Built Landscape an area of land represented by its features and patterns of human occupation and use of natural resources [Changing attribute of a place] Sequent Occupance The notion that successive societies leave their cultural Read more…
Sequent Occupance: successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place that add up to the cultural landscape. this symbolizes Human Environment Interaction. Cultural Landscape: the fashioning of natural landscape by a culture group to Read more…
Carrying Capacity The maximum number of inhabitants of which can be supported in a given area. Cohort A group of people who experience a significant event or is involved in one. Demographic Regions Any defined Read more…
brain drain large-scale immigration by talented people chain migration migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there circulation short-term, repetitive or cyclical movements that recur Read more…
environmental determinism human geographers should apply laws from the natural sciences to understanding relationships between the physical environment and human actions. Humboldt and Ritter concentrated on how the physical environment caused social development Gis(Geographic information Read more…
Agricultural Density The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. Agricultural Revolution The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely Read more…
Chapter 1 Thinking Geographically globalization greater cultural and economic interaction among people all over the world geography The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including Read more…
urbanization Transformation of a population from rural to urban status; the process of city formation and expansion. urban morphology the study of the physical form and structure of urban places urban hearth area An area, Read more…
language a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols dialect the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people pidgin language A form of speech that Read more…
apartheid laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. balkanization process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities balkanized a small geographic Read more…
Federal A political-territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state where they have common interests Gerrymandering Redistricting for advantage, or the practice of dividing areas into electoral districts to give Read more…
Fieldwork the study of geographic phenomena by visiting and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places. Human Geography One of the two major divisions of Geography; the spatial analysis of human population, Read more…
agricultural density the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture arithmetic density the total number of people divided by the total land area base line an east-west Read more…
define space time compression relating it to technological innovations Space time compression is the increasing sense of connectivity that seems to be bringing people closer together even thought their distances are the same. Space time Read more…
urban morphology the study of the physical form and structure of urban places city conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics urban the entire build-up, Read more…
circular and cumulative causation A process through which tendencies for economic growth are self-reinforcing; an expression of the multiplier effect which tends to favor major cities and core regions over less-advantaged peripheral regions. core-periphery model Read more…
Maquiladora Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico. Industrial Revolution the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from Read more…
Remittances Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries. Cyclic Movements Movement – for example, nomadic migration Read more…
map a two-dimensional or flat scale model of Earth’s surface, or a portion of it place a specific point of Earth distinguished by a particular character region an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive Read more…
Culture a group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people Folk Culture cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, customs, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities, Culture traditionally practiced by a Read more…