Thinking Geographically
Population and Migration
Culture
Political Patterns and Processes
Agriculture
Cities and Urban Development
Industrial and Economic Development
100
The science of mapmaking
What is cartography?
100
The estimated average number of children born to each person of birthing age (15 to 45)
What is total fertility rate (TFR)?
100
The process of spreading ideas, language, and goods from one space to another
What is diffusion?
100
A form of government in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office
What is a democracy?
100
This agricultural revolution is characterized by the diffusion of innovative biotechnology throughout the Third World
What is the Green Revolution?
100
Towns and cities that were founded due to access to natural resources
What are resource nodes?
100
The process of shifting a state's economy from one that relies on manufacturing to one that relies on service
What is deindustrialization?
200
This term defines the point or place on the a map using coordinates such as latitude and longitude
What is absolute location?
200
The number of people too young or too old to work compared to the number of people in the work force
What is the dependency ratio?
200
A language of international communication
What is a lingua franca?
200
What is a relic boundary?
200
The historical period characterized by the relocation diffusion of crops between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What is Columbian Exchange?
200
A term used to describe the location in an urban development model that contains that highest density of commercial land use
What is the central business district (CBD)?
200
This theory of development divides the world into three interdependent realms: core, periphery, and semi-periphery nations
What is world systems theory?
300
This term refers to the location of a place compared to a known place or geographic feature
What is relative location?
300
The number of people or things that can maintained within a given area
What is carrying capacity?
300
Customs and habits traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas
What is folk culture?
300
The transfer of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration
What is devolution?
300
The production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer's family.
What is subsistence agriculture?
300
When similar business activities are found in a local cluster
What is agglomeration?
300
This production involves a large amount of input that is reduced to a final product that weighs less or has less volume than the input
What is bulk-reducing manufacturing?
400
What is a Mercator projection?
400
A calculation that compares the birth rate and death rate for a country in a given year
What is the rate of natural increase (RNI)?
400
The process of giving up cultural traditions and adopting the social customs of the dominant culture of a place
What is assimilation?
400
A form of government that places most power in the hands of central government officials?
What is a unitary state?
400
A form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals in dry climates
What is pastoral nomadism?
400
This belief that all market areas are focused on a central settlement that is a place of exchange and service provision
What is central place theory?
400
Foreign-run factories operating under favorable tariff policies such as NAFTA
What are maquiladoras?
500
What is a Robinson projection?
500
This stage of the demographic transition model is characterized by a high birth rate, a rapidly declining death rate, and thus, a high rate of natural increase
What is Stage Two of the demographic transition model?
500
The process of adjusting to the dominant culture while retaining features of a folk culture
What is acculturation?
500
What is an antecedent boundary?
500
This agricultural revolution is characterized by innovations in manufacturing and mechanization, allowing for better diets and longer life expectancies
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
500
This model of urban development was the first to recognize suburban business districts forming on the urban periphery
What is the multiple-nuclei model?
500
When a company owns all aspects of production (for example, from steel manufacture to advertising)
What is Fordism?