Unit 1
Thinking Geographically
Thinking Geographically
The discipline of Geography is divided into how many major areas?
2 (Physical and Human Geography)
Where people live within a geographic area
Population distribution
The visible objects and technologies that a culture creates , such as houses and buildings, clothes, tools, toys, etc.
Artifacts
Ethnic Russians are considered this type of political entity, because many Russian speakers live outside of Russia itself.
Multi-state nation
The purposeful cultivation of plants or the raising of animals to produce goods for survival.
Agriculture
This perspective refers to where something occurs. Where things are located and why they are located there.
Spatial perspective
Measures the total number of people per unit area of land
Arithmetic density
Widespread behaviors, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people in a society at a given point in time; Tend to change quickly
Popular culture
The Basque people that occupy the borders between Spain and France have their own unique culture and language, but no country they can call their own. This makes them what type of entity?
Stateless nation
Areas that have similar climate patterns generally based on their latitude and their location on coasts or continental interiors.
Climate regions
The expansion of economic, cultural, and political processes on a worldwide scale
Globalization
The maximum population size an environment can sustain is known as what?
Carrying capacity
Established building styles of different cultures, religions, and places, that were originally influenced by the environment and is based on localized needs and construction materials.
Traditional architecture
The Strait of Hormuz, which is currently a point of strategic contention between Iran and the United states, is a narrow passageway that is difficult to pass, otherwise known as a what?
Chokepoint
This type of farming involves growing crops and raising animals for family consumption
Subsistence agriculture
Immanuel Wallerstein developed this, which described the spatial and functional relationships between countries in the world economy
World system theory
Data about the structures and characteristics of human populations.
Demographics
Place names, or this, help define what is unique about a place, such as its geographic features or history.
Toponyms
The push to create an empire by exercising force or influence to control other nations or people
Imperialism.
This theory explains how land value determines how a farmer will use the land-either intensively or extensively
bid-rent theory
The mathematical relationship between the size of the map and the part of the real world that it shows
Map scale
The difference between the CBR and the CDR of a defined group of people.
Rate of natural increase
The renovations and improvements conforming to middle class standards.
Gentrification
Boundaries that are physical, such as stones, pillars, or fences
Demarcation
Large-scale commercial farming of one particular crop grown for markets often distant from the plantation
Plantation agriculture