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connections and similarities in a certain region
Ex: South Florida
uses a little or many dots with a theme
Population map
map that shows elevation(above and below sea level)
Creates images with lines
teaches students about the looks of the earth and relationships with the earth
Often found in classrooms
Map distorts distance and direction
distort size and shape
Absolute in distance
Care about how far away land is and how to get their(Vikings)
see poles
Everything past equater is distorted
only shows South Pole to equator
Only one hemisphere
Fractional Scale: ratio representing the map measurements: real life measurements (1 inch:24,000 miles)
Verbal Scale: geographical scope used to analyze and understand the phenomenon (local,national,and globa)
The term describes how the primary methodology behind geography is spatial analysis and that two questions make up this methodology.
Where are things located?
Why are they located where they are?
Refers to the geographical position of people/things on the earth(absolute;latitude,longitude)
Understanding where something is/should be located and why it is there: Location Theory
absolute location: precise coordinates/ (latitude,longitude)
relative location: location of a place or attribute relative to another place or attribute
relationship between humans and the physical world and how they mutually affect each other
How people adapt and alter a new place and vice versa
similarities between places
Examples:Human phenomenon(language,religion), Physical Phenomenon(tornadoes and earthquakes)
shared physical/cultural traits(one or more)
Shares a specific geographical feature Ex: l’arts of China
area with a shared common purposes such as trade
Shared economical,political,social purpose
Defined by the fact of how people within a certain region function together politically socially or economically
images people carry in their minds of certain people,places,and things
Can include people and their cultural traits,places and physical traits, and build enviornments
Involves pictures while vernacular region involves words
mobility of people,goods and ideas
Migration
Expresses how people are interconnected
degree of connectedness or contact among certain people/places
Another term for distance-decay
DĂ©pends on distance between places, accessibility of other places and the transportation/communication connectivity among certain places
Geographical information system
combine computers hardware and software to analyse And solve geographical problem by layering maps
geographical positioning system
Enables us to find features on Earth accurately
Location
Often satellite based
method that collects data through instruments that are far away from the area being studied
Examples:satellite,aircrafts, and drones
amount of people per square land of arable land
More people per square mile
More accurate than arithmetic population density
East Asia: China,Korea,Japan
South Asia: India,Pakistani,Bangladesh
Europe
North America
British economist
He warned the world that about ow the world’s population was increasing faster than the food supplies needed to sustain it
Reasoned that food growled linearly and that population grows exponentially
support Malthus
Say that overpopulation will cause disaster on earth
used to repersent population distribution
Each dot on the map represents a certain number of people
fluctuating birth and death rates
Low population growth
Pre agricultural stage to agricultural revolution stage
Marked by high birth and death rates(plagues and epidemics)
Europe was hit by bubonic plague and several people died causing low population growth despite high birth rates
18th century
high birth rates and rapidly declining death rates and very high natrual increase rates
“Population explosion” in Europe
Improvements in medical technology,food,sanitation,healthcare
Increased life span
20th century
increasing population growth
Gradually decreasing deaths and slightly increasing births
From agriculture to industry
Machines make work easier
Second agricultural revolution
19th century
21st century
Low birth rates,low death rates, stable/slowing rates of natural increase
Happened due to modern contraceptives and more women in the workforce
Include higher income countries
Chimney/Peripheral
poor country
Workforce starts young at age 10
Short life span/only live till late 40s
Need a lot of children to take care of the few adults by working
Inverted Pyramid
Japan
Elderly is the biggest portion as the population isn’t having many children
Issue as there is no future workforce
Normal/Perfect
4)round vase
rural/farming
Dependent on agriculture
Central America/Asian countries
Vase
dependent on industry
Wealthy countries
Big workforce and smaller youth
Average number of years a person is supposed to live for
Differs between men and women
many people are dieing due to this
Shortened people’s life span in Africa
Affected Africa’s economy and the amount of people that are able to work
Began to spread to other countries
resulting from an invasion of parasites and their multiplication in the body
infects youths weak immune system
A disease transmitted by a carrier with disease from person to person
Ex: Example:
a mosquito stings a person that is infected with malaria
2)The mosquito sucks up some of that blood along with parasities that reach the bug’s saliva
3)These mosquitos’s then sting someone else and the disease is injected into someone’s blood stream
4)Now that person develops malaria as the parasites grow in the infected person’s body
Ulyanovsk Provice held a national day of conception(Russia)
More companies such as France and widen began promoting gender equality and boosting fertility rates by adopting family friendly policies
Offered tas incentives,job leaves,etc to parents
More women were in the work force meaning less kids meaning less future workers leading to these policies
Policies designed to discourage/ostracize different groups of people from having children
In the Holocast the Nazi’s targeted the Jewish population from reproducing as they wanted to get rid of them
policies designed to restrict a population’s birth/fertility rate
Example: China’s one-child policy restricts how many children the citizens of China were able to have by penalizing them
way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically
Move around based on trade and carry goods to places to trade
Migration imposed on a group of people from one place to another
Jewish people in Germany were forced to flee during the holocaust as their lives were in danger
