Intro To Geography
A specific point on earth with human and physical characteristics that distinguish it from other places
What is place?
The maximum number of people or organisms that an area can support indefinitely
What is carrying capacity?
The spread of ideas, objects, or other factors from one place to another.
What is diffusion?
A territory where its people are led by the same government
What is nation?
The continent containing Mexico and the United States
What is North America?
Something found within the natural environment that is accessible and economically valuable to humans
What is natural resource?
The movement of people from one place to another
What is migration?
The shared beliefs, traditions, and characteristics of a group of people.
What is culture?
The authority of a state to govern itself or another state
What is sovereignty?
The continent containing China and India
What is Asia?
Any area differentiated from surrounding areas by at least one characteristic
What is region?
A graph that shows the age and gender distribution of a population at a given time
What is population pyramid?
How humans use the land, including the economic and cultural activities that take place on it.
What is land use?
An imaginary line that separates political units, such as countries, states, provinces, counties, and cities
What is a political boundary?
The continent containing Switzerland (where the Amish originally came from)
What is Europe?
The phenomenon where similar activities or populations gather together in a specific geographic area
What is clustering?
A negative factor that encourages a person to migrate away from a specific place
What is a push factor?
A political, social, economic, and cultural process in which one country or group of people takes control of another country or group of people
What is colonialism?
The concept of establishing and protecting a space or territory
What is territoriality?
The continent containing Egypt and Kenya.
What is Africa?
The concept that the natural environment places constraints on human activity, but humans can adapt to some environmental limits while modifying others using technology
What is possibilism?
Compares the number of dependents to the working-age population in a country or region
What is the dependency ratio?
The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture
What is ethnocentrism?
A belief system that defines a nation by a shared ethnicity, culture, and heritage
What is ethnonationalism?
A name for a book of maps (also the name of Ms. Rachel's cat).
What is Atlas?