Population and Migration
This is the number of births per 1000 people per year.
What is the crude birth rate?
This language has become a global lingua franca due to colonialism and globalized media.
What is English?
The process by which people move from central cities out toward the rural–urban fringe, often accompanied by housing development.
What is suburbanization?
The region where the first Agricultural Revolution took place 10,000 years ago.
What is Mesopotamia?
This can be defined as a period in the late 18th century that included a transformation in the process of manufacturing goods and industrial improvements.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is the view that a person's physical environment sets limits on their human social development.
What is environmental determinism?
The process by which religions incorporate aspects of indigenous religions in order to more easily convert them.
What is syncretism?
The city that inspired the Burgess model of urban development.
What is Chicago?
This is commercial farming found in the US an other MDC's that makes large profits.
What is Agribusiness?
Location factors related to the cost of production that include land, labor and capital.
What is site characteristics/factors?
The demographic most likely to move great distances according to Ravenstein's laws of migration.
Who are single men?
The theory that no culture can claim a universal truth.
What is cultural relativism?
The neighborhoods at the edge of South American cities that have seen massive influxes of poor rural peasants.
What are favelas?
A product that tends to be far from the urban core due to how lightweight it is and how much land is needed to create a profitable yield.
What is wheat?
This is the demographic stage that the United states, Canada, Germany, Britain and other MDC's are in.
What is stage 4?
Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian are all languages of what classification?
What are Romance languages?
When a country’s largest city is more than twice as large as its next largest city, it’s said to follow this pattern, defying the rank-size rule.
What is a primate city?
Growing crops for a few years and switching fields to allow the previously used field to replenish itself and Slash-and-Burn are both techniques of what?
What is Shifting cultivation?
This geographer had the theory that the population will eventually outrun food supply.
What is the Thomas Malthus theory?
This is a theory that states that language spread over time through the use of Agriculture.
What is the Anatolian hearth theory?
The 1945 urban land-use model by Harris and Ullman that argues cities develop with several distinct centers, not just a single downtown.
What is the multiple nuclei theory?
What is firewood?
States that optimum location of a manufacturing firm is explained in terms of cost minimization.
What is Weber's Least-Cost Theory?