Maps and Location
The imaginary line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern halves called hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The total number of people living in an area
The beliefs, values, behaviors, and material objects shared by a group of people.
What is a culture?
A city that dominates a country's population and economy... it more than doubles the population of the next biggest city... London for example
Primate City
Farming focused on producing enough food to survive.
What is subsistence agriculture?
The distance East or West of the Prime Meridian measured in degrees.
What is longitude?
The number of babies born per 1,000 people in a year.
What is crude birth rate (CBR)?
The spread of culture from one place to another for example the spread of a popular ethnic food or dance.
What is cultural diffusion?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities
What is urbanization?
Farming focused on selling products for profit
What is commercial agriculture?
The map projection that preserves shape but distorts size especially at the poles.
What is a Mercator Projection... also known as a conformal projection.
A model that shows population change over tie as a country develops economically.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
What is a cultural hearth?
What is a megalopolis?
Farming that requires significant inputs of work and/or money (capital)
What is intensive farming?
The exact location of a place using latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
What is a demographic pyramid?
The belief that your own culture is superior to others. Judging other cultures by the rules and standards of another culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
The process of moving out of the city to the outer edge where the land is often cheaper and more available.
What is suburbanization?
The practice of leading animals through open pastures to allow them to graze... can't really do it if everybody starts putting up barbed wire...
Nomadic Pastoralism
Relative Location
A population pyramid with a very wide base, indicating rapid population growth...
The widespread adoption of practices from other cultures, leading to uniformity, sameness, or placelessness.
What is globalization?
The process by which higher-income people move into older urban neighborhoods.
What is gentrification?
The theory that explains the location of agriculture products around a market city.
What is the Von Thunen model?