Maps, Population & Migration
This type of diffusion involves people physically moving and bringing ideas or traits with them to new places.
What is relocation diffusion?
This type of diffusion spreads rapidly through a population, much like a disease.
What is contagious diffusion?
This is a state's ability to govern itself without outside interference.
What is sovereignty?
This type of agriculture is large-scale, highly mechanized, and focused on selling crops in markets.
What is commercial agriculture?
This is the central area of a city where the highest concentration of businesses, offices, and services is located.
What is the central business district?
This population measure calculates the average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime.
What is total fertility rate?
This is the most popular language family, involving large language branches: Germanic, Romance, Slavic, and Indo-Iranian.
What is the Indo-European language family?
This type of state contains more than one nation within its borders.
What is a multinational state?
This is the practice of growing only one crop over a large area.
What is monoculture?
This process is the movement of wealthier people into deteriorating urban neighborhoods, often displacing lower-income residents.
What is gentrification?
This model shows how population changes over time as a country develops, typically moving from high birth/death rates to low ones.
What is the demographic transition model?
This religion is based on the belief in one God, and is typically universalizing.
What is a monotheistic religion?
This is a group of people who share a common culture, language, or identity but do not have their own independent state or country.
What is a stateless nation?
These types of farming styles involve little-to-no labor but a lot of space (involving cattle and livestock), and a lot of labor but little space (involving citrus), respectively.
What are extensive and intensive agriculture?
This production system reduces inventory costs by having materials arrive exactly when they are needed in the manufacturing process.
What is just-in-time delivery?
This type of migration refers to people moving from rural areas to urban, while making stops along the way.
What is step migration?
This term described a landscape that has been modified by human activity and reflects cultural values.
What is a cultural landscape?
This process occurs when regions within a state seek to break away and form their own independent country.
What is secession?
This modern agricultural revolution introduced high-yield crops, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation to greatly increase food production.
What is the Green Revolution?
This economic sector includes service-based jobs, such as nurses, cashiers, or retail workers.
What is the tertiary sector?
This theory explains how population growth can outpace food supply, unless checked by disease, famine, or war.
What is Malthusian Theory?
These concepts are opposite, the first involving evaluating a culture based on the standards of one's own culture, the second emphasizes understanding a culture on its own terms without judgement.
What are ethnocentrism and cultural relativism?
This was the former boundary between East and West Germany, which still influences economic patterns and cultural identities.
What is a relic boundary?
This theory explains agricultural land use patterns based on transportation costs and distance from markets, forming rings of different farming activities.
What is the Von Thunen Model?
This location in a transportation network is where goods are transferred from one mode of transport to another, often from large-scale shipping like boats or trains to smaller distribution methods like trucks for final delivery.
What is a break-of-bulk point?