Unit 1
the focal point of a functional region
What is Node
movement to a location
What is Immigration
a place name
What is Toponyms
Love and pride one feel's for one's country
What is Patriotism
Purposeful cultivation of plants or raising of animals to produce goods for survival
What is Agriculture
the number of things—people, animals, or objects—in a specific area
a model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s law of universal gravitation
What is Gravity Model
the beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by a society and passed down from generation to generation
What is Culture
group and tries to eliminate it through expulsion, imprisonment, or killing
What is Ethnic Cleansing
Area of land that is covered by water or saturated by water
to arrange within a given space
What is Distributed
long-term damage to the soil's ability to support life
What is Land Degradation
a category of acculturation in which the interaction of two cultures results in one culture adopting almost all of the customs, traditions, language, and other cultural traits of the other
What is Assimilation
to place physical objects such as stones, pillars, walls, or fences to indicate where a boundary exists
What is Demarcated
hen production increases, expenses are lower per unit of output. This has increased considerably since the introduction of modern farming technology and the innovations of the third agricultural revolution.
What is Economies of Scales
internalized representations of portions of Earth's surface
What is Mental Map
migration pattern in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs
What is Migration Pattern
the process by which cultures become less similar due to conflicting beliefs or other barriers
What is Cultural Divergence
a cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity—often all four of these
What is Nation
Layers of sand, gravel, and rocks that contain and can release a usable amount of water
What is Aquifer
the study of natural processes and the distribution of features in the environment, such as landforms, plants, animals, soil, and climate
What is Physical Geography
a model that describes changes in fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and population age distribution, largely as the result of changes in causes of death
What is Epidemiological Transition Model (ETM)
the blending of two or more languages that may not include the features of either original language
What is Creolization
to explicitly state in legally binding documentation such as a treaty where boundaries are located, using reference points such as natural features or lines of latitude and longitude
What is Defining
Smaller farms benefit from jointly owning machinery with neighboring farms. Farmers pool their resources to produce, market, and sell their crops.
What is Cooperative