AP Human Geography

1. an international agreement that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities
3. _______________ diffusion occurs when a cultural trait spread continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people
7. computer system that store, analyzes, and displays information from multiple sources
10. __________ cities exert influence far beyond their national borders
12. occurs when an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group
13. a belief that human culture plays a larger role than the environment
14. government run by religious leaders
16. behavior that is heavily discouraged by a culture
17. a state's desire to create and maintain a state of its own
19. a forced migrant who moved from one part of their country to another
21. religion that believes in karma and reincarnation, follows the caste system, and sees the ganges river as a sacred space
23. ___________ land is suitable for growing crops
25. the commercial heart of a city
26. place names
29. when one country seeks to annex territory where it has cultural ties to part of the population or historical claims to the land
31. coined the term "cultural landscape" and developed the theory of multiple-hearths
33. the economic sector that provides information and services to people
34. place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction

2. area of poverty with poorly built housing and lack of infrastructure
4. when an area's population grows so large it is unsupportable
5. when one group of people is dispersed to various locations
6. ________________ policies attempt to decrease the number of birth in a country
8. ____________ boundaries have been abandoned for political purposes but evidence of them still exist
9. a common language used by people who do not speak the same native language
11. __________________ ratio comparing the working to the nonworking people in a population
15. created the World Systems Theory that divded countries into core, semi-periphery, and periphery
18. religion that is monotheistic, follows the five pillars, and was founded by Mohammad
19. influencing another country by direct conquest, economic control, or political dominance
20. redrawing district boundaries as a result of changes in population
22. shows five typical stages of population change that countries experience as they modernize
24. created a model showing the types of products that would be produced relative to the distance from the market
27. the power of a political unit to rule over its own affairs
28. the transfer of some political power from the central gov't to subnational levels of gov't
30. people who moved out of a country
32. _______________ revolution is the period of advances in plant biology during the mid 20th century