Unit 1
the total number of people divided by the total land area
What is arithmetic density?
are forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state.
What is centrifugal?
A group of people bound together by some sense of a common culture, ethnicity, language, shared history, and attachment to a homeland .
What is a nation?
African slave trade is an example of what type of migration?
What is forced migration?
the average number of children born to each woman in a given region during the course of her lifetime.
What is the fertility rate?
an attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state. In other words, forces from within a state unite it and keep the country together.
What is centripetal force?
Palestine, Kurds, Basque
What are stateless nations?
What is a population pyramid?
Five of the main design principles are legibility, visual contrast, figure-ground, hierarchical organization, and balance
What are cartographic principles?
early expanding stage where the population begins to rise. It has a high birth rate, but the death rate drops.
What is stage 2 of the DTM?
The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture (usually a dominant one). Often used to describe immigrant adaptation to new places.
What is assimilation?
Strong central government, small geographically, homogenous population, prone to corruption.
What is a unitary government?
This country has the lowest infant mortality rate among more populous countries.
What is Japan?
it is an exact place on Earth, often given in terms of latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location
political unrest, a lack of job opportunities, or overcrowding
the term used to describe the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society. It usually occurs when one society is controlled, either politically, economically, socially, or all of these, by another society.
What is acculturation?
United Kingdom, USSR
What are Multistate nations?
He believed that population grew exponentially and that food grew linearly.
Who is Malthus?
made up of structures within the physical landscape caused by human imprint/human activities. Ex: buildings, artwork, Protestant churches in the US South - Cathedrals in Southern/western Europe, mosques in Southwest Asia.
What is cultural landscape?
low stationary phase where the birth rates get lower, while death rates start to rise as people are getting older. The natural increase rates (NIR) in these countries are close to zero.
When a celebrity starts a fashion trend and this trend slowly becomes popular throughout the United States. Usually, starts in big urban areas (NYC, LA, etc.), then spreads to smaller cities/suburbs, and then lastly to rural areas.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
Multiple levels of government, large geographically, diverse population, slow to change.
What is a federal system?
Countries less than 400 miles apart will divide the area of ocean between them each receiving half for their economic use.
What is the meridian line principle?