Unit 1
What is absolute location?
A location described by coordinates, or latitude and longitude.
What is climate?
Analyzes the interaction between long-term atmospheric patterns and human activity.
What is culture?
The shared beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, values, and traditions practiced by a group of people and passed down through generations.
What is a nation-state?
A specific nation that has it's very own state along it.
What is mono cropping?
Mono-cropping is the process of only growing one specific crop. EX: I am only growing cotton to make clothing.
What is human geography?
A part of geography that studies relationships between people, places, and environments. Focusing on how human activities, cultures, economies, and social structures organize and shape the world.
What is a push factor?
A factor that makes someone want to get away from a certain place, EX: I want to get out of here because there are a lot of dangerous people, I need to keep my family and myself safe.
What is a safe space?
A safe space is a place someone can feel they will not get persecuted, harassed, or assaulted.
What is a stateless nation?
A nation that does not have their own specific state to themselves.
What is slash and burn?
Existing vegetation is all taken away and cut down and burned to clear land for cultivation
What is situation?
A location of a place relative to its surrounding environment. EX: The golden chick near the high school and public library.
What is IMR (Infant Mortality Rate)?
The annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year old per 1,000 live births.
What is a Lingua France?
A common language spoken to be able to trade, sell, and buy between countries.
What is imperialism?
The policy, practice, or advocacy of extending a state's power and influence over the other territories or nations.
What is extensive agriculture?
A system characterized by low inputs of labor, capital, and machinery relative to the vast land area being cultivated or grazed.
What is possibilism?
The theory that the physical environment sets constraints and offers possibilities.
What is distance decay?
Distance decay is a geographical principal stating that interaction between two places decreases as the distant between them increases.
What is assimilation?
The process where a minority culture, group, or immigrant population gradually adopts the customs, language, and behaviors of a dominant culture.
What is choke point?
A narrow, strategic waterway or passage that connects two larger areas of sea or land traffic, forcing shipping or transport through a restricted area.
What is crop rotation?
A process of alternating different types of crops in a specific field across successive seasons or years.
What is a functional region?
An area organized by a central node, or a focal point.
What is a refugee?
A person that is forced to migrate across international borders to avoid armed conflict, generalized violence, human rights violations, or persecution based on specific things.
The process where distinct cultures blend to create new unique cultural forms.
What is colonialism?
The attempt by a state to establish settlements and impose on its political, economical, and cultural principals on another territory.
What is domestication?
The process of intentionally cultivating plants or taming animals through selective breeding to make them more useful, manageable, and dependent on humans for survival.