Ap Flashcards

12188641620	"Why of where"	Explanations for why a spatial pattern occurs	0
12189729431	Isopleth Map		1
12189749797	Mercator Projection		2
12189760113	Dot Map		3
12189764543	Population Pyramid		4
12189755034	robinson projection		5
12189746524	isogloss map		6
12189742581	Chloropeth Map		7
12188648478	Cartography	the science of mapmaking	8
12188654458	Scale	the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.	9
12188676176	What are the problems with projection	the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map. -	10
12188709989	Mercator projection	is the distorts the size of objects as the latitude increases from the Equator to the poles Ex. Greenland and Africa	11
12188703931	What are with distortion?	shape, distance , relative size and direction	12
12188728414	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 in flat image	13
12188747122	What are the 5 theme of Geography ?	1. Location 2. Place 3. Human Environment Interaction 4.Movement 5.Region	14
12188759136	GIS	Geographic Information System	15
12188759137	remote sensing	the scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it.	16
12188769101	GPS	A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.	17
12188774111	Geocaching	A hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the Internet by other geocachers.	18
12188774113	site	The physical character of a place	19
12188776279	situation	the location of a place relative to other places	20
12188779151	Merdians	lines of longitude ( verically)	21
12188787662	Parallels	lines of latitude (horizontally)	22
12188799891	cultural landscape	the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape	23
12188801497	sequent occupance	the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape	24
12188806373	Formal region	An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics ex. Floridans	25
12188813267	Functional region	An area organized around a node or focal point ex. miami newspaper	26
12188818835	vernacular region	an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity ex. The South	27
12188829332	Physical Geography	the study of physical features of the earth's surface	28
12188835777	environmental determinism	A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.	29
12188838594	Possiblism	The theory that the physical environment 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.	30
12188852515	What are the 5 most densly populated places?	1. East Asia 2. South Asia 3. Europe 4.BOSNYWASH 5. Southeast asia	31
12188860873	Globalization	Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.	32
12188865845	Glocalization	The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes	33
12188872779	independent invention	The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other	34
12188872780	Hearth	The region from which innovative ideas originate	35
12188878701	Hiearchal diffusion	spread of an idea from persons nodes of authority or power to other person or places ex. hip hop	36
12188887217	Contagious Diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. ex.diseases	37
12188890276	Stimulus Diffusion	The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. Windows, Apple	38
12188903246	Distance Decay	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.	39
12188920338	Isotope map		40
12188940062	DTM Model		41
12188942378	cohort	a group of people from a given time period	42
12188946177	carrying capacity	Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support	43
12188993242	Ecumene	The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.	44
12188998657	Demography	The scientific study of population characteristics.	45
12189020795	natural increase	the growth rate of a population; the difference between birthrate and death rate	46
12189020796	Population Pyramid	A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.	47
12189029057	sex ratio	The number of males per 100 females in the population.	48
12189031547	Arithmetic Density	The total number of people divided by the total land area.	49
12189031548	Physiological Density	The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.	50
12189036843	Agricutural density	The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture	51
12189040247	Guest Workers	Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs.	52
12189043756	5 toos	too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too mountainous	53
12189111709	Malthus and Neo-MALTHUSIans	he believed agricultural was growing linearly and agricultural was growing exponentially	54
12189136818	Immigration	Migration to a new location	55
12189146304	Emmigration	Leaving a population	56
12189155017	Restrictive Government Policies	Governments may restrict entry into an industry, and this can slow or make it difficult for new entrants to set up business in the industry	57
12189130819	Green Revoultion	an effort to use modern techniques and technology to increase food production in poorer countries in 1960s. Involved HYVs, chemicals and technology.	58
12189161913	Eugenic Government Polocies	Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others	59
12189168847	Urbanization	An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.	60
12189172119	Epidemiological Transition Model	distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition	61
12189180752	Gravity Model		62
12189189473	Brain Drain	Large-scale emigration by talented people.	63
12189226607	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	64
12189226608	Chain Migration	migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there	65
12189231728	Ravenstein's Laws of Migration		66
12189269220	Cyclic Movement	movement away from home for a short period.	67
12189272437	periodic movement	movement away from home for a longer period.	68
12189276836	refugee	A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster	69
12189278824	Sunbelt	states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative	70
12189281612	Rustbelt	Urban areas in New England and Middle West characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles).	71
12189286544	push-pull factors	Conditions that draw people to another location (pull factors) or cause people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region (push factors)	72
12189286545	Remittances	Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries	73
12189333742	popular culture	Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.	74
12189340581	Folk Culture	Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.	75
12189348207	Assimilation	The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.	76
12189402216	time space compression	the rapid innovation of communication and transportation technologies associated with globalization that transforms the way people think about space and time	77
12189407757	Retorritorialization	the restructuring of a place or territory that has experienced deterritorialization	78
12189412335	Placeness	the loss of a place's unique flavor and identity because of the standardizing influence of popular culture and globalization	79
12189417675	standard language	The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.	80
12189431880	dialects	variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines	81
12189435880	Isogloss	A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.	82
12189446483	Language Families		83
12189458755	Divergence	The accumulation of differences between groups	84
12189463944	convergence	the state of separate elements joining or coming together	85
12189473158	Romance lanuages	Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese. Japanese.	86
12189537529	Lingua Franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages	87
12189473159	Germanic languages	Languages (English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) that reflect the expansion of peoples out of Northern Europe to the west and south	88
12189542611	pidgin language	A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.	89
12189551765	Creole language	a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in a place of the mother tongue	90
12189556070	Secularism	the principle of separation of the state from religious institutions.	91
12189569029	Syncretism	a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith	92
12189573677	universalizing religions	Christianity, Islam, Buddhism	93
12189573678	ethnic religion	Hindiusm, Judaism	94
12189621933	Sikism	a monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak.	95
12189637574	Shintoism	Religion located in Japan and related to Buddhism. Shintoism focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship.	96
12189637575	Jainism	a religion founded in India in the sixth century BC, whose members believe that everything in the universe has a soul and therefore shouldn't be harmed. Mahavira founded this religion.	97
12189646465	Taoism	A Chinese philosophy in which people live a simple life in harmony with nature.	98
12189652177	Feng Shui	a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy	99
12189668203	Diaspora	the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel	100
12189672228	minarets	Tower attached to a Muslim mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a crier calls Muslims to prayer.	101
12189676658	Secularism	A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.	102