Unit 1-6 Vocab

Question 1

people divided by total land area

Answer 1

arithmetic density

Question 2

people divided by arable land

Answer 2

physiological density

Question 3

farmers divided by arable land

Answer 3

agricultural density

Question 4

the physical character of a place; what is found at the location and why it is significant

Answer 4

site

Question 5

the location of a place relative to other places

Answer 5

situation

Question 6

the name given to a place on Earth

Answer 6

toponym

Question 7

the farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact

Answer 7

distance decay

Question 8

the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications

Answer 8

time-space compression

Question 9

map that preserves angles

Answer 9

Mercator

Question 10

map that helps preserve distortion by curving sides

Answer 10

Robinson

Question 11

map that preserves area

Answer 11

Peter

Question 12

population group unified by a specific common characteristic

Answer 12

cohort

Question 13

deaths in stage 1 of epidemiological transition

Answer 13

famine

Question 14

deaths in stage 2 of epidemiological transition

Answer 14

receding pandemics

Question 15

deaths in stage 3 of epidemiological transition

Answer 15

degenerative and man-made diseases (cancer)

Question 16

deaths in stage 4 of epidemiological transition

Answer 16

delay of degenerative and man-made diseases (cancer after some treatment)

Question 17

forces that unite

Answer 17

centripetal forces

Question 18

forces that divide

Answer 18

centrifugal forces

Question 19

judging someone else’s culture based on your own views

Answer 19

ethnocentrism

Question 20

judging someone else’s culture based on how they view it

Answer 20

cultural relativism

Question 21

belief that inanimate objects have a soul

Answer 21

animism

Question 22

creole vs pidgin language

Answer 22

creole languages have been used over generations and become someone’s primary language

Question 23

term for a linguistic boundary

Answer 23

isogloss

Question 24

a culture becomes more like another

Answer 24

acculturation

Question 25

people losing their cultural traits

Answer 25

assimilation

Question 26

the birth of a new cultural trait by blending two cultural traits

Answer 26

syncretism

Question 27

taking over another country because they are ethnically similar

Answer 27

irredentism

Question 28

boundary in the natural landscape that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place as people move

Answer 28

antecedent

Question 29

boundary that evolves as the cultural landscape of an area takes shape and changes as the cultural landscape changes

Answer 29

subsequent

Question 30

boundaries that coincide with cultural groups

Answer 30

consequent

Question 31

the boundary is negotiated and legally described

Answer 31

defined

Question 32

the boundary is drawn on a map

Answer 32

delimited boundary

Question 33

markers are placed on the ground

Answer 33

demarcated boundary

Question 34

zones in UNCLOS

Answer 34

Territorial Sea (0-12 mi): complete sovereignty Contiguous Zone (12-24 mi): can enforce customs, immigration, and sanitation laws EEZ (24-200 mi): control resources International Waters (200+ mi): all states have equal access

Question 35

places with Mediterranean climate, and crops grown in it

Answer 35

Mediterranean shore, California, Chile, southeast Australia; olives, grapes, fruits, vegetables

Question 36

places with tropical climate, and crops grown in it

Answer 36

South America, mid-Africa, southeast Asia; banana, sugar cane, rice, corn

Question 37

used to survey short distances using landmarks such as landscape or buildings

Answer 37

metes and bounds

Question 38

organized survey method that uses a grid system

Answer 38

township and range

Question 39

term for the part of the world inhabited

Answer 39

ecumene

Question 40

rapidly growing suburban cities that represent a new metropolitan form - even as they grow, they remain essentially suburban in character

Answer 40

boomburbs