Exam Review Questions Flashcards
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Malthus Theory-
Human population grows geometrically while food grows arithmetically
Average number of births a woman will bear in her lifetime
Total fertility rate
Most common Measure of population change is the
Natural increase rate
Ground truthing-
driving around to gather information for street navigational devices
Remote sensing
Gathering data about the earths surface from a satellite
Site
Physical characteristic of a place
Situation
Location of a place relative to another place
Arithmetic density-
Number of people divided by total land area
Agricultural density
Ratio of farmers to arable land
Physiological density
of people in to arable land
What religious group has been dispersed around the world for the last 2,000 years?
Jews
What does adversely mean?
Negativly
Net in migration =
Emigrations is less than immigration
Popular cultures varies
From time to time at a given place
Basque is primarily spoken in the
Pyrenees Mountains
Colin Renfee Alnoation hearth theory (sendentary farmer thesis) diffused through
pro kurgan migrators, diffused west into Europe
Habit=
Repitions of an act of an indivisual
Custom=
The frequent repition of an act until it is a characteristic of a group
Folk culture varies
Place to place at a given time
Contemporary geographer reject that…
The physical environment causes people to adapt to social customs
