Unit 0
Original materials from the time being studied, such as letters, diaries, photographs, or artifacts.
What is a primary source?
A computer system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying spatial data.
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?
The total number of people divided by the total land area.
What is Arithmetic Density?
Rapid, widespread diffusion through direct contact
What is contagious diffusion?
Accounts or interpretations created after the time period being studied, such as textbooks, articles, or documentaries.
What are secondary sources?
Satellite-based navigation system used to determine precise locations on Earth.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
The number of people per unit of arable land.
What is Physiological Density?
Culture that spreads through nodes of authority or influence
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
The study of how history is written, including the analysis of different perspectives and interpretations over time.
What is historiography?
The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.
What is a scale?
A model that describes population changes over time through stages based on birth and death rates.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
Adoption of an idea or culture with modifications
What is Stimulus Diffusion?
Information or material used to support historical claims or interpretations.
What is evidence?
A way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface (e.g., Mercator, Robinson, Peters).
What is a map projection?
The number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births in a year.
What is the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)?
The process of a minority group adopting the dominant culture to the extent they lose their original cultural identity.
What is Assimilation?
Analyzing the reasons why an event happened and the consequences that followed.
What is cause and effect?
The reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place due to technology.
Conditions that attract people to a new location
What are Pull Factors?
A religion that seeks to appeal to all people and has a global scope
What is a universalizing religion?