Themes of Geography
he theme of geography that answers the question of how do people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another.
movement
The number of births per unit of population.
birth rate
push/pull factors
The process in which there is an increase in the number of people living and working in a city or metropolitan area.
urbanization
The classification given to countries that are the most advanced, wealthiest, and have the most productive economies
core
The physical features and cultural characteristics that describe a location.
place
The number of people per unit of land area.
population density
The type of migration that occurs when someone moves from one city to another within the same country, such as moving from Gainesville, Florida to Athens, Georgia.
Internal Migration
The rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward into rural areas.
urban sprawl
The classification given to countries that are the least advanced, poorest, and have the weakest economies.
periphery
The meaning of relative and absolute position on the earth’s surface.
Location
The continent where the majority of the world’s population lives
Asia
Defined as a person who has a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, or are members of a particular social group, or political opinion
refugee
The geographic term used to describe the specific physical characteristics of an immediate location
site
The following is a describes what term
The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
infrastructure
An area with one or more traits, characteristics, features that are common and make it different from surrounding areas is called a
region
The three countries that currently stand as the most populated in the world.
India, china and the US
The migration process exemplified when an immigrant moves to a new country, tells their family how amazing it is, and then the family begins the process to join them
Chain Migration
The geographic term that refers to the location of a place relative to its surroundings and other places.
situation
The specific type of agriculture that involves following an animal food source from one location to another
nomadic herding
Which of the following is not one of the five themes of geography?
Location
Movement
Human Environment Interaction
Region
Resources
Resources
The primary concern of this theorist was that human populations would grow at rates that exceed their ability to produce food.
Malthus
Oscar has recently immigrated to the USA and now lives in Lexington. With technology, he can keep in touch with his family back in Congo. Oscar tells his family how amazing the States are and that they should join him. After a few months, Oscar’s family begins the process of immigrating to the United States. This is an example of?
Chain migration
Projections indicate that the world's largest city by the year 2100 will be located here
Lagos, Nigeria
The large geographic region where someone would most likely find plantation agriculture
sub-saharan africa