Culture
The way of life of a group of people who share similar traits including beliefs, customs, technology, and material items.
What is culture?
It helps people figure out where things are located.
The use of a Map
Local economy shaped by tradition
What is traditional economy?
The shift of populations from rural to urban areas
Urbanization
Would a developed or developing society have a growing population
what is developing?
True or false: Cultural hearths are where civilizations first began.
True
What type of map shows boundaries between countries and capitol cities?
Physical Map
North Korea is an example of what form of economy?
What is Command economy?
Worsening economic conditions in the countryside, including rising unemployment and growing poverty.
Rural Decline
The total value ($) of goods and services produced in a country in a year.
What is GDP
A place or location where people share a similar way of life, including religion, language, and values.
Cultural Region
Difference of thematic maps from Political and Physical maps
What is, they have different topics?
A country with regulations over the economy but with a private sector for businesses as well
What is a mixed economy?
a program of redeveloping land in an inner city area, often in an effort to improve the area.
Urban renewal
a statistic that measures life expectancy, education, and per capita income, which are used to rank countries into different levels of human development. A country scores higher HDI when the lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the GDP per capita is higher.
The Human Development Index (HDI)
How does location of a place influence its culture?
Anything that relates culture to physical geography.
Texas, is 29°16' North, 94°49' West
What is absolute location?
Where all property is publicly own and the government controls resources
Wealthy people move into an area, increasing costs for everyone, and give an example where it happens a lot
What is Gentrification, East Austin
Estimated amount of money per person in a country
What is GDP per capita?
What do cultural hearths imply about the ancient civilizations city?
implies where many people lived, capital of the city, or the technology they had
a box or other display on a map that explains the meaning of the symbols used on the map
What is a map key
What system reflects Laissez-faire?
What is Capitalism
An example of New Urbanism in Austin
What is the Domain, or the Arboretum
Norway has the highest HDI ranking, with a high GDP and good education. What is norway an example of?
What is a developed country?