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Section 1
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Push and Pull Factors
The push factor involves a force which acts to drive people away from a place and the pull factor is what draws them to a new location.
Population Stage 3
Physiological Density
The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
Counter-urbanization
Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.
Brain Drain
large scale emigration by talented people
Agricultural Density
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
Refugee
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
Habit
It is a habit that a group of people do.
American English
The English language as developed in North America.
Hierarchical Diffusion`
The spread of an feature or tread from one key person to the next.
Formal Regions
Three common types of regions are formal regions, which are defined formally by government or other structures, such as cities, states, and mountain ranges.
Custom
Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group.
Literary Tradition
A language that is written as well as spoken.
Vernacular Regions
Beyond "vernacular geography," a "vernacular region" is a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, mutual interests, and a common identity.
Scale
Telling about how much distance between two objects is.
Arable Land
Land that can be used to grow crops
Density
the frequency with which something exists within a area.
Distribution
The arrangement of something across earth surface.
Life expectancy
The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Expansion Diffusion
A trend spread of a feature or tread of music
British English
The English language in the British isles, especially in contrast with Canadian, Australian, or U.S. English.
Folk Culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Possibilism Vs. Determinism
Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. Doctrine that all events are untimely determine by cause eternal to the will.
Language Families
Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin
Globalization
Actions that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide.
Relocation Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
Cartography
The science of making maps.
Inter-regional Migration
Permanent movement from one region of a country to another
Chain Migration
The migration event in which individuals follow the migratory path of preceding friends or family members to an existing community.
Migration
Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.
Situation
The location of a place relative to other places.
Population Stage 2
Population Stage 4
Site
The physical character of a place.
Cultural Ecology
the study of the relationship between a culture group and the natural environmental it occupies
Natural Increase
Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths; does not reflect either emigrant or immigrant movements
Human geography Vs. Physical geography
The branch of geography dealing with human activity affects. And physical is the branch of geography dealing with natural features.
Stimulus Diffusion
Spread of an underlying principle, even though specific character is rejected.
Popular Culture
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Taboo
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
Function Regions
A function region has a focal point (often a city) and is the organized space surrounding that central location.
One Child Policy
Act in China that allows people to have only 1 child in the city and 2 children in the countryside.
Population Stage 1
International Migration
Human movement involving movement across international boundaries
International date line
Meridian 180 degrees longitude.
Distortion
a change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
Earth Four Major Systems
Biosphere: All living things Lithosphere: Earth crust and a portion of upper mantel Hydrosphere: Water on earth Atmosphere: Thin later of gases
Dependency Ration
The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force.
Section 2
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