Safa Human Geo Vocab
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- Public Housing
- Housing owned by the government.
- Physiological Density
- The Number of people per unit of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
- Polder
- Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area.
- Productivity
- The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labour needed to make it.
- Pidgin Language
- A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammer and limited vocab of a lingua franca, used or communications among speakers of 2 different languages.
- Racism
- Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a prticular race.
- Prime Agricultural Land
- The most productive farm land.
- Public Services
- Services offered by the goverment to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.
- Potential Reserve
- The amount of energy in deposits not yet identified but thought to exist.
- Primary Metropolitn Statistical Area
- PMSA; In the U.S., a metropolitan Statistical Area exceeding one million people population located within a consolidated metropolitan statistical area.
- Race
- Indentity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.
- Region
- An atrea distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
- Push Factors
- Factors that induce people to leave old residences.
- Prime Meridian
- The meridian designated as 0 degress longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.
- Rank Size Rule
- A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.
- Refugees
- People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, social group, nationality or membership of a political party.
- Prorupted State
- An otherwise compact state with a large prjection extension.
- Relocation diffusion
- The spread of a feature through the bodily movement of people from one place to another.
- Range of a Service
- The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
- Projection
- The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.
- Proven Reserve
- The amount of a resource available in discovered deposits.
- Ranching
- A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.
- Remote Sensing
- The aquisition of data about the Earth's surface from a satellite.
- Reaper
- A machine that cuts grain standing in a field.
- Primate City
- The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.
- Pollution
- Addition of more waste than a resource can accomodate.
- Regional Studies
- An approach to geography that emphsizes the relationships between social and physical phemomena in a particular area of study.
- Plantation
- A large farm in tropical and sub tropical climate that specializes in one or two crops for sale, usually to a MDC.
- Popular Culture
- Pop Culture;culture found in a large heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
- Population Pyramid
- A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
- Polytheism
- Beleif in or worship of more than one God.
- Possiblism
- The theory that the physical may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
- Producer Services
- Services that primarily help people conduct business.
- Radioactive Waste
- Particles from a nuclear reaction that emit radiation.
- Primate City Rule
- A pattern if settlements in a country, such thatthe largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.
- Pilgrimage
- A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.
- Primary Sector
- The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry.
- Post-Fordist Production
- Adoption by companies of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that performs a variety of tasks.
- Pull Factors
- Factors that induce people to move to a new location.
- Racists
- A person who ascribes to the beleifs of racism.
- Quota
- In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.