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  1. Social Science. Ap human geo. Unit 3, 3.2. Definition: A charter group is an initial group that establishes a cultural, social, or ethnic community in a specific location. Example: The Pilgrims who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 can be considered a charter group.

  2. a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures. Transmigration. movement that consists of one person migrating from one place to another. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Age Distribution, Carrying Capacity, Cohort and more.

  3. Projection. Definition: The scientific method transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map is called projection. Real World Example: The Robinson projection shows information from the oceans on Earth. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Place, Region, Scale and more.

    • The Nature of Geography
    • A Concise Definition
    • Using The Definition
    • The Definition in Practice

    Immanuel Kant, writing some two centuries ago, may have been the first scholar to identify clearly and succinctly the unique nature of both history and geography. He observed that: 1. History organizes and analyzes events in terms of when they occurred (the temporal context, or time). 2. Geography focuses upon Earth's features and conditions by ask...

    The following definition incorporates all essential elements traditionally recognized as being fundamental to geography: it is the study of "what is where, why there, and why care?"* To this definition, I often add "pertaining to the various physical and human features of Earth's surface, including their conditions, interactions, spatial distributi...

    "What is?"might be a particular type of ecological relationship, such as tropical shifting cultivation, pastoral nomadism, or mining. "Where?"then places the activity in a particular location and perhaps with a particular group, such as Amerindians of the Amazon Basin, Tuareg of the Western Sahara, or residents of Minnesota's Iron Range. "Why there...

    This definition of geography works well for several reasons. First, it emphasizes that geography is a methodology. It stresses the geographic way of organizing and analyzing information pertaining to the location, distribution, pattern, and interactions of the varied physical and human features of Earth's surface. All geographic inquiry should begi...

  4. Monopolize definition: to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.. See examples of MONOPOLIZE used in a sentence.

  5. MONOPOLIZE definition: 1. in business, to control something completely and to prevent other people having any effect on…. Learn more.

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  7. Urban land-use patterns are also related to accessibility and land rents. In agricultural regions, the crop that produces the highest return at a location is the crop that farmers will choose to grow there. In urban areas, the reasoning is the same—the land use that generates the highest rent in a particular place is the one that will be ...

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