Cultural Patterns
Political Patterns
Thinking Geographically
100

Same language, ethnicity and religion in an area full of people, uniting them together.

What is a centripetal force?

100

the practice of drawing political district boundaries to give one party or group an unfair advantage.

What is gerrymandering?

100

A thematic map that shows data aggregated for a specific geographic area.

What is a choropleth map?

200

Successive societies leaving their cultural imprints on a place, contributing to a cumulative cultural landscape.

What is sequent occupance?

200

The transfer of power and authority from a central government to regional or local governments.

What is devolution?

200

a map that emphasizes the spatial patterns of geographic statistics or attributes.

What is a thematic map?
300

the state or policy of a society having a single, dominant, or unified culture.

What is uniculturalism?

300

a country establishing settlements and imposing its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. (the action to do so)

What is colonialism?

300

A map that uses symbols (such as circles or dots) of different sizes to represent numerical values.

What is a graduated circle map?

400

the blending of different cultural, religious, or philosophical beliefs and practices to form new, unique cultures.

What is syncretism?

400

a political and nationalist ideology where a country or group claims a territory in another country.

What is irredentism?

500

The shrinking of distance between places due to technology making it faster to communicate and travel.

What is time-space convergence?

500

the concept of a group or individual's connection, claim, and assertion of control over a specific geographic area.

What is territoriality?

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