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AP Hum Geo Midterm Study Guide Clem

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show Languages that were previously isolated come in contact and diffuse.  
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Language Divergence   show
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show Through conquest and agriculture.  
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The Conquest Theory   show
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show Languages diffused when poor farming in Anatolia led people to migrate away.  
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show An ancestral language that has been lost or replaced.  
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show Relate a specific culture, ethnic heritage, and the physical geography of a particular place; they do not appeal to all people, only a single locale within an ethnicity; Ex. Judaism and Hinduism.  
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Universalizing Religions   show
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Monotheistic Religions   show
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show Religions that believe there are multiple gods or divine beings usually responsible for areas of the universe; Ex. Hinduism  
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Centrifugal Forces   show
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Centripetal Forces   show
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show The spread of people, things, ideas, cultural practices, disease, and technology from place to place.  
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Types of Diffusion   show
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show Is the spread of a characteristic through the movement of people.  
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Contagious Diffusion   show
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show The blending of cultures to make something new.  
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Creolization   show
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Taboo   show
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Language   show
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show A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.  
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show Family, branch, group.  
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show Is the spread of an idea through passing from higher to lower levels.  
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show Is the spread of an trait that is adapted to fit a culture's beliefs or needs; The underlying principle stays the same while the rest is adapted or improved.  
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Acculturation   show
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show The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits when they come in contact with other cultures or societies; Ex. immigrant adaptation to new places.  
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Intervening Obstacles   show
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Intervening Opportunity   show
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Step Migration   show
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show Migration of people to a specific location because of relatives or members of the same nationality have previously migrated there.  
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show A collection of languages related by a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.  
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Language Group   show
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show Is a language that combines simple words from multiple languages to understand others and facilitate trade.  
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Isogloss   show
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show The collective loss of skill, education, training, and wealth that occurs when highly educated and wealthy people move from a country.  
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Culture Traits   show
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show Cultural attributes of an area used to describe a place.  
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show Policies that discourage women to have children.  
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show Most Migrants only move a short distance.  
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Ravenstein's Second Law of Migration   show
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show There is a process of dispersion, which is the inverse of absortion.  
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show The average number of children a woman will have during her child bearing years.  
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show The ability for the land to sustain a certain number of people.  
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Dependency Ratio   show
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Pro Natalist Policies   show
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Ravenstein's Fourth Law of Migration   show
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Ravenstein's Fifth Law of Migration   show
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show Natives of towns are less migratory than those of rural areas.  
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Ravenstein's Seventh Law of Migration   show
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Ravenstein's Eighth Law of Migration   show
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show Show gender and age; LDCs have pyramids that look like triangles; MDCs have pyramids that are inverted or take the shape of coke bottles.  
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show High CBR(Crude Birth Rate), no education on contraception; famine and disease keep CDR(Crude Death Rate) high.  
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Stage 2 in DTM   show
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Stage 3 in DTM   show
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show Involves a change of permanent residence.  
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Cyclical Movement   show
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show Cultural, environmental, political, forced, and economic.  
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Refugee   show
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Asylum Seeker   show
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Stage 4 in DTM   show
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Stage 5 in DTM   show
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Long-term Relocation   show
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show Unfavorable characteristics of a locale that leads to inhabitants leaving.  
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Pull Factors   show
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show People per farmland; Total number of people divided by the total area of arable land; Shows the strain of people on the land to produce enough food.  
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Arithmetic Density   show
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show Cyclical, periodic, migratory, transhumance, guest worker.  
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show Movement that has a lengthy return date; Ex. College or deployment  
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show Movement that is permanent; Ex. Moving to a new city.  
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show Seasonal movement of livestock between winter and summer pastures; A type of pastoralism or nomadism.  
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Transnational Migration   show
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Guest Worker   show
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Agricultural Density   show
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show Population grows exponentially while food grows linearly. If left unchecked by famine, disease, and war we will eventually outgrow out food supply.  
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show The use of Earth's resources in ways to ensure their availability for future generations.  
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Toponyms   show
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Globalization   show
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Environmental Determinism   show
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show The idea that the environment may set limits on humanity but that humanity can adapt to the environment.  
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show The physical character of a place; The location and the significance of it.  
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show The position on the surface of the Earth using longitude and latitude.  
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Relative Location   show
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show Relates to the surrounding features of a place, natural and human-made.  
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Formal Region   show
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show A social or economic region that occurs between a node or focal point and the surrounding areas.  
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show A region that people believe exists as part of their cultural idea; People's perception of the place around them created by an informal sense of place.  
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show The theory that states as distance between two places increases they interact less.  
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show The raising of animals and growing of crops on landed to obtain a primary source of food for the farmer and their family.  
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show The development of industries by the implementation of machine production of goods.  
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Demographics   show
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show Geographical data mapped in order to help make decisions for businesses, governments, or people.  
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Global Positioning Systems(GPS)   show
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show A map with areas shaded or patterns proportionate to the measurement of statistical data.  
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Mercator Projection   show
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show Shapes near the poles are flat; Continents appear similar to the globe; Minor distortions and distances at the poles are incorrect; Most common of the projections.  
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Cartography   show
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show Is the relationship between distances on the map and on the surface of the Earth; Can be local or global; Can be by fractions, ratios, or verballys.  
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Time-Space Compression   show
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show Internet increases the interaction of cultures; The idea that the world is smaller because of advancements in communication; Things diffuse faster than before because of improvements in technology.  
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Sequent Occupance   show
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show A map that has lines that join in places of equal values.  
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show A map where the size of a region is distorted to convey some statistical value.  
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show A thematic map in which the size or number of a chosen symbol indicates the relative statistical value for a geographic region.  
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show Study the position of an object without making physical contact; Satellites use it to collect data.  
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Scale of Analysis   show
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Census   show
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show Any area differentiated from surrounding areas by at least one characteristics.  
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Culture   show
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