40 Matching Questions

Question 1

Physical map

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Shows the physical landscape features of a place. They generally show things like mountains rivers and lakes and water is usually shown with blue. Usually shown with different colors and shades to show topography

Question 2

Census

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A complete enumeration of a population.

Question 3

Physiological population density

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The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is suitable for agriculture

Question 4

Spatial distribution

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The physical location of geographic phenomena across space

Question 5

Political map

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Focuses solely on the state and National boundaries of a place. They usually include the locations of cities - both large and small, depending on the detail of the map.

Question 6

Cartography

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The science or practice of drawing Maps.

Question 7

Total fertility rate (TFR)

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The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years.

Question 8

Natural increase rate (NIR)

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The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate (NIR=CBR-CDR)

Question 9

Crude birth rate (CBR)

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The number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society

Question 10

Hearth

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The area where an idea or cultural trait originates

Question 11

Perceptual regions

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Defined by how the areas are perceived. Reflect people’s feelings and emotions towards an area.

Question 12

Functional regions

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Define by a system of interactions. Organized around a specific function (transportation, import/export)

Question 13

Climate map

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Shows information about the climate of an area; like the specific climate zones based on the temperature, the amount of snow in area receives or average number of cloudy days. These Maps normally use colors to show different climate areas.

Question 14

Carrying capacity

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The number of living beings people that a specific area can support. i.e SDS can only hold/accommodate so many people, it has a carrying capacity. Once reached changes must be made to space, resources, and accessibility

Question 15

LDC

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Less developed countries. Average a couple years of schooling; a 60% literacy rate; healthier populations; and a life expectancy in the 60s
Regions: Latin America
East Asia
Middle East
Southeast Asia
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa

Question 16

Stimulus diffusion

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Occurs when the Innovative idea diffuses from it’s heart outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters. (Christianity and its many sects Protestant Baptist Catholic etc.) Different menu items from McDonald’s around the world.

Question 17

Population density

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A measurement of the number of people per given unit of land

Question 18

Stable population level

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A population which has constant mortality and fertility rates, and no migration, therefore a fixed age distribution and constant growth rate

Question 19

Census

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The scientific study of population characteristics

Question 20

Industrial revolution

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A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and drastically altered Society

Question 21

Hierarchical diffusion

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Occurs when the diffusion Innovation or concepts friends from a place or person of power or high susceptibility to another in a leveled pattern. Fashion, fads, trends, etc. Many people cutting their hair the way Taylor Swift did.

Question 22

Sustainability

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The level of development that can be maintained without depleting resources.
Mostly related to natural resources and geography

Question 23

23.

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The idea that successive societies leave their cultural imprint on a place and each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape

Question 24

Thomas Malthus

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(1766-1834) An English economists to argue that increases in population would outgrow increases in food production, which would lead to widespread famine and disease.

Question 25

Infant mortality rate

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The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old per 1,000 live births in a society

Question 26

Relocation diffusion

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Involve the actual movement of the original adopters from their point of origin, or hearth, to a new place i.e. spread of Christianity, when people moved and brought it with

Question 27

Scale

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A representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. i.e. on maps the ratio of ground distance to map distance

Question 28

Population pyramid

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A bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex

Question 29

Road map

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A map that depicts roads, routes, highways, major and minor cities, as well as airports and points of interest

Question 30

Contagious diffusion

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Occurs when numerous places or people near the point of origin become adopters (or infected, in the case of a disease) Hinduism spreading throughout the Indian subcontinent

Question 31

Fieldwork

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The study of phenomena by visiting places in observing how people interact with and thereby change those places

Question 32

Demographic transition

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The process of change in a society’s population as a combination of medical advances and economic development, affecting a population’s desire and ability to control its own birth and death rates

Question 33

MDC (more developed countries)

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More developed countries. Average 10 years of schooling; a 98% literacy rate; sicker populations; and life expectancy in the 70s.
Regions:
North America
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Japan
South Pacific

Question 34

Topographic map

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Show different physical landscape features. They use contour lines instead of colors to show changes in the landscape

Question 35

Economic or resource map

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Shows the specific type of economic activity or natural resources present in an area through the use of different symbols or colors

Question 36

Thematic map

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Focuses on a particular theme or special topic. They are different from the six affirmation General reference Maps because they do not just show natural features like rivers, cities, political subdivisions, elevation and highways. If these items are on a thematic map, they are background information and are used as a reference point to enhance the maps theme. i.e. WW11 maps, a map of the Industrial Revolution etc.

Question 37

Population distribution

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Description of locations on Earth’s surface where populations live

Question 38

Arithmetic density

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The total number of people divided by the total land area

Question 39

Crude death rate (CDR)

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The number of deaths year per 1,000 people in a society

Question 40

Zero population growth (ZPG)

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A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero