Maps & Spatial Conceptions
The map projection that focuses on direction
What is a Mercator projection
The number of live births per 1,000 people per year.
What is crude birth rate (CBR)?
A pull factor for migration that relates to job opportunities.
What is economic opportunity?
A group of people who share common cultural traits.
What is an ethnic group?
What is a type of border that used to exist.
What is a Relic Boundary?
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people.
What is relocation diffusion?
A model showing how countries move from high birth/death rates to low ones.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
A person forced to move within their own country.
What is an internal displacement?
Culture spreading quickly via media or the internet is this type of diffusion.
What is contagious diffusion?
A political boundary drawn with straight lines, or longitude and latitude.
What is a geometric boundary?
A region defined by people’s beliefs or feelings about a place.
What is a perceptual region?
The term for the number of people an area can sustainably support.
What is carrying capacity?
Migration pattern where people follow family or community to a new location.
What is chain migration?
A type of culture that is small, homogeneous, isolated, and rural.
What is folk culture?
The process that is when a centralized government gets split up.
What is devolution?
What map projection mainly focuses on overall accuracy.
What is the Robinson Projection?
When a population pyramid is Bigger at the top, this demographic issue is present.
What is an aging population / low fertility?
Ravenstein’s Laws say most migrants move this type of distance.
What is short distance?
The idea that a group's environment shapes their cultural practices.
What is environmental determinism?
Redrawing district lines to favor one political party.
What is gerrymandering?
The concept that the environment sets limits but humans can adapt in many ways.
What is possibilism?
The theory that population grows exponentially while food grows linearly.
What is Malthusian theory?
A factor that causes someone to leave their country due to conflict, disaster, or persecution.
What is a push factor?
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The principle that a state has control over its own internal and external affairs.
What is sovereignty?