Demographics
The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people is
What is Crude Birth Rate?
Land suited for agriculture is
What is Arable Land?
The maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the available resources.
What is Carrying Capacity?
This was a belief held by pioneers in the United States who travel to the West, that they had a God-given right to settle in the West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Three types of regions, identified by geographers are
What is formally, functional and vernacular regions?
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
What is Doubling Time?
The portion of the earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement is
What is Ecumene?
The process of cultural changes resulting from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct cultural features.
What is Acculturation?
This era of development of machinery and moving from agriculture to factories is called
What is Industralization?
Call a nodal region, it is organized around a focal point.
What is a functional region?
The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old. for every 1,0000 live births
What is infant mortality rate?
A place from which an innovation originates is
What is a Hearth?
The process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group.
What is Assimilation?
This historical law was created to remove Native American Indians from their home lands onto other lands across the Mississippi River.
What is the Dawes Act?
This combination of cultural features such as language, religion and exotic features like agriculture and industry and physical feature such as climate and vegetation.
What is Cultural landscape?
The average number of years an individual can live, given current social, economic and medical conditions.
What is Life Expectancy?
A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
What is an Epidemic?
This approach to human geography that emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space.
What is Behavioral Geography?
Poineers who moved from the eastern portion of the United States out to the southwest and western portion of the United States, help with this process.
What is Westward expansion?
This area exists as part of a person's cultural identity. a person's informal sense of place rather than from scientific models developed through geographic thought.
What is vernacular or perceptional region?
The scientific study of population characteristics is
What is Demography?
The process of change based on the distinctive causes of death in a population at each stage of the demographic transition.
What is Epidemiologic transition?
A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
What is Cultural ecology?
In 1830 after the passage of the Indian Removal Act, more than 16,000 Native Americans were forced to walk from their home lands to other areas of the United States. More than 4,000 died during this journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The study of living organism and abiotic spheres with which they interact is
What is ecology?