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The total number of people divided by the total land area
What is arithmetic density
100
This is the population level that can be supported, given the quantity of food, habitat, water and other life infrastructure present. This is important because it tells how many people an area will be able to support.
What is carrying copacity
100
a country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country
What is an enclave
100
political term used when referring to the fragmentation or breakup of a region or country into smaller regions or countries
What is Balkinization?
100
The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for subsistence or economic gain.
What is Agriculture
200
The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places
What is hierarchial diffusion
200
This is the population level that can be supported, given the quantity of food, habitat, water and other life infrastructure present. This is important because it tells how many people an area will be able to support.
What is a cohort?
200
a type of religion that does not believe in an universal truth, and does not aim to convert.
What is ethnic religions
200
A country lying between two more powerful countries that are hostile to each other
What is a Buffer State?
200
Harvesting twice a year from the same land
What is double cropping
300
region is an area within which everyone shares in common one or mare distinctive characteristics
What is Formal Region
300
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase. This is important because it can help project the countries population increase over the years and when its population will double
What is doubling time?
300
where religious figures and congregations meet to perform religious ceremonies
What is Sacred space
300
attitude that unifies people and enhances support for the state or Brings a state together.
What is a centripetal force?
300
the area milk can be produced in order for it to not spoil
What is Milkshed
400
The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment.
What is possibilism
400
This is the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; it is expressed as number of birth in year to every 1000 people alive in the society. This is important because it tells you the rate a country is having babies as well as how fast you can expect that population to grow.
What is Crude Birth Rate?
400
strict adherence to basic principles of a religion
What is Fundamentalism
400
a sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. The country that controls the EEZ has rights to the fishing, whaling, etc., as well as the raw material resources.
What is an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
400
practice of seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas.
What is transhumance
500
Physical location of geographic phenomena across SPACE
What is spatial distribution
500
theory that builds upon Malthus’ thoughts on overpopulation. Takes into count two factors that Malthus did not: population growth in LDC’s, and outstripping of resources other than food
What is Neo-malthusian?
500
The geographic study of human environmental relationships
What is cultural ecology
500
war between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism or fight over natural resources. it often includes genocide. It can also be caused by boundary disputes.
What is Ethnic conflict?
500
The cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food
What is aquaculture