Sudden drop in CDR due to technological innovation sudden drop in CDR due to change in social customs

Term 1 Final Flashcards by Allison Dail

Muslim cartographer

Muhammad al-Idrisi

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4 distortions of a map

Direction
Shape
Distance
Relative size

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Firstcountry to adopt time zones

New zealand

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Whatcountry moved the international date line in1997

Kiribati so it would be first country to see the sunrise

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Remote sensing:

Gathering data from long distance methods

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GIS

Stores layers of data to make more complex maps

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Toponym

Name given to place on earth

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Site

Physical charateristics of a place

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What ways is concentration described

Clustered

Dispersed

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2 types if pattern on distribution

Geometric or irregular

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Space time compression

Reduction of time it takes for something to reach another place

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Global culture and economy are centered in 3 regions

North america
Europe
Japan

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Sustainability

Use of earths renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that ensure resource and availability in the future

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Pillars of sustainability

Environment economy society

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Chinese father o cartography

Pei Xiu

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Types of climates

Tropical
Dry
Warm mid latitude
Cold mid lat. 
polar

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4 biggest pop concentrations

East asia
South asia
Southeast asia
Europe

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Sex ratio

Number of males per 100 females

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2 big breaks in DT

Sudden drop in CDR due to technological innovation

* sudden drop in CDR due to change in social customs

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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

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2 types of migration

International or internal

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What stage if DT do many emmigrate

Stage 2

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Russia migration

To the north bc soviet policy wanted factories up N toward raw materials

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Canada migration

East to west for gold

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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