Unit 1
A description of a place using longitude and latitude.
What is Absolute Location?
Where people live
What is Population Distribution?
Beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by society and passed down.
What is Culture?
A country which is a political unit.
What is a State?
An areas land features.
What is Topography?
a description of a place based on its relationships to other places.
What is Relative Location?
Land that can be used to grow crops.
What is Arable Land?
Visible objects and technologies a culture creates.
What is a Cultural Artifact?
A state that has many nations that are legally separated in their borders.
What is a Multinational State?
A cultivation of one or two crops that are rotated seasonally.
What is Monocropping?
The idea that human behavior is strongly affected by physical environment.
What is Environmental Determinism?
The number of births in a given year per 1000 people in a given population.
What is Crude Birth Rate?
Material objects and practices shared by a group.
What is a Culture Trait?
A country's policy of extending power and influence over other territories.
What is Imperialism?
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular import or export.
What are Tariffs?
A region defined by feelings and prejudices that may or may not be true.
What is a Vernacular Region?
The growth and development of cities.
What is Urbanization?
Process of creating safe spaces.
What is Placemaking?
Boundaries drawn after people settled in.
What is a Subsequent Boundary?
People, info, processes, and resources that work together to produce, handle, and distribute a product.
What is a Commodity Chain?
Mapping software that creates digital maps and such.
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?
A model that describes changes in fertility, mortality, and life expectancy largely because of changes in causes of death.
What is the Epidemiological Transition Model?
A regional variation of a language.
What is a Dialect?
The practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories.
What is Colonialism?
The combining of a company's ownership and control over more than one stage of production.
What is Vertical Integration?