Thinking Geographically
This type of map uses symbols of different sizes to represent data, such as population.
What is a proportional symbol map?
This is the total number of people divided by the total land area.
What is arithmetic density?
This is the spread of cultural traits from one place to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
This is a large, densely populated area that includes a city and its surrounding suburbs.
What is a metropolitan area?
Countries are often grouped as core, semi-periphery, or periphery in this global economic model.
What is Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory?
The exact position of something on Earth using coordinates like latitude and longitude is called this.
What is absolute location?
This model explains the changes in birth and death rates over time as a country develops.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
A group’s shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors make up this.
What is culture?
This model describes a city as having rings of different land uses around a central business district.
What is the concentric zone model?
This is the shift of manufacturing jobs from more developed countries to less developed ones due to lower labor costs.
What is outsourcing?
This term refers to how geographers divide the world into regions to better analyze spatial patterns.
What is regionalization?
A person who is forced to leave their country due to conflict, persecution, or disaster is known as this.
What is a refugee?
This type of diffusion happens when an idea spreads but is changed or adapted by new adopters.
What is stimulus diffusion?
When wealthier people move into and renovate urban neighborhoods, it’s called this.
What is gentrification?
The total value of goods and services produced within a country in a given year is called this.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
The concept that the physical environment may limit human actions, but people can adjust and choose alternatives is known as this.
What is possibilism?
This term describes when educated or skilled workers leave a country for better opportunities elsewhere.
What is brain drain?
This term describes the process by which a minority group adopts the cultural traits of the dominant group.
What is acculturation?
This term refers to the process of drawing boundaries for electoral districts in a way that benefits one group over another.
What is gerrymandering?
These regions are designed to attract foreign investment by offering incentives like tax breaks and fewer regulations.
What are Special Economic Zones (SEZs)?
This model explains how the level of interaction between two places declines as the distance between them increases.
What is distance decay?
This theory states that population grows faster than food supply, leading to eventual crisis if not controlled.
What is Malthusian theory?
This concept suggests that the physical environment influences but does not strictly determine human activities.
What is environmental possibilism?
This theory explains the spatial organization of cities into market areas around a central place.
What is central place theory?
This theory explains where industries are located based on minimizing transportation, labor, and agglomeration costs.
What is Weber’s Least Cost Theory?