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| 5742988055 | cartography | the science of map making | 0 | |
| 5743005227 | scale | the relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole | 1 | |
| 5743020204 | absolute location | exact location of earth of a specific place, latitude and longitude Exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates | 2 | |
| 5743038836 | relative location | location on earth relative to other places Ex. US capitol is about 38 miles from Baltimore | 3 | |
| 5743051273 | map scale | distance on a map relative to the distance on earth, ratio or fraction, written or graphic scale, zoomed in = bigger scale & more detail, zoomed out = smaller scale & less detail | 4 | |
| 5743056789 | map key | explanatory table of symbols used on a map or chart | 5 | |
| 5743081600 | latitude | the location to indicate a parrallel |  | 6 |
| 5743088862 | longitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°). | 7 | |
| 5743094961 | Meridians | lines of longitude that also are used to determine time around the world |  | 8 |
| 5743108888 | choropleth map | A map that uses colors or tonal shadings to represent categories of data for given geographic areas |  | 9 |
| 5743169751 | dot map | uses dots in a specific area, each dot is a quantity Maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomenon, such as a population. |  | 10 |
| 5743179778 | isoline map | uses continuous lines and jointed points that show an area of value |  | 11 |
| 5743191413 | cartogram | expands or shrinks the area of a location to demonstrate different types of date |  | 12 |
| 5743203394 | reference map | A map type that shows reference information for a particular place, making it useful for finding landmarks and for navigation. | 13 | |
| 5743217417 | map distortion | disadvantages for maps depicting the entire world of the: shape, distance, size, and direction of places on maps | 14 | |
| 5743238400 | projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map. | 15 | |
| 5743241528 | 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, CREATE APPEALING MAPS |  | 16 |
| 5743249354 | mercator projection | for sailing purposes, distorts size and shape, used for navigation |  | 17 |
| 5743269918 | peters projection | Is an equal-area projection purposefully centered on Africa in an attempt to treat all regions of Earth equally, tries to attempt to create accurate land mass sizes |  | 18 |
| 5743280791 | GIS | system that can capture, store, analyze, and display geographic data, often in layers |  | 19 |
| 5743307635 | scale of analysis | a scale that determines what is being studied based on the size of the area being examined |  | 20 |
| 5743341602 | site | The absolute location of a place, described by local relief, landforms, and other cultural or physical characteristics, physical area of a area or place | 21 | |
| 5743341603 | situation | location of a place on earth relative to other places, the church is three blocks from moes | 22 | |
| 5752106912 | arithmetic density | total number of people divided by the total number land area | 23 | |
| 5752116079 | physiological density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | 24 | |
| 5752119808 | agricultural density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture | 25 | |
| 5752121353 | overpopulation | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. | 26 | |
| 5752132267 | malthusian theory | the idea that population is growing faster than the food supply needed to sustain it |  | 27 |
| 5752146261 | anti-natalist policies | discourage reproduction and try to reduce population growth rates, against human reproduction, used to deplete problems such as famine and overpopulation |  | 28 |
| 5752168662 | pro natalist policies | promote the growth of human reproduction, in countries that are developing | 29 | |
| 5752172652 | Demographic transition model | is based on historical population trends of two demographic characteristics - birth rate and death rate - to suggest that a country's total population growth rate cycles through stages as that country develops economically |  | 30 |
| 5752182597 | Stages - DTM |  | 31 | |
| 5752190979 | Stage 1 | both death rate and birth rates are high, as a result population sizes remain constant, war and famine | 32 | |
| 5752194763 | Stage 2 | introduction of medicines drops death rates, while birth rates still tend to remain high, rapid population growth, many least developed countries are in stage 2 | 33 | |
| 5752208821 | Stage 3 | birth rates gradually decrease, usually as a result of improved economic conditions, an increase in women's status. Population grows but at a lower rate, Most developing countries are in stage three | 34 | |
| 5752227072 | Stage 4 | birth and death rates are both low, stabilizing the population, these countries tend to have a strong education, economy, healthcare, working women, and fertility rate hovering 2 children per woman. Most developed countries are in stage 4 | 35 | |
| 5752241070 | Stage 5 | CDR>CBR, fertility rates have fallen significantly, not growing population | 36 | |
| 5752246535 | carrying capacity | the largest number of people that an environment could support |  | 37 |
| 5752315936 | population concentrations |  | 38 | |
| 5752317629 | 1. East Asia | China, Japan, Korea's |  | 39 |
| 5752322401 | 2. South Asia |  | 40 | |
| 5752324980 | 3. Europe |  | 41 | |
| 5752329146 | 4. Southeast Asia |  | 42 | |
| 5752331267 | CBR | The number of live births per year per 1,000 people | 43 | |
| 5752331268 | CDR | (Crude death rate) The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society | 44 | |
| 5752332411 | NIR | the percentage at which a population grows, CBR-CDR, affects the country's or area's ability to support that population | 45 | |
| 5752332412 | TFR | the total number of children that could be born to a woman in her lifetime in a given population | 46 | |
| 5752333507 | Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live. | 47 | |
| 5752334353 | population pyramids | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex | 48 | |
| 5752334354 | dependancy ratio | The number of people too old or too young to be in the workforce compared to those in the work force. | 49 | |
| 5752336182 | migration | Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. | 50 | |
| 5752370747 | international migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | 51 | |
| 5752371784 | internal migration | Permanent Movement within a particular country. |  | 52 |
| 5752373918 | intercontinental migration | The movement of people across an ocean or continent. |  | 53 |
| 5752376002 | 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 |  | 54 |
| 5752377546 | chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there |  | 55 |
| 5752382164 | rural-urban migration | Permanent movement from suburbs and rural area to the urban city area. |  | 56 |
| 5752395171 | interregional migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. |  | 57 |
| 5752396816 | interaregional migration | permanent movement within one region of a county. | 58 | |
| 5752399080 | undocumented immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents. |  | 59 |
| 5752401077 | push factors | negative incentives for potential migrants to leave a place, such as a harsh climate, economic recession, or political turmoil, persecution, | 60 | |
| 5752405367 | pull factors | positive factors that induce people to move to a new location, Attractions that draw migrants to a certain place, such as a pleasant climate and employment or educational opportunities. | 61 | |
| 5752409755 | refugees | People who are FORCED to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. | 62 | |
| 5756545622 | relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another | 63 | |
| 5756553897 | expansion diffusion | the idea spread throughout a population, from area to area , snowballing idea | 64 | |
| 5756562103 | hierarchal expansion | ideas that leap from one node to another, example would be fashion ideas and then are taken back to another area | 65 | |
| 5756568524 | contagious diffusion | wavelike, a disease, rapid The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | 66 | |
| 5756576620 | stimulus diffusion | specific trait rejected but idea accepted, example would be like catholic not accepted but traits from it are |  | 67 |
| 5756587688 | cultural landscape | the visible imprint of activity and culture on the landscape | 68 | |
| 5756597758 | toponymy | the study of place names of a region, or toponyms | 69 | |
| 5756602621 | environmental determinism | The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development, An example of environment is, deserts, beaches, mountains, ice caps, grasslands, coral reefs and forests. | 70 | |
| 5756611857 | possiblism | The theory that the physical 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. Incas adapted to the Andes Mtns. | 71 | |
| 5756615585 | folk culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups Amish | 72 | |
| 5756626671 | sequent occupancy | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape | 73 | |
| 5756632039 | Christianity | A MONOtheistic (one God) system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior. HEARTH = palestine/ israel | 74 | |
| 5756635419 | islam | A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims. HEARTH = mecca, medina, saudia arabia | 75 | |
| 5756675124 | Hinduism | A religion and philosophy developed in ancient India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms HEARTH= indus river valley, ganges | 76 | |
| 5756676867 | Judaism | A religion with a belief in one god. It originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people. Yahweh was responsible for the world and everything within it. They preserved their early history in the Old Testament. HEARTH= palestine, israel | 77 | |
| 5756678237 | Buddhism | A religion founded in India by Siddhartha Gautama which teaches that the most important thing in life is to reach peace by ending suffering. HEARTH= northern india | 78 | |
| 5756828259 | Religions map |  | 79 | |
| 5756835332 | hearths | Regions from which innovative ideas originate. | 80 | |
| 5756919990 | proselytism | the active, even aggressive, seeking of converts to one's own religion, often away from another religion | 81 | |
| 5756943612 | ethnic religions | small group population with religion that appeals to a particular group, does not try to convert | 82 | |
| 5756967201 | universalizing religions | one that states it applies to all of the people in the world and therefore is always looking to convert people to gain new followers. The three main universalizing religions are Islam, Christianity and Buddhism, | 83 | |
| 5756976295 | syncetric religions | two religions put together | 84 | |
| 5757001659 | language families | collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 85 | |
| 5757029428 | language branches | collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousands of years ago | 86 | |
| 5757132458 | English | Language Family: Indo-European Language Branch: Germanic Language Group: western germanic | 87 | |
| 5757139753 | romance languages | italian, portuguese, spanish, french, romanain |  | 88 |
| 5757160660 | germanic languages | English, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish Netherlandic (Dutch), Icelandic | 89 | |
| 5757177606 | lingua franca | a language that spread throughout an area where it is not the mother tongue, used with communication, commerce, regionally or worldwide EX. English, Swahali in East Africa | 90 | |
| 5757191606 | pidgin | mixture of two or more languages ex. Spanglish | 91 | |
| 5757294197 | creole | A pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it | 92 | |
| 5757442445 | state | a country, sovereign An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs. | 93 | |
| 5757451983 | nation state | a state with primarily one nation within its border example Denmark, Japan, North Korea, Iceland | 94 | |
| 5757460781 | nation | A sense of unity binding the people of a state together; devotion to the interests of a particular country or nation, an identification with the state and an acceptance of national goals. | 95 | |
| 5757465257 | city-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland. Vatican City | 96 | |
| 5757470220 | federal | places its power in central government, substates as well, better for bigger states USA | 97 | |
| 5757518667 | unitary state | A state governed constitutionally as a unit, without internal divisions or a federalist delegation of powers. UK | 98 | |
| 5757523916 | sovereignty | the power to control its own territory itself Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states. | 99 | |
| 5757534665 | geometric boundary | Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines. | 100 | |
| 5757544226 | physical boundaries | boundaries created with naturally occurring features, mtns rivers etc | 101 | |
| 5757589224 | antecedent boundary | A boundary that was drawn across an area prior to the area becoming substantially-populated (e.g. border between Malaysia and Indonesia) | 102 | |
| 5757596443 | Buffer state | A relatively small country sandwiched between two larger powers. The existence of buffer states may help to prevent dangerous conflicts between powerful countries. | 103 | |
| 5757600564 | landlocked | completely surrounded by land with no direct access to the ocean | 104 | |
| 5757614753 | compact/efficient state | the distance from the center to the borders are essentially the same length, ex. poland | 105 | |
| 5757647099 | prorupted state | an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension | 106 | |
| 5757653133 | perfortrated | a state that completely surrounds another state South Africa | 107 | |
| 5757658771 | Fragmented state | A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory | 108 | |
| 5757662653 | elongated state | A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape. | 109 | |
| 5757752709 | gerrymandering | is all about electoral district and the way they are drawn, intentionally changing of electoral boundaries to benefit the leading party districts need to be equal and contiguous, | 110 |
