Geography test review
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| The physical environment | show 🗑
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| show | a learned collective human behavior
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| Topophilia | show 🗑
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| Region | show 🗑
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| Three types of regions | show 🗑
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| show | an area inhabited by people who have one or more traits in common, such as language, religion, or a system of livelihood. (uniformity and homogeneity)
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| show | A region can be divided into two sections, one near the center were particular attributes that define a region are strong called the Core and other portions of the region further away from the core called the Periphery were the attributes are weaker
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| Functional region | show 🗑
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| show | This is where the functions are coordinated and directed. Examples are city halls, national capitals churches and banks.
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| Vernacular Region | show 🗑
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| show | Smokey Mountains, valley girl valspeak
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| Mobility /Cultural Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Independent invention | show 🗑
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| Five types of diffusion | show 🗑
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| Time distance decay | show 🗑
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| Absorbing barriers | show 🗑
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| Permeable barriers | show 🗑
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| Globalization | show 🗑
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| Nature/Cultural Ecology | show 🗑
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| Environmental Determinism | show 🗑
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| show | Humans are the dominate force.
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| Environmental Perception | show 🗑
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| show | People are a part of nature. The habitat possesses a soul, filled with spirits.
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| Mechanistic view of nature | show 🗑
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| show | Activities such as mining, logging irrigation
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| show | comprised of all the built forms that cultural groups create in inhabiting the earth. (Example roads, cities, houses, parks, gardens, etc...)
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| show | mirrors a cultures needs
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| show | the urban skyline- it represents the power and dominance of finance and economies within that culture.
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| Three Principal aspects of cultural landscapes | show 🗑
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| Settlement forms | show 🗑
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| Nucleation | show 🗑
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| Dispersed | show 🗑
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| show | Indicate the uses of particular parcels of land and as such reveal the way people have divided the land for economic, social and political uses.
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| show | is a reflection of culture & what is native to the region.
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| Geodemography | show 🗑
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| Population Density | show 🗑
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| Carrying Capacity | show 🗑
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| Patterns of Natality | show 🗑
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| Birthrate | show 🗑
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| Total Fertility rate | show 🗑
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| show | of 2.1 is needed to produce a stabilized population
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| show | Once a TFR(total fertility rate) of 2.1 is reached the population becomes stabilized.
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| Death rates | show 🗑
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| show | Technologically advanced countries of low fertility rates and stabilized or declining populations. (Passed through Demographic transition)
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| Demographic transition stages | show 🗑
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| show | Countries have different average number of youth vs. old disparency.
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| Population Pyramid | show 🗑
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| Sex Ratio | show 🗑
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| Gender roles | show 🗑
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| Social engineering | show 🗑
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| Sati | show 🗑
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| show | a measure of how many children per 1000 population die before reaching one year of age.
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| show | Some migrate in response to environmental collapse, others religious or ethnic persecution. Some for better opportunities.
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| Push and pull factors | show 🗑
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| show | a dramatic increased in world population since 1900 (the crucial element triggering this explosion has been a steep decline in the death rate)
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| Geometric Growth | show 🗑
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| Malthusian theory | show 🗑
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| show | argue that human beings are, in fact, our greatest resource and that attempts to curb our numbers (population) cheat us of any geniuses’ who could devise creative solutions.
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| Neo (new) Malthusians | show 🗑
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| Environmental Influence | show 🗑
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| show | Perception of the physical environment plays a major role in a group’s decision about where to settle and live.
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| show | A mild climate, a diverse natural vegetation that includes forests and a mild summer climate with low humidity, the presence of lakes and rivers, nearest to the seacoast and lastly a beautiful scenery.
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| show | -People modify their habitats through their adaptive strategies. (example is the deforestation and overpopulation of Haiti)
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| Rural settlement patterns | show 🗑
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| show | Irregular, Street, green commons, Isolated, Hamlet, row village, checkerboard, loose.
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| Sequent Occupance | show 🗑
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| show | The amount of space that individuals feel “belongs” to them as they move about their everyday business.
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| show | The tilling of crops and rearing of domesticated animals. Enabled development of permanent communities.
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| show | agriculture is about 40 percent of the working population. North America is about 2 percent
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| Swidden Cultivation | show 🗑
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| show | when different crops typically share the same clearing (allows taller, stronger crops to shelter lower, more fragile ones. The planting and harvesting cycle is repeated perhaps three to five years until the soil nutrients decline.
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| show | food production mainly for the family and local community. (Live off of)
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| Paddy rice farming | show 🗑
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| Double cropping | show 🗑
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| Peasants | show 🗑
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| The Dominant crops | show 🗑
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| Plantation agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | sugar, bananas, coffee, coconuts, spices, tea, pineapples and even rubber and tobacco
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| show | are placed near the seacoast for faster shipping
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| show | Chiquita, dole.
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| show | Market gardening aka Truck farming;Livestock fattening;Grain farming;Suitcase farm
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| Market gardening aka Truck farming | show 🗑
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| show | are taking over jobs and are considered neo style plantations.
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| Livestock fattening | show 🗑
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| show | -the United States is the world’s leading wheat and corn exporter/producer. U.S. accounts for about 70 percent of world corn exports. The planting and harvesting of grain is more completely mechanized than any form of agriculture.
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| Suitcase farm | show 🗑
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| show | One cultivated crop dominates the landscape
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| Agribusiness | show 🗑
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| show | The specialized production of dairy goods closely resembles livestock fattening. Dairy belts near large urban centers usually produce milk, while those further away specialize in butter, cheese, or processed milk.
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| Nomadic Herding | show 🗑
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| show | Livestock ranchers have fixed places of residence. Ranchers raise livestock on a large scale for the market.
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| Aquaculture | show 🗑
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| Mariculture | show 🗑
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| show | one that is deliberately planted, protected and cared for by humans
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| Domesticated plant process | show 🗑
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| What came first domesticated plant or animal? | show 🗑
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| show | -is one that depends on people for food and shelter and that differs from wild species in physical appearance and behavior.
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| Green revolution | show 🗑
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| Problems with the green revolution | show 🗑
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| show | set up to preserve what remains of domesticated plant variety.
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| show | workers have been central to the growth and profitability of farming
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| Local-Global food provisioning | show 🗑
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| Von thuen model | show 🗑
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| show | Genetic engineering produces new organisms through gene splicing. (Pesticide tolerance or disease resistance)
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| Sustainability | show 🗑
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| show | Grasslands that was too dry for sustainable crop production. (Examples are a series of droughts as well as farmers that were overusing the land. Desert boundaries advance and retreat primarily in response to climate fluctuations.
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| show | diesel; peanut oil
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| Agricultural landscapes | show 🗑
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| Rectangular survey | show 🗑
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| show | Natural form boundaries. Streams and creeks
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| show | Each property consist of an elongated unit-block of land stretching back from the road in a valley to an adjacent ridge crest.
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| show | Separate from where one lives.
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| show | Property and field boarders are often marked by fences or hedges
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| show | in England.
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| Five types of Economies | show 🗑
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| show | involves extracting (forestry, mining, & farming) (less than 2%)
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| Secondary Industry | show 🗑
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| show | (secretary, Insurance) (17%)
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| show | (communications/information) (55%)
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| Quinary Sector | show 🗑
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| show | Usually as a sideline to agriculture (cobbler weaver, smith, etc…)
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| Guild industry | show 🗑
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| Techno poles | show 🗑
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| show | the decline and fall of once-prosperous factory and mining area.
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| show | Locate their manufacturing plants where labor and resources are cheapest and then ship their products to the places where they can be sold for the most profit.
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| show | Natural Replenished-livestock and lumber
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| Non renewable resources | show 🗑
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| show | burning of fossil fuels-oil petroleum, and natural gas. Acid raid accumulates in any area of manufacturing/production.
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| Environmental sustainability | show 🗑
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| Consumer Services | show 🗑
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