APHG EXAM REVIEW

The downtown area where business retail and office activities are clustered

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

Attempt to destroy an ethnic or cultural group through mass killing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forces which tend to unite or bind a state together

The physical characteristics of a place

Right of a state to determine its own affairs

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

Maximum distance, people will travel for a good or service

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Countries in which more than one language is used

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Group of languages with shared origin but fairly distant origin.

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

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

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

Religion that doesn't seek new converts

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

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

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

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

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

Travel to a place considered sacred for religious purposes

Places that are designed for men or women only

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Three or more states joining agreement together for common purposes

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

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

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

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

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

Dividing an area by law into sections reserved for different purposes

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

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

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

A belief in one god or supreme being

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

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

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

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

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

Judging another culture based on preconceptions in their own culture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Migration to a new location

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

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

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

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

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

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