Maps & Map Projections
they can show the average temperatures, humidity levels and other weather statistics in an organized fashion
What is an Isoline Map?
a geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business district (CBD) increases
What is the Bid-Rent Theory?
Model of urban structure: attempts to practically represent the urban landscape with neighborhoods and commercial corridors
What is the Multiple-Nuclei Model?
HDI
What is the Human Development Index?
Proposed that countries went through five stages of growth between agricultural and service-based economies
What are Rowstow's Stages of Growth?
Distorts the size of objects as the latitude increases from the Equator to the poles. This means that Greenland appears much larger. This map shows
Accurate shape and direction
Map is rectangular
What is the Mercator Map Projection?
all market areas are focused on a central settlement that is a place of exchange and service provision
What is the Central Place Theory?
The center of the model features three distinct CBDs that reflect the history of African urban development
What is the Sub-Saharan African City Model?
CBR & CDR
What is the Crude Birth Rate and Crude Death Rate?
accompanied the Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the 18th century. It involved the mechanization of agricultural production, advances in transportation, development of large-scale irrigation, and changes to consumption patterns of agricultural goods.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
A rounded map projection designed to reduce some distortions of the Mercator projection. It still distorts the size, shape, and distance of land masses in various ways.
What is the Robinson Map Projection?
States that most LDCs (including all NICs) are highly dependent on foreign-owned factories, foreign direct investment, and technology from MDCs to provide employment opportunities and infrastructure
What is the Dependency Theory?
combines the concepts of the industrial corridor and neighborhood for practical purposes, resulting in a much more realistic urban representation compared to the concentric zone model.
What is the Hoyt-Sector Model?
GNI
What is the Gross National Income?
Scramble for Africa; to regulate European colonization and trade in Africa while avoiding conflict between European powers
What is The Berlin Conference?
type of thematic map which uses color variations (look at the map above) to express geographic variation from a certain theme
What is a Choropleth map?
Suggests that while the world economy is ever changing, there are three basic hierarchies of countries: core, periphery, and semi-periphery. Core countries dominate and exploit peripheral countries. Peripheral countries are dependent on the core countries for capital.
What is Wallerstein's World Systems Theory?
how population changes over time and provides insights into issues of migration, fertility, economic development, industrialization, urbanization, labor, politics, and the role of women.
What is the DTM?
TFR
What is the Total Fertility Rate?
Balkinzation; After World War II, __ was subdivided along ethnic lines and forcibly held together under communist rule. But when Tito died and communism fell, those republics pulled apart.
What is Yugoslavia?
Is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical equal-area projection with latitudes 45° north and south as the regions on the map that have no distortion.
What is the Gall-Peters Projection?
states that the global population would one day expand to the point where it could not produce enough food to feed everyone.
What is the Malthusian Theory?
land use (the type of farming) is determined by how labor intensive the type of farming is
What is the Von Thunen Model?
RNI
What is the Rate of Natural Increase?
marks the transition of human society from wandering hunter-gatherer societies into settled agricultural communities
What is the Neolithic/First Agricultural Revolution?