Spatial Analysis & Maps
A map uses different colors to show population density by country.
What is a choropleth map?
A country with a high birth rate and high death rate is most likely in this DTM stage.
What is Stage 1?
Better job opportunities attract migrants. This is an example of this factor.
What is a pull factor?
The belief that one’s own culture is superior is called this
What is ethnocentrism?
The center of business and commerce in a city is called this.
What is the Central Business District (CBD)?
A pattern where cities are spread evenly across a landscape due to planning or competition is this type of pattern.
What is dispersed pattern?
A country where farmers must support a large urban population would have a high this type of density.
What is physiological density?
Migrants sending money back home are engaging in this practice.
What are remittances?
Understanding a culture on its own terms is known as this.
What is cultural relativism?
A city that dominates a country’s economy and population is this type of city.
What is a primate city?
As transportation improves, people perceive distances as shrinking. This concept explains that change.
What is time-space compression?
A population pyramid with a wide base suggests this trend.
What is rapid population growth?
A migrant follows others from their home country to the same destination.
What is chain migration?
A food chain adapts its menu to local tastes in different countries. This reflects this type of diffusion.
What is stimulus diffusion?
Wealthier residents move into a lower-income neighborhood, raising property values. This process is called:
What is gentrification?
A map exaggerates the size of Greenland while shrinking Africa. This is an example of distortion caused by this.
What is map projection?
A government adopts policies to reduce birth rates due to overpopulation concerns. This concern reflects this theory.
What is Malthusian theory?
A migrant is unable to move due to strict immigration laws. These barriers are known as:
What are intervening obstacles?
A small, homogeneous, rural population practicing traditional customs is most associated with this type of culture.
What is folk culture?
A country shifts from manufacturing to service-based jobs. This reflects growth in this sector.
What is the tertiary sector?
A region defined by people’s feelings and opinions rather than measurable data is this type of region.
What is a perceptual region?
A country has low birth rates, aging population, and potential labor shortages. This is characteristic of this DTM stage.
What is Stage 4 or Stage 5?
A person forced to leave their home but remains within their country is called this.
What is an internally displaced person (IDP)?
A dominant culture replaces minority cultures over time. This process is called:
What is assimilation?
A model that divides the world into core, semi-periphery, and periphery regions is this theory.
What is world-systems theory?