Spatial Concepts
A person's internal, personal representation of a portion of Earth's surface.
What is a mental map?
Statistic measuring the number of children women have on average
What is Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?
Part of the map representing the four cardinal directions
What is compass rose?
Someone coming into a country
What is an immigrant?
Country with highest population
What is India?
The areas a person visits and the places they go on a day-to-day basis.
What is an activity space?
5 stage model that measures countries' economic development alongside population structure.
What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
Map projection designed for navigation in the 16th century
What is the Mercator projection?
Someone leaving a country
What is an emmigrant?
Region with France, England, Spain
What is Europe?
The location of a place relative to its surroundings
What is situation?
Statistic that decreases when countries transition from stage 1 to stage 2 on the DTM
What is death rate?
Map projection that distorts the shape of continents in order to preserve their relative size
What is the Peters projection?
Something that causes someone to leave their home country
What is a push factor?
Country with the world's fourth highest population
What is Indonesia?
A geographic location that has been given meaning by humans
What is place?
A type of policy aimed at increasing birthrates and fertility rates
What is pro-natalist?
Type of thematic map which shows movement across space
What is a flow map?
What some economic migrants send back to their origin countries
What is a remittance?
Region located between Micronesia and Polynesia
What is Melanesia?
The principle that the further away places are from each other, the less interaction and similarity there is between them
What is time distance decay?
DTM Stage in which High Income Countries experience reduced birth rates and slightly elevated death rates
What is DTM Stage 5?
Type of thematic map which distorts the size of geographic regions in proportion with a specific variable
What is a cartogram?
Someone migrating in order to escape war, political persecution, or environmental catastrophe
What is a refugee?
Country with the world's tenth highest population
What is Ethiopia?