Geography Unit 1
the map inside your head; based on what you know about a place
What is a mental map
The study of population
What is demography
Traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas
folk culture
a religion that attempts to be global
universalizing religion
loyalty and devotion to a nationality
nationalism
The science of mapmaking
What is cartography?
the portion of the earth's surface marked by permanent human settlement
What is ecumene
a restriction on a behavior imposed by religious law or social custom
What is a taboo
Agnostic
Type of government run by religious leaders
theocracy
A map that connects places of a particular value by lines
what is an isoline map
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
Great Britain
a force that tends to unify people
centripetal force
Largest branch of Islam
Sunni
When a state is independent from control of its internal affairs by other states its has?
sovereignty
the name given to a portion of the earth's surface
toponym
The number of people per unit of arable land
What is physiological density
a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago
language branch
The founder of Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama
a country is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people
autocracy
the diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
What is distance decay
the transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated
What is a remittance
Arabic is part of what language family
Afro-Asiatic
Holy river for the Hindus
Ganges River
redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power
Gerrymandering