Unit 1
40.7128° N, 74.0060° W
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Most populous city in the United States, bordering New Jersey
What is absolute location vs. relative location?
Between the 1760-1840s, this phenomenon led to more food, which led to a boom in the population of the "developed" world.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Relocation...Expansion...Hierarchical...Contagious... Stimulus
What are types of diffusion?
A group of people who are united by a shared culture, heritage, language, and possibly other belief systems.
What is a nation?
These unify a state and provide stability.
What are centripetal forces?
The concept helps geographers better understand how modern communication and transportation technologies have increased connections between people and places throughout the world.
What is time-space compression?
Arithmetic...Physiological...Agricultural
What are types of population density?
These are the five major global religions.
What are Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism?
Nationalities that have spread among many states.
What are multistate nations?
This British economist and demographer lived during the Industrial Revolution and studied the characteristics of population while it was rising in Britain.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Chloropleth... dot distribution... cartogram...
What are thematic maps?
These show the distribution of people in a given country by age group and gender.
What are population pyramids?
The largest language family.
What is Indo-European?
European leaders met here (without any African leaders present) to divide up the continent. They didn’t pay any attention to tribal and traditional boundaries, and instead, completely redrew country borders however they wanted.
What is the Berlin Conference of 1884 and/or the "Scramble for Africa"?
The #1 reason people move voluntarily.
What are economic opportunities?
The number of something in a defined area.
What is density?
The greatest amount of people the environment of an area can support sustainably.
What is carrying capacity?
The increasing economic and political interconnectedness between different regions of the world.
What is globalization?
When people want to control land to exert their influence over people or resources.
What is territoriality?
The theory that a place can be occupied by multiple different groups each modifying the landscape and having its own imprint for future occupiers.
What is sequent occupancy?
Developing an understanding of location, distance, direction, patterns, and interconnections is essential for geographers practicing this skill.
What is spatial analysis?
These forced migrants are similar to refugees, but they have not migrated internationally.
Who are Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)?
The relationship between people, their communities, and the physical environment.
What is "sense of place"?
These are formed based on religious, ethnic, linguistic, and economic differences between groups of people.
What are subsequent boundaries?
During the Syrian conflict that began in 2011, refugees fled in droves to neighboring countries. The drastic flood of people escaping the war created this type of dispute about who would be responsible for them, a responsibility that mostly fell on neighboring countries.
What is an operational boundary dispute?