manufacturing plants. The location could be different based on if the final product weighed more or less than the raw materials.
Weber's Least Cost Theory
Danahey played this unusual type of singing to tell the difference between folk and popular music
Mongolian Throat Singing
The term that describes the reduction of time it takes to reach another place, due to technology
space-time compression
A belief that does not value procreation, and was adopted by China in the past
Anti-Natalist Policies
The only form of diffusion that local/folk culture spreads by
Relocation Diffusion
A homogeneous country that contains almost only one ethnic group that governs itself.
Nation-state
An outdated model that explores the use of land for agriculture based on a central city based on cost of land and cost of transportation
von Thunen's Model
Areas that have been deserted in a city for economic or environmental reasons
zones of abandonment
This economic sector deals with the manufacturing of goods and other industry
Secondary Sector
Danahey's favorite local example of cultural landscape
True Nature
What is the largest scale of analysis we use in AP HuGe
City Scale
Remember LARGE scale means zoomed in, SMALL scale means zoomed out (e.x the world map is small scale)
This famous economist did not have high hopes for the future
Thomas Malthus
When two different religions interact (usually a universalizing and ethnic,) one religion will adopt the others traits in order to be more appealing.
Sycretism
A group of states that agree to work together, while sacrificing sovereignty for a common goal
Supranationalism
This event increased the productivity of farming through mechanization and access to market areas due to better transportation.
Second Agricultural Revolution
A discriminatory practice in which services are withheld from potential customers who reside in neighborhoods classified as 'hazardous' to investment; these neighborhoods have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities, and low-income residents
Redlining
When two regions or businesses specifically satisfy each other's needs through exchange of raw materials and or finished goods.
Complementary trade
Danahey used the United States citizens as both an example of ______ism and ______ism depending on how you looked at it
Patriotism and Nationalism
The South is an example of what kind of region?
Vernacular Region
Babies can be born healthy, but still hurt their mothers depending on the medical advances in the country. What is the ratio called when mothers die due to pregnancy?
Maternal Mortality Rate
The way of looking at other cultures, while assuming your culture is the standard or superior culture
Ethnocentrism
This type of boundary is created by an outside force, and often doesn't reflect the will of the people living around it.
Superimposed
High priced, relatively rare crops that are inessential to human survival
cash crops
The theory that describes country as either periphery, semi-periphery or core
World System's Theory
Visiting a place, directed toward exotic, often threatened, natural environments, intended to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife.
Ecotourism
Ukraine-Russia Crisis/Conflict
This word is what it's called when you convert the 3D world to a 2D surface
projection
A decline of the number of babies born every year, to the point where it matches the amount of deaths every year
ZPG (Zero Population Growth)
This religion that life is a cycle, and in order to break that cycle, you must achieve enlightenment to save your soul.
Hinduism
A distinct type of world region from which local turmoil escalates to serious conflict among outside major powers.
shatterbelt
The gradual (or occasionally, rapid) depletion of the nutrient-rich dirt in which almost all crops are grown.
topsoil loss (erosion)
An urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types
New Urbanism
A summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living
HDI
Human Development Index
What is Danahey's favorite TV show
The Office
These types of maps show either political lines, physical features, or roads
Reference maps
These three things account the most for the reduction in birthrates both in countries and around the world
Women receiving an education, Access to birth control, and less childhood deaths
A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group, that is distinct from those in the surrounding area
Ethnic Enclave
The fragmentation of a large state into smaller states based on ethnicity.
Balkanization or Separatism or Secessionism
Goods that have some other product in them or item attached to them to make them unique and able to sell at higher price
value-added specialty crops
The rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation.
Urban Sprawl
A form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to preform repeatedly
Fordist Production
Danahey does this activity competitively
Shooting