front 1 a situation whereby talented professionals flee one country to another in search of better pay and working conditions | back 1 Brain drain |
front 2 the number of persons per unit of agricultural land (countries with high physiological density risk exceeding its carrying capacity) | back 2 physiological density |
front 3 shows the age and sex demographics of a particular country, city, or neighborhood | back 3 Population pyramid |
front 4 the total number of people divided by the total land area (also known as real density) | back 4 Arithmetic density |
front 5 the process of migration where people CHOOSE to move (guest worker programs between the US and Mexico as well as Germany and Turkey) | back 5 Voluntary migrants |
front 6 predicted the British economist Thomas Malthus coined the term overpopulation in the late 1700s | back 6 Thomas Malthus |
front 7 a measure of how quickly a population is growing or declining excluding emigration and immigration | back 7 Natural increase rate |
front 8 shows five typical stages of population change that countries experience as they modernize | back 8 Demographic transition model |
front 9 the middle point of population distributers | back 9 population center |
front 10 calculated by imagining that each individual in the U.S. is an equal weight | back 10 mean center |
front 11 a Danish economist who lived in the 20th century | back 11 Ester Boserup |
front 12 the ability of the land and its resources and technologies to sustain a certain number of people | back 12 Carrying capacity |
front 13 migration that is involuntary, meaning migrants have no choice but to move | back 13 forced migration |
front 14 programs designed to increase fertility rates | back 14 pronatalist policy |
front 15 shows 5 typical stages of population change that countries experience as they modernize | back 15 demographic transition model |
front 16 when people migrate to and settle in a new country, they often decide to locate in a city or community where your other family members have lived | back 16 chain migration |
front 17 a name for a specific location | back 17 toponym |
front 18 a computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes and displays geographic data | back 18 geographic information system (GIS) |
front 19 when an underlying idea from a culture hearth is adopted by another culture but the adopting group modifies or rejects a trait | back 19 stimulus diffusion |
front 20 an activity, usually political, social, or economic, that occurs across the region | back 20 functional region |
front 21 the arrangement of a feature in a space | back 21 distribution |
front 22 used to show quantitative difference between mapped features by varying the size of the symbols | back 22 graduated symbols |
front 23 - navigation - directions are accurate - lines of latitude and longitude meet at right angle - distance between lines of longitude are constant - land masses near the poles are large - the size and shape are very exaggerated | back 23 mercator |
front 24 - spatial distribution related to area - size of land masses are accurate - shapes are inaccurate, especially near the poles | back 24 Peters |
front 25 - general in midlatitude countries - lines of longitude coverage - lines of latitude are curved - size and shape are both close to reality - direction is not constant - longitude lines coverage at only one pole | back 25 Conic |
front 26 - general use - no major distortion - oval shape appears more like a glove than a rectangle - area, shape, size, and direction are all slightly distorted | back 26 Robinson |
front 27 the social and physiological effects of faster movement of information over space in a shorter period of time | back 27 time-space compression |
front 28 scale the size of simple symbols (usually a circle or square) proportionally to the data value found at that location | back 28 proportional symbol map |
front 29 a person´s sense of place or history and don´t have agreed on boundaries or locations | back 29 vernacular regions |
front 30 the concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is scientifically related to the location of another phenomenon | back 30 spatial association |
front 31 the concept that the physical environment limits human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust the physical environment | back 31 possibilism |
front 32 Those that unify a group of people or region | back 32 centripetal forces |
front 33 bind citizens of a state together | back 33 centripetal forces |
front 34 established before an area is well populated | back 34 antecedent boundary |
front 35 relate closely to culture, ethnic heritage, and to the physical geography of a particular place (EX: Judaism and Hinduism) | back 35 Ethnic religions |
front 36 a tall tower that is part of a mosque with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer (prominent in the architecture associated with Islam) | back 36 Minarets |
front 37 the geographical and social spread of the different aspects of one culture to different ethnicities, religions, nationalities, regions, etc. | back 37 cultural diffusion |
front 38 the belief that there is only one deity, or God | back 38 Monotheistic Religions |
front 39 the prominent religion in central and south america | back 39 Roman catholicism |
front 40 the fusion or blending of two distinctive cultural traits into a unique new hybrid | back 40 syncretism |
front 41 the process through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, and attitudes | back 41 assimilation |
front 42 when the underlying idea from a culture hearth is adopted by another culture but the adopting group modifies or rejects one trait | back 42 stimulus diffusion |
front 43 refers to the built environment | back 43 cultural landscape |
front 44 a form of syncretism that involves the creation of products or services for the global market by adapting them to local cultures | back 44 globalization |
front 45 this process is most likely to occur when different cultures are in proximity to each other and can occur via immigration, marriage, conquest, or simple creativity | back 45 syncretism |
front 46 the spread of culture and/or cultural traits by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them | back 46 relocation diffusion |
front 47 the spread of culture starts from influential and powerful individuals within a society or culture | back 47 hierarchical diffusion |