Unit 1 Thinking Geographically
This type of map uses colors or shading to show the distribution of a specific feature, such as population density or rainfall.
What is a choropleth map?
This term describes the number of people per unit of arable land.
What is physiological density?
This term describes the blending of cultures, often seen in language or religion.
What is syncretism?
This type of boundary follows a physical feature, such as a river or mountain range.
What is a physical boundary?
This type of agriculture involves growing food primarily for the farmer’s family.
What is subsistence agriculture?
This term describes the spread of an idea or innovation from a place of origin.
What is diffusion?
This model shows the stages of population growth and decline based on birth and death rates.
What is the demographic transition model?
This is an example of a universalizing religion.
What is Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism?
This term describes a state’s ability to govern itself without external interference.
What is sovereignty?
This revolution introduced mechanization and technology to farming, increasing productivity.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
This type of region is organized around a central node or focal point, such as a city and its surrounding suburbs.
What is a functional region?
This type of migration occurs when people move from one region to another within the same country.
What is internal migration?
This type of diffusion occurs when an idea spreads through the movement of people.
What is relocation diffusion?
This type of state has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state.
What is a unitary state?
This type of farming involves the herding of animals in arid or semi-arid regions
What is pastoral nomadism?
This concept explains how humans interact with their environment, often associated with environmental determinism.
What is human-environment interaction?
This term describes the maximum population size an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
This term describes the process by which a cultural trait spreads from one place to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
This organization, formed in 1945, aims to maintain international peace and security.
What is the United Nations?
This revolution introduced mechanization, chemical fertilizers, and high-yield crop varieties to increase food production.
What is the Green Revolution?
This geographic tool uses satellites to collect data about Earth’s surface, often used for mapping and environmental monitoring.
What is remote sensing?
This policy, implemented in China in 1979, limited families to one child to control population growth.
What is the One-Child Policy?
This language family includes English, Spanish, and Hindi, originating from a common ancestral language.
What is the Indo-European language family?
This term describes the process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit a political party.
What is gerrymandering?
This agricultural model explains the location of farming activities based on transportation costs.
What is the von Thünen model?