Unit 1: Intro
A map that uses color to show statistical data.
What is a choropleth map?
Money earned by immigrants and sent to relatives in country of origin.
What are remittances?
Belief in only one god/higher power.
What is monotheism?
The clustering of businesses/services/industrial locations. The idea is that they benefit from being near competitors or similar businesses.
The maximum distance someone is willing to travel for a particular service.
What is range?
Maps that show man-made boundaries.
What are political maps?
Large-scale emigration of talented people from less developed nations to more developed nations.
What is Brain Drain?
Things that are common in large, diverse (heterogeneous) groups.
What is Popular Culture?
Industrial zones located in Northern Mexico, primarily due to cheaper labor and close proximity to U.S. markets.
What is Central Business District? (CBD)
The starting point of the time zones. Zig-zags to avoid cutting countries into different days.
What is the international date line?
Predicts a population’s growth based on birth and death rate. Has five stages.
What is the demographic transition model?
Right of an ethnicity to govern itself.
What is self determination?
Buying and selling of goods and services happens in this economic sector.
What is tertiary?
Energy demand per capita is higher in this type of country.
Re-directing the water supply of the Aral Sea to farm fields nearby is an example of this theme of geography.
What is human-environment interaction?
Movement within a country, often for jobs.
What is internal migration?
Common language used by people from different native languages, often during trade.
What is Lingua Franca?
Industry where the product weighs more than the parts and resources used to make it.
What is a bulk-gaining industry?
A major concern with using Nuclear energy.
What is produces radioactive waste?
The difference between a small scale map and a large scale map.
What is: small scale maps show a big area (little detail) and large scale maps show a small area (a lot of detail)?
A country with a very high birth rate and a declining death rate would be in this stage of the DTM.
What is stage 2?
Italy is this shape of state.
What is perforated?
The four factors the UN takes into consideration when determining the Gender Inequality Index (GII).
What is empowerment, employment, health, and education?
A result of U.S. support for Israel in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
What is OPEC refusing to export petroleum to the U.S.? (Oil Embargo)