Unit 1
This line crosses the middle of the Earth horizontally, slicing it in half
What is the Equator?
How many stages are in the Demographic Transition Model?
What is 5 stages?
This type of agriculture is done in order to directly feed the family or community that has grown the food
What is subsistence agriculture?
This religion originated in India and it's ultimate goal is for a person to reach nirvana.
What is buddhism?
A force that binds countries together.
What is Centripetal Force?
What is the scale size of world map?
What is a small-scale?
This is what will cause Japan's population pyramid to eventually look like an upside-down pyramid (high older population, low young population)
What is low birth rates?
This is the role that most women in rural, sub-saharan Africa within agricultural economies have...
What are nonwage workers, working on family-run farms?
Forces that pull people in a country apart such as religious differences, language differences, or ethnic differences
What are centrifugal forces?
This term usually refers to the breaking up of a large state into smaller states
What is balkanization/Fragmentation?
What are the three types of expansion diffusion?
What is Hierarchical, Contagious, and Stimulus Diffusion?
This type of diffusion spreads the underlying concept, but changes a certain aspect to fit the culture of a region or country.
What is stimulus diffusion?
In the United States most farmers are engaged in this agricultural production...
What is Commercial Agriculture?
The reflection of a people's culture on the surrounding area can best be described as this term
What is cultural landscape?
An ethnic/national minority that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state.
What is a stateless nation?
This theory talks about how our evolving technology has allowed people to not only get places quicker, but communicate quicker, making it feel like the Earth has gotten smaller
What is time-space compression?
If a country has a crude birth rate of 37 per 1000 and a death rate of 13 per thousand, what will their rate of natural increase be?
What is 24 per 1000 or 2.4%?
What is the primary reason why each type of activity in the Von Thunen Model is in its place in the model.
What is the cost of transportation/Labor Intensity?
What are three universalizing religions?
What are Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism?
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefitting the party in power
What is Gerrymandering?
This theory states that the environment solely determines how people will shape their society, and how they will behave and interact with other people
What is environmental determinism?
These types of areas in countries are what international migrants are most likely to move to since the year 2000
What is urban and suburban areas
Cultivating large quantities of cotton, sugar cane, coffee and rubber are associated with this type of farming.
What is plantation agriculture/farming?
The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from a) introduction of many different languages by the colonial powers. b) frequent migration by the different tribal groups. c) repeated invasions by outsiders. d) thousands of years of isolation between tribal groups. e) colonial administration of native lands.
What is D?
The internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.
What is a Federal State?