AP Human Geography Final

63683648	Agricultural Density	The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.
63683649	Arithmetic Density	The total number of people divided by the total land area
63683650	Base Line	Imaginary line running east and west used by surveyors as a reference in describing land under the rectangular survey system
63683651	Cartography	the making or study of maps or charts
63683652	Dependency Ratio	# of people in a population under 15 and over 64: # of working people to support them
63683653	Physiological Density	pressures people may place on land to produce food
63683654	Carrying Capacity	# of people an area can support on a sustained basis
63683655	Population Pyramid	represents a population distribution by age, gender, or groups
63683656	Genercide	use of techniques to ensure male offspring; abortion, ultrasounds, etc.
63683657	Sex Ratio Imbalance (SRI)	natural balace between boys and girls
63683658	Infant Mortality Rate	total # of deaths in a year for every 1,000 live births in society
63683659	Zero Population Growth	decline in fertility rates
63683660	Migration	permament move to a new location
63683661	Emigration	migration FROM a location
63683662	Immigration	migration TO a location
63683663	Taboo	restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
63683664	Terrier	the soil, climate, and other physical features that attribute to something
63683665	Ideograms	represent ideas or concepts; chinese symbols for nouns
63683666	Creole	the result of mixed languages- one new language
63683667	Isogloss	word usage boundary that is determined by data
63683668	Acculturation	to change a culture to fit another
63683669	Universalizing Religion	appeal to people of many cultures anywhere in the world; Buddhism is the oldest
63683670	Ethnic Religion	appeals to local people or are practiced in one region
63683671	Cosmogony	set of beliefs concerningt the origin of the universe
63683672	Balkinization	the process in which a state breaks down through conflicts
63683673	Rostow's Five Stages	1) Traditional- farming, 2) Preconditions for Takeoff- commercial exploitations of materials, 3) Take off- massive investment and produce goods for manufacturing, 4) Drive to Maturity- wealth goes up, 5) Age of Mass Consumption
63683674	Human Development Index (HDI)	country's level of development- economic, social, and demographic
63683675	Gross Domestic Product	value of the total output of goods and services
63882752	Postmodernism	aesthetic,literary, political, or social philosiphy to describe a condition; reintroducing traditional things w/ modern touches
63882753	Ecofeminism	social, and political movement which points to the existence of common ground; between environmentalism and feminism
63882754	Possitivism	epistemetological perspective and philosiphy of sienc that states that authentic knowledge is based on experience
63882755	Syncretism	attempt to disparate or contrary beliefs
63882756	Confluence	meeting of two or more bodies of water
63882757	Postmaterialism	mass consumerism
63882758	Thematic	type of map that shows a paticular theme
63882759	Chloropleth	thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterend
63882760	Plebisite	direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked or reject or accept a proposal
63882761	Primate City	extremley large city
63882762	Sawan	flooded field for rice
63882763	Chaff	the husks of rice
63882764	Desertification	human actions causing land to deteriorate
63882765	Double Cropping	growing more than one crop a year on the same land
63882766	Green Revolution	the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
63882767	Pastoral Nomadism	form of subsistance agriculture based on the herding of domestic animals
63882768	Swidden	clearing for shifting cultivation
63882769	Milkshed	ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied without spoiling
63882770	Sustainable Agriculture	Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil- restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.
63882771	Subsistance Agriculture	production of food primarily for consumption by the farmers family
63882772	Agglomeration	A process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities. The term often refers to manufacturing plants and businesses that benefit from close proximity because they share skilled-labor pools and technological and financial amenities.
63882773	Space Time Compression	processes that seem to accelerate the experience of time
63882774	Perceptual Region	area that reflects human feelings and attitudes
63882775	Concentric Zone Model	A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.
63882776	Integration	the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
63882777	Break of Bulk Point	location where transfer among transportation modes is possible
63882778	Fordist	Form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly.
63882779	Labor Intensive	wages are a high percentage of expenses
63882780	New International Division of Labor	Transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-paid less skilled workers, from more developed to less developed countries.
63882781	Outsourcing	The relocation of production once done in the United States to foreign countries.
63882782	Post Fordist	Adoption by companies of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks.
63882783	Locational Interdependence	competetors will locate next to each other to maximize customers
63882784	Edge City	a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area
63882785	Forward Capital	a symbolic relocation of a capital
63882786	Central Place Theory	explains size, #, and location of human settlements in an urban system
63882787	Demographic Momentum	increased population but reduced fertility rates
63882788	Labor Intensive Intillerage	a farm in which no machinery is used
63882789	Ethnocentrism	belief that one culture is better that another
63882790	Extensive Land Use	use of a lot of land for low producing agriculture
63882791	Settlements	a permanant collection of buildings
63882792	Consumer Services	provide services to individual consumers
63882793	Clustered Rural Settlements	# of families that live closley together
63883155	Fusion	Process of combining 2 hydrogen to form helium and give off energy in stars