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What are the Five Themes of Geography?

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Place, Location, Region, Human/environmental interaction, Movement.

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Absolute VS. Relative location

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Absolute Location- Actual GPS location with coordinates, (Site: unique characteristics).
Relative Location- Location relative to landmarks. (Situatuion: relative location when it comes to infrastructure/connectivity (highway, bridge)

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Region: formal, functional, perceptual

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Formal- 1 shared characteristic. Ex) Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Ring of Fire.
Functional- Serves a purpose or a function. Ex) school district, delivery service.
Perceptual- (AKA Vernacular) No clear border or boundary.

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Choropleth map

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A map that shows differences using colors and shading.

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Reference Map

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Political, physical and topographic maps.

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Large map scale VS. small map scale

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Large scale- Small area (1/10), town
Small scale- Large area (1/1,000), continent

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Robinson map

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Size/curve of the earth, distorts the continents.

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Mercator map

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True distance for naval travel (straight lines).

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Distortion

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Can’t project a curved surface on a flat map.

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Cultural landscape

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Visible imprint of humans on earth’s surface.

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Contagious diffusion

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Physical contact, like spreading a disease.

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Hierarchical diffusion

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Passed down by connected individuals.

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Stimulus diffusion

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“Playing” catch up (adopting a new trait based off a competitor).

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Relocation diffusion

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Leave the hearth and the culture will move too.

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Assimilation

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Completely absorbed into the dominant culture. (Native Americans).

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Acculturation

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When you adapt only certain elements but retain original culture.

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Environmental determinism

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The theory of how the environment controls human behavior.

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Environmental possibilism

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The theory that people can adjust or overcome an environment.

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Cultural ecology

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Human-Environment interaction. Determinism and Possibilism.

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Distance decay

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The further you are from a hearth, the less likely you are to adopt.

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Arithmetic population density

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Measures the total population of a country relative to its land size.

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Physiologic population density

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Number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.

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Doubling time

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Time it takes to double a population.

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Dependency ratio

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The ratio on which the country depends on their elderly or children.

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Population momentum
Your population still grows when your rate falls because as your life expectancy increases.
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-Natural increase rate -Crude birth rate -Crude death rate -Infant mortality rate -Total fertility rate
- Live births minus deaths - Live births per 1000 people - Live deaths per 1000 people - Kids ages 0-1 who pass away. Little medical care and low status of women. - Average number of children per woman of child bearing age. Having an average of 2.1 means your population is still growing.
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Carrying capacity
The amount of people a country can hold in their population.
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Expansive population
National conception day. Money rewards. Ways to grow your population.
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Eugenic population
Genocide. Targets a certain group. Ethnic cleansing.
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Restrictive population
Condom-Family Planning.
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One child population
Way more males. Female infanticide and abortions.
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Mathus’s Theory
Believed population would outgrow food supply.
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Absolute distance
A distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a mile or kilometer.
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Relative distance
Approximate measurement of the physical space between two places.
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Emigration
Movement of people AWAY from a place.
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Immigration
Movement of people TO a place.
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Ravenstains laws
Most people travel short distances. Most migrations are rural to urban. Big city destination. Most migratory people are single young men. Counter migration.
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Gravity model
Bigger the city, the more attractive it is towards people.
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Push/pull factors
Factors that want to make people enter or exit a country.
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Step migration
Not all migrants go A to B, they stop along the way.
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Chain migration
One person migrates and people from the same culture follow them.
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Voluntary/forced migration
Migration where you choose to go to, or where you are forced to.
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Counter migration
For every one migrant that leaves, at least one migrant will come.
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Folk culture groups/regions in the US
Culture that is passed on from generation to generation.
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Globalization and Pop Culture
Culture that is trending and constantly changing.
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Official languages
Language used by the country’s official government.
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Dialect
Differences in vocabulary, syntax (way words are put together to form phrases), pronunciation, cadence and even the pace of speech.
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Language - families (e.g., Indo-European), subfamilies, groups
How a cultural group communicates.
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Isogloss
a line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features.
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Language divergence
When spatial interaction among speakers of a language breaks down and the language fragments first into dialects and then into discrete tongues.
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Language convergence
Collapses two languages into one.
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Conquest/agricultural theory
Raising of animals and growing crops to maintain a stable society.
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Language diffusion
Where the language comes from originally.
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Lingua franca
Language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce.
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Pidgin language
Simplified language that combines traditional with dominant language. EX) Spanglish, French Creole, Hawaiian Pidgin.
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Creole language
Pidgin language over time to develop grammar rules and become a native language. EX) Jamaican, Haitian
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Mono/multilingual states
States that either speak one or multiple languages.
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Toponym
A place name. Illustrates the languages on the land, reflecting past inhabitants and their relationship to the land.
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Language extinction
The removal of a certain language from society.
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Universalizing religion
Actively seeks converts, they have a message that applies to all people. Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.
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Ethnic religion
People born into it, Faith/culture intertwined, spatially concentrated. Judaism and Hinduism.
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Hearths and Diffusion of major world religions
Buddhism in India and Islam in the Mid East.
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Landscapes of major world religions
Religion has a major impact on how landscapes are presented.
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Sacred sites
Holy place where people visit on pilgrimage to pay respects, pray, or pay the religions meaning infused with the sites.
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Pilgrimage
The movement of the traveler or group of travelers away from home, usually with a specific, sacred goal in mind.
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Syncretic (know Sikhism)
Ethnic religion, spatially located, mix of hinduism and Islam.
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Hinduism
Originated in India (South Asia), Indus River Valley, oldest religion, caste system, temples (engravings /sculptures of gods), Ganges River, relocation diffusion.
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Buddhism
Founded by Siddharta Guatama, originated in Bodh Gaya (India), the sacred sight is the bodhi tree, diffuses through trade and relocation diffusion. (Spread to Southeast Asia, China, Japan), PAGODAS.
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Judaism
The hearth of Judaism is judea, Spread through relocation, Spatially concentrated, Northeast, Eastern Europe and Israel.
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Christianity
Christians in the US are in the North East, it’s a universalizing religion, the hearth of Christianity is Judea.

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