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HUMAN GEO UNIT TEST Flashcards

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age distribution

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the proportionate numbers of persons in successive age categories in a given area

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agricultural density

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farmers per unit area of farmland/arable (less farmers = more developed because working on other jobs)

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arable land

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farmable land

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arithmetic density

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Arithmetic Density = Total Population / Total Land Area. (MR NEWELL NO LIKEY)

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census

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Survey of an area/
A census counts the population of a nation, state, or other geographic region. It records information about the population’s characteristics (such as age, sex, and occupation).

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child mortality rate

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How many deaths in 1000 small children (Under five)

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clusters

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a localized anomaly, usually an excess of something given the distribution or variation of something else. Often it is considered as an incidence rate that is unusual in that there is more of some variable than might be expected. (BY NILE)

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contraception

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NO BABIES (ONE BABY POLICY CHINA)

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crude death rate (CDR)

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total number of deaths in a year/every 1,000 people

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crude birth rate (CBR)

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total number of births in a year/every 1,000 people

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demographic transition

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Process of change in a society’s population (STAGES.)

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demography

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The study of population characteristics (age, gender, jobs)

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doubling time

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THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES FOR A POPULATION TO DOUBLE IN SIZE

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ecumene/non-ecumene

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AMOUNT OF LIVABLE AREA OF LAND ORRRR AREA OF LAND PEOPLE DONT LIVE

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epidemiological transition

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focuses on health threats in demographic transitions (pg. 64)

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infant mortality rate (IMR)

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life expectancy (longevity
rate)

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THE AMOUNT OF TIME A PERSON IS EXPECTED TO LIVE

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Malthus, Thomas

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Said world population (exponential growth) was outnumbering resource/development of food (arithmetic growth)

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Medical Revolution

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SANITATION CREATION

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natalism (pro- and anti-)

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PRO MEDALS MORE BABIES MORE GOOD ORRRR ANTI LESS BABIES IS BETTER

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natural increase rate (NIR,
RNI)

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Percentage by which a population grows in a year

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Neo malthusians

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MODERN DAY THOMAS MALTHUS (fear population will overtake food resources)

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physiological density

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The physiological density or real population density is the number of people per unit area of arable land. (How sustainable the land is)

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total fertility rate (TFR)

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The total fertility rate in a specific year is defined as the total number of children that would be born to each woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years and give birth to children in alignment with the prevailing age-specific fertility rates.

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zero population growth
NO GROWTH
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Aristotle
Proved the Earth was round
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Erastothenes
First to use the term geography, found circumference of the earth
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Ptolemy
Wrote the Atlas (Guide to Geography)
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GPS
Global-Positioning-System
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Geotagging
Identification and storage, info, latitude and longitude coordinates
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GIS
Captures, stores, displays geographic data more accurate than drawn by hand
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GIScience
Data from the satellite
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Remote Sensing
Scans earth's surface, transmits into digital image/form
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Mashup
overlaying data into a map
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Map Scale
Relationship of a feature's size on a map to it's actual size on Earth (EARTH COMPARED TO MAP) (Three types - Ratio, Written, Graphic)
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Goode Homolosine
squiggle map - equal area projection
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Robinson
oval rectangle map - uninterrupted projection BUT land areas are too small
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Mercator
square map - Accurate shapes/directions BUT distorted towards poles
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Meridian
North south longitude
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Parallel
East west latitude
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Prime Meridian
Greenwich/0 degrees/180 degrees on opposite side
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GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
Reference time, points on earth
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Toponym
Name of a place
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Site
Physical characteristics of a given area
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Situation
Places relative to the location
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Formal Region
Characterized by definite boundaries/called uniform region area where people have common characteristics (Language)
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Functional Region
Based around a focal point/node/called nodal region connected to central point by transportation, communication, economic
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Vernacular Region
People believe they exist based on cultural identity/perceptual region (south)
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Culture
What people care about/what people take care of (pg. 18)
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Qualitative Data
Examines cultural or regional geography
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Quantitative Data
Uses mathematical techniques to find numerical data
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Idiographic
Facts for place or region (different)
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Nomothetic
Universally applicable (same)
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Cartography
Making maps
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International Date Line
Imaginary line (one calendar day from the next)
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Distance decay
Distance increases = less connection
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Friction-of-distance
effects from distance between region
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Space-time compression
Feels like reduction in space because of technology
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Hearth
Place in which an innovation or cultural change originates from
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Relocation diffusion
when a group moves place to place and gives a characteristic
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Hierarchical diffusion (expansion)
Authority spreads ideas to lower people
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Contagious diffusion (expansion)
Widespread characteristic from one focal point/spreads evenly
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Stimulus diffusion (expansion)
Fails initially in place then changes to succeed (McDonalds)
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DT Stage 1 - low growth
Very high CBR, very high CDR, low NIR
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DT Stage 2 - high growth
High CBR, rapidly declining CDR, very high NIR
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DT Stage 3 - moderate growth
Rapidly declining CBR, moderately declining CDR, moderate NIR
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DT Stage 4 - low growth
Very low CBR, low or slightly increasing CDR, 0 or negative NIR
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Population pyramid
Bar graph outside thingy
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Dependency ratio
of people too young or old to work compared to the people in the working age
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epidemiology
branch of medical science concerned with incidents distribution, and control of diseases in a population
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ET Stage 1 - pestilence and famine
Infectious and PARASITIC disease (Bubonic plague, HANDS, FLEA, people + animals attack)
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ET Stage 2 - Receding pandemics
Diseases that occur widespread PANDEMIC disease (Covid)
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ET Stage 3 - Degenerative Diseases
Decrease in deaths from infectious diseases, but increase in chronic disorders associated with aging (cardiovascular disease, CANCER!)
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ET Stage 4 - Delayed Degenerative Disease (BUT NOT DISEASE)
Through medical advancements life expectancy of older people is extended
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ET Stage 5
Diseases come back
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cultural ecology
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distance-decay
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friction of distance
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formal region
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Gravity Model
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Mercator projection
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custom
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globalization
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creole
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dialect
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Indo-European
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isogloss
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isolated language
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language branch
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language family
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language group
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lingua franca
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literary tradition
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national language
Language spoken by a large part of the population of a country, which may or may not be designated an official language
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pidgin
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slang
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standard language
a variety of language that is used by governments, in the media, in schools and for international communication.
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syntax
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brain drain/gain
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chain migration (migration ladder)
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emigration
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immigration

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