Ap Flashcards

5704927697	Distance	The amount of space between two things or people	0
5704927698	Global Positioning System	A System that determines the precise location of something on earth by using a series of satellites tracking stations and receivers	1
5704927699	Location	The position of anything on earths surface	2
5704927700	Mental map	A representation of a portion of earths surface based on what individual knows about a place	3
5704927701	Cultural landscape	The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group	4
5704927702	Absolute location	The exact location on earth of a specific place	5
5704927703	Doubling time	The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase	6
5704927704	Arithmetic destiny	The total number of people divided by the total land area	7
5704927705	Scale	The relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole.	8
5704927706	Possibilism	The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives	9
5704927707	Environmental determination	Approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences	10
5704927708	Diffusion routes	The spatial trajectory in which cultural traits and other phenomenons occur	11
5704927709	Cartographer	Someone who makes maps	12
5704927710	Remote sensing	The acquisition of data about earths surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long distant methods	13
5704927711	Relative location	A point in relation to another point or place	14
5704927712	Religion	The system used to transfer locations from earths surface to a flat map	15
5704927713	Meridian	An arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles	16
5704927714	Cartogram	A diagram presentation in highly abstracted or simplified form, commonly of statistical data, on a map base or diagram	17
5704927715	Cultural hearth	Civilizations that have a cultural influence on cultures around the world	18
5704927716	Physiological density	The number of people per unit of arable land	19
5704927717	Parallel	A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at the right angles to the meridians	20
5704927718	Dependency ratio	The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force	21
5704927719	Pull factors	Factors of a country that influence you to move their	22
5704927720	Demography	The scientific study of population characteristics	23
5704927721	Distance decay	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin	24
5704927722	Demographic transition model	A model that describes population change over time	25
5704927723	Push factor	Factors of a country that influences you to leave there	26
5704927724	Natural increase rate	The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate	27
5704927725	Overpopulation	When a country has to many citizens living there	28
5704927726	Ecumene	The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement	29
5704927727	Population pyramid	A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex	30
5704927728	Total fertility rate	The average number of children a women will have throughout her childbearing year	31
5704927729	Infant mortality rate	The total number of deaths in a year amount infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society	32
5704927730	Carrying capacity	The number of people, living things, or crops a region can support without environmental degradation	33
5704927731	Transhumance	The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures	34
5704927732	Internal migration	Permanent movement from one country to another	35
5704927733	Culture	The body of customarily beliefs,social forms, and material traits that together form the special tradition of a group	36
5704927734	Islam	The religion of Muslims, monotheistic religion, Mohammed prophet of allah	37
5704927735	Folk culture	Culture practiced by small, homogeneous cultures	38
5704927736	City state	A sovereign state comprising a city and its hinder land	39
5704927737	Haji	An annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca	40
5704927738	Plural society	A society combining ethnic contracts	41
5704927739	Creole	A language that results from the mixing of languages with indigenous people and colonizer's to be dominate	42
5704927740	Exclave	A territory or part of a territory that is surrounded by another state	43
5704927741	Monotheism	The doctrine of belief of only one god	44
5704927742	Popular culture	Culture found in large heterogeneous society's that share some things	45
5704927743	Multinational state	A state combining two or more ethnic groups With traditions f self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as different nationalities	46
5704927744	Fertility rate	Number of births per 1,000 women	47
5704927745	Nation state	A state that corresponds with the occupied ethnicity that has been transformed into an nationality	48
5704927746	Segregation	The act or state of something being apart or set apart from something or other people	49
5704927747	Polytheism	Belief in or worship in more than one god	50
5704927748	Assimilation	The process by which the language of ones culture or group comes to resemble one of another	51
5704927751	Isogloss	A boundary in which separates different language usage predominant	52
5704927752	Ldc	A country that is a relative early stage of economic development	53
5704927753	Mdc	A country that has developed rather far along in economic development	54
5704927754	State	An organized are with its own government with control over its own internal and foreign affairs	55
5704927755	Colonialism	An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose it political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory	56
5704927756	Imperialism	Control of another territory already occupied and and organized by another indigenous group	57