Social Geo Final

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One word to describe geography is

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Space

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Analyzes data by measuring the quantity or amount, Strives to be objective, Often uses statisticsattempt to understand how the world is constructed and experienced by people or societies Often subjective

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Quantitative methods

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A form of prejudice or stereotyping that assumes the superiority of one's own culture over another is

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Ethnocentric

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The appearance of an area and the assemblage of objets used to produce that appearance is

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landscape

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Changes over time

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Material culture

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The belief that the physical environment is the dominant force in shaping cultures is called

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Environmental Determinism

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A way to view the relationship between people and nature as a two-way

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Cultural diffusion is

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______are incredibly dynamic and based in large, heterogeneous societies were individualism, innovation, and change are encouraged

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Folk cultures

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The belief that people, rather than their environments, are the primary architects of culture is called

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Possibilism

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In contemporary popular cultures

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The media is a major influence

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A distinct group within a dominate (popular) culture is called

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Sub-Culture

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Christianity and Islam, single god religions

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Monotheistic Religion

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you notice graffiti, security bars on windows, and boarded up house, Geographers refer to this as

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Reading the landscape

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3 primary approaches used in qualitative methods.

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Ethnography
( long-term interactions and experiences with a group)
Participant Observation,
(first hand field work)
Interviews
(face to face)

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_____is the statistical study of human population, especially with regard to destiny and capacity for expansion or decline

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Demography

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This represents an array of variables that make one's old home unattractive or unlivable and the new land appealing

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Push and Pull factors

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The extent to which a group's way of life, their adaptive strategies in their old home, preconditioned them for success in their new land is called

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pre-adaptation

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the number of people living within a standardized area (usually per square mile in the US)

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Population density

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The earth's current human population has approximately

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6.6 Billion

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The average number of children born per woman during her reproductive lifetime, considered to be from 15 to 44 years of age, is called

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total fertility rate

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When a farmer does not cultivate the land for a certain period of time in order for the soil to rejuvenate its nutrients is called

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Fallow

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Throughout human history, the earths ___________ has increased at a fairly even rate

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Population

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The world's human population has increased rapidly in

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less developed regions

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An excess of persons leaving a country is

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Relocation diffusion

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The for-profit production of market crops with a widespread distribution is what kind of agricultural practice

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commercial

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a type of agricultural practice that is largely based on growing a variety of local corps, using hand tools, and which does not rely on fertilizers or sophisticated irrigation is

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Substance

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The maximum number of people that can be supported in a given area is called

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caring capacity

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If you worked for a company in the primary industry, you would likely be in the business of

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processing raw materials

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This is when there are regional differences in regards to advancements in and implementation of an industrialized economy

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uneven development

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a focused geographic area where important innovations are born and form which they spread

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cultural hearth

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Post industrialization is

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is past the industrial movement, goes to toward a service industry

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Oil extraction and fishing are considered what kind of industry is called

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primary industry

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The U.S. is not considered a country based on primary industries

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true

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The region in the upper Midwest that was once considered dominant in manufacturing is now referred to as the

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Rust Belt

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The industrial revolution begin in the U.S. around

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1870's

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With the successful practice of Fordism during he 1910's industries were able to

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hire unskilled labor to work on the assembly line floor

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Most of the world's opium comes from

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China

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The manufacturing process is done by

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secondary industries

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The extent to which a group's ways of life, their adaptive strategies in their old home, preconditioned them for success in their new land is called

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pre-adaptation

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World Cities are urban areas that have more than

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10 million residents

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This is the inherent power of the state to size a citizen's private property without the owner's consent for public or civid uses

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Eminent Domain

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Gentrification

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The displacement of lower-income residents as buildings in deteriorated areas of city centers are restored

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________is dominates the economic, financial, political and cultural life of a county as well as has the most residents

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Primate city

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The U.S. does not have a __________

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primary city

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What is an Edge city

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a new urban cluster of economic activity that is peripheral to a city’s traditional downtown

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A favela describes a shanty town in what country

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Brazil

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what model is based on a series of rings that diffuse outward form a city's CBD

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concentric zone

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These are leal entities created by real estate developer for this purpose of developing, managing, and selling a community of homes

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Home owner's association

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Under the Eisenhower administration in the 1950's this became the largest public works project in US history, building 41,000 miles of networked interstates

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Interstate Highway Act of 1956

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________is a dense cluster of offices and shops formed around the point within a city that is most accessible, aka "downtown"

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Central business district

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The term used to describe the physical form of a city, which consists of street patters, building sizes and shapes, architecture, and density is called

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Urban morphology

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The US supreme court case that represents the first significant decision regarding nationwide zoning ordinances

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Euclid Vs Ambler

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Assimilation

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implies a complete blending with the host culture and may involve the loss of many distinctive ethnic traits

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Under a federal form of government various regions _______ perpetuate their individual characters

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can

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Examples of a Nation-State

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Germany
Sweden
Japan
Greece, and South Korea

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Nationalism

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when a group draws upon the doctrine of self determination in which they consider themselves having the right to governance over their own affairs

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Cultural diffusion is

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a way to view the relationship between people and nature as a two-way interaction

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Acculturation

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is when a ethnic group adopts enough of the ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially

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Sovereignty

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is when a state recognized by other countries as having the right to exist and control its affairs with in the territorial boundaries

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Geometric

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is a type of boundary that is often a perfectly straight line drawn without regard for physical or cultural features of the area

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How may states (independent countries) are there in the world

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200

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Unitary System of Government

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power is concentrated, with little or no provincial authority

All major decisions come from the central government, and policies are applied uniformly throughout the country

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Paradoxically

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as the world's population has increased, the number of the world's languages has decreased

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A dialect is

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a distinctive local or regional variant of a language that remains mutually intelligible to speakers of other dialects of that language, whereas an accent is a manner of pronunciation

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Nation

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is a community of people whose members are bound together by a sense of solidarity rooted in a historic attachment to the homeland and a common culture

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Ethnicity

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ethnic quality or affiliation” (my dictionary)
“Identity with or membership in a particular racial, national, or cultural group and observance of that group's customs, beliefs, and language”
is characterized by strong feelings of group identity and belonging

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An State is

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an independent political unit, with a centralized authority that makes claims to a sole jurisdiction or a bounded territory

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"Reading" the landscape

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is a metaphor for how e interpret our surroundings

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Identity politics

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the battle fought to have the U.S. government officially recognize Dr Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday is an example

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The cultural diffusion of a new trend, such as graffiti is a

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fluid and dynamic process

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Tossed salad

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is a term describes a means of assimilation but recognizes distinctions among different ethnic groups

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Identity politics

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this concept refers to social movements organized around the politicization of particular cultural identities.