Unit 1
What is the total number of objects in an area?
arithmetic density
What is the demographic transition model?
Sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from a high CDR and a high CBR, to having a low CDR and a low CBR
What is self-determination?
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
What is the land that is divided into six-mile square blocks (township), which is then divided into one-mile square blocks (range), which are also further divided?
township & range
What is the general role of each of these supranational organizations?
EU (European Union): make the economy better with less trade barriers
UN (United Nations): help nations keep peace
NATO (Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization): alliance made to help one another (made usually to combat Russia)
What is the science of making maps?
Cartography
What is the meeting place for the world's religions and ideologies?
ecumene
What is the difference between a centripetal force and a centrifugal force?
Centripetal forces unite people while centrifugal forces divide people and the country.
What is a type of settlement from where people live relatively distant from each other?
dispersed settlements
What is space?
physical gap between two objects
What is the geographic study of human-environment relationships?
cultural ecology
What theory advocates for population control programs to enough resources for current and future populations?
Neo-Malthusian
What is a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality?
Nation-state
What is agglomeration?
Several industries (or members of the same industry) group together for mutual benefit.
What is the name given to a place on Earth?
Toponym
What is the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places?
hierarchical diffusion
How do you calculate the rate of natural increase?
CBR-CDR
What is it called when the handing down of power to regions and localities?
devolution
What is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices used to rank countries into four tiers of human development?
Human Development Index (HDI)
What is a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who speak different native languages?
What are maps that are useful for displaying information across the oceans, but land areas are smaller than on interrupted maps of the same size?
Robinson projection
What is the set of all points that can be reached by an individual given the maximum possible speed from a starting point?
Space-Time Compression
What is an aspect of human behavior that refers to the need to lay claim to the spaces we occupy and the things we own (need for self-identity and freedom of choice)?
territoriality
What are the least developed and least powerful nations that are often exploited by the core countries as sources of raw materials, cheap labor, and markets?
periphery countries
What is a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination?
Sect