Origins of Agriculture
This agricultural hearth is located in modern-day Iraq and is often called the Fertile Crescent.
What is Southwest Asia?
The downtown business and commercial center of a city.
What is the CBD (Central Business District)?
This city is often ranked among the smartest cities in the world and is known for sustainability and biking infrastructure.
What is Copenhagen?
The number of people living in a certain area.
What is population density?
The spread of ideas or cultural traits from one place to another.
What is diffusion?
This type of agriculture is practiced mainly to feed the farmer’s family.
What is subsistence agriculture?
This urban model uses rings expanding outward from the CBD.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
Smart cities often use this type of technology to collect and analyze data in real time.
What is IoT (Internet of Things)?
Moving from one country to another permanently is called this.
What is migration?
The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape.
What is cultural landscape?
The spread of crops and farming techniques from one region to another is called this.
What is __________ diffusion?
Wealthier residents moving back into older city neighborhoods is known as this.
What is gentrification?
Public transportation systems that track buses and trains live are examples of this type of technology.
What is smart transportation?
A factor that causes people to leave a place, such as war or famine.
What is a push factor?
The process of people, products, and ideas becoming more connected worldwide.
What is globalization?
Rice cultivation is most commonly associated with this intensive farming method.
What is wet rice agriculture? or intensive agriculture
Urban sprawl is most associated with this style of development.
What is low-density suburban expansion?
One major goal of smart cities is reducing this environmental issue.
What is pollution/carbon emissions?
A factor that attracts people to a new location, such as jobs or education.
What is a pull factor?
A geographic area dominated by a particular crop or farming activity.
What is a agricultural region?
Explain why multiple agricultural hearths developed independently around the world.
What are differences in climate, fertile land, water access, and human innovation?
Give one advantage and one disadvantage of smart city technology.
What are improved efficiency/transportation and concerns about privacy or cost?
Explain how urban planning can improve sustainability in rapidly growing cities.
What is mixed-use development, public transit investment, green spaces, efficient energy use, etc.?
This type of migration occurs when people move from rural areas to cities.
rural-to-urban migration or rural flight
The geographic study of where things are located and why they are there.
What is human geography?