Mix
Errors contained in map projections
What are distortions?
The area in which a unique culture or specific trait develops.
What is a culture hearth?
A belief your culture is the best.
What is ethnocentrism?
The theory that warriors on horseback who spread proto-Indo-European.
What is the Kurgan hearth/warrior hypothesis?
The hearth of Islam.
What is the Arabian peninusla?
They use various colours, shades, or patterns, to show the distribution and location of spatial data
What are choropleth maps?
They are rural, homogenous, most speak an indenous, emphasis on community, diffuse slowly primarily through relocation diffusion, oral traditions, patriarchical, locally produced food and housing.
What are some characteristics of folk cultures?
An immigrant group has moved to a new area and adopts the values and practices of the larger gorup but retains major elements of their own culutre.
What is acculturation?
A common language used by people who do not share the same native language?
WHat is a lingua franca?
Mormons settled here.
What is Utah?
Clusters of people of the same culture but surrounded by a culture that is dominant in that culture.
What is an ethnic enclave/neighbourhood/island?
Improvements in transportationand communication which have shortened the relative distance, a major result of the industrial revolution.
What is time-space compression?
Anti-immigrant attitudes that may form among the cultural majority.
What is natavism?
When a pidgin develops a more formal structure and vocabulary so to create a new combined language.
What is a creole language?
Daily prayer, fasting during Ramadan, Pilgrim to Mecca (Hajj), alms, declaration of faith.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
A family of software programs that use thematic layers to create a mashup map to allow geographers to map, analyze, and model spatial data.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
Visible reflection of a culture, or the built environment.
What is the cultural landscape?
In the north of China the 'bing feng' while in the south of China they say 'kong tiao'.
What is an example of an isogloss?
A European language isolate.
What is the Basque language?
The ethnic religion with the most adherents.
What is Hinduism?
Argued that the products of complex interactions between humans and their environments (cultural landscapes), should be the fundamental focus of geographic inquiry.
Who is Carl Sauer？
The experiences of people who come from a comon ethnic background but who live in different regions or ethnic neighbourhoods, an example being Jews or Africans.
What is a diaspora?
Behaviours heavily discouraged by a culture. For example muslims not eating pork/hogs, Hindus not eating beef.
What are taboos?
A lingua franca used in east Africa, that's not English nor Arabic.
What is Swahili?
The hearth for the three largest monotheistic, Abrahamic religions.
What is West Asia?