Intro to Geography Hodge Podge
This 7-letter acronym refers to the components of a map. The better you understand these features, the easier it is to understand the material.
What is TODALSS
Title, Orientation, Date, Author, Legend, Source, and Scale
Term for a country with a relatively low income or economically poorer than aforementioned country.
What is developed and developing countries
This term describes factors that force people away from their place of origin
A national holiday that is widely celebrated in a country and helps unite citizens is an example of what kind of force?
What is a centripetal force?
This state has advanced industrial and military technologies, political power, and often exploit peripheral states for cheap labor and raw materials.
What is a core state?
This type of thematic map shows data aggregated for a specific geographic area, and often uses colors to represent different values.
What is a choropleth map
This term, usually measured in either persons younger than 15 OR older than 64 years, refers to the number of individuals in a population that each 100 working-age people must support.
Dependency Ratio ("Youth Dependency Ratio or Elderly Dependency Ratio)
When people migrate to a short short distance location, rather than long distance destination.
What is distance decay
Whats the term manipulating a boundary to favor one party or class?
What is gerrymandering?
The idea that near things are more related than distant things, and interaction between two places decrease the farther apart they are
What is "time-distance decay"
What is a college-town
This model, based upon European historical includes five stages reflecting varying levels of birth rates and death rates.
What is the Demographic Transition Model
This kind of diffusion - illustrates the spread of American fast food chains like McDonald's change popular menu items to reflect cultural food preferences around the world.
What is stimulus diffusion
An independent political unit with a centralized authority that makes claim to sole legal, political, and economic jurisdiction over a region with defined boundaries.
What is a state/country?
The relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space
What is connectivity
Policies such as China's One Child Policy, Do It for Denmark, and Singapore's National Night Out (sponsored by Mentos, the Baby-Maker) are all examples of
What are pronatalist and antinatalist policies?
Attracts migrants or forces out migrants to a particular place.
Push or Pullfactors
A cupcake shop in a low socio-economic area is an example of what?
What is gentrification
An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own State
What is a stateless nation?
Map projections such as ___________ distort some aspect of the Earth's true surface because they are reflecting the spherical Earth on a two-dimensional surface. (Name 2)
What is Mercator, Peters, Goode Homolosine, Polar, Robinson
This phrase refers to how data is interpreted or analyzed at varying lenses, such as a large geographic area, or much smaller specific areas like counties within Massachusetts
What is scales of analysis?
The type of migration where people move from rural areas to urban areas in search of better economic opportunities.
The idea that people adopt elements of other cultures as well as contribute elements of their own, ultimately transforming existing cultures.
The idea that a country's government governs its entire country and modern mass communications links all citizens and residents
What is a nation-state ideal?