Unit 4-5
This is a culturally diverse, conflict-prone region of weak, fragmented states aligned with powerful global rivals
What is a shatterbelt?
Cities with over 10 million inhabitants; most common in developing regions
What is a Megacity?
Economic activity that provides services is within this.
What is the tertiary sector?
This is a tax imposed by a government on goods imported from other countries that serves to increase the price
What is a tariff?
This is the most watched YouTube video of all time.
What is Baby Shark Dance?
This is a location within a state that is given authority to govern independently from the national government.
What is an autonomous region?
These are cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions as urban centers
What is an edge city?
This theory assumes all countries are capable of development along the same trajectory which encompasses five stages of linear development
What is Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth?
DAILY DOUBLE
These are areas with lack of jobs, declining land values and falling demand that cause people to leave and businesses to close
What are Zones of Abandonment?
Cambodia is located in this region.
What is Southeast Asia?
This is a geographic boundary that is drawn on a map, it is not visible in the physical landscape
What is a delimited boundary?
This is a country's largest city, at least twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
What is a primate city?
This is the transfer of some of a company's business activities, typically manufacturing or accounting, overseas to a different country
What is offshoring?
This is a spatial model of the American city that suggests that land-use areas conform to a wedge-shaped pattern focused on the downtown core
What is the Hoyt Sector Model?
This future emperor crossed the rubicon, beginning a civil war that would end the Roman Republic.
Who is Julius Caesar?
These are resistant to insects and diseases, producing large amounts of crops
What are high-yield seeds?
This is a spatial model that shows the mid 20th century American city consisting of several land-use zones arranged around a CBD
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
This is the expansion of an area's economic base as a result of income brought in from basic jobs
What is the multiplier effect?
This is the total domestic and foreign output claimed by residents of a country, consisting of gross domestic product, plus incomes earned through exporting goods.
What is Gross National Income (GNI)?
This famous military formation was created by Alexander The Great.
What is the Phalanx?
These were a set of laws enabling landowners to purchase and enclose land for their own use, previously communal land
What is the enclosure movement?
A discriminatory real estate practice in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominately white neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
This is the clustering of similar economic activities or industries to reduce costs or have easier access to resources
What is agglomeration?
This is a statistic created by the United Nations to try to measure how economically developed a country is
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
This is the smallest country in the world.
What is Vatican City?