Unit 1
Latitude and longitude
What is absolute location
The number of people per unit area of arable land
What is physiological density
Food preferences, architecture and land use are examples of this.
What is a cultural trait
An area of instability located between regions with opposing political and cultural values
What is a shatterbelt
A policy of extending a country's power and influence (including borders) through diplomacy or military force. Ex. World War I
A computer system with geographic data.
What is GIS (geographic information system)
High birth rates, high death rates, and low rates of population growth
The study of place names
Toponyms
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
What is a nation-state
A uniform region where everyone shares some characteristics.
What is a formal region
A type of thematic map which uses color variations to express geographic variation from a certain theme
What is a choropleth map
This English economist that argued that population will increase geometrically rather than arithmetically
Who is Thomas Malthus
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.
What is relocation diffusion
Forces which divide a state
Centrifugal forces
The physical environment determines social development (humans and their actions)
What is environmental determinism
Portraying the round earth on a flat surface.
What is projection
The formula for the demographic equation (to determine total population)
What is (Births - Deaths) + Migration - Emigration = Population
The spatial effects of the Internet on the global diffusion of culture.
What is time-space convergence
The European Union, the Arab League, and the United Nations
What are supranational organizations
The physical environment can limit social development, but human can adjust to their situation
What is possibilism
A map in which distortion is in the polar regions but all lines of latitude and longitude meet at right angles
What is the Mercator map
Low-cost or zero-cost infant day care and preschool centers allow this to occur
What is mothers returning to the workforce or What is more families able to have children because of the reduction of financial barriers
Human interaction with nature helps form this.
What is cultural landscape
The boundaries between some states are set by ethnic differences, especially those based on language and/or religion.
What is a consequent boundary/cultural boundary
Border that is drawn over existing and accepted borders by an outside force
What is a superimposed boundary