Nature and Perspective
The position of anything on Earth's surface.
The areas of earth occupied by human settlement
Ecumeme
a system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities
religion
transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs
Tertiary activity
increase in earth's temperature caused by carbon dioxide trapping radiation
Greenhouse effect
The exact location's physical spot
The theory that population grows faster than food supply
Malthusian Theory
the process of making indigenous people adopt the dominant culture and abandon their own culture
assimilation
Occurred during the Industrial Revolution during 1750-1850 in more developed world. Uses technology provided by the Industrial Revolution as means to increase production and distribution of products.
Second Agriculture Revolution
factories built by U.S. companies in Mexico near the U.S. border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico
Maquiladora
Inaccuracies in a map due to the translation of a 3D image to a 2D surface.
Distortion
Government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase
Anti-Natalist Policies
when people speaking 2 or more languages are in contact and they combine parts of their languages in a simplified structure and vocabulary
pidgin
Involves moving animals on a seasonal basis to areas that have necessary vegetation & water to meet the needs of animals. Done in arid climates in North Africa and Central Asia. Mostly goats, sheep, camels. People survive off of the milk products of the animals & rarely meat products.
Pastoral Nomadism
A monetary measurement which takes account of what money actually buys in each country.
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
The idea that the further something is away/more inconvenient it is, the less frequent/intense interaction with it will be.
distance decay
people who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion
Refugee
a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce. Can be one language or a mixture.
lingua franca
Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life.
Colombian Exchange
region of great cities located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Mesopotamia
A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place
Stimulus Diffusion
Someone who says he or she is a refugee, but whose claim has not yet been definitively evaluated.
Asylum seeker
world's oldest monotheistic religion
Zoroastrianism
the legal process in England during the 18th century of enclosing a number of small landholdings to create one larger farm.
Enclosure Movement
discriminatory real estate practice in NA in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase property in white dominant neighborhoods
Redlining