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Human Geography
Population & Migration
Cultural & Identity
Language
Religion
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Geographic Information System
What does GIS stands for?
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The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.
What is a "physiological population density"?
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To describe the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape to the point that one place looks like the next
How does geographer Edward Relph coined the word "placelessness"?
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A set of sounds and symbols that is used for communication. It's an integral part of culture, reflecting and shaping it.
What is a language?
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Where the adherents are born into the faith and converts are not actively sought.
What is an ethnic religion?
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-how people make places. -how we organize space and society. -how we interact with each other in places and across space. -how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities regions and the world.
What does the field of human geography focuses on?
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Elsbeth Robson
Who studied the impact of AIDS in hard hit Zimbabwe?
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It explain how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication technologies.
What is the "distance decay and time-space compression" model shows people?
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A country in which there are more than one language that is spoken.
What is a multilingual state?
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The physical phenomena on Earth.
Human geography is the study of human phenomena on Earth, but what does "physical geography" studies?
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-It explain the transformation of countries from having high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates. -In developed countries this transition began in the eighteenth century and continues today. -Less developed countries began the transition later and are still in the midst of earlier stages of the model.
What does the "demographic transition model" shows us?
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When people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes are known as glocalization.
What is "glocalization"?
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A language that is used among speakers of different language for the purpose of trade and commerce.
What is Lingua Franca?
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It locks people into particular social classes and imposes many restrictions, especially in the lowest of the caste, the Dalits.
What does the Caste System do to people? (Hint: Hinduism)
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"Why of where"
How does Marvin Mikesell define geography in shorthand as?
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They are likely to have more complete perceptions of nearer places than of farther ones, which confirm the notion that the intensity of human activity, process, or function decline as distance from its source increases.
In the distance decay model, what does prospective migrants are likely to have?
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"How we make sense of ourselves."
How did geographer Gillian rose defines "identity" as?
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The hypothesis itself proposed 3 sources of agricultural, which then each gave a rise to major languages.
What does the Renfrew Hypothesis model and map show?
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An example would be a disease ; it shows us a form of expansion diffusion in which nearly all adjacent individuals and places are affected.
What does the model of contagious diffusion show us? What is an example?
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Paul Boyle
Which geographer pointed out that by hiring women from abroad, the female head of household establish a relationship in which the employee's "ethnicity and citizenship" status differentiates them from their female employer and influence the power relationship that underpin the working arrangement.
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It shows us the value derived from a number of statistics measuring women's access to political and economic decision making.
What does the gender empowerment measurement (GEM) model by country shows?
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He developed his own theory regarding the diffusion of Proto-Indo-European and agricultural. He proposed that 3 area in and near the agricultural hearth of the Fertile Crescent gave rise to 3 language families.
What did Colin Renfrew developed?
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She studied the rise of the cremation and columbaria; which is the resting place for ashes. In Hong Kong, investigating the impact on Feng Shui has had on the structures and the continued influence of Chinese religious beliefs on burial practices in the extremely densely populated city of Hong Kong.
What did geographer Elizabeth Teather studied?