Mixed Bag 1
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
What is TABOO.
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
What is INTERVENING OBSTACLE
A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are located.
What is an ETHNIC RELIGION.
What is acculturation?
When a person partially adopts a more dominant culture while at the same time keeping some of their own cultural customs.
A type of region that people think exists as part of their cultural heritage and history.
What is a vernacular region.
An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationship among social and physical phenomena in a particular study.
What is the Cultural Landscape.
Someone who is forced to migrate from his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of his or her race, religion, nationality, etc
What is Refugee?
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
What is a UNIVERSALIZING RELIGION.
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.
What is ethnicity.
What is an isogloss?
A barrier or boundary between 2 distinct languages.
An approach to the study of geography which argues that geography was the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.
What is Environmental Determinism.
What 3 statistics are measured by the DTM.
Birth rates, death rates and population.
A division of a religion that comes after branch.
What is a DENOMINATION.
A situation in which a nation or ethnic group occupies several different countries or states.
What is a multi-state nation.
a limit or maximum placed on the number of migrants a country will accept.
quota or quota laws.
The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
What is POSSIBILISM.
This stage of the DTM is known for rapidly declining CBR, moderately declining CDR, and moderate NIR.
What is Stage 3.
True or False: Hinduism is a universalizing religion.
False
A state in which the people who live there are ONE single ethnicity and cultural traits.
What is a nation-state.
What type of map is the most common projection used for maps and navigation.
What is Mercator projection.
GPS coordinates are an example of SITE or SITUATION?
What is SITE.
True or False: Developing countries have lower agricultural density because technology allows a few people to farm extensive land areas.
FALSE.
True or False: In sub-Saharan Africa, two thirds of people are Christian and one -third is Muslim.
TRUE
List 3 of the Romance languages.
Name the 5 themes of geography.
Location, Place, Environment, Movement, Region