Intro to Human Geography
A situation in which one place or region can supply the demand for resources or goods in another place or region
Complementarity
The conversion of an object, a concept, or a procedure once not available for purchase into a good or service that can be bought or sold
Commodification
The annual number of births per 1000 people
Crude Birth Rate
A system of communication based on symbols that have agreed-upon meanings
Language
An internationally recognized political unit with a permanently populated territory, defined boundaries, and a government with sovereignty over its domestic and international affairs
State
the tapering off of a process, pattern, or event over a distance
Distance Decay
Traditional Maori dance from New Zealand
Haka
The out-migration or departure of people from a location
Emigration
A collection of languages that share a common but distant ancestor
Language Family
A sizable group of people with shared political aspirations whose collective identity is rooted in a common history, heritage, and attachment to a specific territory
Nation
The greater interconnectedness and interdependence of people and places around the world
Globalization
The tangible and visible artifacts, implements, and structures created by people
Material Culture
The average number of children a woman is expected to have during her childbearing years (between the ages of 15 and 49), given current birth rates
Total Fertility Rate
A place or region where an innovation, idea, belief, or cultural practice begins
Hearth
Strong attachment to or defensive control of a place or an area
Territoriality
A subfield within human geography that studies the relationship between people and the natural environment
Cultural Ecology
The loss of the unique character of different places and the increasing standardization of places and cultural landscapes that is often attributed to the diffusion of popular culture
Placelessness
The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 65 as a proportion of the working age population
Age-Dependency Ratio
A particular variety of a language characterized by distinctive vocabulary, grammar, and/or pronunciation
Dialect
One state's exercise of direct or indirect control over the affairs of another political society
Imperialism
An area that people perceive to exist because they identify with it, have an attachment to it, or imagine it in a certain way; location on a map varies, depending upon personal perception
Perceptual Region
The standardization of eating habits (specifically through the consumption of fast food on-the-go, out of boxes or paper wrappers
McDonaldization
The cash, goods, or other in-kind transfers sent by immigrants to family members or relatives in their home countries
Remittance
The ability of speakers of different but related languages to understand one another
Mutual Intelligibility
Supreme authority of a state over its own affairs and freedom from control by outside forces