Unit 1
Globalization
How people have an effect on the world
Region
an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features
Law of the sea
Law establishing states rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources.
EX: Laws set on overfishing.
Intensive substance agriculture
small feilds of crop more work
Longitude
A number system that calculates distance east and west of the prime meridian
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. EX: The way and amount in which something spreads like the amount of views on a video increasing throughout a period of time or place.
ex: The spread of Hiv/aids
ex: the spread of a viral video through people.
Geometric Boundary
Political boundaries that are defined my straight lines for good reasons.
EX:North and south korea were split in half so the south was non communist and the north was.
Cash Crop
a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
Peter Map projection
Distorts shape and distance and makes the Oceans better for traveling
Cultural Hearth
Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture.
Refugee
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
EX:There are refugees flowing into counties near Ukraine like Poland as Ukraine is in War with Russia.
Pastoral Nomadism
This alternative to sedentary agriculture is characterized by following the herds, just as the earlier hunters and gatherers did.
Isoline map
isoline are lines drawn to link different places that share common value. For example, a line drawn on a map to join up all the places that same height above sea level is called a contour.
Time distance Decay
The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source.
Balkanization
Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
Dispersed Settlement
A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
Contour Map
designed to reveal the nature of local topography. Contours are lines that are drawn to represent a consistent height above the sea level.
Syncretism
a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith/why cultures and parctices change.
Nation-state
a state whose territorial extent coincides with that occupied by a distinct nation or people, or at least whose population shares a general sense of unity and allegiance to a set of common values.
ex: The United States
Neolithic Revolution (First Agricultural Revolution)
A stage when people learned to cultivating and harvest crops for food so they settled down. This started happening in various parts of the world in around 800bc