AP HUG

The study of the Earth's surface and the processes that shape it is called __.

Geography

__ refers to the exact location using coordinates (latitude and longitude).

Absolute Location

The unique characteristics of a location, including physical and human attributes, are known as __.

Place

A __ region is defined by a common characteristic, such as climate or political boundaries.

Formal

__ are visual representations of the Earth's surface.

Maps

The computer system that captures, stores, analyzes, and displays geographic data is known as __.

Geographic Information System (GIS)

The flow of people, goods, and ideas between places is known as __.

Movement

The __ Rate is the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.

Crude Birth

The model that represents how a population changes over time is called the __ Transition Model.

Demographic

__ migration refers to movement within a country.

Internal

Push factors are conditions that __ people to leave a place.

encourage

A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by speakers of different native languages is called a __.

Lingua Franca

The term __ refers to identity with a group of people who share distinct physical and mental traits based on common heredity and cultural traditions.

Ethnicity

The __ Theory suggests that whoever controls Eastern Europe controls the heartland and eventually the world.

Heartland

A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination is called a __ State.

Multinational

__ Economy is a system in which production is mainly for personal consumption.

Subsistence

The transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture is known as the __ Agricultural Revolution.

First

The __ Model describes a model of urban structure in which cities grow outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings.

Concentric Zone

Population Growth

The increase in a country's population over a period of time.

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years.

Life Expectancy

The number of years an individual is expected to live based on current mortality rates.

Migration

The movement of people from one place to another.

Net Migration

The number of immigrants exceeding emigrants in a population.

Vernacular Language

A form of language spoken by common people in a region.

Nation

A group of people who share a common culture, language, religion, or history.

Nation-State

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

Compact

A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.