33.2296° N,

81.3592° W

Across the street from Mr. Handy’s and Life Tabernacle Church, in front of Gateway Church, and down the street from the Winton Inn

Determines the precise position of something on Earth

Captures, stores, queries, and displays geographic data

Gathering of data about Earth’s surface from satellites

Physical gap or interval between two objects

Specific point on earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic

The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation system

The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation system

The theory that the physical environment 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

Scale

This image depicts a ________ region.

This image depicts a ________ region.

This image depicts a ________ region.

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

Depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource such as soil, grassland, forest, or wildlife that is used faster than it is naturally replenished. If such use continues, the resource becomes nonrenewable (on a human time scale) or nonexistent (extinct)

The total number of people divided by the total land area

The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture

The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture

When the population's fertility is just high enough to maintain its current population

The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support

A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero

Visual representations of the age and sex composition of a population whereby the percentage of each age group is represented by a horizontal bar the length of which represents its relationship to the total population

The percentage by which a population grows in a year; a country's growth rate, excluding migration

A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero

The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society

The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society

Studies the characteristics of human populations

Fruitfulness and fertility, the ability to produce abundant healthy growth or offspring

The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births

A measure of the number of births in a society

A societal shift from low life expectancy and predominance of parasitic and infectious diseases to high life expectancy and predominance of chronic and degenerative disease

A societal shift from low life expectancy and predominance of parasitic and infectious diseases to high life expectancy and predominance of chronic and degenerative diseases

The rate of population was growing at a faster rate than agricultural productivity leading to overpopulation

The advocacy of human population planning to ensure resources and environmental integrities for current and future human populations as well as for other species (use of contraception)

A population that has more middle-aged and older people than young people

The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compares to the number of people active in the labor force

Cultural Push & Pull Factors

Economic Push & Pull Factors

Environmental Push & Pull Factors

Forced Migration

Voluntary Migration

A population that has more middle-aged and older people than young people

The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition

A single, distinguishing feature of regular occurrence within a culture, such as the use of chopsticks or the observance of a particular caste system. A single element of learned behavior

Belief in superiority of one's own ethnic group

The principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture (contrasts with ethnocentrism)

Modifications to the environment by humans, including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects of their culture

Quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties

A set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society (i.e. in India)

Provide stability, strengthen, bind together, create solidarity

Lead to balkanization/devolution, disrupt internal order, destabilize, weaken

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places

A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

The process in which two or more languages converge and form a new language (used to describe languages in the Caribbean when slavery and colonization merged cultures)

The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs

Growth to a global or worldwide scale

The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication

The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences; the tendency for cultures to become increasingly dissimilar with time

Collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

Regional variation of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling and pronunciation

Universalizing Religions

Ethnic Religions

The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture

People of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

The blending traits from two different cultures to form a new trait

Different cultures in a society deserve value and respect for unique differences (the "mixed salad" concept)