Thinking Geographically
This is the study of the spatial characteristics of humans and human activities, such as population, culture, politics, urban areas, and economics.
Human Geography
This is the term for the amount of people in a defined area, usually measured per square mile or square kilometer
Population density
This is the culture of a large, heterogenous, usually global group of people; it is heavily influenced by social media, television, music, and film.
Popular culture
This is a type of political entity that has defined borders, a permanent population, and recognized sovereignty over its territory. Also known as a "country."
State
This is a combination of factors including distance from the equator, wind and ocean currents, distance from large bodies of water, and topography
Climate
Physical Geography
This is a graphical representation of an area's population (usually a country), broken down by gender and age cohorts.
Population pyramid
This is a term for the elements of a place that were built by humans and reflects their cultural traits. It can contain architecture, agricultural practices, language, and food.
Cultural landscape
This type of boundary is marked with physical objects including stones, walls, fences, or even military obstacles
Demarcated boundary
This rural settlement pattern is often found in French America and prioritized access to rivers and waterways.
Linear Settlement
This type of thematic map uses colors and shades to show the location and distribution of data.
Choropleth map
This is caused by a combination of push factors and pull factors.
Migration
This is a type of interaction between cultures when one culture is dominated by another. Native American boarding schools in American and Canadian history are an example of this.
Assimilation
This is a nation whose people live in more than one country.
Multistate nation
This is the term for the historical process resulting from European discovery of the Americas where goods from Europe, Africa, and North & South America were diffused across the Atlantic Ocean.
Columbian Exchange
A map of the world would be __________ scale, while a detailed map of Richmond, VA would be __________ scale.
small; large
This is a general term for government policies seeking to increase the rate of population growth, or the birth rate.
Pronatalist policies
This is the practice of judging all other cultures by the standards of one's own culture; it is generally discouraged.
Ethnocentrism
This is the process of claiming and dominating external or overseas territories
Colonialism
This thinker designed a model that sought to identify the best place to practice different types of agriculture, relative to distance from the central market.
von Thunen
This type of region is defined informally; different people may have different definitions of the places that belong in it.
Perceptual/Vernacular region
This measurement is the comparison between a place's working-age population and the age groups who rely on them for support.
Dependency ratio
In this type of diffusion (spread) of culture, the general idea spreads but is modified based on the norms and traditions of its destination.
Stimulus diffusion
In this form of governance, provincial or local governments maintain significant authority from the central government and may have unique laws.
Federal
This is the agricultural hearth of corn (maize).
Central America