Unit 1
Absolute location
The coordinates of a place using latitude and longitude.
Age Distribution
A model used in population geography that describes the ages and number of males and females within a given population.
Acculturation
Adoption of the behavioral patterns of the surrounding culture.
Annexation
The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation.
Agrarian
Characteristic of farmers or their way of life.
Accessibility
The ability to reach a place with respect to another place.
Carrying capacity
The number of people an area of land can reasonably support; often used in terms of the entire earth and world population.
Animism
Doctrine that everything natural has a soul.
Allocational/resource boundary dispute
Dispute over location and resources.
Agribusiness
Highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership.
Agricultural density
The number of farmers per unit of farmland.
Census
A complete enumeration of a population.
Artifacts
Ancient objects made by human beings.
Antecedent boundary
A boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area...
Agriculture
The cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals.
Arithmetic density
The total number of objects in an area.
Child Mortality Rate
A figure that describes the number of children that die between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population.
Assimilation
Process of adding new ideas.
Border Landscape
There are two types, exclusionary and inclusionary. Exclusionary is meant to keep people out, such as the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Inclusionary is meant to facilitate trade and movement, such as the U.S.-Canada border.
Aquaculture
The cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food.
Cartography
The science of map-making.
Contraception
A method which prevents conception or birth.
Behaviors
Observable actions or responses of humans or animals.
Buffer State
A small neutral state between two rival powers.
Biotechnology
Any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives there of, to make or modify products or processes for specific use.