D199 Physical and Human Geography
bsolute Direction - ✔✔Actual direction you're heading
Absolute Distance - ✔✔Exact distance. (Miles)
Absolute Location - ✔✔Your exact location. (Longitude and latitude)
Agricultural Density - ✔✔Shows the level of efficiency of agricultural production in an area and the
degree of reliance on human labor versus technology
Anti-Natalist Policies - ✔✔Policies that are created to help decrease a society's birth rate
Arable Land - ✔✔Land that is suitable for growing crops
Arithmetic Density - ✔✔Commonly used metric to show how densely populated a place is
Carrying Capacity - ✔✔The amount of people that can be supported by the environment without
damaging the environment
Cartogram Map - ✔✔A thematic map where the greatest values are represented by the largest area
Chloropleth Map - ✔✔A thematic map where data is shown using different colors or shades of color to
show different quantities of a data set
Desertification - ✔✔The process by which arable land loses its fertility and becomes a desert
, Dot Density Map - ✔✔A thematic map where dots are placed where data is occurring. Allows you to see
spatial distribution of data
Economic Pull Factors - ✔✔Things that bring people in.
More business opportunities, less taxes, greater variety of goods and services
Economic Push Factors - ✔✔Things that push people away.
Lack of job opportunities, economic instability, high taxes, or higher cost of living
Emigration - ✔✔When someone is leaving a place.
"Exit"
Environmental Determinism - ✔✔Environment determines the possibilities and limits of a culture
Environmental Possibilism - ✔✔Culture and the environment work together to inform the possibilities
and limits of the culture and environment
Flowline Map - ✔✔A thematic map where arrows show movement of goods, people, animals, services
or ideas
Forced Migration - ✔✔When a migrant has no choice but to migrate.
Human trafficking, forced child labor, child soldiers, slavery.
Formal Region - ✔✔Defined by economic, political, social, or environmental area
bsolute Direction - ✔✔Actual direction you're heading
Absolute Distance - ✔✔Exact distance. (Miles)
Absolute Location - ✔✔Your exact location. (Longitude and latitude)
Agricultural Density - ✔✔Shows the level of efficiency of agricultural production in an area and the
degree of reliance on human labor versus technology
Anti-Natalist Policies - ✔✔Policies that are created to help decrease a society's birth rate
Arable Land - ✔✔Land that is suitable for growing crops
Arithmetic Density - ✔✔Commonly used metric to show how densely populated a place is
Carrying Capacity - ✔✔The amount of people that can be supported by the environment without
damaging the environment
Cartogram Map - ✔✔A thematic map where the greatest values are represented by the largest area
Chloropleth Map - ✔✔A thematic map where data is shown using different colors or shades of color to
show different quantities of a data set
Desertification - ✔✔The process by which arable land loses its fertility and becomes a desert
, Dot Density Map - ✔✔A thematic map where dots are placed where data is occurring. Allows you to see
spatial distribution of data
Economic Pull Factors - ✔✔Things that bring people in.
More business opportunities, less taxes, greater variety of goods and services
Economic Push Factors - ✔✔Things that push people away.
Lack of job opportunities, economic instability, high taxes, or higher cost of living
Emigration - ✔✔When someone is leaving a place.
"Exit"
Environmental Determinism - ✔✔Environment determines the possibilities and limits of a culture
Environmental Possibilism - ✔✔Culture and the environment work together to inform the possibilities
and limits of the culture and environment
Flowline Map - ✔✔A thematic map where arrows show movement of goods, people, animals, services
or ideas
Forced Migration - ✔✔When a migrant has no choice but to migrate.
Human trafficking, forced child labor, child soldiers, slavery.
Formal Region - ✔✔Defined by economic, political, social, or environmental area
