Unit 1
A precise position on the Earth's surface
What is Absolute Location?
What is 2.1?
Implies that there is more to the cultural landscape than meets the eye due to cultural significance or evokes heritage & values of a group
What is Symbolic Landscape?
Religions that seek converts
What are Universalizing religions?
Explains the transition from high birth & death rates to low birth & death rates as a country develops from a traditional to capitalistic economic system.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
Maps that use lines to connect equal points of value on a map
What is an Isoline?
The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive (arable) land
What is physiological population density?
The expansion and intensification of linkages and flows of capital, people, goods, ideas, and cultures across national borders.
What is Globalization?
The way a language is spoken and written according to the formal rules of the language
What is Standard Language?
Theorized that population would grow exponentially while food supply would grow arithmetically
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Areas grouped with no crisp or perfect boundaries
What is a perceptual/ vernacular region?
Examples include baby bonuses, tax breaks, subsides for child care
What are Pro-Natal Policies?
Evaluating another culture based on the cultural norms or one’s own culture
What is ethnocentrism?
Language family of Cantonese, Mandarin, as well as Burmese
What is Sino-Tibetan?
Guidelines that try to rationalize migratory patterns of populations.
What are Ravenstein's Laws of Migration?
“Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things”
What is Tobler's 1st Law of Geography
Type of movement or migration pattern that has a closed route.
What is Cyclical Migration or Cyclical Movement?
Process by which a culture is substantially changed through interaction with another more powerful culture
What is Acculturation?
Two main language speakers in conflict within Cyprus
What is Greek and Turkish?
Theory that the physical environment plays a role in human actions, but ultimately people can adjust, adapt and modify to overcome physical environmental constraints
What is Possibilism?
Projecting that is used for regional maps of Mid-Latitude areas with east-west orientations. Shapes are generally correct but SIZE and DISTANCE gets distorted especially towards the poles.
What is a Conic Projection?
Location of the largest rural to urban migration in history.
What is China?
The sale of clothing marketed and endorsed by professional athletes to customers
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
Technically a religious philosophy that began in India and spread throughout East Asia via the Silk Road
What is Buddhism?
The transition a country faces as the cause of death changes from infectious diseases to man-made diseases
What is the Epidemiological Transition?