Population/Migration
What term refers to the total # of people living in a given area?
What is population?
What is cultural geography?
What is the term for a boundary that follows a physical feature, such as a river or mountain range?
What is a natural/physical boundary?
What is the term for the total value of goods and services produced within a country in a given year?
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
What is the term for the movement of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another?
What is transportation?
This demographic concept describes the number of people living in an area per unit of land.
What is population density?
The built environment and the ways in which people have adapted and modified the natural landscape are examples of this cultural concept.
What is cultural landscape?
What is the term for a state that is completely surrounded by another state?
What is a landlocked state?
What is the term for the process of shifting from an agricultural-based economy to one based on manufacturing and industry?
What is industrialization?
This transportation mode has seen a surge in popularity in recent years as a sustainable alternative to private vehicle use in urban areas.
What is ridesharing?
What is the name for the movement of people into a region or country?
What is immigration?
Name the two main components of cultural diffusion.
What is expansion diffusion and relocation diffusion?
This term describes the geographic theory that analyzes how the uneven global distribution of power, wealth, and resources can lead to tensions, conflicts, and disparities between countries and regions.
What is uneven geographic development?
What is the term for the practice of outsourcing business functions or processes to other countries with lower labor costs?
What is offshoring?
What is the term for the process of moving goods and products from one place to another using multiple modes of transportation, such as trucks, trains, ships, and airplanes?
What is Intermodal transportation?
Identify the two main types of international migration.
What is voluntary and forced/involuntary migration?
Identify the three main levels of cultural integration.
What is folk, popular, and mass culture?
This is the concept that describes how a country's physical geography, such as the location of its borders or access to coastlines, can create inherent strategic advantages or disadvantages compared to its rivals.
What is geographic determinism?
What is the term for the economic theory that suggests that a country should specialize in producing goods and services for which it has a comparative advantage?
What is the theory of comparative advantage?
This transportation system, often associated with dense urban areas, relies on a network of interconnected routes and stops to move large numbers of people.
What is a public transit system?
Explain the demographic transition model and how it describes changes in birth and death rates over time.
The demographic transition model shows as countries industrialize and develop economically, birth rates and death rates both initially decline, leading to rapid population growth, before stabilizing at low levels of both births and deaths.
Explain the concept of cultural hearth and how cultural traits often originate from these central areas before spreading outwards.
A cultural hearth is a central area where new cultural traits, practices, and innovations first emerge. From these core areas, the new cultural elements then spread outward through diffusion.
This term refers to the process by which a country extends its political, economic, and cultural influence over other territories, often through indirect means.
What is geopolitical expansion?
What is the term for the economic activity that involves high-level decision-making and management roles, such as government, finance, and corporate leadership?
What is the quinary sector?
This transportation mode has become increasingly important for the movement of people and goods globally, with the rise of budget airlines and e-commerce.
What is air transportation?