Unit One
The shrinking of the relative distance between places due to advances in transportation and communication
What is time-space compression?
This tends to be lower in women who have more access to education and whom marry later.
What is TFR (total fertility rate)?
The beliefs, values, practices, behaviors and technologies in a society that are passed down to the next generations.
What is culture?
The concept that a state has supreme power within its territory, free from outside interference.
What is sovereignty?
In North Carolina, the state government redrew boundaries that favored the party in power practicing this controversial tactic.
What is gerrymandering?
Distance measured in standard units of measurement
What is absolute distance?
The total number of people per unit area of land.
What is arithmetic density?
These structures and organizations influence social behavior.
What are sociofacts?
This type of government has a centralized form of power and is regarded as the most efficient form of governance.
What is a unitary state?
Palestinians in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Gaza are an example of this type of displaced group.
What is a stateless nation?
The shape and features of land
What is topography?
The number of people in a dependent age group divided by the number of people in the working-age group, x 100.
What is a dependency ratio?
These are examples of this phenomena: advances or rejection of technology, physical or cultural boundaries or political boundaries.
What is cultural divergence?
These districts are drawn to ensure that minority groups form a majority, boosting their representation/
What is are majority-minority districts?
What is situation?
A theory favored in modern geographers argues that humans are active agents in determining their behaviors
What is possibilism?
Who is Ravenstein?
These religions want a wide variety of people and are open to all, regardless of location, language or ethnicity.
What are universalizing religions?
This type of border has a lingering cultural impact post change.
What is a relic boundary?
This area was created between the borders of North Korea and South Korea serving as a buffer after a no winner war.
What is the DMZ?
Preserves direction, only shows half of Earth when used from the point of the North Pole, no country seen as center, distorts shape and area
What is an azimuthal map projection?
In this stage of the DTM, the birth rate is low, so are death rates and the population is decreasing.
What is stage 5?
What are language hotspots?
The wealth of this region in Spain is an example of a devolutionary force.
What is Catalonia?
To make routes to school safer for children in Detroit, this technology was used to avoid abandoned building.
What is GIS?