Human Geography Vocabulary Part 9

The science of map-making.

Babylonian clay tablets.

Aristotle.

Eratosthenes.

The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data.

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

The name given to a place on Earth.

Portuguese.

Dutch.

A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

The physical character of a place.

The location of a place relative to other places.

Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

Defined by Carl Sauer, it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

An area organized around a node or focal point.

A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

The geographic study of human-environment relations.

Spatial association.

The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

The counter to environmental determinism; the belief that while environment may limit certain actions of a people, it cannot TOTALLY predestine their development, and humans may adapt.

The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

German Vladimir Koppen.

Tropical climates, dry climates, warm mid-latitude climates, cold mid-latitude climates, and polar climates.

A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

The Netherlands.

Florida.

A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

Globalization allows money and products to be transacted very, very quickly, with thanks to modern technology. However, it has heightened economic differences among some places.

Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over, and many argue that "western" culture is destroying many other cultures. Wow I said
"culture" a lot.

HERE'S A DOG.

The arrangement of a feature in a space.

The frequency with which something occurs.

The total number of people per unit of arable land.

The total number of people per unit of arable land.

The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

The extent of a feature's spread of space.

The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

Innovations spread from the place they originated, called...

Relocation and expansion.

The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

The spread of an idea through "snowballing." This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

Hierarchical, contagious, and stimulus.

The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

The spread of an underlying principle, even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

The scientific study of population characteristics.

The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

1. More people are alive now than any other point in Earth's history.
2. The world's population has increased a lot lately.
3. Virtually all population growth is concentrated in LDCs.

East Asia, South Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia.

Easy access to water, low lying areas, fertile soil, temperate climate.

1/5.

Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and China.

China.

Yangtze and Huang.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

Near the coalfields of England, Germany, and Belgium.

Islands of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Philippines.

What is ecumene?

Dry, wet, cold, or high.

Total number of people divided by total land area.

A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year, excluding migration.

The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant NIR.

Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

80 million.

1.2%

LDCs.

LDCs.

LDCs.

LDCs.

LDCs.

LDCs.

MDCs.

MDCs.

The demographic transition.

The first.

CBR and CDR.

Stayed around zero.

The agricultural revolution.

The first domestication of animals and plants.

CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

It shoots up like a rocket ship.

The industrial revolution.