Question | Answer |
Agricultural Density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. |
Arable Land | Land suited for agriculture |
Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. |
Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. |
Cartography | The science of mapmaking. |
Chain Migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |
Counter urbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in mrs developed countries. |
Crude Birth Rate | The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society. |
Crude Death Rate | Total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society. |
Cultural Ecology | The geographic study of human-environment relationships. |
Cultural Landscape | A combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry and physical features such as climate and vegetation. |
Demographic Transition | THe process of change in a societies population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population. |
Dependency Ratio | The number of people who are considered too young or too old to work (under 15 or over 64) compared to the number of people in their productive years. |
Distance Decay | The farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two group are to interact. Contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears. |
Distribution and its properties | The arrangement of a feature in space.
1. Density
2. Concentration
3. Pattern |
Doubling Time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase. |
Earths 4 systems | Abiotic-non living
1. Atmosphere-thin layer of gases surrounding Earth.
2. Hydrosphere-the water on and near earths surface.
3. Lithosphere-earths crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust.
Biotic-living
4. Biosphere-all living org |
Ecology | The scientific study of ecosystems. |
Elderly Support Ratio | Number of working age people (15-64) divided by the number of persons 65 or older. |
Emigration | Migration from a location. |
Epidemiologic Transition | Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition. |
Epidemiology | Branch of medical science with the incidence, distribution and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people. |
Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process. This expansion may result from 1 of 3 processes:
1. Hierarchical diffusion
2. Contagious Diffusion
3. Stimulus Diffusion |
Forced Migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. |
Functional Region | An area organized around a node or focal point. |
Geographic Information System | A computer system that captures, stores, queries, analyzes, and displays geographic data. |
Greenwich Mean Time or Universal Time | The time at the prime meridian and the master reference time for all points on earth. |
Guest Worker | A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs. |
Hearth | The place from which an innovation originates. |
Immigration | Migration to a new location. |
Infant Mortality Rate | The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1000 live births in a society. |
Internal Migration | Permanent movement within a particular country. |
International Dateline | Follows 180 degree longitude when crossed heading east move clack back 24 hours. If you are heading west turn clock ahead 24 hours. |
International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. |
Interregional Migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. |
Intraregional Migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. |
Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live. |
Map Scale | The relationship of a features size on a map to its actual size on earth. |
Mash-Ups | The practice of overlaying data from one source on top of the mapping services. |
Meridian | An arc drawn between the North and South poles. |
Migration | Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location. |
Migration Transition | Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. |
Natural Increase Rate | The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. |
Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration |
Over Population | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. |
Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. |
Parallel | Circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator. |
Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. |
Place | A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular characteristic. |
Polder | Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area. |
Population Pyramid | A bar graph that displays the percentage of a places population for each age and gender. |
Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. |
Prime Meridian | The meridian that passes through the royal observatory at Greenwich, England, is 0 degrees longitude. |
Projection and 4 types of Distortion | The scientific method of transferring locations on earth's surface to a flat map.
1. Shape
2. Distance
3. Relative Size
4. Direction |
Pull Factor | Factor that induces people to move to a new location. |
Push Factor | Factor that induces people to leave old residences. |
Quotas | In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits, on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. |
Refugees | People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group or political opinion. |
Region | An area of earth distinguished by a combination of cultural and physical features. |
Relocation Diffusion | The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another. |
Remote Sensing | Acquisition of data about earths surface from a satellite or other long distance method. |
Scale | The relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole. |
Site | The physical character of a place. Climate, Water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude and elevation. |
Situation | The location of a place relative to other places. |
Space | The physical gap or interval between 2 objects. |
Spacial Interaction | When places are connected to each other through a network. |
Toponym | The name given to a place on earth. |
Total Fertility Rate | The average number of children a woman will have throughout her child bearing years. |
Transnational Corporation | Conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries. Not just where its HQ's and principal share holders are located. |
Unauthorized Immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents. Permanent movement undertaken by choice. |
Vernacular | A place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity. |