Human Geography Vocabulary Pt 1

Question 1

What is CBR?

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Crude birth rate

Question 2

Footloose firms are firms that

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produce something that requires minimal transport costs

Question 3

A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people

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Folk Culture: Popular Culture

Question 4

What is a centripetal force?

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One language

Question 5

What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?

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Animism

Question 6

The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year

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GDP

Question 7

What is the heartland-rimland theory?

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The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands, is a theory made by Halford Mackinder

Question 8

What is the demographic transition model?

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It shows the link between population and economic growth

Question 9

Where did the Industrial Revolution start?

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England

Question 10

Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same

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Intervening opportunity

Question 11

A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid

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GIS

Question 12

What is the domino theory?

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A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists

Question 13

What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?

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Cultural diffusion

Question 14

A formal region is a region with...

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a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait

Question 15

A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted as a first language

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Creole

Question 16

What is imperialism?

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A country taking over another country by force

Question 17

When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland

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Irredentism

Question 18

What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?

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Colonialism

Question 19

Define absolute location

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The location using longitude and latitude ., The address of the location.

Question 20

The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad

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GNP

Question 21

The gerrymandering process is...

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Creating district boudaries to favor a political party

Question 22

Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger

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Third Agricultural Revolution, Green Revolution

Question 23

What is the dependency ratio?

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People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65

Question 24

Type of government power split between central and local governments:Type of government w/ local government in power

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United States: Canada, Federal: Confederate

Question 25

What does DC and LDC stand for?

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DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries

Question 26

An exclave is a....

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Completely enclosed within the border of another country

Question 27

A relatively large urban area situated on the outskirts of a city, typically beside a major road.

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Edge City

Question 28

What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?

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Agribusiness

Question 29

The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society

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Heirachical diffusion

Question 30

What is a tangible piece of material culture?

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Artifact

Question 31

What is assimilation?

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Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society

Question 32

Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them

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Distance decay

Question 33

What is the hinterlands?

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The surrounding trade area of an urban area

Question 34

The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others

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Ethnocentrism

Question 35

The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same

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Doubling time

Question 36

What is an example of a dialect?

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A Spanish speaker speaks English with a Spanish accent

Question 37

What is decolonization?

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Former colonies gain independence from their home country

Question 38

Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors

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EPZs

Question 39

What does CBD stand for?

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Central Business District

Question 40

What type of sector has goods and services produced for individuals outside the urban work area

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Basic

Question 41

Define antecedent boundary

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Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed

Question 42

What is a country going through deindustrialization?

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United States

Question 43

What is environmental determinism?

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The environment controls human behavior

Question 44

Who created the concentric zone model?

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Burgess

Question 45

The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class

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Gentrification

Question 46

In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?

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First Agricultural Revolution, Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

Question 47

When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?

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Agglomeration

Question 48

What is the gravity model?

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Larger places attract more attention than smaller places, A single man will move to a city with 10000 people

Human Geography Vocabulary Pt 1

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Human Geography Vocabulary Pt 1

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