5704927697 | Distance | The amount of space between two things or people | 0 | |
5704927698 | Global Positioning System | A System that determines the precise location of something on earth by using a series of satellites tracking stations and receivers | 1 | |
5704927699 | Location | The position of anything on earths surface | 2 | |
5704927700 | Mental map | A representation of a portion of earths surface based on what individual knows about a place | 3 | |
5704927701 | Cultural landscape | The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group | 4 | |
5704927702 | Absolute location | The exact location on earth of a specific place | 5 | |
5704927703 | Doubling time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase | 6 | |
5704927704 | Arithmetic destiny | The total number of people divided by the total land area | 7 | |
5704927705 | Scale | The relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole. | 8 | |
5704927706 | Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives | 9 | |
5704927707 | Environmental determination | Approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences | 10 | |
5704927708 | Diffusion routes | The spatial trajectory in which cultural traits and other phenomenons occur | 11 | |
5704927709 | Cartographer | Someone who makes maps | 12 | |
5704927710 | Remote sensing | The acquisition of data about earths surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long distant methods | 13 | |
5704927711 | Relative location | A point in relation to another point or place | 14 | |
5704927712 | Religion | The system used to transfer locations from earths surface to a flat map | 15 | |
5704927713 | Meridian | An arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles | 16 | |
5704927714 | Cartogram | A diagram presentation in highly abstracted or simplified form, commonly of statistical data, on a map base or diagram | 17 | |
5704927715 | Cultural hearth | Civilizations that have a cultural influence on cultures around the world | 18 | |
5704927716 | Physiological density | The number of people per unit of arable land | 19 | |
5704927717 | Parallel | A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at the right angles to the meridians | 20 | |
5704927718 | Dependency ratio | The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force | 21 | |
5704927719 | Pull factors | Factors of a country that influence you to move their | 22 | |
5704927720 | Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics | 23 | |
5704927721 | Distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | 24 | |
5704927722 | Demographic transition model | A model that describes population change over time | 25 | |
5704927723 | Push factor | Factors of a country that influences you to leave there | 26 | |
5704927724 | Natural increase rate | The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate | 27 | |
5704927725 | Overpopulation | When a country has to many citizens living there | 28 | |
5704927726 | Ecumene | The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement | 29 | |
5704927727 | Population pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex | 30 | |
5704927728 | Total fertility rate | The average number of children a women will have throughout her childbearing year | 31 | |
5704927729 | Infant mortality rate | The total number of deaths in a year amount infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society | 32 | |
5704927730 | Carrying capacity | The number of people, living things, or crops a region can support without environmental degradation | 33 | |
5704927731 | Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures | 34 | |
5704927732 | Internal migration | Permanent movement from one country to another | 35 | |
5704927733 | Culture | The body of customarily beliefs,social forms, and material traits that together form the special tradition of a group | 36 | |
5704927734 | Islam | The religion of Muslims, monotheistic religion, Mohammed prophet of allah | 37 | |
5704927735 | Folk culture | Culture practiced by small, homogeneous cultures | 38 | |
5704927736 | City state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its hinder land | 39 | |
5704927737 | Haji | An annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca | 40 | |
5704927738 | Plural society | A society combining ethnic contracts | 41 | |
5704927739 | Creole | A language that results from the mixing of languages with indigenous people and colonizer's to be dominate | 42 | |
5704927740 | Exclave | A territory or part of a territory that is surrounded by another state | 43 | |
5704927741 | Monotheism | The doctrine of belief of only one god | 44 | |
5704927742 | Popular culture | Culture found in large heterogeneous society's that share some things | 45 | |
5704927743 | Multinational state | A state combining two or more ethnic groups With traditions f self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as different nationalities | 46 | |
5704927744 | Fertility rate | Number of births per 1,000 women | 47 | |
5704927745 | Nation state | A state that corresponds with the occupied ethnicity that has been transformed into an nationality | 48 | |
5704927746 | Segregation | The act or state of something being apart or set apart from something or other people | 49 | |
5704927747 | Polytheism | Belief in or worship in more than one god | 50 | |
5704927748 | Assimilation | The process by which the language of ones culture or group comes to resemble one of another | 51 | |
5704927751 | Isogloss | A boundary in which separates different language usage predominant | 52 | |
5704927752 | Ldc | A country that is a relative early stage of economic development | 53 | |
5704927753 | Mdc | A country that has developed rather far along in economic development | 54 | |
5704927754 | State | An organized are with its own government with control over its own internal and foreign affairs | 55 | |
5704927755 | Colonialism | An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose it political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory | 56 | |
5704927756 | Imperialism | Control of another territory already occupied and and organized by another indigenous group | 57 |
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