Term 1 Final Flashcards
Muslim cartographer
Muhammad al-Idrisi
4 distortions of a map
Direction
Shape
Distance
Relative size
Firstcountry to adopt time zones
New zealand
Whatcountry moved the international date line in1997
Kiribati so it would be first country to see the sunrise
Remote sensing:
Gathering data from long distance methods
GIS
Stores layers of data to make more complex maps
Toponym
Name given to place on earth
Site
Physical charateristics of a place
What ways is concentration described
Clustered
Dispersed
2 types if pattern on distribution
Geometric or irregular
Space time compression
Reduction of time it takes for something to reach another place
Global culture and economy are centered in 3 regions
North america
Europe
Japan
Sustainability
Use of earths renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that ensure resource and availability in the future
Pillars of sustainability
Environment economy society
Chinese father o cartography
Pei Xiu
Types of climates
Tropical Dry Warm mid latitude Cold mid lat. polar
4 biggest pop concentrations
East asia
South asia
Southeast asia
Europe
Sex ratio
Number of males per 100 females
2 big breaks in DT
- Sudden drop in CDR due to technological innovation
* sudden drop in CDR due to change in social customs
Ravensteins 2 laws for distance in relation to migrants
Migrants relocate a short distance and remain in same country
Long distance migrants to other countries head for economic centers
2 types of migration
International or internal
What stage if DT do many emmigrate
Stage 2
Russia migration
To the north bc soviet policy wanted factories up N toward raw materials
Canada migration
East to west for gold
China migration
Interior to east coast for jobs
Brazil migration
Moved capital to interior for more populated interior captial
Urbanization
Rural to urban
Suburbanization
Urban to suburbs
Counterurbanization
Urban to rural
Intervening obstacle
Environmental or political feature that hinders migration
Political intervening obstacle
Nedding of passport or visas
Preferences of migrants
Family reunification
Skilled workers
Diversity
Brain drain
Large scale emmigration by talented people
Ethnicity
Group of people who share cultural traditions of certain homeland or hearth
Race
Group of peope who share biological ancestor
3 most numerous ethnicities
Asian american
Hispanic american
African american
Where are hispanics clustered in us
Southwest
Where are african americans clustered
Southeast
Where are asian americans clustered
West
Blockbusting
Real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their house at low prices then selling to black families at high prices
Key parts of apartheid system
When baby is born it is either black white colored or asian and each race has a social status that determines their oath in life
When was apartheid created
1652
When did british seize dutch colony if S africa
1795
When afrikaner nationalist party take control if s africa
1948
When were apartheid laws repealed
1991
What happenede in 1994 in s africa
All s africans were allowed to vote in national elections and mandela was elected as black president
Centripetal forces:
Attidues that tend to unify people and enhance support for a state
Religions of lebanon
Druze
Muslims
Maronites
Greek orthodox
How did lebanons govt solve religion problem
Each religion was to be represented in the chamber of deputies according to last census
President was a
Maronite chrisitan
Premier was a
Sunni muslim
Speaker if chamber of deputies was a
Shiite muslim
Foreign minister was a
Greek orthodox christian
How has pop of lebanan changed since 1943
Muslim have become majority and demand equality
Ethnicites if sri lanka
Sinhalese
Tamils
Moors
What relig is sinhalese
Buddhism
What relig is tamils
Hinduism
Where are ethnicites in sri lanka
Sinhalese is S 2/3 of island
Tamils is N 1/3 of island
What lang fam is tamil lang in
Dravidian
What lang fam is sinhalese in
Indo european-indo iranian branch
What happended in 1948 for sri lanka
Sri lanka gained independence
What ethnicity in sri lanka is mad
Tamils
When britsh colony in s asia broke up how ws it divided
India for hindus pakistan for muslims
How was pakistan split
West and east pakistan that became to bangladesh
What happened to many if refugees as they travelled
Many were killed by rivalling relig as they crossed the border
Problems of kurds
Were going to get kurdistan by 1920 treaty of sèvres but turks expanded turkey first by treaty of lausanne now in many countries and their culture is trying to be smushed
5 nationalites of yugoslavia
Croats macedonians montenegrens serbs and slovenes
Four langs of yugoslavia
Croatian macedonian serbian slovene
Three religions of yugoslavia
Roman catholic orthodox and islam
2 alphabets of yugoslavia
Roman alphabet and cyrillic
What country controlled kosovo
Serbia
What ethnic group lives in kosovo
Albanians 90%
Balkanization
Process by which a state breaks downthrough conflict among ethnicites
Sudan conflict
Civil wars between arab muslim and other ethnicities
Black chrisitan and animist opposed muslim traditions in 1 nationality society
Split into s sudan and fought iver boundaries
Ethiopia and eritrea conflict
Ethiopia won eritrea when it became own state and dissolved eritreas govt and banned its mist common lang
2 groups civil war and many eritrea fled to sudan
Somalia conflict
Sunni muslims
Dictatorship that ran country collapsed and clans claimed land
Refugees caused disputes
