This set is the vocabulary from the sheet entitled, "1st Semester's Sexy Geography Study Suggestions" (Catch Up Units 1 and 2 and Units 1, 2, and 3)
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| 114912834 | environmental determinism | a country's environment determines its success | 0 | |
| 114912835 | possibilism | any country can overcome its environmental disadvantages | 1 | |
| 114912836 | ethnocentrism | the belief that your people/ethnic group are better | 2 | |
| 114912837 | superpower | a country that is culturally, economically, and militarily dominant | 3 | |
| 114912838 | scale | the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it | 4 | |
| 114912839 | mercator projection | A method of making maps in which the Earth's surface is shown as a rectangle; exaggerates the size of areas | 5 | |
| 114912840 | robinson projection | map projection of a world map with no direction | 6 | |
| 114912841 | azimuthal projection | a map projection of polar areas | 7 | |
| 114912842 | equal area projection | an interrupted, equal-area, composite map projection used for world maps | 8 | |
| 114912843 | aggregation | the level at which information is revealed on a map | 9 | |
| 114912844 | cartogram | maps that swell and shrink depending on big or small numbers for that country/region | 10 | |
| 114912845 | chloropleth map | a map that shows data with colors | 11 | |
| 114912846 | isoline map | A map containing continuous lines joining all points of identical value | 12 | |
| 114912847 | imperialism | when a group comes in and crushes another group, steals their women and gold and children and forces them into an unfair trade relationship | 13 | |
| 114912848 | mercantilism | creating a favorable balance of trade WITH FORCE | 14 | |
| 114912849 | inflation | a general and progressive increase in prices | 15 | |
| 114912850 | Berlin Conference | the peaceful splitting of Africa to colonies of Portugal, Belgium, Britain and Germany | 16 | |
| 114912851 | mono-economy | an economy with only 1 product being sold | 17 | |
| 114912852 | capital | money for investment into business | 18 | |
| 114912853 | primate city | cities more than twice the size of the next largest city | 19 | |
| 114912854 | infrastructure | Services and facilities including roads, water, sewer, emergency services, parks, | 20 | |
| 114912855 | forward capital | a new capital that was created for a historical or economical reason | 21 | |
| 114912856 | brain drain | the large-scale emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge normally due to conflict, lack of opportunity, political instability, or health risks | 22 | |
| 114912857 | demilitarized zone (DMZ) | a zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited | 23 | |
| 114912858 | Cold War | NATO vs Warsaw Pact or "First World" vs "Second World" | 24 | |
| 114912859 | Korean War | North Korea vs South Korea (UN involved) | 25 | |
| 114912860 | Vietnam War | North Vietnam vs South Vietnam (UN not involved) | 26 | |
| 114912861 | mutually assured destruction | the knowledge that if one side shoots a deadly weapon, the other side will immediately do the same, and both sides will die | 27 | |
| 114912862 | nuclear club | the nations possessing nuclear weapons (China, France, Russia, UK, USA) | 28 | |
| 114912863 | nuclear non-proliferation treaty | agreement of 189 states to not spread nuclear weapons across the globe, disarm nuclear weapons that currently exist, and help member states with out nuclear weapons develop nuclear energy | 29 | |
| 114912864 | treaty | a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | 30 | |
| 114912865 | devolution | the process of allowing a certain part of a country to have freedoms | 31 | |
| 114912866 | balkanization | the act of dividing a region or state into smaller regions or states and the two parts often very hostile or uncooperative towards each other | 32 | |
| 114912867 | velvet divorce | the splitting of Czechoslavokia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia | 33 | |
| 114912868 | ethnic cleansing | massive killing of an ethnic group in the hope of having them leave an area | 34 | |
| 114912869 | genocide | massive killing of an ethnic group in the hope of having them completely obliterated | 35 | |
| 114912870 | spatial perspective | to observe the physical and human characteristics of our planet as they vary over space, looking specifically for patterns and processes | 36 | |
| 114912871 | remote sensing | gaining information about an object without coming in direct contact with it | 37 | |
| 114912872 | survey | a method of collecting information from people about their characteristics, behaviors, attitudes, or perceptions. ... | 38 | |
| 114912873 | census | the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population | 39 | |
| 114912874 | field study | a trip (*cough vacation *cough) to a place to make qualitative observations | 40 | |
| 114912875 | toponomy | the study of the origins of place names | 41 | |
| 114912876 | absolute location | a location in latitude and longitude | 42 | |
| 114912877 | relative location | a location of a place determined by what's closest around you | 43 | |
| 114912878 | site | describing a place based on its resources and land | 44 | |
| 114912879 | situation | describing a place based on its location to other places | 45 | |
| 114912880 | cultural landscape | combination of environmental and human influences on the environment | 46 | |
| 114912881 | formal region | an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics | 47 | |
| 114912882 | functional region | an area that is a person's daily commute | 48 | |
| 114912883 | vernacular region | an area that is a person's mental map | 49 | |
| 114912884 | globalization | when ideas, values, beliefs, and cultural traits are becoming increasingly shared throughout the world as interconnectedness increases | 50 | |
| 114912885 | local diversity | when there are differences that are maintainted around the world between places/cultural groups no matter how much globalization spreads | 51 | |
| 114912887 | cultural hearth | the origin of a particular cultural trait | 52 | |
| 114912888 | acculturation | when a dominant group moves into a weaker culture and forces the culture onto the weaker group abruptly | 53 | |
| 114912889 | assimilation | when a weaker group moves into a dominant culture by choice and adopts the traits of the dominant group gradually | 54 | |
| 114912890 | sequence occupancy | several different cultural groups have occupied that territory so you will see different layers in modern culture | 55 | |
| 114912891 | expansion diffusion | the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area | 56 | |
| 114912892 | hierarchal diffusion | spread of an idea through an established structure usually from people or areas of power down to other people or areas | 57 | |
| 114912893 | contagious diffusion | spread of an idea/trait/concept through a group of peole or an area equally without regard to social class, economic position, or position of power | 58 | |
| 114912894 | stimulus diffusion | the spread of an underlying principle even though the new groups "remix" your idea | 59 | |
| 114912895 | relocation diffusion | people move and they take their culture with them | 60 | |
| 114912896 | migrant diffusion | an idea migrates outwards, but overtime fades out at the origin | 61 | |
| 114912897 | time-distance decay model | model that shows the farther away two places are, the less likely they are to have diffusion | 62 | |
| 114942045 | correlation | a measurement of how related two variables under study are related | 63 | |
| 114942046 | crude birth rate | the childbirths per 1,000 people per year | 64 | |
| 114942047 | crude death rate | the deaths per 1,000 people per year | 65 | |
| 114942048 | natural rate of increase | the CBR minus the CDR | 66 | |
| 114942049 | population growth rate | the CBR minus the CDR plus the immigrants minus the emmigrants | 67 | |
| 114942050 | total fertility rate | the average number of childbirths a woman has from the age of 15 to 49 | 68 | |
| 114942051 | doubling rate | the length of time required for a population to double in size | 69 | |
| 114942052 | dependency ratio | a measure of the dependence that non-working people have on working people | 70 | |
| 114942053 | life expectancy | the number of years expcected to live for bablies born this year | 71 | |
| 114942054 | infant mortality rate | the number of babies who die becore their first birthday out of 1000 live births | 72 | |
| 114942055 | demographic transition model | a model that explains the changing population (High stationary, Early expanding, Late expanding, Late stationary) | 73 | |
| 114942056 | population pyramid | a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a human population which normally forms the shape of a pyramid | 74 | |
| 114942057 | population change | how a population changes religiously, ethnicly, etc | 75 | |
| 114942058 | overpopulation | too many people with too little resources | 76 | |
| 114942059 | sustainability | the capacity to endure | 77 | |
| 114942060 | Thomas Malthus | said food grows linearly, population grows exponentially, and Britain was a closed system | 78 | |
| 114942061 | Ester Boserup | said population density creates more agricultural output and humans will figure out ways of producing more food on the same amount of land rather than starve to death | 79 | |
| 114942062 | carrying capacity | the maximum population size of a given species that an area can sustain without reducing its ability to support the same species in the future | 80 | |
| 114942063 | push factor | a social, political, economic, or environmental force that drives people from a location | 81 | |
| 114942064 | pull factor | a social, political, economic, or environmental attraction to a new area that draws people from a previous location | 82 | |
| 114942065 | gravity model | population1 X population 2/density squared | 83 | |
| 114994986 | culture | the way a group of people live | 84 | |
| 114994987 | popular culture | a large group of people; heterogeneous group, changes quickly, dispersed at a global scale; tends to share customs with a large number of people | 85 | |
| 114994988 | folk culture | small, isolated groups; homogenous groups; slow to change; clustered at a local scale; traditional societies with little interaction with other groups | 86 | |
| 114994989 | taboo | strong social prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and forbidden based on religious beliefs | 87 | |
| 114994990 | secular | non-religious | 88 | |
| 114994991 | wattle | a mat of woven sticks and weed used in wall construction | 89 | |
| 114994992 | literary tradition | help cultural continuity by having a written word | 90 | |
| 114994993 | Indo-European Family | made of of Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, and Indo-Iranian branches mainly | 91 | |
| 114994994 | Sino-Tibetan Family | Mandarin the most spoken language in this family | 92 | |
| 114994995 | Afro-Asiatic Family | language family from North Africa and the Middle East; Arabic is the most spoken language from this family | 93 | |
| 114994996 | standard language | the dialect that is seen as proper in a language | 94 | |
| 114994997 | vulgar language | variants of the standard language that have regional accents that can reveal a person's home | 95 | |
| 114994998 | language | systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | 96 | |
| 114994999 | British Received Pronounciation (BRP) | the accent of Standard English in England | 97 | |
| 114995000 | isogloss | transition zone surrounding a particular linguistic feature | 98 | |
| 114995001 | language divergence | when two dialects become mutually unintelligible, two separate languages emerge (involves time and isolation) | 99 | |
| 114995002 | Basque | belongs to the language family of Basque | 100 | |
| 114995003 | Khoisan | belongs to the language family of Khoisan | 101 | |
| 114995004 | Conquest (Kurgan Hearth) Theory | positive checks; language spread west as people conqured territory using superior technology and animals | 102 | |
| 114995005 | Agriculture (Anatolian Hearth) Theory | people sharing agriculture techniques diffused the language through Europe | 103 | |
| 114995006 | lingua franca | common language used when conducting business with two people who's primary language is not the same | 104 | |
| 114995007 | pidgin | simple way of getting understood by someone who doesn't speak your language | 105 | |
| 114995008 | creolization | process of a pidgin becoming real | 106 | |
| 114995009 | Afrikaans | an official creole of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish | 107 | |
| 114995010 | Francophone | the French speaking part of the world | 108 | |
| 114995011 | core | the wealthiest countries in the world belong to this category | 109 | |
| 114995012 | semi-periphery | the countries that are not poor but not wealthy belong to this category | 110 | |
| 114995013 | periphery | the poorest countries in the world belong to this category | 111 | |
| 114995014 | primary jobs (extractive jobs) | most basic jobs (hunting/gathering, nomadic herding, mining, fishing, forestrym, agriculture) | 112 | |
| 114995015 | secondary jobs | construction, shipbuilding, automobile production, textile production, breweries and bottlers, energy producers | 113 | |
| 114995016 | service jobs (tertiary jobs) | waiting tables, plumbers, teachers | 114 | |
| 114995017 | quinary jobs | most complex jobs; have something before or after name | 115 | |
| 114995018 | quaternary jobs | finance, insurance, real estate | 116 | |
| 114995019 | remittances | a transfer of money by a foreign worker to his or her home country | 117 | |
| 114995020 | wet foot dry foot policy | If Cubans fleeing to the United States are found in the water, they are sent back to Cuba; if they are found on land, they are allowed to stay here | 118 | |
| 114995021 | arithmetic density | the density of all the land in a place | 119 | |
| 114995022 | physiologic density | the density of only the arable land in a place | 120 | |
| 115025925 | syncretic religion | religions who have borrowed ideas from other religions | 121 | |
| 115025926 | ethnic religion | don't seek converts outside the group, tend to be spatially concentrated, holidays tend to be seasonal, can be a member of the cultural group and not believe in the theology of the faith, very old/prehistoric, no clergy, relocation diffusion | 122 | |
| 115025927 | universalizing religion | seek converts, scattered all over the world, holidays tend to be historic events, have to believe in theology to be a member, younger than ethnic religions, clergy, hierarchical diffuision | 123 | |
| 115025928 | Iman | Muslim teacher | 124 | |
| 115025929 | clergy | the formal religious leadership within a given religion | 125 | |
| 115025930 | proselytizing | seeking converts | 126 | |
| 115025931 | denomination | a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith | 127 | |
| 115025932 | sect | a subdivision of a denomination | 128 | |
| 115025933 | animism | the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | 129 | |
| 115025934 | cosmogony | the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | 130 | |
| 115025935 | pilgrimidge | to follow a prescribed historical/environmental route | 131 | |
| 115025936 | fundamentalism | the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | 132 | |
| 115025937 | deist | a person who believes that God does not have interaction with humans (no miracles) | 133 | |
| 115025938 | interfaith dispute | a dispute happening between two different religions | 134 | |
| 115025939 | intrafaith dispute | a dispute happening within a religion | 135 | |
| 115025940 | Pakistan/India | Hindu origin | 136 | |
| 115025941 | Nepal | Buddhism origin | 137 | |
| 115025942 | Israel | Christian/Judaism origin | 138 | |
| 115025943 | Arabian Peninsula (Mecca) | Islam origin | 139 | |
| 115025944 | India | Jainism/Sikhism origin | 140 | |
| 115025945 | Roman Catholic | religion located in Southern Europe, Phillippines | 141 | |
| 115025946 | Prostestant | religion located in Northern Europe, United States | 142 | |
| 115025947 | Sunni Muslim | religion located in Northern Africa | 143 | |
| 115025948 | Sikhism | religion located in Punjab, India | 144 | |
| 115025949 | Hinduism, Islam, Jainism | religions located in India | 145 | |
| 115025951 | Morman | religion located in Utah | 146 | |
| 115025952 | Orthodox | religion located in Greece, Turkey | 147 | |
| 115025953 | Quebec, Ireland, Belgium | places with intrafaith dipute between Protestants and Catholics (3) | 148 | |
| 115025954 | Egypt | place with interfaith dispute between Coptic Christians and Sunni Muslims | 149 | |
| 115025955 | Iraq | place with intrafaith dispute between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims | 150 | |
| 115025956 | Southern Sudan | place with interfaith dispute between Christians and Muslims | 151 | |
| 115025957 | Cyprus | place with interfaith dispute between Orthodox Christians and Sunni Muslims | 152 | |
| 115025958 | India | place with interfaith disputes between many religions | 153 | |
| 115025959 | Hinduism |  | 154 | |
| 115025960 | Christianity |  | 155 | |
| 115025961 | Coptic Christianity |  | 156 | |
| 115025962 | Buddhism |  | 157 | |
| 115025963 | Shintoism |  | 158 | |
| 115025964 | Islam |  | 159 | |
| 115025965 | Judaism |  | 160 | |
| 115025966 | Jainism |  | 161 | |
| 115025967 | Sikhism |  | 162 | |
| 115330002 | high latitudes | high numbers | 163 | |
| 115330003 | low latitudes | low numbers | 164 | |
| 115330004 | cultural hierarchy | cultural realm, cultural complex, cultural system, cultural region, cultural trait | 165 | |
| 115330005 | unipolar | one countries rules the world (feared) | 166 | |
| 115330006 | multipolar | multiple countries have power in the world | 167 | |
| 115330007 | agnostic | someone who believes we can't know if there is a God | 168 | |
| 115330008 | Sri Lanka | place with interfaith dispute between Buddhists and Hindus | 169 | |
| 115330009 | Phillippines | place with interfaith dispute between Catholic Christians and Muslims | 170 | |
| 115330010 | Japan | Shintoism origin | 171 | |
| 115330011 | Mainland China | Where Mihayana Buddhists are now | 172 | |
| 115330012 | South East Asia | Where Theravana Buddhists are now | 173 | |
| 115330013 | Afro-Asiatic, Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan | 3 major language families | 174 | |
| 115336649 | Halal | Muslim dietary rules | 175 | |
| 115336650 | Kosher | Jewish dietary rules | 176 | |
| 115336651 | Christianity, Islam, Buddhism | 3 universalizing religions | 177 | |
| 115336652 | Shintoism, Jainism, Judaism, Hinduism | 4 ethnic religions | 178 | |
| 115395353 | English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian | 6 official languages of the U.N. | 179 | |
| 115395354 | Sharia | Islamnic law legal system | 180 | |
| 115395355 | chain migration | migrates somewhere, and then call/write home to get family members/friends to come over, who in turn call/write home to bring more family members/friends over | 181 | |
| 115395356 | Great Schism | The splitting of Christianity into Orthodox and Catholic | 182 | |
| 115395357 | Stage 1 | Stage of DTM where birth and death rates are constant and overall very high | 183 | |
| 115395358 | Stage 2 | Stage of DTM where the death rate decreases dramatically, and the birth rate stays high and constant | 184 | |
| 115395359 | Stage 3 | Stage of DTM where the birth rate decreases dramatically, and the death rate stays low and constant | 185 | |
| 115395360 | Stage 4 | Stage of DTM where birth and death rates are constant and overall very low (towards end, death rate rises higher than birth rate) | 186 | |
| 115395361 | 2.1 | replacement rate in MDCs | 187 | |
| 116879448 | altitude | distance above the earth | 188 | |
| 116879449 | elevation | land's height above sea level | 189 | |
| 116879450 | dissolution | splitting of a nation | 190 | |
| 116879451 | proxy war | a war that results when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly | 191 | |
| 116879452 | arms race | build up nuclear weapons on both sides | 192 | |
| 116879453 | nation state | country where only one type of people live | 193 | |
| 116879454 | first strike capability | have ability of launching so quickly that opponent is completely destroyed and can't retaliate | 194 | |
| 116879455 | cultural barrier | practices, ideas, or innovations not acceptable/adoptable in a particular culture | 195 | |
| 116879457 | homeostatic plateau | earth's population plateaus out | 196 | |
| 116879458 | dependency ratio | a measure of the dependence that non-working people have on working people | 197 | |
| 116879459 | positive checks | increase death rates (famine, war, disease, natural disastor) | 198 | |
| 116879460 | preventative checks | decrease birth rates (marrying later, abstinence, birth control, homeosexuality) | 199 | |
| 116879461 | demographic momentum | it takes a lifetime for a population policy to work | 200 | |
| 116879462 | linguistics | study of languages | 201 | |
| 116879463 | domino theory | the political theory that if one nation comes under communist control then neighboring nations will also come under communist control | 202 | |
| 116879464 | counter migration | moving back home | 203 | |
| 116879465 | forced migration | deportation | 204 | |
| 116879466 | world's systems analysis | groups countries into core, semi-peripherty and perophery | 205 |
