Nature & Perspectives
The science of map-making.
What is Cartography?
Expansion, Hierarchical, Stimulus, Contagious, and Relocation are all types of this.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
The number of stages in the Demographic Transition Model.
What are 4 stages?
Independence from the control of its internal affairs by other states; having complete authority over an area.
What is sovereignty?
The agricultural model that spatially describes agricultural activity by predicting that humans will use land in relation to the cost of land and the cost of transporting products to the center city.
What is the Von Thunen Model?
(At least 2 out of the) 4 types of distortion that can result in a map projection.
A: What are the shape, distance, relative size, direction, and/or direction?
The term used to describe the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society.
What is Acculturation?
The periodic and official count of a country's population.
What is the Census?
______ forces divide a state (lead to balkanization/devolution, disrupt internal order, destabilize, weaken).
What are Centrifugal forces?
The production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer and their family, rather than for a profit off the market.
What is subsistence farming?
The 3 types of regions (areas of earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics).
What is a Formal/Uniform Region, Functional/Nodal Region, and Vernacular/Perceptual Region?
Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, and Sino-Tibetan are examples of ________.
What are Language Families?
The 3 different population densities.
What are Arithmetic, Physiological, and Agricultural Population Density?
The European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are examples of ________ Organizations.
What are Supranational Organizations?
Wheat and grain are examples of this type of farming.
What is Intensive farming?
The expansion and spreading of economic, political, or cultural processes to the point that they become worldwide/international in scale and impact.
What is globalization?
The main 3 universalizing religions.
What are Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism?
The idea that distance between places is, in effect, shrinking due to certain transportation and community technologies.
What is Time-Space Convergence?
The United States is an example of this form of government, which divides power between a central government and several regional governments.
What is a federal government?
The 3 Land Use Survey Patterns.
What are Long Lots, Metes & Bounds, and Township-and-Range?
The definition of the word Geography, invented by the ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes.
What is the study of where things are found on the Earth’s surface and the reasons for the locations?
Southern Saudi Arabia around Mecca is this for the Islam religion. What is the cultural hearth?
What is the cultural hearth?
It is a graph that shows the age-gender distribution of a given population. It a graphic profile of the population’s residents.*Hint: Gender is shown on the left/right sides, age on the y-axis, and the percentage of the population on the x-axis. Each grouping (ex: males aged 0-4) is called a cohort.
What is a Population Pyramid?
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
What is gerrymandering?
This Agricultural Revolution’s transformation began in the latter half of the twentieth century and corresponded with exponential population growth around the world. Hybridization, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers were key aspects.
What is the Green/Third Agricultural Revolution?