Unit 1 Flashcards
What elements of study does human and physical geography have in common?
They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do.
In science, the term “theory” is?
a scientific opinion
Scale is?
The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape
A system for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is
projection
The acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method is ?
remote sensing
A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is?
GIS
The science of making maps is
cartography
Situation identifies a place by its
location relative to other objects.
Site identifies a place by its?
unique physical characteristics
An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics is a
region
This is the earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507
Amerigo
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One important feature of the world’s population with the most significant future implications is that
the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries.
Geographers define overpopulation as
too many people compared to environmental capacity.
Physiological density is the number of
people per area suitable for agriculture.
The most common measure of density, the number of people per area of land, is known as ________ density.
population
Arranging a country’s population along a bar graph representing ages and genders creates a population ________
pyramid
The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is called?
total fertility rate
Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition is characterized by a high ________ rate
natural increase
Counter-urbanization is?
migration to rural areas and small towns
Counter-urbanization is?
migration to rural areas and small towns
Refugees migrate primarily because of which type of push factor?
political
Immigration means?
migration into a country.
A lingua franca is?
language understood by people who have different native languages
A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a
Language family
A group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a?
language branch
A(n) ________ is one that is unrelated to any other language, thus it cannot be connected to any language family.
isolated language
The intentional killing of large sums of people targeted because of their ethnicity, political ideology, religion, or culture is called?
genocide
Give the most common example of a religion that is NOT a universal religion?
Judaism
The Eight Fold Path belongs to which religion?
Buddhism
The largest sect of Islam is?
Sunni
______ refers to a population whose members identify with each other based on real or presumed shared ancestry
Ethnicity
Mecca is considered the ________ of Islam because it originated there.
Hearth
