Thinking Geographically(Unit 1)
This tool uses layers of data to analyze places.
What is GIS?
The average number of children born per woman.
What is fertility rate?
The most widely spoken language family in the world.
What is Indo- European?
The capital city of a country is usually part of this type of state area.
What is the core area?
Growing crops mainly for family use is this type of farming.
What is subsistence agriculture?
The belief that environment determines culture.
What is the environmental determinism?
Movement caused by war or disaster is called this migration factor.
What is a push factor?
Food, music, and clothing are examples of this type of cultural trait.
What is material culture?
A state completely surrounded by another state.
What is an enclave?
The first agricultural revolution involved this change.
What is domestication of plants/ animals ?
The spread of an idea from one person/place to another.
What is diffusion?
Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model has high birth rates and declining what.
What is death rate?
The place where a cultural trait begins.
What is a hearth?
What is a elongated state?
Von Thunen's model explains land use based on this factor.
What is distance to market/transportation cost?
Distance decay means interaction decreases as what increases?
What is distance?
When people enter than leave a country.
What is net in-migration?
English becoming a common worldwide is an example of this.
What is globalization?
An area between two rival powers meant to reduce conflict.
What is a buffer state?
The Green Revolution increased production through seeds, irrigation, and what?
What are fertiizers/pesticides?
A map distorts size to show data values.
What is a cartogram?
A model explaining migration based on opportunities, obstacles, and distance.
What is Ravenstein's Laws/ Gravity Model?
When one culture adopts another culture and loses original traits.
What is assimilation?
Control of the seas to gain world power was argued by this thinker.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
Growing one crop for sale is called this.
What is mono-cropping?