Geography Basics
The exact location of an object
Absolute location
The maximum population size an environment can sustain
carrying capacity
The beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by a society
Culture
A group of people with a common identity through shared cultural traits such as language, religion, ethnicity, and heritage
Nation
Cultivating crops and/or livestock for your own consumption
Subsistence agriculture
The farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction two things will have
Distance Decay
A measure used to show the ratio of non-working-age individuals (typically those under 15 and over 65) to the working-age population (ages 15 to 64)
Dependency ratio
The idea that successive societies leave behind their cultural imprint
Sequent occupance
A country with various ethnicities & cultures living inside its borders
Multinational state
This is the practice of growing crops or grazing animals on a piece of land for a year or two, then abandoning that land when the nutrients have been depleted from the soil and moving to a new piece of land
Shifting cultivation
A type of region that reflects people's feelings and attitudes about a place
Perceptual Region/Vernacular Region
Money earned by migrants abroad that is sent back to their home country
Remittances
An idea or trait spreads from a person or place of power/authority to other people or places
Hierarchical Diffusion
This term describes a people that are united by culture, language, history, and tradition, but do not possess a state
Stateless nation
The rise of agribusiness has led to the establishment of a complex network that connects places of production with distribution to consumers. This network is called a ______________________________________
Commodity chain
This map projection shows true direction and is good for navigation, but distorts area and size, especially near the poles
Mercator Projection
This type of population density measures the total number of people per unit of arable (useable) land
Physiological Density
The blending of different beliefs, practices, and cultural elements to form a new, cohesive system
Syncretism
Control and influence over a specific geographic space. It often includes aspects such as historic and cultural links, boundaries, and defense/military
Territoriality
A form of land degradation that occurs when soil deteriorates to a desert-like condition
Desertification
This captures, stores, organizes, and displays geographic data that can then be used to configure simple and complex maps
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
This type of density measures the total number of farmers per unit of arable (useable) land
Agricultural Density
The largest language family in the world
Indo-European/Indo-European Language Family
This occurs when people of a particular ethnicity in a multinational state identify more strongly as members of their ethnic group than as citizens of the state
Ethnic separatism
Wheat was first domesticated in this agricultural hearth
Fertile Crescent