Unit 1
The feeling of recognizing a place
Sense of place
This foolish man believed that the population would grow so large that people would outnumber the food supply, leading to people starving to death.
Thomas Malthus
This type of religion is located near its hearth and only diffuses through relocation diffusion. (You have to be born into it)
Ethnic Religion
This type of boundary uses straight lines and is often located in deserts, jungles, or forests.
Geometric Boundary
This type of region appears on maps. Countries would be an example of this region.
Formal Region
The ability to do the same activity forever
Sustainable / Sustainability
This type of population policy discourages people from having kids. The 1 child policy of China is an example of this.
Anti- Natalist
This universal religion originated in India (South Asia) and diffused into East Asia.
Buddhism
This is a country that has no ocean access, it will often be poorer and less developed.
Landlocked
Most people migrate for this reason (cultural, political, economic, environmental)
Economic
The belief that the environment determines how developed your society can be.
Environmental Determinism
Intervening obstacles
This is the largest language family
Indo-European
12 miles.
Pick 2 reasons why people are moving to the sunbelt
Cheap land
Government jobs
Hot weather
Many retirement communities
The size of the map compared to its real size
Scale
People who are forced to migrate because of a war are called...
Refugees
A religious journey to a holy site.
Pilgrimage
Redrawing a voting district so that a political party would be the majority in an election
Gerrymandering
When 2 cultures borrow traits from each other
Acculturation.
This type of region does not exist and its "boundaries" look different to each person.
Vernacular or Perceived Regions
When people migrate and bring their family and community with them
Chain migration
When 2 cultures merge and become a new culture
Syncretism
3 or more countries teaming up for political, economic, or military reasons. (NATO, EU, NAFTA) are examples
Supranationalism
Trying to remove an ethnic group from an area (murder or forced migration)
Ethnic cleansing / Genocide