Unit 1: Maps
This type of map uses shades of colors to depict data value.
What is a Choropleth Map?
This term describes the maximum population an area can sustainably support without degrading resources.
What is carrying capacity?
What is popular culture?
Russia is an example of this type of political entity.
What is a multinational state?
Nomadic herding, or pastoralism, is a type of this category of agricultural practices.
What is extensive agriculture.
This technology stores and analyzes spatial data in layers. Examples of these layers include roads, rivers, elevation, and population density.
What is GIS?
This type of density explains the average number of people per square mile or kilometer in an area.
What is Arithmetic denisty?
A Barrio (Spanish speaking neighborhood) is an example of this type of cultural landscape.
What is an ethnic enclave?
The Quebec sovereignty movement is an example of political process.
What is devolution?
This rural settlement pattern occurs when farmers live on individual farmsteads separated by large plots of land, such as those in the US and Canada.
What is dispersed.
This term refers to improvements in transportation and communication, and makes distances feel shorter.
What is time-space compression?
India's forced sterilization efforts in the 1960s and 70s would be an example of this type of population policy.
What is antinatalist?
What is a centripetal force?
Cold War era Eastern Europe sitting between the Soviet bloc and NATO aligned western Europe is an example of this expression of political power.
What is a shatterbelt?
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
This theory of human environment relationships states that technology, culture, and economics shape how we respond to environmental constraints.
What is possibilism?
This shape of population pyramid is defined by high birth rates and rapid population growth, and typically lies in stage 2 of the DTM.
What is a triangle shape OR a wide base?
As a result of forced migration and stimulus diffusion, this religion was born in Cuba.
What is Santería?
The establishment of the India-Pakistan border being drawn after settlement and cultural development of both states is an example of this type of political boundary.
What is a consequent boundary.
According to the Van Thünen, this type of agriculture is most often arranged furthest from the market.
What is ranching or livestock raising.
This city is a toponym that means "Eastern Capital"
What is Tokyo?
This school of thought was born out of concerns of resource scarcity and rapid population boom in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
What is Neo-Malthusian
This form of cultural diffusion is used to describe when a minority culture adopts some traits of the dominant culture, while still retaining its core identity.
What is acculturation?
This upward movement of power gives authority to larger organizations to peruse shared goals, such as the United Nations.
What is supernationalism?
What is farm consolidation.