Thinking Geographically
Population and Migration
Culture
Political Geography
Agriculture
Cities and Land Use
100
Global Positioning System that accurately determines precise position of something on Earth
GPS
100
Most populated country in the world
1. China
2. India
100
spread of people’s cultures across space
cultural diffusion
100
A country that is small in both population and area.
Microstate
100
production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer’s family
Subsistence Farming
100
Process by which the population of cities grows
Urbanization
200
a place from which an innovation originates
Hearth
200
2/3 of the world's inhabitants are clustered in four regions (name at least 2)
- East Asia
- South East Asia
-South Asia
- Western Europe
200
While clothing in MDCs reflects occupation, clothing in LDCs reflects the -
Environment
200
A nation of people without a state that it considers home.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
If you name a nation
stateless nation
BONUS
- Kurds
- Palestines
- Basques
200
the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Columbian Exchange
200
maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
Range
300
force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide - Causes the scale of the world to shrink
Globalization
300
Argued that the world's rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food supplies,
Malthusian theory
300
The development of this aided the diffusion of popular culture
Television/Internet
300
state with a variation of landscapes and resources, poor internal communication
Ex: Chile, Italy
Elongated State
300
Farmers clear land for planting, grown crops for only a few years, then leave it so soil can recover
Shifting Cultivation
300
The largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second- ranking settlement. In this distribution, the country’s largest city is the --
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
If you name an example
Primate City
- Mexico City
- Seoul
- Paris
- London
- Sao Paulo
400
Master reference time for all points on Earth, 0 longitude
Greenwich Mean Time
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
When the Crude Birth Rate and Crude Death Rate are about equal
Zero population growth
400
A restriction on behavior imposed by a social custom
Taboo
400
Theory that claims that forming alliances and controlling the coasts and seas are necessary to maintain the political power to control the world.
Rimland Theory
400
The initiatives resulted in the adoption of new technologies, including high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of cereals, especially dwarf wheats and rices, in association with chemical fertilizers
Green Revolution, Third Agricultural Revolution
400
drawing lines on a map to identify areas in which they refuse to loan money and as a result families who try to fix up houses in the area have difficulty borrowing money.
Redlining
500
The process by which a feature spreads across space
Diffusion
500
Stage of the Demographic transition model where Birth rates is high and Death rate falls rapidly
Stage 2
500
What does the diffusion of popular culture threaten folk culture?
loss of traditions and customs, the diffusion of popular culture from MDCs can lead to dominance of Western perspectives.
500
No longer functions as boundary, reminder a line once divided space
Relict Boundary
500
Human actions that cause land to deteriorate into desert-like conditions
Desertification
500
City model that takes into account suburbanization and is heavily reliant on transportation
Galactic model/ periphery model