Thinking Geographically
This type of map uses colors or shading to represent data.
What is a choropleth map?
The number of births per 1,000 people per year.
What is crude birth rate?
The visible imprint of human activity on the land.
What is cultural landscape?
A group of people with shared culture and identity.
What is a nation?
The first agricultural revolution is also called the __________ Revolution.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The three ways geographers describe spatial distribution.
What are density, concentration, and pattern?
Stage of the DTM where death rates drop rapidly.
What is Stage 2?
The spread of ideas through person-to-person contact.
What is contagious diffusion?
A state with strong central control.
What is a unitary state?
The model explaining agricultural land use based on distance from market.
What is the von Thünen model?
This projection preserves direction but distorts size.
What is the Mercator projection?
Population divided by arable land.
What is physiological density?
A religion that seeks converts.
What is a universalizing religion?
Boundaries drawn before cultural patterns developed.
What are antecedent boundaries?
A city with over 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
This technology layers multiple types of data on maps.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
Migration forced by government or environmental factors.
What is forced migration?
Judging another culture by your own standards.
What is ethnocentrism?
Forces that divide a country.
What are centrifugal forces?
The sector of the economy focused on services.
What is the tertiary sector?
This type of scale shows relationships beyond political boundaries.
What is a global scale of analysis?
Malthus argued population grows __________ while food grows __________.
What is exponentially and arithmetically?
A language used for communication between different language groups.
What is a lingua franca?
When a country tries to reclaim land where its people once lived.
What is irredentism?
A measure of development including health, education, and income.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?