geography

• culture


  beliefs and actions that define peoples' way of life, passed on from one generation to the other
• cultural geography


  study of a variety of cultural aspects worldwide and how they relate to the places they originate from and how they travel to the people
• physical geography


  earth's landscapes
• cultural hearths


  where ideas first begin
• globalization


  actions/process that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide
• global market


  product more likely to succeed when its customized for the culture its sold in
• cultural diffusion


  spread of an idea from one place to another
• hierarchical diffusion


  powerful person starts idea + leapfrogs down to others
• contagious diffusion


  ideas/things that come in waves, comes and goes
• stimulus diffusion


  specific trait is rejected but idea accepted as a whole
• relocation diffusion


  migrating individuals bring new ideas with them to other locations
• archipelago


  set of multiple islands
• island


  piece of land surrounded by water
• gulf


  deep inlet of water into land
• bay 


  broad inlet of water into land
• strait


  narrow passage of water that connects two areas of water
• river


  large stream that flows through land and empties out to an area of water
• river tributary


  river that flows into another river
• delta 


  low, flat plain that occurs at the deposits of rivers (sediments)
• isthmus 


  piece of land that connects two areas of land
• isthmus 


  strip of land that connects two larger pieces
• cape


  high point of land that extends over water
• peninsula


  land that is ALMOST entirely surrounded by water
• channel


  wide strait between two landmasses
• plain


  broad area of flat lands
• mesa


  flat topped mountain/hill (small plateau)
• butte


  tall tower of rock
• plateau


  elevated flat landform that rises above surrounding land
• valley


  low area between hills
• canyon


  deep valley (may have rivers + erosion)
• volcano


  opening in Earth's crust where lava, gas, and ash erupt
• fjord


  long, deep, narrow passage of water that goes inland (it ends though)
• mountain


  large natural elevation of earth's surface
• desert


  place where it receives less than 25 cm of rain per year
• mdc (more developed country)


  a developed country
• ldc (less developed country)


  a developing country
• demographic balancing equation


  total population change: births - deaths + immigrants - emigrants
• natural increase


  births - deaths
• pro-natalism


  encourages births
• anti-natalism


  discourages births