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Description
Flashcards by Isabel Simpson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Isabel Simpson
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Cultural Regions | areas in which people share cultural traits |
| Formal Region | A region defined by a physical trait |
| functional region | defined by political or social service |
| Perceptual Region | Based off people's stereotypes |
| Distance Decay | Father away something gets from its hearth the less frequent that thing becomes |
| Environmental determinism | Theory that the environment controls the development of human mental qualities |
| Possibilism | The view that humans can change the environment in a good or bad way |
| Peter's Map |
distorted shape especially Africa
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Peter (image/jpeg)
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| Robinson's Map |
Oval shape
used the most in education
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Robinson (image/jpeg)
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| Mercator's Map |
Greenland and Asia will look huge
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Mercator (image/jpeg)
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| Polar Map | map that airplanes use |
| GPS | tells you how to get to a certain location with satellites |
| GIS | system that collects lots of different data for a huge map |
| Arithmetic Density | The number of people per unit of land |
| Physiological Density | the number of people per unit of arable land |
| Agricultural Density | Number of farmers on arable land |
| Arable Land | farming land |
| Population pyrimads |
shows the difference in sex and age of how is dying
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Pp (image/png)
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| Population Pyramid stages |
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Pp 2 (image/png)
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| Demographic Transition Model |
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Dtm (image/gif)
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| Demographic Transition Model part 2 | stage 1: high birth rate and death rate stage 2: birth rate is the same and death rate goes down stage 3: birth and death rate go down a lot stage 4: both birth and death rate are extremely low |
| CBR | crude birth rate |
| CDR | crude death rate |
| RNI | rate of natural increase |
| doubling time | the time it takes for a population to double |
| TFR | total fertility rate |
| IMR | infant mortality rate |
| life expectancy | average age someone is expected to live |
| Cornucopian Theory | Humans will grow enough to innovate new technologies to get more food |
| Malthusian Population Theory | the Human race will outgrow all natural resources |
| Emigration | leaving a country |
| immigration | Going in a country |
| Ravenstein's laws of migration | 1. short distances 2. migrants move to migrants 3. arrival and movement 4. people move away from immigrants 5/6. most move to urban cities 7. Women move inside a country men move out |
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