Population & Migration
What is the most reliable measure of whether a country's population is increasing or decreasing?
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
The colonization of North America by European explorers was an example of which type of diffusion?
Relocation
Boundaries that are drawn by another authority without any respect for local cultures, ethnicity, or even physical features of the land. Sometimes they are straight lines, but not always.
Superimposed boundaries
The earliest forms of agriculture developed during a period of history known as the ______________
First Agricultural Revolution
Term for a city with more than 20 million people
Metacity
In what stage of the Demographic Transition Model shows a high birth rate with a sharply declining death rate?
Stage 2
Architecture, signs, religious buildings, etc. are all part of a location's ______________
Cultural landscape
When a periphery nation has economic dependency an a core nation, probably because of a previous colonial relationship
Neocolonialism
A type of farming that occurs often in periphery farming that is small-scare and meant for local comsumption
Subsistence agriculture
The earliest and most basic of the urban models. Has CBD in the center and works out in concentric zones to include industrial areas and residential areas.
Concentric zone model/Burgess model
What stage of the Demographic Transition Model are most core countries (such as the US and European nations) in?
Stage 4
A religion that is open to all people regardless of ethnicity or culture is known as a __________
Universalizing religion
The Straight of Hormuz and the Suez Canal are both examples of what?
Choke points
In the 1960s, core countries began helping developing countries advance their agriculture through the use of technology and GMOs. This was known as the __________________
Green Revolution
Which parts of the world are experienced that fastest urban growth?
Periphery countries/Africa/Asia
Other than natural increase due to births, what is another way that countries can increase their population?
Immigration
Most languages around the world come from which language family?
Indo-European
Name an regional, economic supranational organization
The European Union, the African Union, NAFTA, ASEAN
A network of of people, processes, and resources used to produce, handle, and distribute goods around the world
Global supply chain
Which urban model has a CBD that is near a port, and radiated out from there?
Southeast Asian City Model
The loss of trained or skilled workers that occurs due to emigration to another country
Brain drain
What is it called when two cultures merge together to form a new culture?
Syncretism
What is the term for a region that has experienced devolutionary factors, such as the former Soviet Union or the Baltic region?
Shatterbelt
What is the biggest legal barrier to women in agriculture in many periphery countries?
The inability to own their own land
Zoning