the system used to transfer locations from earth’s surface to a flat map
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The system used to transfer locations from Earth’s surface to a flat map. Projection. A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousands years ago. Language branch. A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times. Pagan. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The system used to transfer locations from Earth’s surface to a flat map
Projection
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousands
years ago
Language branch
A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times
Pagan
Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, have a discrete spirit and
conscious life
Animism
Another name for slash-and-burn agriculture
Shifting cultivation
A flooded field for growing rice
sawah
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area
Central place
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
range
In the U.S., a central city of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is
located, and the adjacent counties
Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are
spatially arranged in a series of rings
Burgess Concentric zones model
The level of development that can be maintained in a country without depleting resources to the extent that future generations
will be unable to achieve a comparable level of development
Sustainable development
Fuel that derives from plant material and animal waste
Biomass fuel
The sustainable use and management of a natural resource through consuming it at a less rapid rate than it can be replaced
Conservation
A resource that has a theoretically unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by
humans
Renewable energy
Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually
through ownership by large corporations
Agribusiness
Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Double cropping
A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes
Pilgrimage
A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally
Autonomous religion
Dialect spoken by some African Americans
Ebonics
A boundary that separates regions in which different
language usages predominate
Isogloss
When the first Industrial Revolution happened in Britain
Late 1700s
When the first Agricultural Revolution happened
Over 10,000 years ago (earliest crop domestication)
When the Green Revolution happened?
1970s-1980s
A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
LDC
Eight international development goals that all members of the UN have
agreed to achieve by 2015Millennium Development Goals1.eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, 2. achieve universal primary education,
3. Promote gender equality/empower women4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, etc.
7. Ensure environmental sustainability8. Global partnership for development
Most countries have achieved relatively high levels of
development are located above 30 degrees north latitude
Wallerstein’s Core-Periphery Model
Western Europe’s most important and most centrally located industrial area
that produces iron and steel manufacturing because of its proximity
to large coalfields
Rhine-Ruhr Valley
The leading industrial area in the U.S. outside of the northeast when they have
the largest clothing and textile production, 2nd largest furniture production and major
food-processing center
Southern California
Name the countries who currently still hold these colonies:
1. Greenland2. Easter Island3. Puerto Rico
4. Cayman Islands5.Hong Kong
1. Denmark2. Chile3. U.S.4. U.K.5. China
Where the Green Line Border exists
Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip