Human Geography Final

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Scale

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Relationship betweeen the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.

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GIS

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A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.

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Remote Sensing

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The aquistion of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet of other long distance methods.

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Census

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A complete enumeration of a population.

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Site factors

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The physical characters of a place.

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Situation factors

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The location of a place relative to other places.

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Globalization

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Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in ,aking something worldwide in scope.

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Scale

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Relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth.

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Density

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The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.

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Concentration

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The spread of something over a given area.

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Arithmetic Density

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The total number of people divided by the total land area.

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Physiological Density

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The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.

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Diffusion

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Process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

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Hierarchical diffusion

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Spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.

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Relocation diffusion

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Spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.

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Stimulus diffusion

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Spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.

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Demography

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The scientific study of population characteristics.

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Ecumene

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The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.

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Crude Death Rate

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Total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society.

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Crude Birth Rate

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Total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society.

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Natural Increase

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Percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude birth rate.

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Infant Mortality Rate

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Total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society.

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Demographic Transition

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Process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population.

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Population Pyramid

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A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.

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Malthus

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First ot argue that the world's rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food supplies. Population increases geographically whereas food supply increased arithmetically.

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Emigration

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Migration from a location.

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Immigration

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Migration to a new location.

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Push factors, Examples

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Factors that induce people to move out of their present location.
Examples- Economic- few opportunities

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Pull factors, Examples

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Factors that induce people to move to a new location.
Examples- Economic- Job opportunities

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Undocumented Immigrant

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People who enter a country without proper cocuments.

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Quota

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Inference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

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Brain Drain

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large scale emigration by talented people.

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Counterurbanization

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Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.

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Refugees

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People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fearof persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group , or political opinion.

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Custom

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The frequent repetition of an act, to hte extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.

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Habit

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A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.

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Folk Culture

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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group.

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Popular Culture

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Culture found in a larger, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.

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Taboo

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A restriction or behavior imposed by social custom.

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Dowry

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Money from wife's family to husband when getting married.

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Language

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A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.

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Language branch

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A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand