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29 Cards in this Set
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Place 1. Absolute 2. Latitude 3. Longitude 4. Relative Location
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1. Absolute-Location
2. Latitude-N/S 0-90% 3. Longitude-E/W-determines timezone ex. Prime Marridean 4. Relative Location-Site-Physical feautures, and situation- cultural, social, economic features |
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Regions-1. Formal 2. Functional 3. Venaculer(SoCal)
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1. Shared characteristics (Santa Clara Valley) - Language is linked to Ethnicity ---> shared ancestry ex. Middle East - Arabic, Iran - Persian
2. Economic Activity-City Limits ( Santa Jose City Limits) 3. Perceptual, Inland Empire, Body Area (Silicon Valley which is within Santa Clara Valley. |
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Population Geography
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1 of the most importan basic distribution across the globe.
6.3billion people on the planet now |
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Demographic Transition Theory(Model) - RNI, BR, DR
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1. A 4-stage conceptualization that tracks changes in birthrates and death rates through time as a population urbanizes
RNI - Rate of Natural Increase-DR-BR - tells you the % of population increase BR= # of Births / 1000 DR = 3 of deaths / 1000 |
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Why is there a decline in DR?
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Because of Sanitation (water)
Cholera (water disease) |
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TFR
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Total Fatility Rate = Average # of children born to woman during their child barring years
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Population
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Migration, immigration, emmigration
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Push/ Pull
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Push forces - such as civil strife, environmental degradation, or unemployment, drive people from their homelands.
Pull forces- better economic opportunity or health services, attract migrants to certain locations, within or beyond their national boundaries. |
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Urban Pattern
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Cities are growing
fast growing cities(Asia) 3rd World Country |
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Developing World
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Urbanlization 1st
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Folk Culture
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Homogenious, rural societies, slow to change, agricultural, rigid ideas about gender and social hiearchy.
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Pop. Culture
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Heterogenious, constantly changing, wider appeal, Urban
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Global Culture
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Reflection of a dominance of a particular culture, can cause a loss of folk culture
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Cultural Imperialism
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Dominance of English throughout the world, slavery
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Cultural Nationalism
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Symbols, values of countries
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Cultural Syncretism
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Blending of cultures
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Western Hemishphere
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Christian-diverse religion. Know Distribution
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State
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Sovereign Territory
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Nation
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Territory shared by a group of pple of common ancestry-homeland- no sovereignty
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Development Geography
MDC LDC |
Study of wealth and poverty
More developed country - industrialization Less developed country- Agricultural |
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Why is demographic BR low?
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Corruption, gender inequality, natural resources, debt ex. Venezuela, Nigeria, Indonesia
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History
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War, colonial experience, brain drain, govt, Nepotism(give cabinet positions to your partners-favortism)
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How to fix?
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1. Self-Sufficiency: Black Market, Quality, Financing
Ex. Brazil, India, China 2. International Trade: Exports(cheap labor), Free Trade (no envr. restriction, no taxes), creates jobs, industry, trade-diplomacy, small % which = more $$$ |
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Examples of sucess
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Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan
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Landform
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1. Endogenic - Plate tectonics
2. Exogenic - water, mind, glaciers, oceans |
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What are the 3 types of plate convergence?
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1. Ocean-Continental
2. Ocean-Ocean (Mt. St. Helens) 3. Continental-Colision (no subduction, or volcanic activity) ex. Himalayas, Ural Mts., Appalachians, Alps |
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Tsunami
Fault |
1. Title Wave
2. Fractures in the crust |
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What are the 2 types of plate divergence?
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1. Ocean-Sea-Floor spreading(Volcanic Activity) ex. Mid-Atlantic Ridge
2. Continental-Continental Rifting. Creates Valley Volcanism East African Rift Valley |
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Transform Plate Boundaries
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( neither colliding nor pulling apart) Sliding laterally- pressure and tension.
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