13837233113 | environmental determinism | Belief that our environment influences and controls our actions, lifestyle, and culture | 0 | |
13837233114 | What is human geography concerned with? | The physical and cultural environments and how humans function and interact with them | 1 | |
13837233115 | Situation | Relative location of a place relative to neighboring places | 2 | |
13837233116 | Site | Absolute location of a place | 3 | |
13837233117 | How is site usually described | in physical terms using water bodies, mountains plains, etc. | 4 | |
13837233118 | Function | The purpose of a religion or place in relation to another religion or place | 5 | |
13837233119 | Geological history | The scientific study of the earths history from its beginning up until now | 6 | |
13837233120 | What are some reasons people move to urban areas | For employment opportunities, better healthcare, and better education | 7 | |
13837233121 | The demographic transition model assumes that birth and death rates will ___ overtime as the country develops economically | Drop | 8 | |
13837233122 | Environmental perception | Theory that people of different cultures look at their environments in different ways | 9 | |
13837233123 | Possibilism | Theory that humans have a choice in how they think, act, and live within a range of available possibilities given to them by their physical environment | 10 | |
13837233124 | Environmentalism | Movement to preserve and protect the physical environment from pollution and misuse by humans | 11 | |
13837233125 | Culture system | Group of culture complexes that form the common identity of a group | 12 | |
13837233126 | 6 largest countries in terms of territory | 1) Russia 2) Canada 3) US 4) China 5) Brazil 6) Australia | 13 | |
13837233127 | Physiological Density | total population divided by arable land area | 14 | |
13837233128 | Arithmetic density | the number of people per unit area of land | 15 | |
13837233129 | Other names for Arithmetic density | Population and crude density | 16 | |
13837233130 | nation-state | State or political territory with only one nation on people within its borders (all people in the area share a common identity) | 17 | |
13837233131 | Examples of nation-states | Japan and Iceland | 18 | |
13837233132 | State/Country | Definite territory with borders and full sovereignty | 19 | |
13837233133 | Examples of states | US and Thailand | 20 | |
13837233134 | Nation | a group of people with a common culture and history who occupy an area | 21 | |
13837233135 | Enclave | an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it Ex. Vatican City | 22 | |
13837233136 | Exclave | A part of a country that is isolated from the main part Ex. Alaska | 23 | |
13837233137 | Colony | Territory under the control of another political state | 24 | |
13837233138 | Edge City | A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area that has more workers than residents | 25 | |
13837233139 | Unitary state | Country with a strong central government Ex. France | 26 | |
13837233140 | Cultural Hearth | Birthplaces of major hearths Ex. Indus River Valley, Nile River Valley, West Africa, and Mesopotamia | 27 | |
13837233141 | Cultural basins | Basins it repositories of culture | 28 | |
13837233142 | cultural convergence | The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technologies | 29 | |
13837233143 | culture complex | Set of traits or practices that revolve around basic activity in a culture, such as food preparation | 30 | |
13837233144 | cultural divergence | The trend for 2 cultures to become more different overtime | 31 | |
13837233145 | Which minority group is the fastest growing in the US? | Hispanic | 32 | |
13837671246 | Most migrants today are | Young singles | 33 | |
13837671247 | Buddhists worship in ___ | Temple pagodas | 34 | |
13837671248 | Those who practice Shinto worship in ___ | Shrines | 35 | |
13837671249 | Muslims worship in ___ | mosques | 36 | |
13837671250 | Jews worship in ___ | Temples or synagogues | 37 | |
13837671251 | A population pyramid represents a population's ___ and ___ composition | Age; sex | 38 | |
13837671252 | Mentifacts | Main categories of culture's values and beliefs, such as religion, language, folklore, etc. | 39 | |
13837671253 | Artifacts | Material parts of culture, such as houses, clothing, tools, etc. | 40 | |
13837671254 | Dialects | variations of a language | 41 | |
13837671255 | Ethnocentrism | the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture | 42 |
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