Maps
A flat representation of a location
What is a Map?
The average number of people per unit of land area.
What is population density?
How humans have changed the environment and land which reflect their cultural beliefs and values.
What is Cultural Landscape
A politically organized, independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a permanent population.
What is state
A single, central government that control and maintain authority for everything.
What is unitary state.
A map that shows data and information.
What is a thematic map.
Positive reasons that encourage people to move to a place.
What is Pull Factors
A process in which a community or cultural group gets together to plan a public space.
What is place-making
People united by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state.
What is stateless nation
Clustering like-minded voters to a state district.
What is Packing
Precise coordinates of a place using address and/or coordinates.
A tool to see population growth and decline and see a country's future needs and demands.
What is population pyramid
The tendency of ethnic groups to judge other cultures based on their own beliefs.
What is ethnocentrism
The right of all people to choose their own political status.
What is self-determination
The making of a boundary physically.
What is demarcating
A map projection that shows the most accurate information and is what is used today.
What is the Robinson Projection.
The average number of babies a woman can have during her reproductive years.
What is total fertility rate
A force that unites a group of people together.
What is centripetal force
A region with ongoing political instability.
What is shatter belts.
The process of using military force to conquer a territory whether it's occupied or not.
What is colonialism
Regions defined by a uniform or unifying characteristic.
What is Formal/Uniform Regions
High birth rate and a rapidly falling death rate, leading to high population growth.
What is Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model
An idea or cultural trait that spreads to places or people that are near one another.
What is contagious diffusion
Changing a states internal political boundaries for a political advanatge.
What is gerrymandering.
Multiple and diverse cultures that exist in a same or shared space.
What is multiculturalism