Basics of Human Geography
The types of location
What are absolute and relative location?
Deciduous
What are trees that lose their leaves seasonally?
What is migration?
Main economy types (3)
What are traditional, command, and market economies?
A way of life
What is culture?
Themes of Geography (5)
What is location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region?
Major type of ecological community defined by its distinct plant/animal life
What is a biome?
War, famine, drought, poverty
What are push factors?
Period of technological advancement where factories could mechanize, mass produce, and replace hand labor
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Defined on a map by latitude and longitude coordinates
What is absolute location?
An area defined by everything in it
What is a place?
Social process resulting in the transfer of beliefs, values, activities from one place to another
What is cultural diffusion?
Moving into another country
What is immigration?
Key powers divided between the national and state government
What is the federal system?
Human geography
What is geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth's surface?
Looks at how people adapt to/change their environment
What is human-environment interaction?
The process by which ideas, knowledge, information, goods, services spread around the world
What is globalization?
Emigration
What is leaving one's country to settle permanently in another country?
Gives all key powers to the federal (national) government
What is a unitary system?
World climate patterns (4)
What are arctic, subarctic, temperate, tropical?
Types of regions (3)
What are formal, functional, perceptual?
Access to food, healthcare, education, etc.
What is standard of living?
Jobs, safety, opportunity
What are pull factors?
Government rules with the consent of the people
What is democracy?
A place of origin for a widespread cultural trait
What is a cultural hearth?