Unit 1
This line crosses the middle of the Earth horizontally, slicing it in half
What is the Equator?
These things will help developing countries sustain their population by improving life expectancy
What is nutrition, health care, sanitation?
This type of agriculture is done in order to directly feed the family or community that has grown the food
What is subsistence agriculture?
This religion originated in India and it's ultimate goal is for a person to reach nirvana.
What is buddhism?
This boundary is usually marked by a sign, fence, or wall
What is a demarcated boundary?
Colloquially called the "sus map", this map distorts the shape of the Earth that would not be great to use for traveling the oceans
What is the goode-homolosine projection?
This is what will cause Japan's population pyramid to eventually look like an upside-down pyramid (high older population, low young population)
What is low birth rates?
This is the role that most women in rural, sub-saharan Africa within agricultural economies
What are nonwage workers, working on family-run farms?
Forces that pull people in a country apart such as religious differences, language differences, or ethnic differences
What are centrifugal forces?
This term usually refers to the breaking up of a large state into smaller states
What is balkanization?
This technology surveys the land via satellite and provides a clear image of how the land is being used.
What is remote sensing?
This type of diffusion spreads the underlying concept, but changes a certain aspect to fit the culture of a region or country.
What is stimulus diffusion?
These chickens are different because they are able to run around a field instead of living in a CAFO all their lives, and people are willing to pay more for their meat at the supermarket.
What are free range chickens?
The reflection of a people's culture on the surrounding area can best be described as this term
What is cultural landscape?
The line between North and South Korea DURING the war could best be described as this geographic term? (it won't keep your pants up)
What is a shatterbelt?
This theory talks about how our evolving technology has allowed people to not only get places quicker, but communicate quicker, making it feel like the Earth has gotten smaller
What is time-space compression?
This is the main reason why a lot of people in the middle-east have been fleeing the area starting in the year 2000.
What is armed conflict (civil war, war)?
This area on the Earth is known for it's hot and wet weather, and is usually where coffee beans are produced
What are the tropics? (tropical latitudes)
This term best describes the food, land-use and architecture practices that are found in a particular region.
What are cultural traits?
This geographic term best describes the political entity of the Republic of Ireland (the country)
What is Nation-state?
This theory states that the environment solely determines how people will shape their society, and how they will behave and interact with other people
What is environmental determinism?
These types of areas in countries are what international migrants are most likely to move to since the year 2000
What is urban and suburban areas
In 2017 the Ivory Coast exported THIS product that represented 55 percent of the country's exports and was worth 4 times more than the country's combined gold and oil exports (sweet snack)
What are cocoa beans?
The mix of Native American, African, and European influences to create new cultural forms is known as this
What is creolization?
In the water, this zone is an area where a country could pull over foreign ships from other countries that have crossed into their border
What is the territorial sea?