Maps and Population
The level at which geographic data is analyzed and displayed.
What is scale of analysis?
The attitude or belief that one's own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies.
What is neocolonialism?
This measures the Crude Birth Rate, Crude Death Rate, and Natural Increase Rate as countries go through development stages.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
This theory explains the optimal location of manufacturing industries based on minimizing transportation, labor, and agglomeration costs.
What is Least Cost Theory?
Something that motivates a person to migrate away from their place of residence.
What is a push factor?
A type of religion that is universally applicable to all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, or geographic location.
What is a universalizing religion?
Attitudes, ideologies, institutions, or conditions that bind a state's population together and foster national identity.
What is a centripetal force?
This model postulates that economic development occurs in five basic stages that all countries must go through to become developed, often linearly.
What is Rostow's stages of growth?
This theory refers to how the price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business increases.
What is Bid Rent Theory?
A rate that is measured through the formula (Crude Birth Rate - Crude Death Rate)/1000.
What is the Natural Increase Rate?
The spread of ideas from authority figures or places of power to other people or locations.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
The manipulation of an electoral constituency's boundaries so as to favor one party or class.
What is gerrymandering?
This model describes the spatial relationship between developed regions and less developed regions, how developed regions reap resources and labor from developed regions.
What is the Core-Periphery Model?
This theory suggests that environmental factors influence the development of human qualities.
What is environmental determinism?
A place defined by a person's sense of place and does not have agreed on boundaries.
What is a vernacular region?
The merging of various distinct cultural or religious ideas to form a new idea.
What is syncretism?
A boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and is often based on physical features such as rivers or mountains.
What is an antecedent boundary?
This model focuses on the relationship between the cost of land and the cost of transporting goods, determining where agricultural industries are located.
What is the Von Thunen Model?
This theory seeks to explain the number, size and range of market services in a commercial system or human settlements in a residential system.
What is Central Place Theory?
The number of people per unit area of arable land.
What is physiological density?
A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
What is a lingua franca?
The fragmentation of an area, country, or region into smaller, and often hostile, independent states, often based on ethnic or cultural lines.
What is balkanization?
A set of principles that described migration patterns and behaviors during the late 19th century.
What are the Laws of Migration?
This theory suggests that if population growth continues unchecked, it will lead to famine, disease, and conflict as resources become insufficient.
What is Malthusian Theory?