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geography young Levi
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Five Themes of Geography | location, place, human-environment, region |
| Location (absolute & relative | exact coordinates and associated to something to know where its at. |
| Regions (formal, functional, perceptual) | an area defined by shared physical or human characteristics |
| Movement | the flow of people, goods, information, and ideas across the Earth |
| Human–Environment Interaction | how humans interact with the environment. How humans depend on, adapt to, and modify their natural surroundings. |
| Diffusion | the spread of people, cultures, ideas, etc |
| place | a specific area defined by its unique physical |
| Population density | the measure of the number of people per unit of land area |
| Urbanization | the process where more people move to and live in cities |
| Population pyramid | a bar graph showing its shape showing the population trends |
| Push factors | reasons people leave a area |
| Pull factors | reasons people travel to an area |
| Demographic | the statistical traits of a human population |
| GDP (Gross Domestic Product) | total monetary value of all final goods and services produced within a country's borders |
| HDI (Human Development index) | measuring a country's overall development by combining health, education, and standard of living into a single score from 0 to 1 |
| Literacy rate | The percentage of a population that can read |
| Life expectancy | the average years a person is expected to live |
| Developed vs. developing countries | ( economy, infrastructure, living standards, society) higher vs lower |
| Supply chain | The networks of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and consumers that produce and distribute goods and services |
| Trade networks | an interconnected system of routes, relationships, and agreements connecting different regions, facilitating the exchange of goods, services, resources, ideas, and cultures |
| Interdependence | wo or more things (people, groups, nations, or even species) rely on each other, where the actions or conditions of one directly affect the others. |
| Cultural diffusion | the spread of cultural elements—like ideas, customs, religions, technologies, and foods—from one place or group to another |
| Environmental impact | the effects, good or bad, that human activities (like pollution, deforestation, urban growth) or natural events have on the Earth's physical systems and living things |
| Renewable resource | a resource of which there is a seemingly endless supply because it can be replenished |
| Nonrenewable resource | cannot be easily replenished |
| Sustainable development | development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
| Urban sprawl | the expansion of towns or cities into rural or previously undeveloped land |
| Political map | illustrates human-made divisions of the Earth, showing boundaries for countries, states, provinces, cities, and other governmental areas |
| Physical map | shows Earth's natural features |
| Thematic map | single-topic maps that focus on specific themes or phenomena |
| Satellite imagery | images of Earth's surface captured from orbiting satellites |
| Map scale | the ratio comparing a distance on a map to the corresponding distance on the Earth's surface |
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