DIRECTIONS- Define each term on a 3 x 5 index card. The front of the card (no lines) should
have the term and the back of the card (lines) should have the definition. Keep the terms
organized by chapter. Terms may be used in multiple chapters, make a new card for each
chapter in which the term appears. This assignment will be graded on the first day of school.
Chapter One- Basic Concepts
Abiotic
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Geographic information
science (GIScience)
Geographic information
system (GIS)
Possibilism
Preservation
Prime Meridian
Projection
Biotic
Global Positioning System
(GPS)
Cartography
Globalization
Climate
Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT)
Regional studies (cultural
landscape)
Concentration
Connection
Conservation
Contagious diffusion
Cultural ecology
Cultural landscape
Culture
Density
Diffusion
Distance decay
Distribution
Ecology
Ecosystem
Environmental determinism
Expansion diffusion
Formal region
(uniform/homogeneous
region)
Functional region (nodal
region)
Region
Relocation diffusion
Hearth
Remote sensing
Hierarchical diffusion
Renewable resource
Housing bubble
Resource
Hydrosphere
Scale
International Date Line
Site
Latitude
Situation
Lithosphere Location
Space
Longitude
Space-time compression
Map
Stimulus diffusion
Map scale
Sustainability
Mental map
Toponym
Meridian
Transnational corporation
Network
Uneven development
Nonrenewable resource
Vernacular region
(perceptual region)
Parallel
Pattern
Place
Polder
Chapter 2- Population and
Health
Agriculture density
Arithmetic density
Census
Floodplain
Denglish
Crude birth rate (CBR)
Forced migration
Dialect
Crude death rate (CDR)
Guest worker
Ebonics
Demographic transition
Immigration
Extinct language
Demography
Internal migration
Franglais Isologloss
Dependency ratio
Internally displaced person
Isolated language
Doubling time
International migration
Language
Ecumene
Interregional migration
Language branch
Epidemiologic transition
Intervening obstacle
Language family
Epidemiology
Intraregional migration
Language group
Industrial Revolution
Migration
Lingua franca
Infant mortality rate (IMR)
Migration transition
Literary tradition
Life expectancy
Mobility
Logogram
Medical revolution
Net migration
Official language
Natural increase rate (NIR)
Pull factor
Pidgin language
Overpopulation
Push factor
Received Pronunciation (RP)
Pandemic
Quotas
Spanglish
Physiological density
Refugees
Standard Language
Population pyramid
Unauthorized immigrants
Vulgar Latin
Sex ratio
Voluntary migration
Chapter 6- Religions
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Chapter 4- Folk and Popular
Culture
Agnosticism
Zero population growth
(ZPG)
Custom
Chapter 3- Migration
Folk culture
Asylum seeker
Habit
Brain drain
Popular culture
Chain migration
Taboo
Circulation
Terroir
Counterurbanization
Chapter 5- Languages
Emigration
Creole (creolized language)
Animism
Atheism
Autonomous religion
Branch
Caste
Cosmogony
Denomination
Ethnic religion
Fundamentalism
Ghetto
Anocracy
Breeder reactor
Hierarchical religion
Autocracy
Demand
Missionary
Balance of power
Monotheism
Boundary
Pagan
City-state
Developed country (more
developed country
[MDC]/relatively developed
country)
Pilgrimage
Colonisalism
Polytheism
Colony
Sect
Compact state
Solstice
Democracy
Syncretic
Elongated state
Female labor force
participation rate
Universalizing religion
Federal state
Fission
Chapter 7- Ethnicities
Fragmented state
Apartheid
Frontier
Foreign direct investment
(FDI)
Balkanization
Gerrymandering
Fossil fuel
Balkanized
Landlocked state
Fracking (hydraulic
fracturing)
Blockbusting
Microstate
Centripetal force
Multiethnic state
Ethnic cleansing
Multinational state
Ethnicity
Nation-state
Genocide
Perforated state
Gross domestic product
(GDP)
Nationalism
Prorupted state
Gross national income (GNI)
Nationality
Self-determination
Housing bubble
Race
Sovereignty
Racism
State
Human Development Index
(HDI)
Racist
Terrorism
Racist
Unitary state
Sharecropper
Chapter 9- Development
Triangular slave trade
Active solar energy systems
Chapter 8-Political
Geography
Adolescent fertility rate
Biomass fuel
Developing country (less
developed country [LDC])
Development
Fair trade
Fusion
Gender Inequality index (GII)
Geothermal energy
Hydroelectric power
Inequality-adjusted HDI
(IHDI)
Literacy rate
Maternal mortality rate
Microfinance
Millennium Development
Goals
Nonrenewable energy
Passive solar energy systems
Photovoltaic cell
Potential reserve
Primary sector
Productivity
Proven reserve
Purchasing Power Parity
(PPP)
Radioactive waste
Renewable energy
Secondary sector
Desertification
Wet rice
Dietary energy consumption
Winnow
Double cropping
Winter wheat
Food security
Chapter 11- Industry and
Manufacturing
Grain
Green revolution
Horticulture
Hull
Intensive subsistence
agriculture
Milkshed
Paddy
Pastoral nomadism
Pasture
Acid deposition
Acid precipitation
Air pollution
Apparel
Biochemical oxygen
command (BOD)
Break-of-bulk point
Bulk-gaining industry
Bulk-reducing industry
Structural adjustment
program
Plantation
Supply
Prime agricultural land
Tertiary sector
Ranching
Uneven development
Reaper
Value added
Ridge tillage
Chapter 10- Food and
Agriculture
Sawah
Agribusiness
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Agricultural revolution
Spring wheat
Agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
New international division of
labor
Aquaculture (aquafarming)
Sustainable agriculture
Nonferrous
Cereal grain (cereal)
Swidden
Nonpoint-source pollution
Chaff
Thresh
Outsourcing
Combine
Transhumance
Ozone
Commercial agriculture
Truck farming
Photochemical smog
Crop
Undernourishment
Point-source pollution
Crop rotation
Shifting Cultivation
Chlorofluorocarbon (CFE)
Cottage industry
Ferrous
Fordist production
Greenhouse effect
Industrial Revolution
Just-in-time delivery
Labor-intensive industry
Maquiladora
Post-Fordist production
Urbanization
Right-to-work law
Chapter 13- Urban Patterns
Sanitary landfill
Annexation
Site factors
Census tract
Situation factors
Central business district
(CBD)
Textile
Vertical integration
Chapter 12- Services and
Settlements
Basic industries
Business services
Central place
Central place theory
City-state
Clustered rural settlement
Consumer services
Dispersed rural settlement
Economic base
Enclosure movement
Gravity model
Market area (hinterland)
Nonbasic industries
Primate city
Primate city rule
Public services
Range (of a service)
Rank-size-rule
Service
Settlement
Threshold
City
Combined statistical area
Concentric zone model
Core based statistical area
(CBSA)
Council of Government
Density Gradient
Edge City
Filtering
Food desert
Gentrification
Greenbelt
Megalopolis
Multiple nuclei model
DIRECTIONS- LOCATE AND IDENTIFY THE LISTED PLACES ON THE PROVIDED WORLD MAPS. THERE
WILL BE A QUIZ ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.
Cities and Countries
Tokyo, Japan
Ural Mountains
Baghdad, Iraq
Washington DC
The 7 continents
Beijing, China
Land features
Water Features
Berlin, Germany
Alps
Amazon River
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Andes Mountains
Bering Strait
Cairo, Egypt
Apennines
Black Sea
Cape Town, South Africa
Appalachian Mountains
Caribbean Sea
Chicago, IL
Arabian Desert
Chesapeake Bay
Hong Kong, China
Atacama Desert
Congo River
Islamabad, Pakistan
Atlas Mountains
Danube River
Jakarta, Indonesia
Gobi Desert
Ganges River
Lagos, Nigeria
Great Plains (USA)
5 Great Lakes
London, England, UK
Great Sandy Desert
Gulf of Mexico
Los Angeles, CA
Himalayas
Hudson Bay
Madrid, Spain
Indian Subcontinent
Indus River
Mexico City, Mexico
Indonesian Archipelago
Lake Victoria
Moscow, Russia
Isthmus of Suez
Mediterranean Sea
New Delhi, India
Kalahari Desert
Mekong River
New Orleans, LA
Mississippi Delta
Mississippi River
New York City, NY
Mojave Desert
Niger River
Ottawa, Canada
Namib Desert
Nile River
Paris, France
Nile Delta
North Sea
Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Patagonia
Persian Gulf
Rome, Italy
Pyrenees Mountains
Red Sea
Seoul, South Korea
Rocky Mountains
Rhine River
Shanghai, China
Sahara Desert
River Seine
Sydney, Australia
Siberia
River Thames
Tehran, Iran
Tibetan Plateau
Volga River
Yangtze River
Yellow Rover
Zambezi River
The 5 Oceans