GEOGRAPHER'S TOOLKIT
This effect, which happens when round objects like globes are flattened, is the reason all maps are flawed.
What is distortion?
These are reasons that a person may want to leave their home country.
What are push factors?
This is any space that has special religious significance.
What is sacred space?
NATO, the IMF, and European Union are all examples of these types of groups.
What are supranational organizations?
Continents do not tell us very much about how humans interact with the earth, so geographers advise using these geographic units instead.
What are regions?
This model shows how humans have moved from patterns of high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.
What is the demographic transition model?
These types of religions make efforts to acquire more adherents, like making use of missionaries.
What are universalizing religions?
Great Britain had these types of political units in North America, India, and Australia.
What are colonies?
GIS, which is an acronym for this, allows geographers to analyze computerized geographic data.
What is Geographic Information System?
Population pyramids have three distinct shapes: rapid growth, population decline, and this type, which is characterized by relatively equal numbers of young and middle aged people.
What is slow growth?
This process is how ideas are spread, like how English originated in Europe and then spread to other regions like North America, Australia, and South Africa.
What is diffusion?
Empires use colonization as a means for expanding their empire and asserting their influence in foreign regions, a process known as this.
What is imperialism?
This is the process by which goods and people move easily across borders.
What is globalization?
This is the term for the natural limit to the number of people the Earth can sustain. Thomas Malthus believed we could never surpass it, while Ester Boserup believed we could always increase it.
What is carrying capacity?
While gender equality is spreading throughout the world, there is unfortunately this many countries that have full gender equality.
What is zero?
Colonies do not have the ability to make their political decisions for themselves, a concept known as this.
What is self-determination?
This author/vlogger explained that continents are dumb because they are a massive oversimplification that leads to lifelong misunderstandings of the world.
Who is Hank Green?
This statistician showed us that almost all countries have slowly increased their life expectancy and wealth over time, but not all countries have progressed evenly.
Who is Hans Rosling?
Marie's Dictionary follows the story of Marie, the last native speaker of this endangered language, which is a language that may soon cease to exist.
What is Wukchumni?
The New York Times' video series "The Interpreter" makes the argument that language, race, and borders get added together to make this political unit.
What is a country?