Thinking Geographically
This map projection has the greatest distortion at the poles
Mercator
Any forces or factors that limit human migration are known as
Intervening Obstacles
any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate, but associated with a cohort of people born just after WWII until 1964 in a time of relative peace and prosperity
ok boomer
A common agreed language of business in an area where people of different native tongues speak different languages
Lingua Franca
the world’s most widespread religion
Christianity
a projection that maintains overall shapes and relative positions without extreme distortion.
Robinson
movement of an individual who consciously decides to locate to a new area
voluntary migration
an inverted population pyramid indicates a large percentage of ___________________ in the community.
Elderly
the belief that the physical environment, especially the climate and terrain, actively shapes cultures. Human responses are molded almost entirely by the environment.
Environmental determinism
This religion follows the five pillars
Islam
the interaction between 2 locales declines as the distance between them increases
distance decay
net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries
counter-urbanization
A large base on a population pyramid indicates a lot of children in the society. This is usually a characteristic of a ______________________.
LDC
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
taboo
This religion is primarily found in India.
Hinduism
the study of location of people and human activities across Earth's surface, and of their relationships to one another
Human Geography
these cause migration to occur because certain things in their lives "encourage" them to leave, and certain things in a new place "draw" them to new places.
Push/Pull Factors
The average number of years a person born in a given country would live if mortality rates at each age were to remain constant in the future is known as
Life Expectancy
a boundary which separates two different languages or two variations in the same language
isogloss
language, symbols, flags, and anthems are examples of
centripetal force
The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.
Scale
A higher ____________________________ suggests that the available agricultural land is being used by more and may reach its output limit sooner.
Physiological Density
how would the population pyramid of a country that is currently in stage 4 look?
stable column
What are the top TWO language families in terms of number of speakers?
Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
Japan and Denmark are examples of
nation-state