Maps
U1 & U2
U3
Unit 4
Pot Pourri
100
This type of projection has a rounded edge, but ultimately Area, Shape, Size, and Direction are all slightly distorted
What is a Robinson Projection?
100
This type of region share characteristics within a larger region but is distinct in some manner
What is a Subregion?
100
A religion that is focused on a single ethnic group (often in a centralized area) that doesn't attempt to appeal to all people
What is an Ethnic Religion?
100
This act of gathering data on the numbers of individuals and their ethic backgrounds is conducted every ten years in the U.S.
What is the Census?
100
The scattering a of people from their homeland (especially the Jews from the Holy Land)
What is Diaspora?
200
This Map Projection is the best for Navigating the Open Sea
200
This is the shrinking of "time-distance" between locations because of improved methods transportation and communication
What is Time-space compression?
200
Judging people or traditions based on your own cultural standards
What is Ethnocentrism?
200
The practice of manipulating electoral district boundaries to favor a particular political party or group. This tactic is often used during the redistricting process to maximize electoral advantage,
What is Gerrymandering?
200
This Greek Mathemetician calculated the circumference of the earth in 300 B.C.E. and coined the term Geography
Who is Eratosthenes?
300
A type of map that changes the sizes of countries to match the representation of a statistic
300
The term when migrants move to the same cities as relatives who had already moved there
What is Chain Migration?
300
An adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another
What is Acculturation?
300
Vietnam is considered this country morphology type:
What is Elongated?
300
This topographic Map this type of Map
What is Isoline?
400
Name this projection:
What is the Mollweide Projection:
400
The is the magic number for fertility to keep a population from declining is 2.1, what is the highest average fertility rate and what is most successful country in Europe?
What is 1.8, in France?
400
This Universalizing religion dates back the sixteenth century focusing on the 5ks and is monotheistic.
What is Sikhism?
400
This type of boundary is a political border drawn before significant human settlement or cultural landscape development, often following natural features like rivers (e.g., Rio Grande) or latitude lines (e.g., 49th Parallel between US/Canada)
What is a Antecedent boundary?
400
This book was a significant reason the world feared a population explosion and the writer is often cited as a Neo-Malthusian
What is the Population Bomb?
500
This is the "Orange Peel" Projection type which is considered accurate for direction, landmass size, and general distortion
What is the Goode-Homolosine Projection:
500
This is the name for a contemporary believer in the theories of Thomas Malthus
What is Neo-Malthusian?
500
A trade language, characterized by a very small vocabulary derived from the languages of at least two or more groups in contact
What is a Pidgin language?
500
This type of boundary was put into place to represent an already existing political or cultural divide i.e. Pakistan and India
What is a consequent boundary?
500
This is an area inside of a country that has some power to control itself more than other areas in the country
What is a Semi-Autonomous Region?
600
This project is considered the most accurate and was designed by a Japanese architect?
What is the Authagraphic projection?
600
This 19th century Geographer and Cartographer helped define the most common trends about migration
Who is Ernst Georg Ravenstein?
600
English is from the Indo-European Language tree and is the most widely spoken language in the world. Mandarin is the second most spoken language in the world and comes from this tree
What is the Sino-Tibetan Tree?
600
Name 2 examples of a perforated state?
What are South Africa and Italy?
600
This type of organization was what spawned the problems in World War 1 & 2, when two or more countries joining together for a common purpose such as economics or defense
What is a Supranational Organization?