Geographic Perspectives
This type of location uses latitude and longitude to pinpoint an exact point on Earth.
What is absolute location?
This formula calculates Natural Increase Rate: CBR minus this.
What is the Crude Death Rate (CDR)?
Culture made up of physical objects such as clothing, tools, or architecture.
What is material culture?
A politically organized territory with sovereignty and recognized borders.
What is a state?
This body within the UN maintains international peace and includes five permanent members.
What is the UN Security Council?
Eratosthenes, one of the fathers of Geography, calculated Earth's _____ with amazing accuracy.
What is Circumference?
Stage of the Demographic Transition Model characterized by high birth rates and rapidly falling death rates.
What is Stage 2?
Traditional culture that changes slowly and spreads mostly through relocation diffusion.
What is folk culture?
This theory argued that controlling Eastern Europe would allow dominance over the world.
What is Heartland Theory?
ISIL partially funded its operations through selling this natural resource on the black market.
What is oil?
This approach to viewing the world focuses on “Where things are” and “Why they are there.”
What is the spatial perspective?
This British economist argued population grows exponentially while food supply grows arithmetically.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Language family linking its ancient origin to the Anatolian region (modern-day Turkey).
What is Indo-European?
Political process of redrawing district boundaries to favor one party.
What is gerrymandering?
Online extremist content has enabled the rise of individuals who commit attacks without direct organizational involvement; these actors are known as this.
What are lone-wolf terrorists?
This concept explains the way Earth's surface appears altered when transferring its spherical shape onto a flat map.
What is map projection distortion?
People fleeing political persecution or violence are legally categorized as this.
What are refugees?
A simplified “contact language” created between two groups without a shared language.
What is a pidgin?
A state with a long narrow shape, like Chile, struggles with communication and unity. This is known as this state shape.
What is an elongated state?
The strategic peninsula Russia annexed due to its military/naval importance.
What is Crimea?
This term refers to Earth’s maximum population that available resources can support.
What is carrying capacity?
This type of density measures the number of people per unit of arable land.
What is physiological density?
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism are examples of this broad category of religions, that spread and accept anyone.
What are universalizing religions?
Attempt by a national or cultural group to break away and form its own independent country.
What is separatism?
Critics who argue globalization increases inequality and weakens national culture.
Who are anti-globalists?