APHG EXAM REVIEW

Dividing an area by law into sections reserved for different purposes

Places that are designed for men or women only

A recognized metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people

Voting districts based on population as designated by its census taken every 10 years

Policies of colonial power which established political, economic, social, and territorial dominion over another state

The ranking of settlements, according to their size an economic functions

Which of the following best describes land-use patterns in the United States central land and west coast

The improvement in material conditions of a place as a result of diffusion of technology and knowledge

Pattern where countries have a period of high births and deaths followed by plunging death rates

Where people with a shared sexual identity cluster and how they create a place for themselves.

The large-scale emigration of talented citizens of a country who leave their countries to seek better opportunities

A systematic transformation of locations on the surface of a round 3D Earth on a flat piece of paper

A measure created by the UN that looks at gender disparities in education, health, and government positions

A center where cultures developed, and from which ideas on tradition spread outward

Designated areas of countries were governments, create conditions, conducive to export, oriented productio

An aggregate index of development which takes into account economic, social, and demographic factors using GDP

Voting district aligned we're all minority population and state is the majority population of that voting district

Three or more states joining agreement together for common purposes

A region where smaller and or weaker states may receive pressure for territory or resources from larger, powerful states

A map projection; shapes, sizes and landmasses shown accurately by cutting through oceans like and orange peel

A rural settlement in which the houses or situated close to each other and fields around the settlement

Arrangement of features in space; 3 main properties: density, concentration and pattern

Judging another culture based on preconceptions in their own culture

Maximum distance, people will travel for a good or service

Political boundary, which no longer exist, and may or may not be visible on the landscape

Used to determine the sex of a baby before it is born. This has been outlawed in some countries

Right of a state to determine its own affairs

The pattern of the causes of death that are tied to the DTM. Death is tied to famine and pestilence in Stages 1 & 2

The downtown area where business retail and office activities are clustered

The early 1700s through 1945 the military occupation of territory by an outside state for the purpose of controlling

Travel to a place considered sacred for religious purposes

Any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate (especially after war)

A compromise projection adopted that; minimized distortion in size, direction and distance (aesthetics)

A large piece of agricultural land devoted to the production of a single export, crop often a luxury crop

Belief that the physical geography and climate have the ultimate determining factor over success or failure of humans

The spread of an idea through physical movement or migration of people from one place or another

The ability to gain new information by making observations locally, regionally and globally.

Capital city moved by a state for strategic or economic purposes, and as a statement and action to its neighbors

Another term for shantytown or favelas, where poor people set up housing from available scraps or land they don't own

24 regions or divisions of the globe approximately coinciding with meridians at successive hours from Greenwich, England

A city generally considered to be an important node in the global economic, political, or cultural systems

The essential questions and intellectual framework that looks wear a specific phenomenon locates

The average # of years a person in a given country would live if mortality rates at each age were to remain constant

A belief in one god or supreme being

Forces which tend to unite or bind a state together

A person who is forced to migrate from his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution

The process of drawing new electoral district boundaries to match population changes

The dominant migration flow from countryside to city, especially in LDCs

Boundaries usually drawn in straight lines which follow lines of latitude or longitude

The economic growth and significance of cities like Dallas, spurred by major corporations, locating headquarters

A company that conducts research operates factories and sells products in many countries

Form of farming where farmers must work more intensively to subsist on a parcel of land

A 20th century revolution which 3 elements - mechanization, bio technology and integration of 1st, 2nd & 3rd activities

Religion that doesn't seek new converts

The land, behind, or surrounding a city, or central place, people from here, are attracted for goods and services

The general spread of ideas or material traits spread outward from the hearth and grows continuously larger

Boundaries which are drawn using physical features, such as rivers or mountains to delimit territory

Countries in which more than one language is used

A model of the internal structure of cities, in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes

A map that distorts the shapes and sizes of countries or other political regions to represent a particular phenomena

Attempt to destroy an ethnic or cultural group through mass killing

The parts of of the Earth's surface occupied by permanent settlement.

Boundary established, which has the cultural, political and social characteristics of the groups settled

A form of commercial farming which focuses on the development, distribution and sale of milk, cheese, etc.

Being able to maintain the needs of the present generation without compromising future generations

A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent data as average values per political unit area.

Religious movement which seeks a return to the basic foundations and guiding principles of the religions

The # of live births in a region per 1,000 people in the population

The science of obtaining information about objects or areas from a distance, typically from aircraft or satelites

A map where the size of a symbol varies depending on the frequency of the variable being studied

Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village, etc.

A model of the American city that suggests the existence of five concentric, land-use rings, arranged downtown area

The number of years needed to double a population, assuming constant rate of natural increase is the

A great spatial device for sea navigation that accurately shows shape and direction, but distorts distance and size

An economic geography, and central place theory, the minimum number of consumers needed to support the supply

Involves the provision of goods and services to people in exchange for payment, includes retailing, banking law, etc.

Area of a mixed industry and poor residential land, uses surrounding the CBD in concentric zone mode

The organized area which possesses government population and territory, recognized by the international community

The physical characteristics of a place

Migration to a new location

Group of languages with shared origin but fairly distant origin.

Movement of an individual who consciously decides to locate to a new area.

Area of geopolitical weakness, which is prone to states in the region, breaking into pieces and forming new states

A dead language that was once used but has no native speakers who use it daily.

Areas along or near transportation routes that are devoted to the research and sale of high technology products

Actions by government to increase the number of babies or a natural increase of a population

People who do not have a corresponding territorial control to where they live

The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected

Region that exists as an idea based on different traits to different people and is therefore hard to draw boundaries.

States which have a strong central government where power is distributed to geographical sub state units