Unit 1
A map that is shaded or patterned to show a variable
What is a choropleth map
Portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent settlement
What is ecumeme
Taking off your shoes before entering a house is an example of
What is a custom
Ethnic religions appeal to one ethnics or cultural group usually in a specific region while universalizing religions attempt to be global and appeal to all people.
The two types of governments
Federal and Unitary
Captures and stores queries, displays, and data by using a satellite
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)
Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not crossed an international border
What is an Internally displaced Person (IDP)
Type of culture that has traditionally worn clothing in response to distinctive agricultural practices and climatic conditions
What is folk culture
Neighborhood changes in ethnicity are sometimes caused by this
What is blockbusting
Who are the Kurds or Palestinians
Type of diffusion that spreads rapidly, often through social media
What is contagious diffusion
Number of people who are too young or too old to work compared to the number of people in the workforce
What is dependency ratio
The process by which local culture are changed by foreign culture to become more and more similar with aspects of foreign cultures
What is cultural homogenization
Two types of diffusion that spread Christianity and why
Hierarchical-- Emperor Constantine making it the empire's religion
Contagious-- Missionaries, migration, Conquest
What is intensive farming
The four ways a map can be distorted.
What are shape, distance, relative size, and direction.
Characteristics of DTM stage 3
A boundary that separates regions in which difference language usages predominate
What is an isogloss
This was put into place to enforce the egophoric separation of races and their development in South Africa
What is the Apartheid
Von Thunen emphasized this factor in his model of agriculture and land use
What is transportation cost
What is the Mecator Map Projection
Law that says most migrants will relocate to somewhere of a short distance and any long distance migrants more often move to major centers of economic activity
What is Ravenstein's laws
English's language group
What is West Germanic group in the Indo European language family
Family- Indo European
Branch- Germanic
Group- West
An example of an Autonomous religion
What is Islam
This is characterized by the mechanization of farm work which allowed young poeple to migrate and join a growing urban industrial work force
What is the second agricultural revoution