the system used to transfer locations from earth’s surface to a flat map projection

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 2015

Millennium 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