Geographic Terms
What is human geography?
The number of people or structures in a given area.
What is density?
The most common form of migration.
What is rural to urban?
Usually broken down into three categories: artifacts, mentifacts, sociofacts.
What are cultural traits?
A type of boundary that is placed over existing boundaries, without regard for cultural patterns.
What is a superimposed boundary?
A symbolic representation of selected characteristics of a place, usually drawn on a flat surface.
What is a map?
The idea that focuses on the role of human culture to modify and respond to the environment to better fit human needs.
What is environmental possibilism?
Government programs designed to increase the fertility rate and accelerate population growth.
What are pronatalist policies?
The movement or spread of cultural traits, knowledge, ideas, trends from hearths to other geographic areas.
What is cultural diffusion?
A region, usually in between two powerful states, which can be subject to conflict.
What is a shatterbelt region?
An area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.
What is a region?
Computer system/software that stores, analyzes, and displays information from multiple digital maps or data.
What are Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
A positive cause that attracts someone to a new location.
What is a pull factor?
When two culture’s traits blend together and form a new cultural trait
What is syncretism?
Organized violence aimed at government and civilian targets intended to create fear in order to accomplish political aims.
What is terrorism?
A place's position on Earth.
What is location?
The process of a cartographer (mapmaker) showing the curved surface of the earth on a flat surface.
What is projection?
Someone who has been forced to flee their country because of persecution, war or violence.
What is a refugee?
A religion that is closely associated with a particular group of people.
What is an ethnic religion?
A historical event in which European powers gathered to divide the continent of Africa into various colonies.
What is the Berlin Conference?
How people, goods, information, and ideas move from one place to another and what happens as a result.
What is movement?
A map that uses various colors, shades of one color, or patterns to show the location and distribution of spatial data.
What is a choropleth map?
When migrants with higher levels of training/education migrate internationally in order to make more money in a different country.
What is brain drain?
The "shrinking" of the world due to improvements in communication and transportation technologies.
What is time-space compression?
The process in which regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
What is devolution?