Unit One
This projection uses straight lines for parallels and meridians but distorts areas near the poles.
What is the Mercator projection?
This category focuses on the maximum number of people a specific environment can support at a given time.
What is Carrying Capacity?
The shared beliefs, values, and practices of a group of people.
What is culture?
A boundary that no longer has a physical or political purpose but can still be seen in cultural or social patterns.
What is a relic boundary?
Regions that transcend political boundaries based on shared culture or history.
What is a perceptual region?
The difference between births and deaths in a population over a given period.
What is natural increase?
Religions that focus on a single deity are considered ________.
What is monotheistic?
A country with a piece of its territory surrounded by another country.
What is an enclave? (e.g., Kaliningrad)
The physical environment determines social development.
The physical environment determines social development. What is environmental determinism?
This 18th-century economist predicted a population explosion that would outpace food production, leading to famine and misery.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Religions that spread primarily through missionary work and conversion are ________.
What is universalizing religions (e.g., Christianity, Islam)
This category focuses on the theories that explain the uneven distribution of wealth and power in the world.
What are World Systems Theories?
This theory suggests that increased interaction and interconnectedness shrink the world, making distant places seem closer.
What is time-space compression?
The average number of people per unit of land area.
What is arithmetic density?
A language family with the most speakers worldwide.
What is the Indo-European language family?
This theory suggests that core countries exploit peripheral countries through unequal trade practices.
What is dependency theory?
This type of map uses different colors or shading to represent the intensity or quantity of a phenomenon.
What is a choropleth map?
This theory suggests that increased development and economic opportunities lead to a decline in birth rates as families invest more in fewer children.
What is the demographic transition theory?
The process of adopting the cultural traits of another group.
What is acculturation?
This model describes the spatial arrangement of economic activity, with core areas of high economic activity surrounded by progressively less economically developed zones.
What is the Core-Periphery Model?