Cultural Patterns
same language, ethnicity, and religion in an area full of people, uniting them together.
What is a centripetal force?
the practice of drawing political district boundaries to give one party or group an unfair advantage
what is gerrymandering?
a thematic map that shows data aggregated for a specific geographic area
what is a choropleth map?
the arrangement of what's on Earth's surface
what is distribution?
stage with high birth and high death rates
what is stage 1?
Successive societies leaving their cultural imprints on a place, contributing to a cumulative cultural landscape.
What is sequent occupance?
the transfer of power and authority from a central government to regional or local governments
what is devolution?
a map that emphasizes the spatial patterns of geographic statistics or attributes
what is a thematic map?
physical and cultural barriers that block someone's way of traveling
what is an intervening obstacle?
stage where death rates drop but birth rates stay high
what is stage 2?
the state or policy of a society having a single, dominant or unified culture.
What is uniculturalism?
a country establishing settlements and imposing its political, economic and cultural principles in another territory (the action to do so)
what is colonialism?
a map that uses symbols (such as circles or dots) of different sizes to represent numerical values
what is a graduated map?
when people bring traits/culture with them as they move
what is relocation diffusion?
stage with rapidly declining birth rates
what is stage 3?
the blending of different cultural, religious or philosophical beliefs and practices to form new, unique cultures
what is syncretism?
a political and nationalist ideology where a country or group claim a territory in another country
what is irredentism?
the relationship between a map's distance and the real world's distance
what is a scale?
the spread of ideas from a power to locals
what is hierarchical diffusion?
stage where low birth and death rates stabilize
what is stage 4?
the shrinking of distance between places due to technology making it faster to communicate and travel
what is time space convergence?
the concept of a group or individual's connection, claim and assertion of control over a specific geographic area
what is territoriality?
distortion is greatest on this type of map projection used for navigation
what is the Mercator program?
when a trait spreads rapidly throughout a population
what is contagious diffusion?
stage where there is a negative natural increase rate
what is stage 5?