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• Spatial Perspective


  • The West
  • The Far East
  • The Former Soviet Union
  • The Arab World
  • Latin America
  • Developing Asia
  • Sub Saharan Africa
  • Developed World/First world
  • The Semi Periphery/Second World
  • The Periphery/Third World
• Types of Maps


  • Physical Maps
  • Political Maps
  • Reference maps
  • Thematic maps
  • Choropleth maps
  • Cartogram maps
• Environmental Determinism


  The view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture
• Possibilism


  The view that the physical environment sets certain limits and possibilities for human activities, but culture is the primary determinant of how those possibilities are realised
• Distortion


  Differences between the real world and how it is represented on a map
• Cartography


  The study and practice of making maps
• GPS


  Global Positioning System
• GIS


  Geographic Information Systems
• Remote sensing


  The acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with it
• Census data / Census Tracts


  Detailed demographic and socioeconomic data collected by governments
• Dispersal


  The spreading out of geographic phenomena
• Topographical Maps


  Maps that show the physical features of an area
• Absolute distance


  The actual physical distance between two points
• Relative distance


  The distance between two points in relation to other factors like time or cost
• Distance decay


  The diminishing influence of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
• Sense of place


  The emotional attachment people have to a particular place
• Site


  The physical characteristics of a location
• Situation


  The relative location of a place in relation to its surroundings
• Scales of analysis


  • Global
  • Regional
  • National
  • Local
• Large Scale


  Maps that show a small area in great detail
• Small Scale


  Maps that show a large area in less detail
• Functional region


  A region defined by the flow of goods, services, or people
• John Snow and the Broad Street Pump
• Demographic Concepts


  • Birth Rate
  • Death Rate
  • Immigration
  • Emigration
  • Population Pyramids
  • Demographic Transition Model (DTM)
• Stages of the Demographic Transition Model


  • DTM Stage 1
  • DTM Stage 2
  • DTM Stage 3
  • DTM Stage 4
  • DTM Stage 5
• Migration Concepts


  • Migration Push factors
  • Migration Pull factors
  • Refugee
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internally displaced persons
  • Guest Workers
• Pronatalist


  Policies that encourage high birth rates
• Antinatalist


  Policies that discourage high birth rates
• Zero Population Growth


  A situation where the birth rate equals the death rate and the population size remains stable
• Rate of Natural Increase

  The difference between the birth rate and the death rate
• Doubling time


  The time it takes for a population to double in size
• Total Fertility rate


  The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime
• Demographic Momentum


  The tendency for population growth to continue even after the fertility rate has declined
• Sex ratio


  The ratio of males to females in a population
• Types of Migration


  • Voluntary migration
  • Chain migration
  • Step Migration
• Historical major migrations - (Know the different examples)
• Ellis Island


  A major immigration processing center in the United States
• Angel Island


  A major immigration processing center in the United States
• Bracero program


  A guest worker program between the US and Mexico
• Ravenstiens law of migration


  A set of principles describing patterns of human migration