Shared Flashcard Set

Details

AP Human Geography final
Semester 1 vocab
63
Geography
10th Grade
12/12/2010

Additional Geography Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Hearth
Definition
Place where an idea originates from
Term
Scale
Definition
The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size it is on the earth's surface
Term
Small scale
Definition
Depicts a large area with not a lot of detail
Term
Large Scale
Definition
depicts a small area with a lot of detail
Term
Cartography
Definition
the science of map making
Term
Projection
Definition
The system used to place an location on the earth's surface onto a flat map
Term
site
Definition
The physical characteristics of a place
Term
Situation
Definition
Where a place is relative to other places (relative location)
Term
Environmental determinism
Definition
How the physical environment caused human activity
Term
Possibilisim
Definition
The theory that the physical environment can put a limit on human activity but humans can find a way around them "humans conquers land instead of land conquering humans"
Term
Distribution
Definition
The arrangement of something across the earth
Term
Density
Definition
Shows the frequency of something occurring across the earths surface (like humans)
Term
Arithmetic density
Definition
Number of humans divided by total land area
Term
Physiological density
Definition
Number of people divided by amount of arable land
Term
Agricultural density
Definition
Number of farmers divided by the amount of arable land
Term
Pattern
Definition
The geometric or regular arrangement of something
Term
Relocation Diffusion
Definition
Spread of something through physical movement, doesn't have to grow in numbers
Term
Expansion Diffusion
Definition
Movement in a "snowball" effect. growing in numbers
Term
Hierarchal diffusion
Definition
Spread starting from the "top of the chain" such as with a government official then slowly down to average people
Term
Contagious Diffusion
Definition
Rapid, widespread diffusion of something. like a sickness
Term
Stimulus Diffusion
Definition
A spread of an underlying thought even thought a specific characteristic is rejected, such as the Apple computer, the old versions are out but the idea is still hot
Term
Formal(uniform) Region
Definition
Everyone shares distinct characteristics
Term
Functional(nodal) Region
Definition
Area organized around a focal point
Term
Vernacular Region
Definition
(look up)
Term
Clustered concentration
Definition
Close together
Term
Dispersed concentration
Definition
far apart
Term
Culture
Definition
customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a group
Term
Acculturation
Definition
Spread of traits from one culture to another
Term
Over population
Definition
having to many people and to little resources
Term
Carrying capacity
Definition
The largest number of people of a certain area that the environment can support
Term
Doubling time
Definition
Time it takes for a population to double
Term
Four most over populated areas
Definition
East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Term
Four least populated areas
Definition
Dry land, Wet land, High land, Cold lands
Term
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
Definition
The average number of children a women will have in her child birthing years
Term
Infant mortality rate
Definition
The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old
Term
Life expectancy
Definition
The number of years a human is expected to live
Term
Crude Birth rate (CBR)
Definition
total number of births a year for every 1000 people alive
Term
Crude death rate
Definition
Number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive
Term
Natural increase rate (NIR)
Definition
CBR-CDR
Term
Malthus
Definition
states that the world will get wiped out due to over population, starvation and disease, but mainly lack of food and resources.
Term
Demographic transition
Definition
Change in a society from High birth rates and low death rates to low CBR and high CDR (see stages 1,2,3,4 and 5)
Term
Dependency ratio
Definition
Number of people under 16 and over 64 compared to the working class
Term
Ecumene
Definition
The portion of land that is permanently occupied by humans
Term
Sex ratio
Definition
number of males to every 100 females
Term
Zero population growth
Definition
CDR and CBR is even
Term
Emigration
Definition
Movement out of an area
Term
immigration
Definition
movement into a area
Term
Push factor
Definition
a reason/ factor that pushes people out of an area
Term
Pull factor
Definition
a reason/factor that pulls people into a area
Term
Brain drain
Definition
Large scale movement of talented people
Term
Internal migration
Definition
stays in the same country/area (movement from new york to florida)
Term
International migration
Definition
movement to or from a diffrent continent (United states to china)
Term
Guest workers
Definition
Workers who migrate to more developed country's to get jobs and work
Term
Popular culture (pop culture)
Definition
Found in large heterogeneous society's, shares certain habits even thought different personal characteristics. the hearth is most often from a MDC
Term
Folk culture
Definition
found in small homogeneous society's, rural and isolated from others. no particular hearth
Term
Dialect
Definition
Distinguished by pronunciation, spelling and vocabulary
Term
Ten most spoken languages?
Definition
Mandarin, English, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, German
Term
Ideograms
Definition
Where the spelling and pronunciation are different (Mandarin)
Term
Universalizing religions
Definition
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism
Term
Ethnic religions
Definition
Judaism, Hinduism,
Term
Relative location
Definition
position of something on earths surface compared to another thing (ex. my house is next to 18th street)
Term
Absolute location
Definition
Describing a exact location/position on of something on the earths surface
Term
Eugenics
Definition
The study on how to "wipe out" a certain characteristic of humans. (nazis trying to "cleanse" the Jewish and gypsy's)
Supporting users have an ad free experience!