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| What is spatial approach? |
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| Inherently useful to geographers |
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| What is Environmental geography? |
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| Link between physical and human geography |
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| What is absolute location? |
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| Exact longitudinal and latitudinal point of Earth's surface |
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| What is relative location? |
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| An area based on surrounding features that describe it |
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| The movement (spreading) of ideas or innovations |
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| What is a functional region? |
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| An area that interacts with eachother |
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| A region marked by homogenity (same features) |
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| What is the Robinson projection? |
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| Very true with coastlines and has little distortion near the poles |
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| What is the Mercator projection? |
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| Lots of distortion near poles, true direction (created the term atlas) |
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| What is the Van Der Grinten projection? |
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| Portrays both russia and canada at over 200% larger than they are |
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| Simplifies a map to make it easier to read |
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| A map in which some thematic mapping variable (like electrorial votes) is sustituted for land |
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| (Global Positioning System) gives you an absolute location |
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| (Geographic Information System) It is able to look at different information at the same time |
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| (satalitte photographs) Getting information without being there |
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| What is the Mollweide projection? |
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| Attempts to preserve the area of map features and avoid high-latitude distortions |
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| What is a cultural region? |
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| An area where a single culture prevails |
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| What is a cultural trait? |
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| One single attribute of a culture |
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| What is a culture complex? |
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| A group of cultural traits (discrete, distinct) |
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| What is a culture system? |
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| A group of culture complexes with the same traits |
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| (The most highly generalized group) a cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail |
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| What is cultural ecology? |
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| The study of how humans and the environment interact |
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| What is a cultural landscape? |
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| The human imprint on the Earth |
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| A famous geographer who studied cultural ecology (landscape), animal and plant domestication |
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| What is a culture hearth? |
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| An area where an innovation or idea originates |
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| What are the modern culture hearths? |
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| Western Europe, Northeast United States, Silicon Valley in California |
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| What are the ancient culture hearths? |
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| North/South America, Mesopotamia, and China |
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| What is expansion diffusion? |
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| An innovation or idea develops, spreads, and stays strong in its origin |
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| What is an independent invention? |
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| When two places create the same idea or innovation (The wheel took 2000 years to go from Mesopotamia to Egypt) |
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| What is hierarchical diffusion? |
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| When an innovation starts in high concentration areas and travels to low concentration areas |
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| What is relocation diffusion? |
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| An idea that is relocated and then dies in the source area |
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| What is time distance decay? |
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| As something gets farther from its source area it tends to die out |
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| Cultural modification resulting from intercultural borrowing |
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| What is contagious diffusion? |
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| When an innovation affects all surrounding people |
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| What is stimulus diffusion? |
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| When an idea or innovation cannot be adopted specifically to a new place and changes in some ways of doing things |
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| The process through which people loose origionally differentiatin traits when they come into contact with other cultures |
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| What is Environmental determinism? |
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| A viewpoint that says the natural environment has influence over human life |
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| A geographic viewpoint that says that human decision making is a crutial factor in cultural development |
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| What is transculturation? |
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| When there are two cultures that exchange traits and both act as sources and adopters |
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| What are the effects of plant and animal domestication? |
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| Caused people to stop traveling and the first clusters of human population were developed |
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| Where was the first agricultural revolution? |
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| What place provided alternate irrigable fields for farming? |
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| What is the Holocene Epoch? |
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| Current interglacial period, from 12,000 years ago to the present day |
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| What is the Paleolithic time period? |
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| The stone age, From two million years ago to 49,000 and 10,000 years ago |
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| What are interglaciations? |
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| The time between ice ages |
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| Created map that displays the present distribution of climate regions |
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| What is arithmetic population density? |
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| The total population divided by total land |
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| What is physiologic population density? |
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| The total population divided by arable land |
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| What is the first most populous country? |
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| What is the second most populous country? |
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| What is the third most populous country? |
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| What is special about Africa's population growth? |
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| It has the largest population growth (Largest high growth and death rates=Sub-saharan Africa) |
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| What is special about Europe's population growth? |
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| It is the only place with a negative growth rate |
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| What is the first most populous realm? |
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| What is the second most populous realm? |
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| What is the third most populous realm? |
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| What is effect of immigration on population growth in Europe? |
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| An increase on a graph in uniform amounts |
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| What is exponential growth? |
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| It starts out slowly then increases faster as the numbers get larger |
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| The amount of time it takes for a population to double in size |
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| He made the argument that the world would run out of food because food growth is linear while population growth is exponential |
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| What was wrong with Thomas Malthus' calculation? |
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| He didn't take into account colonization and immigration, along with new forms of food growth |
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| What does a population pyramid look like in a developed country? |
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| A vase (baby boom in a middle) |
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| What does a population pyramid look like in a developing country? |
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| A pyramid with a large base and small top |
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| What is natural growth rate? |
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| What is the world population growth rate? |
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| What is the geographic realm with the lowest birth rate? |
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| What is the geographic realm with the highest birth rate? |
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| What is the total fertility rate? |
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| The total amount of children born to women of childbearing age |
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| What is the crude death rate (CDR)? |
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| The number of deaths per 1000 people of a population |
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| What is the infant mortality rate? |
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| The number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in a population |
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| What are the four stages of the demographic cycle? |
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1. High stationary stage
2. Early-expanding stage
3. Late-expanding stage
4. Low stationary stage |
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| Describe the four stages of the demographic cycle. |
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1. High death, high birth
2. High birth, decreasing death
3. Decreasing birth, low death
4. Low birth, low death |
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| How many people are added to the Earth's population every year? |
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| What is the population explosion? |
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1. 0 AD=250 million
2. 1650=500 million
3. 1820=1 billion
4. Today=6.6 billion |
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| What country is in the Stationary population level? |
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| What continent has the highest CDR? |
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| What is the infant mortality rate? |
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| The number of infants that die before their first birthday |
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| What is a negative population growth rate? |
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| When the number of people in a population declines year after year |
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| What is the Bubonic plague? |
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| Ravaged Europe and England's population went from 4 to 2 million people |
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| Defines your daily activity space |
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| Where was the major refugee crisis in Europe? |
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| Where was the major refugee crisis in Southeast Asia? |
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| Where was the major refugee crisis in Tropical Africa? |
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| Seasonal periodic movement of herders and their livestock between high and lowland pastures |
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| Where is transhumance practiced? |
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| He created the gravity model |
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| What is the gravity model? |
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| A measure of the interaction of places |
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| Studied internal migration and created the "Laws of migration" |
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| One of Ravenstein's ideas that farther distances are less appealing to move to |
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| What is migratory movement? |
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| What are some examples of forced migrations? |
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| Slave trade, British convicts sent to Australia |
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| What happened during the European emigration 1835-1935? |
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| 75 million Europeans immigrated to the new world |
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| What is the Eugenic population policy? |
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| Policies that favor one race over another |
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| What is the one-child policy? |
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| Created in China in 1979-permitted only one child per family to control population growth |
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| What is the Eugenic protection act? |
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| Passed by Japannese government which made abortion legal |
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| What is restrictive population policy? |
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| When the government tries to restrict population and natural increase |
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| What is expansive population policy? |
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| Policies in Europe and the US to raise population growth |
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