Maps & Spatial Thinking
This type of map shows general locations like countries, cities, and physical features.
What is a reference map?
The average number of children a woman is expected to have is called this.
What is total fertility rate (TFR)?
The spread of ideas through person-to-person contact is called this.
What is contagious diffusion?
A state with one centralized government is called this.
What is a unitary state?
Farming primarily for personal consumption is called this.
What is subsistence agriculture?
A map that distorts size to represent data, such as population, is called this.
What is a cartogram?
Movement caused by war or natural disaster is an example of this type of migration.
What is forced migration?
A global language used for trade and communication is known as this.
What is a lingua franca?
A boundary drawn before an area is heavily settled is this type.
What is an antecedent boundary?
The model that explains agricultural land use based on distance from a market is this.
What is the Von Thünen Model?
The decrease in interaction between two places as distance increases is known as this
What is distance decay?
In the DTM, rapid population growth occurs because death rates fall while birth rates remain high.
What is Stage 2?
Adopting some traits of a dominant culture while maintaining your own is called this.
What is acculturation?
A nation without its own state is known as this.
What is a stateless nation?
A measure of development that includes health, education, and income is this.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
A geographer compares local vs. global climate data and notices differences in patterns. This concept explains why.
What is scale?
A migrant moves first to a nearby country, then later to a distant one. This pattern is called:
What is step migration?
When a cultural trait spreads but adapts to local conditions, it is this type of diffusion.
What is stimulus diffusion?
Forces that divide a country, such as ethnic conflict, are called:
What are centrifugal forces?
A country exports raw cotton to another country, where it is turned into clothing and then sold globally. This sequence of production and distribution is best described as this concept.
What is a commodity chain?
A city’s economic connections to nearby regions (not its physical characteristics) are best described using this concept.
What is situation?
A country loses many highly educated workers to other countries. This is known as:
What is brain drain?
A religion that seeks converts and spreads globally is classified as this.
What is a universalizing religion?
The breakup of a state into smaller, often hostile units is known as:
What is balkanization?
In world-systems theory, countries that dominate trade and economics are called:
What are core countries?