Unit 1
The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator.
What is latitude?
The number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
What is carrying capacity?
Traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas.
What is folk culture?
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicitity that has been transformed into a nationality.
What is a nation-state?
In the late 15th and 16th centuries, food products were carried both ways across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This region is a depiction of one's perception of an area.
What is a vernacular region?
The earth area of permanent human settlement.
What is ecumene?
The spread of something like a culture or disease, etc.
What is contagious diffusion?
A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state?
A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasibly yield from a parcel of land.
What is intensive farming?
Every map is different because each person has a different view of the world and a different idea of how things should be laid out.
Why is every map different?
Countries with low death rates and decreasing birth rates.
What is stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model?
The geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment interaction.
What is cultural ecology?
A small neutral state between two rival powers.
What is a buffer state?
Sustainability, soil degradation ,reduction in biodiversity, overgrazing, river and aquifer depletion, animal wastes, extensive fertilizer and pesticide use.
What are environmental consequences?
Map scale displays the spatial pattern of a theme or series of attributes and emphasizes spatial variation of one or a small number of geographic distributions. The scale of analysis provides a map to ground measurement (Ex. 1:200 would mean one unit on the map is equal to 200 units on the ground).
What is the difference between map scale and scale of analysis?
The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
What is physiological density?
The region from which innovative ideas and cultural traits originate.
What is a hearth?
A boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area.
What is a antecedent boundary?
Increase in reliable food supplies, rapid increase in total human population, job specialization, widening of gender differences, distinction between settled people and nomads.
What are changes caused by the Neolithic Revolution?
Humans interact with the environment based on deep-seated culture values, peoples level of wealth, and traditions. Some things that humans interacts with are planting grass in the front yard or not letting dandelions take over a lawn.
How do humans interact with their environment, and what are the factors that determine this?
Said human growth would multiply geometrically and agricultural production would increase arithmetically; there wouldn't be enough food and this would lead to a tipping point at which the world would fall into war.
Who was Thomas Malthus?
The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.
What is assimilation?
Regulated trade and colonization in Africa. It formalized the scramble to gain colonies in Africa and set up boundaries for each country's colonies.
What was the conference of Berlin?
They started as gatherers and are now managing agribusinesses. They have also began changing the way food is prepared and consumed.
What is the role of women in agriculture?