Unit 1
Humans have an incredible ability to alter their physical environment to meet their own needs.
Possibilism
Arithmetic Density
Universalizing Religion
Factors that would cause people to leave their place of origin.
Push factors
Circumstances or events that would bring people together rather than pull them apart.
Centripetal forces
This concept implies that humans are limited in their ability to alter their physical environment, and that environment shapes culture.
Environmental Determinism.
A graphic representation of a states population based on different age cohorts.
Population pyramid.
Cultural forces that pull people or groups apart.
Centrifugal forces.
The ways people alter their physical environment to reflect their cultural values.
The terms that says no map is perfect because you can't put a sphere to a flat surface.
Map distortion
Circumstances that would cause the movement of people TO another region of the world.
Pull factors.
A common set of practices and beliefs (such as language, food, clothing, family relationships) shared by a large group of people.
Culture.
People are generally not converted to these religions; they are born into them.
Ethnic Religions
The process of trying to understand someone else's culture based on their perspective, not your own.
Cultural Relativism
This concept implies that time and distance "shrink" due to technology.
Time-Space Compression
Human movements caused by war, famine, or other threats to life or well-being.
Forced Migration
A common language used globally (usually for business or trade) used by people who normally speak different languages.
Lingua Franca
How places such as Jerusalem, Mecca, and the Indus River Valley relate to religion.
Religious hearths
This identifies the stage of a country based on things such as CBR, CDR, IMR, and Population change.
Demographic Transition Model
Examining a geographic phenomena at a local, regional, national, or global level.
Scales of Analysis
The number of farmers divided by the units of arable land.
Agricultural Density
The practice of viewing all cultures as either 'good' or 'bad' based on ones own beliefs.
Ethnocentrism
Unit 2- The total population of a state divided by the total units of arable land.
Physiological Density
Unit 3- The impact the successive generations of people leave on the physical environment where they live.
Sequent Occupance