Region
geographic area organized around a central focal point, or node, and defined by connections of movement, communication, trade, or services
What is a functional region?
Hearth
What is the geographic origin point where a cultural trait, innovation, technology, language, religion, or domesticated plant/animal first develops before spreading outward?
DTM number of stages
What is 5 Stages?
A sovereign political state whose territory and borders match the cultural identity and boundaries of a single nation
What is a nation state?
Extensive farming examples
What is Cattle ranching and wheat farming?
Type of Region in regards to the south in the U.S.
What is a Vernacular region?
Centrifugal and Centripetal forces
What is the forces that bring and pull apart people?
(Centrifugal= divide, Centripetal forces=unify)
Thomas Malthus's theory
What is population grows geometrically (exponentially, e.g., 1, 2, 4, 8, 16), while food supply grows arithmetically
Major Secondary languages spoken in the U.S.
What is Spanish, Native American languages, French
Location where plants were first located in the world
Where is Middle east, Mesoamerica, and Southeast Asia?
Basque region in political geography
What is a stateless region?
Dependency Ratio
What is the measure of the number of dependents (people typically not in the labor force) compared to the working-age population (people aged 15 to 64)?
Van Thunen model description
What is used to describe agricultural land use arranges itself in predictable concentric rings around a central market?
Relative distance
What measures the separation between two places using time, cost, connection, or effort rather than fixed physical units like miles or kilometers?
Intensive Farming examples
What is Wet rice Cultivation, Market gardening, Mixed Crop and Livestock agriculture, and plantation agriculture?
Buddhism spread by a process
What is Multiple types of diffusion? Example: Relocation, Hierarchical. missionaries
Townships and ranges definition
What is a government-imposed grid survey system established by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to divide and sell land west of the Appalachian Mountains ?
Reason for an inverse population pyramid
What is a larger older population?
Effects of U.S. Census
What is the reappointment/redistricting of the House of representatives?
Satellite imagery
What is a view that looks like a grid taken from space?
Semiautonomos region
What is is a subnational area within a larger sovereign state that holds a moderate degree of self-governance over its local, political, or economic affairs, though it has less power and independence than a fully autonomous region
"Eat Local" Movement
What is a collaborative effort to connect food producers and food consumers in the same geographic region?
Van Thunen important Factor in model
What is Transportation cost?
Supranational organization example
What is the United nations, European Union, and The Arab League
Effects of Second Agricultural revolution
What is dramatically increased food production and labor productivity?