Unit 1
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
What is geography?
Poverty, war, lack of housing and resources, among other things.
What is a push factor?
Back to the door in an elevator, chewing with your mouth open, no shirt or shoes in an establishment, among other things
What is a taboo?
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
What is democracy?
The procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given population, usually displayed in the form of statistics
What is a census?
This gives an explanation of what the different lines and symbols on the map mean, as well as a scale for you to work out distance
What is a key?
The birth rate minus the death rate and does not include migration
What is the natural increase rate (NIR)?
Setting aside one's culture and assuming another, could be forced by said culture.
What is assimilation?
This economic measure includes businesses abroad as well as in the country
What is Gross National Income (GNI)?
The tendency for our eyes to focus primarily on larger regions on a map, and less on smaller ones.
What is map bias?
The line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth
What is the prime meridian?
To enter into and and live permanently in another country
What is immigration?
The official language of the United States of America
What is nothing?
HDI takes into account three indexes: Income, Life Expectancy, and this one.
What is education?
It is not meant to be popular and it does not care if you think it is weird.
What is folk culture?
A map that shows only the surface of the ground and its elevation changes.
What is a topographic map?
The 5 part chart that explains why countries go through a period of rapid population growth? (Rapid shift in birth or death rates)
What is the demographic transition model (DTM)?
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are all this type of religion.
What is monotheistic?
This creates products out of the raw materials taken from the earth and gives them to the next one to distribute/sell.
What is the secondary sector of economics?
The Salmon Group
What is ethnocentric?
What is a reference map?
The number of people per unit area of arable land (land suitable to grow crops)
What is physiological density?
The position that there is no universal standard to measure cultures by, and that all cultural values and beliefs must be understood relative to their cultural context, and not judged based on outside norms and values
What is cultural relativism?
He discovered wheat that saved a billion.
Who is Norman Borlaug?
Shockingly, K Dot did not write this about Purchasing Power Parity.