Unit 1
Using latitude and longitude to identify the location of a refugee camp.
What is absolute location?
A model showing population change over time as countries develop.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
The spread of cultural traits from one place to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
A small sovereign state made up of a city and its surrounding area
What is a City State?
This singer is known for songs like “good 4 u” and “vampire.”
Who is Olivia Rodrigo?
The way people, places, and environments are connected.
What is human–environment interaction?
Movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
The physical imprint of human activity on the landscape.
What is the cultural landscape?
Cultural groups that have no independent political entity of their own.
What is a Stateless Nation?
This movie is based on a musical about a green-skinned witch.
What is Wicked?
This type of region is based on people’s perceptions rather than official boundaries.
What is a perceptual (vernacular) region?
Factors that encourage people to leave a place.
What are push factors?
The global spread of fast-food chains adapting to local tastes.
What is stimulus diffusion?
A boundary drawn to accommodate religious, ethnic, linguistic, or economic differences.
What is a subsequent Boundary?
This animated movie features the song “Let It Go.”
What is Frozen?
The belief that the environment determines human behavior.
What is environmental determinism?
Government policies that encourage families to have more children.
What are pronatalist policies?
A cultural trait spreading through social media rather than physical movement.
What is contagious diffusion?
A boundary identified by physical objects placed on the landscape.
What is a Demarcated Boundary?
This Disney movie features a princess with magically long hair and a thief named Flynn Rider.
What is Tangled?
The theory that humans can overcome environmental limits using technology.
What is possibilism?
Leaving a country due to war or persecution.
What are refugees?
A local language declining as younger generations adopt a global language for economic opportunities.
What is language extinction?
When colonized nations won their independence from colonizing forces.
What is decolonization?
This app is known for short-form videos and viral trends.
What is TikTok?