6692027446 | Site | The physical characteristics of a place | 0 | |
6692027447 | Mercator | Which type of map projection is this? | 1 | |
6692027448 | Distance Decay | the interaction between two places declines as the distance between them increases. | 2 | |
6692027449 | Human/Environment interaction | examines how people depend on the environment (e.g. for water, food), adapt to the environment (e.g. how dress or building construction is affected), and modify the environment (e.g. build roads, affect air quality). | 3 | |
6692027450 | demography | the statistical study of populations | 4 | |
6692027451 | overpopulation | this occurs when a population exceeds the carrying capacity | 5 | |
6692027452 | carrying capacity | The highest amount of a population the environment and resources can sustain. | 6 | |
6692027454 | Dependency ratio | The percentage of people who are too young or too old to work in a society is the | 7 | |
6692027455 | Population pyramid stage 2 | 8 | ||
6692027456 | Total Fertility Rate | The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime | 9 | |
6692027459 | physiological density | the number of people per unit area of arable land | 10 | |
6692027460 | demographic transition model | the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. | 11 | |
6692027464 | Stage 3 | Which stage of the DTM starts to have a decline in birthrate? | 12 | |
6692027465 | is less than | A country has net immigration if emigration ___________________ immigration | 13 | |
6692027466 | emigrant | A person leaving a country | 14 | |
6692027467 | immigrant | A new person in a country | 15 | |
6692027469 | economic | What are the main reasons people migrate? | 16 | |
6692027470 | intervening obstacle | A physical feature, such as a body of water, which hinders migration is an example of | 17 | |
6692027472 | chain migration | process by which immigrants from a particular town follow others from that town to a particular city or neighborhood | 18 | |
6692027473 | Ravensteins Laws | Reasons people migrate internally: Move only a short distance or in stages for longer travel Move from rural to urban Migration causes a counter flow Young males tend to more internally more while family moves stay shorter and internal. | 19 | |
6692027475 | possibilism | the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions, we can adapt and change it. | 20 | |
6692027476 | environmental determinism | Early belief that the physical environment predisposes human social development towards particular trajectories. | 21 | |
6692027477 | cultural ecology | the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments. | 22 | |
6692027479 | relocation diffusion | spread of an idea through physical movement from one place to another. | 23 | |
6692027480 | situation | position relative to other features. | 24 | |
6692027481 | popular culture | heterogeneous societies, rapid diffusion, multiple hearths | 25 | |
6692027482 | folk culture | homogeneous societies, relocation diffusion, anonymous hearths, isolated rural areas | 26 | |
6692027484 | assimilation | full adoption of pop culture | 27 | |
6692027485 | habit | The frequent repetition of an act until it becomes a characteristic of a group | 28 | |
6692027487 | pidgin language | is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common | 29 | |
6692027488 | creole language | a stable natural language that has developed from a pidgin becoming nativized by children as their first language, with a fully developed vocabulary and system of grammar. | 30 | |
6692027489 | Indo european | Includes Romance, Indo-Aryan, Germanic branches | 31 | |
6692027490 | sino tibetan | What is the second largest language family and includes Manderian | 32 | |
6692027492 | west germanic | What branch does English belong to? | 33 | |
6692027493 | language family | Which is the largest language grouping | 34 | |
6692027494 | spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary | British and American English differ in what ways? | 35 | |
6692027495 | Asia | Most migrants to the US during the 1960s and 1970s came from | 36 | |
6692027496 | doubling time | the amount of time it takes a population to increase 100% | 37 | |
6692027497 | crude Birth rate | The number of live births per year per 1,000 people in a society is the | 38 | |
6692027498 | universalizing religion | Appeals to people in a wide variety of places, seeks converts, holidays based on founder | 39 | |
6692027500 | Northeast, Southwest | Where in the US are Roman Catholics clustered? | 40 | |
6692027501 | Israel | Where is there a large clustering of Jewish people? | 41 | |
6692027502 | Southwest Asia | Where did Islam, Christianity, and Judaism all begin? | 42 | |
6692027503 | Islam | Adherents to what religion would take part in the 5 pillars of faith? | 43 | |
6692027504 | Christian branches | Eastern orthodox, protestant, roman catholic | 44 | |
6692027505 | self determination | The concept that nationalities have the right to govern themselves | 45 | |
6692027506 | balkanization | breakdown of a state due to conflict among nationalities | 46 | |
6692027508 | centripetal forces | Unites people with each other | 47 | |
6692027509 | centrifugal forces | Pushes people away from each other | 48 | |
6692027510 | nation state | A state where everyone inside is the same | 49 | |
6692027511 | multi national state | a state with multiple nationalities wanting self determination | 50 | |
6692027512 | multi ethnic state | a state where many ethnicities live together | 51 |
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