Unit 2
This term refers to the number of people per unit of area.
What is arithmetic density?
This religion is the world’s largest by number of followers.
What is Christianity?
A nation that does not have its own state is called this.
What is a stateless nation?
Farming done mainly to sell products for profit is called this.
What is commercial agriculture?
This term refers to the movement of middle-class residents back into older urban neighborhoods.
What is gentrification?
This theory by Thomas Malthus argued population would outgrow food supply.
What is Malthusian theory?
The diffusion of religion through relocation of missionaries is called this type of diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?
A boundary drawn by outside powers without regard to local cultural patterns is called this.
What are superimposed boundaries?
This practice involves growing crops and raising animals primarily for family consumption.
What is subsistence agriculture?
A city with global influence in finance, culture, and politics is called this.
What is a global city?
Policies encouraging larger families are known as these.
What are pro-natalist policies?
This religion originated in the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century CE.
What is Islam?
A government controlled by religious leaders is called this.
What is theocracy?
This agricultural revolution introduced mechanization and improved farming techniques in the 1700s.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
Several metropolitan areas that merge together form this.
What is a megalopolis?
The number of deaths of infants under age one per 1,000 live births is called this.
What is infant mortality rate?
This describes areas dominated by one ethnic group.
What is an ethnic enclave?
This theory argued that control of Eastern Europe would lead to control of the “World Island.”
What is the Heartland theory?
Farmers growing one crop over large areas practice this.
What is monocropping?
This discriminatory housing practice denied loans to minority neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
This graph shape is typical of a rapidly growing country.
What is a pyramid-shaped population pyramid?
This term refers to the increasing similarity of cultures around the world.
What is cultural convergence?
This political geographer developed the Heartland Theory.
Who is Halford Mackinder?
This form of intensive farming is commonly practiced in East and Southeast Asia.
What is wet rice cultivation?
This urban model is commonly associated with many cities in sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the African City Model?