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| 12188641620 | "Why of where" | Explanations for why a spatial pattern occurs | 0 | |
| 12189729431 | Isopleth Map |  | 1 | |
| 12189749797 | Mercator Projection |  | 2 | |
| 12189760113 | Dot Map |  | 3 | |
| 12189764543 | Population Pyramid |  | 4 | |
| 12189755034 | robinson projection |  | 5 | |
| 12189746524 | isogloss map |  | 6 | |
| 12189742581 | Chloropeth Map |  | 7 | |
| 12188648478 | Cartography | the science of mapmaking | 8 | |
| 12188654458 | Scale | the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole. | 9 | |
| 12188676176 | What are the problems with projection | the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map. - | 10 | |
| 12188709989 | Mercator projection | is the distorts the size of objects as the latitude increases from the Equator to the poles Ex. Greenland and Africa | 11 | |
| 12188703931 | What are with distortion? | shape, distance , relative size and direction | 12 | |
| 12188728414 | Robinson Projection | Projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors. It does not maintain completely accurate area, shape, distance, or direction, but it minimizes errors in each in flat image | 13 | |
| 12188747122 | What are the 5 theme of Geography ? | 1. Location 2. Place 3. Human Environment Interaction 4.Movement 5.Region | 14 | |
| 12188759136 | GIS | Geographic Information System | 15 | |
| 12188759137 | remote sensing | the scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it. | 16 | |
| 12188769101 | GPS | A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. | 17 | |
| 12188774111 | Geocaching | A hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the Internet by other geocachers. | 18 | |
| 12188774113 | site | The physical character of a place | 19 | |
| 12188776279 | situation | the location of a place relative to other places | 20 | |
| 12188779151 | Merdians | lines of longitude ( verically) | 21 | |
| 12188787662 | Parallels | lines of latitude (horizontally) | 22 | |
| 12188799891 | cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape | 23 | |
| 12188801497 | sequent occupance | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape | 24 | |
| 12188806373 | Formal region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics ex. Floridans | 25 | |
| 12188813267 | Functional region | An area organized around a node or focal point ex. miami newspaper | 26 | |
| 12188818835 | vernacular region | an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity ex. The South | 27 | |
| 12188829332 | Physical Geography | the study of physical features of the earth's surface | 28 | |
| 12188835777 | environmental determinism | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions. | 29 | |
| 12188838594 | Possiblism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. | 30 | |
| 12188852515 | What are the 5 most densly populated places? | 1. East Asia 2. South Asia 3. Europe 4.BOSNYWASH 5. Southeast asia | 31 | |
| 12188860873 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. | 32 | |
| 12188865845 | Glocalization | The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes | 33 | |
| 12188872779 | independent invention | The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other | 34 | |
| 12188872780 | Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate | 35 | |
| 12188878701 | Hiearchal diffusion | spread of an idea from persons nodes of authority or power to other person or places ex. hip hop | 36 | |
| 12188887217 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. ex.diseases | 37 | |
| 12188890276 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. Windows, Apple | 38 | |
| 12188903246 | Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 39 | |
| 12188920338 | Isotope map | 40 | ||
| 12188940062 | DTM Model |  | 41 | |
| 12188942378 | cohort | a group of people from a given time period | 42 | |
| 12188946177 | carrying capacity | Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support | 43 | |
| 12188993242 | Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | 44 | |
| 12188998657 | Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics. | 45 | |
| 12189020795 | natural increase | the growth rate of a population; the difference between birthrate and death rate | 46 | |
| 12189020796 | Population Pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. | 47 | |
| 12189029057 | sex ratio | The number of males per 100 females in the population. | 48 | |
| 12189031547 | Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. | 49 | |
| 12189031548 | Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | 50 | |
| 12189036843 | Agricutural density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture | 51 | |
| 12189040247 | Guest Workers | Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs. | 52 | |
| 12189043756 | 5 toos | too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too mountainous | 53 | |
| 12189111709 | Malthus and Neo-MALTHUSIans | he believed agricultural was growing linearly and agricultural was growing exponentially | 54 | |
| 12189136818 | Immigration | Migration to a new location | 55 | |
| 12189146304 | Emmigration | Leaving a population | 56 | |
| 12189155017 | Restrictive Government Policies | Governments may restrict entry into an industry, and this can slow or make it difficult for new entrants to set up business in the industry | 57 | |
| 12189130819 | Green Revoultion | an effort to use modern techniques and technology to increase food production in poorer countries in 1960s. Involved HYVs, chemicals and technology. | 58 | |
| 12189161913 | Eugenic Government Polocies | Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others | 59 | |
| 12189168847 | Urbanization | An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. | 60 | |
| 12189172119 | Epidemiological Transition Model | distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition | 61 | |
| 12189180752 | Gravity Model | 62 | ||
| 12189189473 | Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. | 63 | |
| 12189226607 | step migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city | 64 | |
| 12189226608 | Chain Migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 65 | |
| 12189231728 | Ravenstein's Laws of Migration | 66 | ||
| 12189269220 | Cyclic Movement | movement away from home for a short period. | 67 | |
| 12189272437 | periodic movement | movement away from home for a longer period. | 68 | |
| 12189276836 | refugee | A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster | 69 | |
| 12189278824 | Sunbelt | states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative | 70 | |
| 12189281612 | Rustbelt | Urban areas in New England and Middle West characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles). | 71 | |
| 12189286544 | push-pull factors | Conditions that draw people to another location (pull factors) or cause people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region (push factors) | 72 | |
| 12189286545 | Remittances | Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries | 73 | |
| 12189333742 | popular culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. | 74 | |
| 12189340581 | Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. | 75 | |
| 12189348207 | Assimilation | The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture. | 76 | |
| 12189402216 | time space compression | the rapid innovation of communication and transportation technologies associated with globalization that transforms the way people think about space and time | 77 | |
| 12189407757 | Retorritorialization | the restructuring of a place or territory that has experienced deterritorialization | 78 | |
| 12189412335 | Placeness | the loss of a place's unique flavor and identity because of the standardizing influence of popular culture and globalization | 79 | |
| 12189417675 | standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 80 | |
| 12189431880 | dialects | variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines | 81 | |
| 12189435880 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 82 | |
| 12189446483 | Language Families | 83 | ||
| 12189458755 | Divergence | The accumulation of differences between groups | 84 | |
| 12189463944 | convergence | the state of separate elements joining or coming together | 85 | |
| 12189473158 | Romance lanuages | Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese. Japanese. | 86 | |
| 12189537529 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 87 | |
| 12189473159 | Germanic languages | Languages (English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) that reflect the expansion of peoples out of Northern Europe to the west and south | 88 | |
| 12189542611 | pidgin language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages. | 89 | |
| 12189551765 | Creole language | a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in a place of the mother tongue | 90 | |
| 12189556070 | Secularism | the principle of separation of the state from religious institutions. | 91 | |
| 12189569029 | Syncretism | a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith | 92 | |
| 12189573677 | universalizing religions | Christianity, Islam, Buddhism | 93 | |
| 12189573678 | ethnic religion | Hindiusm, Judaism | 94 | |
| 12189621933 | Sikism | a monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak. | 95 | |
| 12189637574 | Shintoism | Religion located in Japan and related to Buddhism. Shintoism focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship. | 96 | |
| 12189637575 | Jainism | a religion founded in India in the sixth century BC, whose members believe that everything in the universe has a soul and therefore shouldn't be harmed. Mahavira founded this religion. | 97 | |
| 12189646465 | Taoism | A Chinese philosophy in which people live a simple life in harmony with nature. | 98 | |
| 12189652177 | Feng Shui | a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy | 99 | |
| 12189668203 | Diaspora | the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel | 100 | |
| 12189672228 | minarets | Tower attached to a Muslim mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a crier calls Muslims to prayer. | 101 | |
| 12189676658 | Secularism | A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations. | 102 |
