Unit 1
Coordinates are what form of location.
What is absolute location?
A factor that makes a place desirable.
What is a pull factor?
Places where people feel safe.
What are safe spaces?
A country
What is a state?
The cultivation of crops or animals.
What is agriculture?
Where something is based on absolute location.
What is site?
What is an intervening obstacle?
Widespread practices of ordinary people at a given time.
What is popular culture?
What is an autonomous region?
What is the CBD (Central Business District)?
An area organized around a central focal point.
What is a functional region?
People who must migrate but have not left the borders of their country.
What are internally displaced persons?
A group that broke away from a denomination.
What is a sect?
What is an antecedent boundary?
Moving around both humans and animals.
What is transhumance?
The terrain of an area.
What is topography?
The level of interactions between places based on size and distance.
What is the Gravity Model?
When 2 languages combine to form one.
What is creolization?
The process of drawing boundaries.
What is delimiting?
Where communal land is replaced by individual owned farms.
What is the enclosure system?
A stretched out map that shows true direction.
What is a Gall-Peters projection?
The idea that distance requires effort to overcome.
What is friction of distance?
Collection of languages from a common ancestor.
What is a language family?
Being able to decide your political beliefs.
What is self-determination?
When salts build up in soil, limiting plant water absorption.
What is salinization?