Politics and intro unit
Cartograms: distorts shape of area propartionally to the data, helps visualize data.
What is a microloan and what is it helpful for.
Micro loans are small loans given to women to help create small businesses and help the local economy.
What is the difference between a megacity and a metacity?
Megacity: Cities with over 10 million people, Metacity: City with over 20 million people.
What ring of Von Thunen's Model is Ranching and Livestock in?
The outermost ring.
Describe the difference between stimulus diffusion and syncretism.
Stimulus diffusion is an idea that changes slightly to match the culture of a place when it diffuses but still maintains its main idea, syncretism is when two cultural traits mix to form a new cultural trait.
Describe Tobler's First Law of Geography
"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things"
What are the goal of free trade agreements?
To eliminate political influence on trade by removing policies like tariffs. Promotes individual business growth and aims for economic growth.
What are the main features of the African City Model, The Southeast Asian City Model, and the Latin American City Model.
The African Model contains multiple CBDs. The Southeast Asian Model contains a port zone. The Latin American Model has a spine to its CBD.
Name the three types of intensive farming.
Plantation agriculture, Market Gardening, Mixed crop and livestock.
What three major world religion branched from another major world religion.
Sikhism, Buddhism, and Christianity.
What is a choke point?
A trade point which countries fight to take control for.
What is the difference between Crude Birth Rate, rate of Natural Increase, and Total Fertility Rate.
Crude Birth Rate: number of live births per 1000 people; Rate of Natural Increase: measure of population growth based on births and deaths only Births-death divided by total population, time 100; Total Fertility Rate: average number of children a women would have in a lifetime.
North Americans suburbs did not develop for a long time due to lack of what?
Limited transportation.
What agricultural hearth did grapes and olives originate from?
Mediterranean region, Southern Europe.
When people migrate and acculturation occurs what types of traits are people more likely to adapt?
More surface level traits like clothing styles, technology, foods.
What is irredentism?
States that want to take unit historic sections of a nation that used to be their own.
When a country is in stage 4 of the epidemiological model what are typical deaths in the counrty.
Man made problems (drugs, car accidents)
Describe New Urbanism
Reduce Urban Sprawl, increase affordable housing, increasing mixed use land, increased diversity of incomes.
What occured in the first agricultural revolution?
Switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture.
Give an example of sequent occupance.
The Pyramids of Gaza, Statue of Liberty, Berlin wall, Taj Mahal.
Describe the 4 types of border disputes.
Locational: A dispute over the physical mapping or demarcation of a place. Allocational: Conflict over resources that cross a boundary line. Operational: Dispute over how a border should function. Definitional: Conflict over legal language or interpretation of boundary treaty.
Say you were to locate a TV industry (bulk gaining product), where would you locate it?
You would put the market near other TV markets to benefit from nearby services (agglomeration), and closer to the market so that transportation costs are cheaper (bulk gaining product).
Describe the Galactic City Model.
A model that shows the CBD losing importance as people start spreading outwards due to high land rent cost. Shows the creation of edge cities around transportation routes.
Considering that there are several large cities and growing markets in the New England region, which type of farming may you see here?
Market Gardening, which is intensive and usually close to the CBD.
What is a Pidgin Language?