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Relative location
Position of a place or entity based on it's location with respect to othet locations
Pattern
The arrangement of objects on earths surface in the relationship to one another
Malthusian theory
Population growth is growing too fast for food to keep up
Population doubling time
Percentage growing by 70
Pro-natalist
Encourages children
Relative distance
Measures of social, cultural and economic relatedness or connectivity between 2 places
Anti-natalist
Discourages people from having kids
Arithmetic growth
Grows by the same amount in each time interval
DTM stage 1
High birth rate, high death rate, population stayed the same
DTM stage 2
Early expansion where population begins to rise
DTM stage 3
Birth rates now fall rapidly while death rates continue to fall
Low stationary phase
DTM stage 4
DTM stage 5
Very low Crude Birth Rate increasing Crude Death Rate few young people
Emigration
Leaving a place
Epidemiological transition model
Describes changing patterns of population distribution in relation to changing patterns or mortality, fertility, and life expectancy
Esther boserup
Believed that there will be no famine
Exponential growth
Population per capita growth of population size
Immigration
Going to a new country
Neoliberal policies
Economic policies that promote free-market principles
Post-fordist productions
Adoption by companies f flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that preform a variety of tasks
World trade organization
Works to reduce barriers to international trade by reducing restrictions (tariffs) Ana enforcements (agreements)
International Monetary Fund
Provide loans to countries experiencing balance of payment problems that threatens expansion of imp
Rowstows economist theory
5 stages to become a core country
Wallersteins world system theory
Divides countries of the world into 3 groups based on political power, social standing, economic and technology development (core semi-periphery, periphery)
Renewable energy
Energy sources that are naturally replenished an on the human timescale
Tertiary sector
Anything that has to do with the scale of exchange of goods
Service sectors
Divided into 3 subdivisions consumer, business, and public services
Secondary sector
Manufacturing/finishing making goods
UN's sustainable development goals
Set of 17 goals adopted by the UN to end poverty, protect the planet, ensure peace, and prosperity
Multiplier effect
Describes expansion of an areas economies base as a result of the basic and non-basic industries located there
Mercoser
South American organization whose purpose is to expand trade, improve transposition, reduce tariffs among member countries
Just in time delivery
When good arrive right when they are needed
Microloans
Small loans provided to individuals or small businesses
OPEC
Governments organization of 13 oil-producing countries that aim t coordinate an unify member countries
Outsourcing
Process of moving industrial productions or services out of the country
Primary source
Economic activities include anything to do with agriculture/ mining raw materials
International division of labor
Transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-paid, less skilled workers from developed countries to developing countries
Small scale finance
Quaternary sector
Activities that involve the creation and distribution of knowledge and informations
Quinary sector
Highest level of economic activities involve desision making
Economic
Land that is permanently populated by human society
Dependency ratio
Percentages of people in a population who are either too young to too old to work and must be supported
Demography
Study of populations (characteristic's)
Crude birth rate
Number of live births occurring during a year per every 1,000 people in a given population in a given year
Crude death rate
Number of deaths per year per 1,00 people in a given populations
Carrying capacity
How many people in an area can support on a sustained bases
Agricultural density
Measures the number of farmers per unit area of farm land
Farmers/arabe land
Arithmetic density
Population/land
Total fertility rate
Estimate of average number of children born to each female in her childbearing years
Redistricting
Which areas are grouped together for purpose of election
Rate of natural increase
Annual growth of populations
Population pyramids
Show the aga as sex demographics of a particular level scale
Population distribution
Equally spaced apart randomly spread out or bunch in groups
Population density
Number of people who live in a defined area
Physiological density
Number of people per unit area of arable land
Overpopulation
Area that cannot support that amount of people
Life expectancy
Average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social, economic, and medical conditions
Infant mortality rate
Measure how many babies per thousand die before their first birthday
Online mapping
The process of of using maps usually created through GIS on the internet
Photograph interviews
Act of examining photographic images for the identifying objects and judging for their significance
Sustainability
The practice of using natural resources responsibly so they can support present and future
Travel narrative
An count of a journey that provides information about the ethnographic, biographic, and physical characteristics of an area
Policy documents
Business rules and guidelines of a company that ensure consistency and compliance within the companies strategic direction
Ethnocentrism
Feeling that ones own ethnic group is superior
Ethnicity
Identity with a group of people who share a common identity with a specific homeland
Ethnic neighborhoods
A area within a city containing members of the same ethnic group backgrounds
Culture
A total way of life held in a common by a group of people including learned features
Ethnic cultures
Group of people who share traditions of a particular homeland
Dialects
Regional variety of a language distinguished by a vocabulary, spelling, and or pronunciations
Cultural relativism
Understanding a culture on its own terms rather than judging it by the standards or customs of ones own culture
Centripetal forces
An attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state
Cultural landscape
Cultural attributes of an area often used to describe a place
Cultural divergence
Result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Cutural convergence
When 2 or more cultures influence each other and become simiar with increased contact
Creolization
The process in which 2 or more languages converge and form a new language
Globalization
Increasing connection of economic, cultural and political characteristics across the world
Contagious diffusion
The rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
Expansion diffusion
When innovations spread to a new place while staying strong in their original location
Centrifugal forces
Forces to attitudes that tend to divide a state
Colonialism
The process by which one nation exercises near complete control over another country which they have settled and taken over
Remote sensing
The process of taking pictures of the earths surface from satellites
Satellite imagery
Images of the earth taken from artificial satellites orbiting the planet
Shape distortion
Misrepresentation of a shape, area, distance, or direction between geographic features compared to other true measurements
Regional scale
Level of a specific region or geographical area this is larger than a single community or neighborhood but smaller than the entire location
Satellite navigation system
GPS satellites broadcasting navigation signals
Space
Physical gap or interval between objects
Thematic map
Maps that tell a story about a place
Toponym
Baseline name for a place
Time space convergence
Process of travel ties as technology advances
Natural resources
Something found within the natural environment this is accessible and economically valuable to humans
Perceptual/vernacular region
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
Person interviews
A direct face to face conversation that collects data like a survey
Place
Specific point on earth with humans and physical characteristics that distinguish it from other parts
Possibilism
People are adjusting
Reference maps
Maps that show where something is in space
Regional analysis
Study of a specific region or area with understanding its characteristics and patterns
Relative direction
Directions based on peoples surroundings and perception
Online visualization
Compilation and publication of websites that provides geographical and textual information in the form of maps
Assimilation
The process through which which people lose originally differentiating traits when they come in contact with another society
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