Population and Migration
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
What is Doubling Time?
The spread of cultural elements from one society to another
What is Cultural Diffusion?
A political association with effective dominion over a geographic area. It usually consists of institutions that claim authority to make rules that govern the nation
What is a State?
The farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and aquatic plants
What is Aquaculture?
The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
What is the Tertiary Sector?
The ratio if the number of farmers to the total amount of farmland
What is Agricultural Density?
The acquisition of two languages that use different speech sounds, vocabularies, and grammatical rules.
What is Bilingualism?
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support from a state.
What is a Centripetal Force?
Crops that are grown without fertilizers and pesticides
What is Organic Agriculture?
Location factors related to the costs of factors of production inside the plant, such as land, labor, and capital.
What are Site Factors?
The number of people who are too young too old to work compared to the number of people in there productive years
What is Dependency Ratio?
A regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation; also a form of a language spoken by members of a particular social class or profession
What is a Dialect?
An internal organizationof a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.
What is Federal State?
The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
What is Crop Rotation?
Process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheaper labor, leaving the newly deindustrialized region to switch to a service economy and to work through a period of high unemployment
What is Deindustrialization?
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
What is an Intervening Obstacle?
The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.
What is Acculturation?
A small geographic area that could not be organized in to a larger state due to conflicting ethnicities.
What is Balkanization?
Farmers and ranchers sell all of their output for money and buy their families' food at stores
What is Commercial Agriculture?
A location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another.
What is a Break-of-Bulk Point?
People forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in social group, or political opinion.
What is a Refugee?
The fusion of originally different elements from two or more cultural traits or groups
What is Syncretism?
Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
What is Colonialism?
Where all land owned by the father is passed to the eldest son
What is Primogeniture?
A model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones
What is Dependency Theory?