Actual test 123 IMA FUCKING KILL MYSELF STUPID BITCHES STUPID FUCKS HATE LIFE Flashcards
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Fieldwork
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Going out into fields and observing and stuff
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Kenya
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a poor country, malnourished
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Human geography
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focusing on how people make places and shape their land
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globalization
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Increasing connects of culture, economical, political,
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Physical Geography
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study of spatial and material characteristics of physical enviroment
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Medical Geography
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Getting information about the field of medicine through the geography
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What did Dr John Snow do?
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He mapped the cases of Cholera, a disease that causes diarrhea and found that it was a water transmitted disease
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FIve themes of human geography?
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Location, human environmental interaction, region, place, and movement
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Location (theme)
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Highlights how the geographical position of people and things on Earth’s surface affects what happens and why
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Location Theory
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a logical explanation for the location patterns of economic activites
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Human- environmental interaction (theme)
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How humans interact with the environment
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Region (theme)
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Distinct features that are concentrated in different areas
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Place (theme)
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Everywhere there is a distinct trait
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Sense of trait
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Infusing a place with emotion and meaning
because of this we can have a feeling of home
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Perception of places
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A place we have never been to yet we have a general understanding because of the books, movies and stuff that we watch.
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Movement (theme)
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the mobility of people, goods and ideas
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landscape
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Refers to the material characteristics of a place
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Cultural landscape
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the visible human imprint on the landscape. Most geographers are concerned about this
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Sequent occupance
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The group that continues to arrive to a place and bring their tech and stuff
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Cartography
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art and science of making maps
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Reference maps
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Show locations and geographic features.
Show the absolute location of places
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Thematic maps
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Displays spatial patterns of places and uses quantitative data
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GPS
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Global positioning system, more of a tells you where to go
gives absolute location
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relative location
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describes the location of the place in relation to other human and physical features
“chicago is on lake michigan south of Milwaukee.”
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absolute location
the empire state building is located at 40.1 blah blah blah
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Mental maps
Maps in our head, can be places we been or places we heard of
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Activity spaces
places we have been
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Terra incognita
Driving pass a school u never been to know the location but dont know the details
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Generalized maps
see general trends
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GIS
Geographic information systems gives data about a place doesnt rilly give absolute locaiton however it shows trends
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What are the sccales
local regional national global
we see different patterns at each scale
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Formal Region
has a shared trait, either physical or cultural. a predominate trait
In a formal region people share one or more cultural traits.
Uniform
specific attributes
rocky mountains
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Functional region
also known as nodal regions
organzied around a node (or center point)
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Perceptual Region
Things that they think based on their accumlated knowledge
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Cultural trait
a single attribute of a culture
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Culture complex
a distinct combination of cultural traits
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cultural hearth
a place wgere a cultural trait develops and from which cultural traits diffuse
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Time distance decay
the farther away something is the less communication
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Expansion Diffusion
An innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while spreading outwards
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hierarchical diffusion
Diffuses from the ppl with most connections
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Contagious diffsuion
Spreads from person to person
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Stimulus diffusion
when an idea diffuses outwards but tweaked
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Relocaition diffsuion
People spreading the idea based on where they move
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Environmental Determinism
Human behavior is strongly affected even controlled by the physical environment
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Possiblism
humans can adapt with tech
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Politcal ecology
the politics ruining enviroment
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Demography
The study of population in general perspective
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Population density
Total population relative to land size
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Arithmetic Population Density
total number of people divided by total area of place
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China
Overpopulated improving infrastructure
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Physiological population density figure
people per unit of arable land
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Arith vs Phsy
this can reveal the arable land ratio to all land
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Population distributions
the arrangement of people on the earth's surface
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Dot maps
each dot represents a certain amoung of people
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where do people normally cluster?
Near bodies of water.
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Megalopolis
Huge urban agglomerations.
New york, Los angeles e
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census
Counting the population and people of a country
count of population
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what did Paul Ehrilich say
Population bomb- the worlds population was increasing too fast and was outpacing food production
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What did Thomas Malthus say
He published an essay on the principles of population. In this he said the world was producing faster tham the supplies needed to sustain. He stated that food supplies grow linearly while population grew exponentianlly
Esther Boserup was a prominent critic of mathus who advocated the cornucopian theory
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Neo-Malthusians focus on what
Neo malthus say that over-population is a real problem and must be addressed now.
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Natural increase
Total births - deaths
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when do demographers believe our population will stablize
between 2050-2100 and around 10 billion people
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TFR
Total Fertility Levels - replacement level is atleast 2.1 TFR
The TFR reports the average number of children born to a woman of childnbearing age
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what happens in predomintly woman suprssed coutnries
HIGHER TFR BC WOMAN WONT HAVE RIGHTS THERE AND STUFF
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Old-Age dependency ratio
Reports the relationship between the number of people over the age of 65 and the working age population between 15-64
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Child dependency ratio
Opposite of old age
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What are some ways to keep TFR down
Forced sterilziation- what was done in india
Laws- China
Fines- China
Medical stuff like abortion and contraceptives
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CBR
Crude Birth rate - the number of live births per year per thousand people in population
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CDR
Crude Death Rate - the number of deaths per year per thousand people
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Industiral revolution what happened
After:
- lower death rates
- population explosion
because of the better medical and tech
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Demographic transition
A shift of high birth and death rates to low birth and death
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The model of the demographic cycle
Stage 1: Low growth
Stage 2: Increasing growth
Stage 3: Population explosion
Stage 4: Decresing growth
Stage 5: Declining population
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Stationary Population Growth
A point where countries will stop growing
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Population Pyramids
Show us the age and perecent of population
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IMR
Infant Mortality Rate - death of babys in the first year following its birth normally given as per 1 thousand
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CMR
Child Mortality Rate- records the death of children between age 1-5 and this remains rilly high in africa and asia
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Category of Disease
Infectious
Chronic/Degeneartive
Gentetic/Inherited
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Infectious (Disease)
Resulting from an invasion of parasites and their multiplication in the body
malaria
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Chronic/Degenerative
the maladies of longevity and old age
Heart disease
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Genetic/Inherited
Tracing back to acnestry in our DNA
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Endemic
Small area
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Epidemic
Large region
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Pandemic
Global
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Vectored disease
someone who transfers through an intermediary
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novectored
host and victim contact
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Expansive Population Policies
Encourages familes to raise babies increase natural rates
China under mao zedong and soviet union
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Eugenic population Policies
Desgined to favor one race or culture over the other
Nazi Germany
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REstrictive population policies
reducing increase by toleration of unapproved birth control or a prohibition of large familes
Chinas one child policy
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Remmittances
Money that is sent home
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reverse remmitance
Mexico to the US
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Emigration
moving out
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Immagration
moving in
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Cyclic movement
Involves shorter regular trips away from home for defined amounts of time
seasonal
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Periodic movement
involves movement for a longer period away from home undertaken from time to time
Migrant labor
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Migration
Permanent move
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commuting
the journey from home to work is also cylic
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Transhumance
a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability.
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Internal migration
movement across a countries borders
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International migration
movement across countries borders
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Forced Migration
involves the impostion of authroity or power, producing involunatry movement that cannot be understood based on theories of choice
war
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Volunary migration
occurs after a migrant weighs options and choices
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Ernst Ravenstien proposed laws of migration
1. Every migrant flow generates a return or counter migration
2. the majority of migrants move a short distance
3. migrants who move longer distances tend to choose biig-city destinations
4. Urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas
5. Familes are less likely to make interantional moves than young adults
6. Migrants proceeds step by step
7. Large cities/towns grow more by migration than by natural birth
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Gravity Model
Predicts interactions between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them.
Increases as the size and importance of places become greater and decreases as the distance between them grow
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Push factors and pull factors
Push: poverty
Pull: Job prospects
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Step migration
moving step by step like form town to large city or smthign
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Intervening Opportunities
Opportunities that stop people form making their entire route
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Deportation
being sent back home from a country
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Kinship Links
types of push or pull factors
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Chain migration
Where a family member migrates to family
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Immgration waves
chains migration built upon each other
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Colonization
Physical process whereby colonzing entity takes over another place
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Russification
Assimilate all the people in the soviet territory into the russian culture
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Refugee
A person who has a well founded fear of being persecuted for reason of race, religion, nationality, membership, of a particular social group, or political opinion
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Internally displaces person
people who have been displaced within their own country such as victims of huriccan katrina but do not flee their country
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Asylum
Eligible when he meets official criteria. The right of protection in the first country in which the refugee arrvies
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Repatriation
Retuning refugees to their homeland when violence is finished
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where do refugees msotly go
North afria southwest asian and subsharan africa
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Selective immgration
only individuals with certain backgrounds can come here
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Distortions with 3 map to 2 D Mercator
little distorition with sizes at pole super distorted
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Robinson
good across oceans but landmass is smaller
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Goode
interruptions
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Qualitive data
Information in word form often up for discussion
how good lunch is
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Quantative data
number form objective
census
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Time space compression
The reduction of time bc of tech
