Unit 1
An area focused on a node or focal point
Functional reigon
Laws that limit the number of migrants allowed to enter a country
Quota laws
The process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to RESEMBLE those of another group.
Assimilation
An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory
Boundary
a group of people that share common cultural traits, language, and history
Nation
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Globalization
When the US emergency quota laws were passed
1920
The hearth for Judaism and Christianity
Israel
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. Politicians use gerrymandering to avoid competitive elections
Gerrymandering
A reason that induces people to move to a new location.
Correct on the Mercator projection
Shape and Direction
Movement within one region
Intraregional
Have no known founder or place of origin. Follow folklore and practices.
Ethnic Religion
1884–1885 Meeting at which the major EUROPEAN powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in AFRICA (Superimposed boundary)
Berlin Conference
Government policy that supports higher birth rates. Countries
Pro Natalist
The theory that the physical environment might set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
Possibleism
Stage where countries needed children for labor and most children died in childhood- people have more kids
An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area.
Cultural Landscape
12 nautical miles (out to sea) from the states boundaries, states may impose laws as they please in this area.
Territorial Sea
People migrating to countries hoping to be recognized as a refugee
Asylum Seeker
A 19th and 20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical enviorment caused human activities.
Environmental Determinism
Reasons why Germans and Irish immigrated to the United States in 1840s
Irish potato famine and Political Unrest
simplified form of a lingua franca, has fewer elements than a lingua franca (simplified grammar+limited vocab)
Pidgin Language
an approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the midpoint between two countries. If 2 countries don’t have at least 200 nautical miles of distance evenly divided between them, they use the Median Line Principle to split the ocean “evenly” between them
Median Line Principle
The number of people under age 15 and age 65 and over compared to the number of people active in the labor force.
Dependency Ratio