Unit 1
The scale of analysis which geographic data is examined within a small area, lika a neighborhood or city block
What is local scale
This term defines the knowledge, values, and traditions of a certain group of people.
What is culture?
This is the strategic redrawing of election boundaries by a government to marginalize specific groups and diminish their political influence.
What is gerrymandering?
The process of fertile land becoming desert due to climate change, deforestation, or overuse.
What is desertification
A city with a population of over 10 million people
megacity
This acronym represent a computer system used for capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying spatial data?
What is GIS?
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.
What is the cultural landscape
The Tendency for a country to believe in protecting and creating land for a country because of the connection they have to it
what is territoritality?
A rural settlement pattern that is traditionally established near a road, river, or some sort of transportation zone.
What is linear
This measure calculates the total monetary value of all goods and services produced within a country's borders over a specific time period.
What is GDP?
This concept proposes that human behavior is shaped by the physical environment, such as climate or terrain.
What is environmental determinism?
A process that results in the spread of a cultural idea regardless of social status.
What is contagious diffusion
when a country wants to reclaim land it believes belongs to it for ethnic and cultural reasons, even if it's currently controlled by another country.a
What is Irredentism
A period of agricultural development that included improvements in agricultural productivity (use of crop rotation, seed drills, and selective breeding).
What is the second agricultural revolution?
Only one large city can exist in a certain region and it is surrounded by other small cities and towns. Uses the concepts of range and threshold.
What is Central Place Theory
The phenomenon where technological advancements reduce the perceived distance between locations
What is time-space compression?
This is the process of combining two elements of different cultures in order to create a new culture.
What is syncretism?
Creolization also acceptable
This zone is an extension of a country's territorial sea, granting limited jurisdiction for law enforcement up to 24 nautical miles from the coastline.
What is the contiguous zone
The original hearths of agriculture are
What are Fertile Crescent, Indus River Valley, Southeast Asia, Central America?
This index measures a country's level of economic development based on factors such as income per capita, education, and life expectancy.
What is human development index?
This map distorts size in high latitude areas, making Greenland appear much larger than it actually is
What is the Mercator Projection?
Enforcing this practice, the United States, especially through the actions of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Banana), has been known to promote capitalist influence, especially in the western hemisphere.
What is economic imperialism
This maritime zone extends up to 200 nautical miles from a country's baseline, granting the country exclusive rights to explore, exploit, and manage the natural resources of the waters and seabed.
What is the Exclusive Economic Zone
When intensive land is found closer to the market and extensive land is found farther away.
What is bid rent theory
What term describes the movement of people, capital, goods, and ideas across national borders, leading to increased interconnectedness and interdependence among cities worldwide?
What is globalization?