Themes of Geography
The mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet
Movement
Maps in our mind of places we've been. Includes terra incognita: unknown lands that are off limits.
Mental Maps
A country's total population relative to land size.
Arithmetic population density
EX: manufacturing, construction, food processing, etc
Secondary Sector
Occurs when someone chooses to leave home.
Voluntary Migration
The relationship between humans and the physical world.
Human-environment interactions
Location in reference to another place or thing. Constantly modified and change over time.
Relative location
The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.
Physiological population density
EX: Mining, agriculture, forestry, fishing, etc.
Primary Sector
The movement of people who are compelled to leave their homes due to circumstances beyond their control.
Forced Migration
People develop a sense of place by infusing a place with meaning and emotion.
Tells stories showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon.
Thematic Maps
Number of births in a year per 1000 population.
Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
EX: Software development, financial planning, research in fields like AI and robotics.
Quaternary Sector
Journeys that begins at home base and goes back to it.
Cyclic Movement
The geographical position of people and things on Earth's surface affects what happens and why.
Location
Specific location using GPS or latitude/longitude. Does not change.
Absolute Location
Average number of children born to a woman of childbearing age.
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
EX: Healthcare providers, retail stores, transportation services, etc
Tertiary Sector
A type of movement that repeats itself at regular intervals.
Periodic Movement
Features of the Earth's surface tend to be concentrated in particular areas.
Region
They focus on accuracy in showing the absolute locations of places.
Reference Maps
Who said that population grows faster than food supply; food grows linearly, and population grows exponentially.
Thomas Malthus
EX: CEOS, high ranking government officials, etc
Quinary Sector
Migration streams that consist of a series of stages.
Step Migration