Introduction To Physical And Human Geography - D19
Introduction To Physical And Human Geography - D19
Introduction to Physical and Human Geography - D19
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Introduction to Physical and Human Geography - D199 Questions and Answers
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Introduction to Physical and Human Geography - D199
immigrants - Answer- people moving into a geographical area
emigrants - Answer- people moving out of a geographical area
net migration - Answer- the difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants for a given geogr...
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Geography - D199
immigrants - Answer- people moving into a geographical area
emigrants - Answer- people moving out of a geographical area
net migration - Answer- the difference between the number of immigrants and the
number of emigrants for a given geographical area in any given year
return migration - Answer- permanent return of emigrants to their country of origin
travel visas - Answer- documents that give temporary permission to enter a country
brain drain - Answer- a wealthy country's recruiting the "best brains" from a poorer
country by offering higher-paying opportunities
brain gain - Answer- benefits a receiving country experiences when highly skilled
immigrants are lured away from their country of origin when they accept higher-
paying opportunities
brain waste - Answer- situation that occurs when a receiving country fails to take
advantage of all the skills of an immigrant population
push factors - Answer- conditions that encourage an individual to move from a
location
pull factors - Answer- conditions that influence migrants to move to a particular
location
reference maps - Answer- maps used to display important physical elements of a
specific geographic area, such as countries, rivers, mountains, etc.
thematic maps - Answer- specialized maps used to understand one particular
attribute or characteristic of a specific geographic area; examples are population
maps, weather maps, and maps illustrating the spread of disease
literal maps - Answer- maps that strive to display the objective truth about a specific
geographic area
figurative maps - Answer- maps that use symbols to represent a narrative or point of
view; they are much less concerned with physical accuracy than are literal maps
analytical mapping - Answer- the use of cartography techniques to uncover and learn
about patterns and trends in a specific geographic area
, map scale - Answer- how the measurement of distance on a map corresponds to the
distance on the ground in the real world
representative fraction (RF) - Answer- a way of describing the scale of a map by
using a ratio
small-scale - Answer- a way of describing a map with a relatively small RF, where
the various features of the geography appear relatively small
large-scale - Answer- a way of describing a map with a relatively large RF, where the
various features of the geography appear relatively large
coordinates - Answer- the points on a specified reference system that define the
location of a particular place
Cartesian coordinate system - Answer- a reference system for a plane (a flat
surface) based on the work of mathematician Rene Descartes, using x- and y-axes.
geographic coordinate system - Answer- the reference system devised to locate
particular places on the surface of the earth, using lines of latitude and longitude
longitude - Answer- one of a set of imaginary east-west lines that form part of the
geographic coordinate system
prime meridian - Answer- the line of longitude that passes through Greenwich, UK,
which is the starting point for counting the rest of the lines of longitude
latitude - Answer- one of a set of imaginary north-south lines that form part of the
geographic coordinate system
graticule - Answer- the grid pattern in the geographic coordinate system
projection - Answer- a method of "flattening" a globe into a form that can be
represented on a flat surface
conformal projections - Answer- maps that preserve, in the process of projection,
angles, although not necessarily lengths
equal-area projections - Answer- maps that preserve, in the process of projection,
the relative sizes of landmasses; they do not, however, preserve shape well
equidistant projections - Answer- maps that preserve, in the process of projection,
accurate distances from a central point; they do not, however, preserve shape or
size well
compromise, interrupted, and artistic projections - Answer- maps that blend
characteristics to maintain as much accuracy as possible in distance, size, and
shape, conceding other characteristics; also, maps that have beauty as their main
objective
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