Unit 1
The physical gap or interval between two objects
What is Space?
Redrawing of legislative boundaries to benefit the political party in power
What is Gerrymandering?
If we're trying to determine the "value added" in the production process, we take the gross value of a product and subtract
What is the cost of raw materials?
A minimum amount of people needed to support a business
What is Threshold?
Nationalism is an important example of __________________, which is an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
What is centripetal force?
This term refers to the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.
What is scale?
Identify with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country
What is Nationality?
The human development index tracks what three categories?
What is Access to a long and healthy life,
Access to decent standard of living,
Access to knowledge ?
Populations are limited not by the total annual resources available to them but by the minimum amount that can be found at the scarcest time of year.
What is Liebig's Law?
A place of high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area. Most are in large cities.
What is an ethnic enclave?
How do Central America's rainforests contribute to their economy?
What is tourism?
an area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population.
What is an Ethnoburb?
Is the value of the output of goods and services produced in a year by a country, including money.
What is gross national income?
Accessibility produces extreme competition in this part of the city, as a result land values are very high, often resulting in intense competition for even small portions of land.
If a particular ethnicity occupies an area that also corresponds to a territory claimed by a state.
What is nation state?
You are a product of your environment
What is environmental determinism?
A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people
What is Autocracy?
The total number of objects in an area
What is Arithmetic density?
Combination of Micropolitan and Metropolitan statistical areas according to the census.
What is Core-based statistical area?
This type of state places most power in the hands of central government officials.
What is Unitary state?
The environment may limit your choices, but humans still have the ability to adapt.
What is Possibilism?
Daily Double!!
When a group of people seek the ability to govern themselves without influence or interference from outside sources but unfortunately that opportunity was taken away from them. Their will to govern themselves is still considered...
Is an adjustment made to account for difference among countries in the cost of goods.
What is purchasing power parity?
the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use service.
What is Range?
If a county contains more than one ethnicity and thoses ethnicities kept some of their traditions or self-governance and self-determination
What is Multinational state?