Ap Flashcards

8591903605	International date line	Opposite side of the globe from prime meridian is 180 longitude	0
8591903606	Heartland Theory	Hypothesis proposed by Hal ford mackinder that held any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world	1
8591903607	Environmental determinism	The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development	2
8591903608	Population pyramid	Visual representations of the age and sex composition of a population whereby the percentage of each age group is represented by a horizontal bar the length of which represents its relationship to the total population	3
8591903609	Isogloss	A geographic boundary within a particular linguistic feature occurs	4
8591903610	Technopole	Centers or nodes of high technology research and activity around which a high technology corridor is sometimes established	5
8591903611	Language family	Groups of languages with a shared but fairly distant orgin	6
8591903612	Transnational corporation	Companies that conduct business on a global scale and have a weekend state sovereignty	7
8591903613	Census	Periodic and official count of a country's population	8
8591903614	Geographic information system (GIS)	Collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected,recorded , retrieved and displayed to user	9
8591903615	More Developed Country (MDC)	A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development.	10
8591903616	outsourcing	Reference to production, to turn over in part or in total to a third party	11
8591903617	Textile	A fabric made by weaving, used in making clothing	12
8591903618	Pidgin language	When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified vocabulary	13
8591903619	Pastoral nomadism	A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.	14