Maps & Geography
What type of map uses different shades of color to show data values?
What is a Choropleth Map
What is the formula for arithmetic population density
What is Population รท Total land area
A country with one dominant nation of people
What is a nation state
A large language family of hundreds of languages, including English
What is Indo-European
Growing specialized crops such as bananas, coffee, and cacao in tropical developing countries, primarily for sale to developed countries.
What is Plantation Agriculture/Farming
What system uses satellite data to determine exact location on Earth?
What is a Global Positioning System (GPS)
Identify the DTM stage associated with a rapid decrease in death rate.
Drawing voting districts to favor a political party
What is Gerrymandering
Type of diffusion that spreads cultural traits and innovations from most powerful nodes of influence to those of least power and influence
What is Hierarchical Diffusion
Cutting/burning forest to enrich soil
What is Slash and Burn farming/agriculture
What is the term/phrase for how features are arranged on the landscape?
What is Spatial Distribution
What term describes migration through a series of smaller moves?
What is Step Migration
Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce (London, Tokyo, New York City)
What kind of religion actively seeks converts?
What is Universalizing Religion
Improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce developed at the same time as growing urban markets due to the Industrial Revolution
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
Idea that humans adapt to and modify the environment
What is Possibilism
Name one consequence of an aging population.
What is a high dependency ratio
What is economic pressure
Area between conflicting regions
What is a Shatterbelt
When an underlying idea spreads but the specific trait is altered
What is Stimulus Diffusion
Model showing rings of agricultural activity around a central market as related to land availability/cost/ and perishability
What is Von Thunen Model
What scale shows the entire Earth?
What is Global Scale
Theory that states population will outpace than food supply
What is Malthusian Theory
Highly centralized governments where one entity has power. Promotes nationalism and cultural borders.
What is a Unitary Government
Adopting traits from another culture without understanding or respect
What is Cultural Appropriation
Economic control of former colonies through trade
What is Neocolonialism (as applied through Agriculture)