Study of features like land forms, plants, animals, soil, and climate.
What is Physical Geography?
Long-term patterns of weather in a particular area.
What is Climate?
Beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by a society and passed down to generations.
What is Culture?
A country which is a political unit.
What is State?
An areas land features
What is Topography?
A places: absolute location, climate, land forms, and resources
What is Site?
Movement of people to another country for permanent settlement.
What is Immigration?
Shared behaviors that guide the behaviors of a group of people.
What is Cultural Norms?
practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories.
What is Colonialism?
Agriculture to support family and close community.
What is Subsistence Agriculture?
Theory in which the world is divided into 3 groups based on political power, social standing, and development.
What is World System Theory?
Number of deaths of children under the age of 1 per 1,000 births.
What is Infant Mortality Rate?
Process by which a cultural trait spreads from once place to another over time.
What is Diffusion?
Boundary drawn over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering force.
What is Superimposed Boundary?
Cultivation of one or two crops that are rotated seasonally.
What is Monocropping?
Development of sophisticated mapping software systems
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?
Shifts in the growth of populations, based on trends related to CBR and CDR.
What is Demographic Transition Model?
Aspects of culture spreading outwards from where it originated.
What is Expansion Diffusion?
What is Gerrymandering?
Farmers make decisions about which crops and animals to raise based on their proximity to markets.
What is Von Thunen Model?
Projection in which continents become more disoriented and away from equator.
What is Robinson Projection?
A person fleeing persecution or conflict, seeking international protection under the 1951 refugee convention on the status of refugees.
What is Asylum?
When ethnic groups judge of look down on other ethnic groups.
What is Ethnocentrism?
Coastal states can explore, extract minerals, and manage up to 200 nautical miles.
What is Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
The central location where the majority of consumer services are located in a city because the location attracts them.
What is Central Business District (CBD)?