Geography quiz 1
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- a common language used to communicate by people who do not speak one anothers native language; often a language of trade
- Lingua Franca
- a graph that depicts the age and gender structures of a country
- population pyramid
- A group of people who sare a set of beliefs, a way of life, a technology, and usually a geographic location.
- Ethnic Group
- a part of the globe delineated accordign to criteria selected to facilitate the study of patterns particular to the area
- world region
- a political unit, or country, formed by people who share a language, a culture, and a political philosophy
- Nation-state
- a unit of the earths surface that contains distinct patterns of physical features and or of human development
- region
- physical features such as mountain ranges, river valleys, basins, and cliffs
- landform
- rainfall caused by the confrontation and interaction of large air masses of different temperatures and densities
- Frontal Precipitation
- smaller divisions of the world regions delineated to facilitate study of patterns particular to the area
- sub region
- the analysis of the geographic characterisitics of particular places
- regional geography
- the average number of children women in a country are likely to have at the present rate of natural increase
- total fertility rate (TFR)
- the change from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates that usually accompanies a cluser of other changes, such as change from a subsistence to a cash exonomy, increasing education rates, and urbanization
- Demographic Translation
- the distance in degrees east and west of Greenwich, England; also called meridians, run from pole to pole.
- longitude
- the distance in degrees north or south of the equator; the yrun parallel to the equator.
- latitude
- the dry side of a mountain range, facing away from the prevailing winds
- rain shadow
- The force exerted by a column of air on a sqaure foot of surface.
- Air Pressure
- The maximum number of people that a given territroy can support sustainably with food, water, and other essential resources.
- Carrying Capactiy
- The number of births per 1000 people in a given population, per unit of time, usually per year.
- Brith Rate
- the process by which fragmented rock and soil are moved over a distance, primarily by wind and water.
- Erosion
- the proposal based on scientific evidence that about 100 million years ago all continents were joined in a single vast continent.
- Pangaea hypothesis
- the proprtion that relates the dimensions of a map to the dimensions of the area it represents; also variable sized units of geographical analysis from the local scale to the regional scale of the global scale
- scale
- the rate of population growth measured as the excess of births over deaths per 1000 individuals per year without regard for the effects of migration
- growth rate
- THe ratio of total deaths to total population in a specified community, usually expressed in numbers per 1000 or in percentages.
- Death Rate
- the study of the earth's physical processes; how they work, how they affect humans, and how they are affected by humans
- physical geography
- the study of various aspects of human life that create the distinctive landscapes and regions of the world
- Human geography
- the tectonic plate jnunctures around the edges of the Pacific Ocean; characterized by volcanoes and earthquakes
- ring of fire
- The triangle-shaped plain of sediment that forms where a river meets the sea
- Delta
- the world wide system in a which goods, services, and labor are exchanged
- Global economy