Unit 1
A person who makes maps
Cartographer
The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earth’s surface
Population distribution
The physical,visible object made and used by members of a cultural group; includes buildings, furniture, clothing, food, artwork, and musical instrument.
Material culture
A branch of human geography concerned with the spatial analysis of political Systems.
Political geography
The political claim to territory in another country based on ethnic affiliations and historic borders.
Irredentism
The placement or arrangement of objects on Earth’s surface; also includes the space between those objects.
Spatial patterns
A city with more than 20 million residents
Metacity
A single aspect of a given culture or society.
Cultural trait
An independent political unity with a centralized authority that makes claim to sole legal, political, and economic jurisdiction over a region with defined boundaries.
State or country
The calculated use of violent acts against civilians and symbolic targets to publicize a cause, intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or affect the conduct of the government.
Terrorism
A Map that shows the surface features of an area.
Topographic map
Increase in food production resulting from the use of new farming methods.
Boserup Effect
The spread of an underlying principl, even though a specific characteristi is rejected.
Stimulus Diffusion
A state that possesses the sole authority over the land and people within its boundaries
Sovereign state
Terrains that transcends national boundaries and is intended to intimidate people in other countries
International terrorism
The decreasing distance between places, as measured by travel time or cost; often summarized by the phrase “the world is shrinking”
Time-space compression
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support.
Carrying Capacity
Barriers that completely halt diffusion
Absorbing barriers
Describing how boundaries are fixed or defined to identify their limits
Delimited Boundary
Acts by individuals or groups against the citizens or government of their own country
Domestic terrorism
The pattern by which a phenomenon such as the movement of people, or their ideas, technologies, or preferences, spreads from a particular location through space and time.
Diffusion
Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rate.
Anti-Natalist Policies
A focused geographic area where important innovations are born and from which they spread.
Culture hearth
A boundary that no longer functions as an international border.
Relic boundary
Basque separatist organization in Spain that used terrorism in its campaign for an independent Basque state.
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