Unit 2
Migration where people move to join friends and relatives
Chain Migration
Define Cultural Landscape
the way a culture changes the environment
examples: buildings, churches, signs
Define sovereignty
the ability of a state to govern itself free from external control
Provide an example of a supranational organization that is primarily economic
NAFTA, IMF, OPEC
Define Environmental Determinism
the physical environment determines or heavily influences human social development
Write the full name for each acronym:
- CBR
- CDR
- NIR
- IMR
- CBR: Crude Birth Rate
- CDR: Crude Death Rate
- NIR: Natural Increase Rate
- IMR: Infant Mortality Rate
Diffusion of an idea through physical movement
Relocation Diffusion
Provide an example of a centripetal and centrifugal force
Centripetal - good leader, good economy, homogenous culture
Centrifugal - bad leadership, unemployment, war/violence, multiculturalism
Group with a common culture and one sovereign state
Nation State
Region with one similar, unifying trait
Formal Region
Name a country with a high elderly dependency ratio
Japan, Germany, South Korea
Compare assimilation to acculturation
Assimilation has to give up ALL of the culture
Acculturation is a combination of the old and new culture
Compare a Unitary and a Federal State
Unitary: has ONE central government
Federal: power is distributed between subnational goverments
Boundary type that is imposed by an outside power
Superimposed Boundary
Technology used to find the precise location of an object on Earth
GPS, global positioning system
Compare the type of diseases more common in countries in Stage 4 vs Stage 1 of the ETM
Stage 4-5: Degenerative diseases and people live long lives
Stage 1: Famine, people live short lives, lack of access to medicine
Believing your culture is better than others
Ethnocentrism
Explain why a government may provide an ethnic group an autonomous region
Centrifugal forces such as multiculturalism can encourage states to create regions in order to keep the peace.
Also--- they may not want Balkanization because the region contains physical and economic advantages for the country.
A region of continuing and persistent instability
Shatterbelt
Describe Spatial Pattern
a pattern based on geographic location and data
keywords: dispersed and clustered, directions on a map (N, E, S. W), regions
Explain what happens to the CBR, CDR, and NIR as a country moves from Stage 2 to Stage 3 of the DTM
CBR - Decreases
CDR - Decreases
Rate of Natural Increase - Slow Growth
Explain the historical reason for the diffusion of the English language to North America
The historical reason for the diffusion of English to North America is colonization. The British moved into the region and forced natives to learn the language.
Explain how redistricting can increase or decrease the voice of minority groups in the US
Gerrymandering--- drawing district lines to unfairly support one political party more than the other
Compare Colonialism to Neocolonialism
Colonialism often resulted in established colonies and the migration of people.
Neo is focused on taking economic control without any migration.
What principle is used when two states territorial waters overlap?
Median Line Principle
(split in the middle)