Intro to Geography Hodge Podge
This 7-letter acronym refers to the components of a map. The better you understand these features, the easier it is to understand the material.
What is TODALSS
Title, Orientation, Date, Author, Legend, Source, and Scale
Term for a country with a relatively low income or economically poorer than aforementioned country.
What is developed and developing countries
Religious persecution, political instability, severe famine, and loss of jobs are all examples of...
What are push factors?
A national holiday that is widely celebrated in a country and helps unite citizens is an example of what kind of force?
What is a centripetal force?
Most countries today contain multiple national, ethnic, and religious groups within their boundaries, otherwise known as...
This type of thematic map shows data aggregated for a specific geographic area, and often uses colors to represent different values.
What is a choropleth map
This term, usually measured in either persons younger than 15 OR older than 64 years, refers to the number of individuals in a population that each 100 working-age people must support.
Dependency Ratio ("Youth Dependency Ratio or Elderly Dependency Ratio)
A population pyramid with a significantly large ratio of both male and female 20-24 year olds would most likely illustrate this certain trend
What is a college-town
This term refers to a mix of Native American, African, and European influences to create new cultural forms
What is creolization?
A state that rules itself and is not subject to the authority of another state.
What is an independent state?
The idea that near things are more related than distant things, and interaction between two places decrease the farther apart they are
What is "time-distance decay"
This rate measures the average number of children who are born to women of childbearing age in the population
What is Total Fertility Rate?
This model, based upon European historical includes five stages reflecting varying levels of birth rates and death rates.
What is the Demographic Transition Model
This kind of diffusion - illustrates the spread of American fast food chains like McDonald's change popular menu items to reflect cultural food preferences around the world.
What is stimulus diffusion
A community of people bound to a homeland and possessing a common identity based on shared cultural traits such as language, ethnicity, and religion.
What is a nation?
The belief that the physical environment is the dominant force shaping cultures and that humanity is a passive product of its physical surroundings.
What is environmental determinism?
Policies such as China's One Child Policy, Do It for Denmark, and Singapore's National Night Out (sponsored by Mentos, the Baby-Maker) are all examples of
What are pronatalist and antinatalist policies?
Persons of similar origin may reside in voluntary urban these because they share the same place of origin.
Influencer Cheesy Charles posts to his followers about his favorite type of shoe - the penny loafer. This leads to an uptick in penny loafer sales.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
If you thought stimulus diffusion... BZZZZZT! As the context suggests only his followers, or certain populations would be "in the know" about this trend.
An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own State
What is a stateless nation?
Map projections such as ___________ distort some aspect of the Earth's true surface because they are reflecting the spherical Earth on a two-dimensional surface. (Name 2)
What is Mercator, Peters, Goode Homolosine, Polar, Robinson
What is physiological density?
The type of migration where people move from rural areas to urban areas in search of better economic opportunities.
As Buddhism diffused through East Asia, Buddhist traditions blended with local cultural customs to create distinct religious practices, (Daoism in China and Shinto in Japan). What term describes a blending of cultural traditions?
What is syncretism?
The ideal political geographical unit - one in which the nation's geographic boundaries (a people and its culture) exactly match the state's territorial boundaries (governance and authority)
What is the nation-state ideal?