Semester Exam Review Flashcards

(70 cards)

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Globalization

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Expansion of economic political and cultural processes globally in impact but can occur at ALL scales

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Pandemic

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A WORLDWIDE OUTBREAK of disease

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Culture hearth

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An area where cultural traits develop and from which the culture traits diffuse and ORIGINATE

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Cartography

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Art and science of MAKING MAPS

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GPS

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Global Positioning System

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GIS

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Geographic Information System

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Expansion diffusion

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Category of diffusion: idea develops in hearth and remains strong there while CONTINUOUSLY spreading outward

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Relocation diffusion

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Category of diffusion: when people move their culture spreads

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Possibilism

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If it’s available you get it and it is your choice

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Arithmetic population density

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Total population divided by total land area

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Physiological population density

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Total population divided by arable land MOST TRUE

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Megalopolis

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A big bunch of cities

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Cyclic movement

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Day to day movement

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Activity space

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Local areas where your daily routine is

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Periodic movement

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Longer periods from home EX. Migrant laborer, college student

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Transhumance

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System of pastoral farming where ranchers move livestock according to season

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Migration

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PERMANENT movement

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Emigrant

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Someone who LEAVES their country

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Immigrant

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Someone who moves into another country

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Local culture

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Culture in a particular place

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Custom

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Practice routinely followed by a group of people

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Cultural appropriation

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Other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit

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Barriozation

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Hispanic neighborhoods

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Absolute location

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Longitude latitude location

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Centrality
Draws people to a place EX. Football game
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Functional region
Set of activities or interactions occur within it ; connectedness EX. City and its highway system
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Perceptual region
Region in the minds of people
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Demography
Study of population
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Genocide
Acts committed with intents to destroy a certain group
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Island of development
Coastal cities where foreign investment goes
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Remittance
Money sent back home
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Repatriation
Sending refugees back home; safe to go home NOT illegal
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Quota
Limits number of immigrants into a country
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Succession
Another group moved in your place
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Assimilation
Immigrant loses customs over time including religion language they adopt the dominant culture
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Spatial arrangement/ perspective
How places are laid out organized and arranged
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What did dr snow do to trace cholera deaths to the London water pumps
Mapped the number of cases in the soho neighborhood
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5 themes of geography
Place location human environment interaction movement amd region
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Types of expansion diffusion
Contagious hierarchical and stimulus
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Contagious diffusion
Spread of the common cold
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Hierarchical diffusion
Spread of new fashion trends
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Stimulus diffusion
Genuine invention diffused in from another culture EX. tofu burger in India
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Largest population clusters
East Asia South Asia and Europe
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Malthus theory
Population grew exponentially/geometrically and food grew linearly/arithmetically
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Natural increase
Difference between number of births and deaths
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Highest natural increase
Africa
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Stage 1
High death high birth no growth Africa Uganda
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Stage 2
Decline in death rate high birth rate growth
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Stage 3
Lower birth and death growth
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Stage 4
Low birth rate low death rate stationary growth USA Japan U.K. France
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Stage 5
ZPG Japan and Germany
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Wide base small top pop pyramid
Rapid growth Uganda
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Base is same as top pop pyramid
Moderate growth USA and U.K.
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Base is smaller than top pop pyramid
Population decline Russia
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Internal migration
Movement within a country borders
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External migration
Outside country borders
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For every migration there is a
Countermigration
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Majority of migrants move _____ distance
Short
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Migrants choose_____ destinations
City
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Urban is _____ migratory than rural
Less
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Families move_____ distances
Short
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Refugee
Cross international border Only have what they can carry Foot bicycle wagon or boat No official documentation
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Popular culture
Urban Changing Heterogeneous Large
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Lowest life expectancy
Africa
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Expansive population
Babies
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Eugenic population
Only certain babies
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Restrictive population
No babies
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Push factor
Centrifugal
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Pull factor
Centripetal
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Best reason for migration
Economic opportunity