Unit 1
The exact location of a place.
Absolute Location.
Laws designed to decrease a nations population growth.
Anti-Natalist Policies
Forces that unite or divide a population
Centripetal and centrifugal
A community of people bound to a homeland and possessing a common identity based on shared cultural traits such as language, ethnicity, and religion
Nation
A small-scale farming system in which a farmer plants one to a few acres that produce a diverse mixture of vegetable and fruits, mostly for sale in local and regional markets
Market Gardening
The interaction between two places declines as the distance between the two places increases.
Distance Decay
The ratio between the working class and the non-working class within a population.
Dependency ratio.
the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape; The built forms that cultural groups create in inhabiting Earth - farm fields, cities, houses, and so on - and the meaning, values, representations, and experiences associated with those forms
The cultural landscape
The ideal political geographical unit; one in which the nation's geographic boundaries (a people and its culture) exactly match the state's territorial boundaries (governance and authority)
Nation-State
Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that use high levels of labor and capital relative to the size of the landholding
Intensive Agriculture
software that captures, manages, analyzes, and displays data that is collected geographically
Geographic information systems. (GIS)
Increased food supply due to innovations in agriculture
Boserup Effect
The physical, visible objects made and used by members of a cultural group; includes buildings, furniture, clothing, food, artwork, and musical instruments
Material Culture
An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation-state
Stateless Nation
Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that require little hired labor or monetary investment to successfully raise crops and animals
Extensive Agriculture
This map preserves direction and shape for the purpose of navigation.
What is The Mercator Projection.
Population increases exponentially. Food increases linearly. This disparity will cause famine.
Malthusian theory.
Largest language family
Indo-European
A country containing multiple national, ethnic, and religious groups within its boundaries
Multinational State
The cultivation of a plot of land until it becomes less productive, typically over a period of about three to five years; when productivity drops, the farmer shifts to a new plot of land that has been prepared by slash-and-burn agriculture
Shifting Cultivation
Map projection that evenly distributes distortion.
Robinson Projection
Average number of children who would be born per woman during her childbearing years.
Total Fertility Rate
A group of people with distinct norms, values, and material practices that differentiate them from the dominant culture surrounding them
Sub-culture (Emo, Cybergoth, Hipster)
Region of consistent and continuing fragmentation due to devolution and centripetal forces.
Shatterbelt
Land survey system created by the U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785, which divides most of the country's territory into a grid of square-shaped townships with 6-mile sides
Township and range