Units 1.1-1.4
These types of maps show the locations of places and geographic features, often used for navigation.
What are reference maps?
This outdated geographic theory suggests that human activities and cultures are shaped solely by the physical environment.
What is environmental determinism?
This term refers to the maximum number of individuals an environment can sustainably support without degradation.
What is carrying capacity?
This term refers to the protection granted by a nation to someone who has fled their home country due to fear of persecution.
What is asylum?
This ancient Greek scholar is called the 'father of geography. He was the first one to use the word geography and he also had a small-scale notion of the planet that helped him to determine the circumference of the earth.
Who is Eratosthenes?
This type of data is descriptive, often gathered from interviews, observations, or surveys, and cannot easily be measured.
What is qualitative data?
This scale of analysis looks at geographic phenomena in specific areas that share common characteristics, often larger than a country but smaller than the world.
What is the regional scale of analysis?
This rate is calculated by subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate, indicating population growth or decline without migration.
What is natural increase rate?
This model predicts that larger and closer cities will have more interaction, such as migration, trade, or communication, than smaller or distant cities.
What is the gravity model?
In February of this year, the first Block I developmental Navstar/GPS satellite launched, with three more Navstar satellites launched by the end of the year. More than 700 tests were conducted in which Aerospace engineers helped confirm the accuracy of the integrated space/control/user system. The age of GPS had begun (Must be within 5 years).
When was 1978?
This system captures, stores, analyzes, and presents spatial or geographic data, often used for mapping and planning.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
This type of region is organized around a central point, with surrounding areas linked to it by transportation or communication systems.
What is a functional (nodal) region?
This ratio measures the number of people aged 65 and over compared to the working-age population, highlighting the pressure on social services and labor forces.
What is elderly dependency ratio?
These individuals have been forced to flee their homes but remain within the borders of their own country.
Who are internally displaced peoples?
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led to a large-scale displacement of people. The UN estimated that roughly this many Ukrainian refugees had arrived in European countries as of 13 June 2024. Another 558,000 were recorded outside of Europe. (Be within 100,000 people).
What is 6 million?
This phenomenon describes how advances in transportation and communication have reduced the perceived distance between places.
What is time-space compression?
Formal regions, defined by a common characteristic, such as language, climate, or political boundaries, are also known by these two terms.
What are uniform and homogeneous regions?
This model outlines the stages of health threats and disease patterns in relation to development, from infectious diseases in pre-industrial stages to chronic diseases in developed societies.
What is the epidemiological transition model?
List four of Ravenstein's Laws of Migration.
Most migration is over short distances, traveling in steps (small distances at a time).
Long distance migrants tend to move to large urban areas.
People in rural areas are more likely to migrate than those in urban areas.
Families are less likely to migrate internationally than singles.
Each migration flow creates a counterflow.
Females remain more migratory within their country of origin than males. Males are more migratory internationally.
Large urban areas grow more by migration than RNI.
Migration improves economic development, innovation, and growth.
Migration is mostly due to economic causes.
Migration occurs from agricultural areas to urban areas.
Migration increases as technology and transportation improves.
This woman was a Danish economist. She studied economic and agricultural development, worked at the United Nations as well as other international organizations, and wrote seminal books on agrarian change and the role of women in development. Her studies ran counter to Malthusian Theorists and lent credibility to the field of Non-Malthusians.
Who was Ester Boserup?
The capital of Saudi Arabia has a unique situation (location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places). The city's situation includes being located roughly in the center of the Arabian Peninsula. The situation of the Arabian Peninsula is between the continents of Africa and Asia. This is the name of Saudi Arabia's capital.
What is Riyadh?
Identify three specific real-world examples of environmental possibilism.
Terracing in Southeast Asia
Farmers in mountainous regions like the Philippines and Vietnam have adapted to the steep terrain by creating terraced fields for rice cultivation. Despite the environmental limitations of hilly landscapes, they modified the land to create flat areas suitable for farming, demonstrating human innovation in overcoming environmental challenges.
Irrigation in the Nile River Valley
Ancient Egyptians adapted to the arid environment by developing sophisticated irrigation systems to control the flooding of the Nile River. This allowed them to cultivate crops in an otherwise desert environment, showcasing how humans can manipulate natural water sources to create agricultural opportunities.
Desalination in the Middle East
Countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, located in arid environments with limited freshwater resources, have invested heavily in desalination technology to convert seawater into drinkable water. This is an example of how human ingenuity can overcome natural constraints to support large urban populations in water-scarce regions.
In 1798, this man published anonymously the first edition of "An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers."
Who was Thomas Malthus? (Malthusian Theory)
The one-child policy (Chinese: 一孩政策; pinyin: yī hái zhèngcè) was an anti-natalist population planning initiative in China implemented to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. These were the years it existed.
What is from 1979 to 2015?
The National Geographic textbook is your best bet for learning about historical and authentic circumstances where the concepts and terms we learn have played out in the real world. This is the number of pages in your National Geography textbook (must be within ten pages).
What is 575 pages?