Flash Cards Assignment

Question 0

Human geography

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One of two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human population, it’s cultures, activities, and landscapes.

Question 1

Fieldwork

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

Question 2

Physical geography

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One of two major divisions of systematic geography, The spatial analysis of the structure, processes and location of the earths natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals and topography.

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Medical geography

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The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective. Among other things medical geography looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases.

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Five themes

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Developed by the geography educational national implementation project, the five themes of geography are location, human- environment,region, place, and movement.

Question 5

Globalization

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The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The processes of globalization transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that very across places and scales.

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Cultural landscapes

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The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the Landscape. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifact sequentially imprinted on the landscape by activities of various human occupants.

Question 7

Absolute location

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The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0 to 90 north or south of the equator, and longitude, 0 to 180 east or west of the prime meridian passing through Greenwich, England.

Question 8

Relative location

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The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places. Distance, accessibility, and connectivity affect relative location.

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Mental map

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Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual’s perception, impression, and knowledge of that space.

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Formal region

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A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; also called uniform region or homogeneous region.

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Functional region

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A region defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it.

Question 12

Perceptual region

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A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity. For example in the U.S, “the South” and “the Mid-Atlantic region” are perceptual regions.

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Culture complex

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A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils.

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Cultural diffusion

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The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area.

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Distance decay

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The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less the interaction.

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Cultural barrier

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Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unavailable or unadoptable in that particular culture.

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Relocation diffusion

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Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones. The most common form of relocation diffusion involves the spreading of innovations by a migrating population.

Question 18

Cultural ecology

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The multiple interaction and relationships between the culture and the natural environment.

Question 19

Political ecology

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An approach to studying nature-society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect, and are the result of, the political and socioeconomic context in which they are situated.

Question 20

Population density

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A measurement of the bomber if people per given unit of land.

Question 21

Population distribution

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Descriptions of locations on the earths surface where populations live.

Question 22

Dot map

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Maps where one dot represents a certain number of phenomenon, such as population.

Question 23

Total fertility rate

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The average number of children born to a women during her childbearing years.

Question 24

Doubling time

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The time required for a population to double its time.

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Population explosion

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The rapid growth of worlds human population during the past century, attended by ever shorter doubling times and accelerated rates of increase.

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Population pyramid

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Visual representations of age and sex composition of a pup,ulceration whereby the percentage of each age group is represented by a horizontal bar the length of which represents it’s relationship to the total population. The males in each age group are represented to the left of the center line of each horizontal bar; the females of each age group are represented to the right of the center line.

Question 27

Infant mortality rate

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A figure that describes the number of babies that die within the first years of their lives in a given population.

Question 28

Life expectancy

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A figure indication how long, on average, a person may be expected to live. Normally expressed in the context of particular state.

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Chronic diseases

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Generally long-lasting afflictions now more common because of higher life expectancies.

Question 30

Genetic diseases

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Diseases caused by variations or mutation of a gene or a group of genes in a human.

Question 31

Expansive population policies

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Government policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth.

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Eugenic population policies

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Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others.

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Remittances

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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.

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Reverse remittances

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Money sent from other countries to the U.S.

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Cyclic movement

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Movement- for example, nomadic migration- that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally.

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Periodic movement

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Movement- for example, college attendance or military service- that involves temporary, recurrent location.

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Migration

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A change in residence intended to be permanent.

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Forced migration

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Human migration flows in which movers have no choice but to relocate.

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Voluntary migration

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Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they are forced to move.

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Gravity model

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A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them.

Question 41

Push factors

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Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and induce people to move to a new locale.

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Pull factors

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Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas.

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Step migration

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Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city.

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Deportation

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The act of a government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrants home country.

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Kinship links

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Types of push factors or pull factors that influence a migrants decision to go where family or friends have found success.

Question 46

Immigration wave

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Phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination.

Question 47

Islands of development

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Place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentration of paying jobs and infrastructure.