What type of City?
Dakar, Senegal
What is a primate city?
A farmer grows one crop primarily for sale on the global market rather than for personal use. This type of agriculture is known as this.
What is commercial agriculture?
A country has a high birth rate, declining death rate, and rapid population growth. According to the Demographic Transition Model, this country is most likely in this stage.
What is Stage 2?
This type of culture is practiced by small, homogeneous groups and is often tied to tradition and place.
What is folk culture?
This model explains how birth and death rates change over time as a country industrializes.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
Detroit, Michigan
What is a galactic city?
A government introduces high-yield seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation systems to increase crop production. This agricultural shift is known as this.
What is the Green Revolution?
A city builds a new light rail system connecting low-income neighborhoods to job centers. This is most likely intended to reduce this urban geographic problem.
What is spatial inequality?
This process occurs when cultural traits spread from one society to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
This agricultural land use model predicts that dairy and market gardening will be located closest to the city because those products are perishable.
What is the Von Thünen Model?
King of Prussia, PA
What is an edge city?
A farmer in a less developed country grows several crops and raises livestock mainly to feed their own family, producing little surplus. This is an example of this type of agriculture.
What is subsistence agriculture?
A language spoken by only a small group of elderly people is at risk of disappearing because younger generations are no longer learning it. This situation is best described as this process.
What is language extinction?
This type of diffusion spreads ideas first among elites or influential people before reaching the wider population.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
This urban land use model suggests cities grow outward in a series of rings from a central business district.
What is the (Burgess) Concentric Zone Model?
Tysons Corner, Virginia
What is an edge city?
A large agribusiness grows a single cash crop over thousands of acres, increasing efficiency but reducing biodiversity. This practice is known as this.
What is monocropping?
A government redraws voting district boundaries to benefit one political party. This practice is known as this.
What is gerrymandering?
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape is known as this.
What is the cultural landscape?
This development model proposes that countries move through five stages from traditional society to high mass consumption.
What is Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth Model?
Plano, Texas
Anaheim, California
What is a boomburb?
A country becomes more dependent on imported food after shifting large amounts of farmland from staple crops to export crops like coffee and cocoa. This is a likely consequence of this agricultural practice.
What is cash crop dependence OR commodity dependence OR export agriculture?
A transnational corporation moves production from a high-wage country to a lower-wage country with fewer labor protections. Identify the process and explain the main economic motivation.
What is outsourcing (or offshoring), and the motivation is to reduce labor and production costs?
This process occurs when two cultures interact and exchange traits, often blending elements of both into something new.
What is syncretism?
A company places a factory near a major highway intersection to minimize transportation costs for both raw materials and finished goods. This location decision is best explained by this industrial location theory.
What is Weber’s Least Cost Theory?