Population & Migration
The most common reason people migrate.
What is economic opportunity?
A state with only one dominant nation within its borders.
What is a nation-state?
This type of farming supplies food for only the farmer’s family.
What is subsistence farming?
The central area of a city where major businesses and retail are located.
What is the Central Business District/CBD?
This is the most commonly used statistic to measure a country's overall economic development.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
This term describes the number of people per unit of land area.
What is population density?
This concept refers to redrawing voting districts to favor a political party.
What is gerrymandering?
The model that explains the location of agricultural activities in relation to a central market.
What is the Von Thünen Model?
The process by which cities grow and expand outward.
What is urban sprawl?
Countries with high income, advanced technology, and high living standards are considered this.
What are More Developed Countries?
The model that shows the stages of population growth based on birth and death rates.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
This term refers to a region caught between stronger external cultural or political forces, often experiencing persistent conflict and fragmentation
What is a shatterbelt?
This revolution introduced GMOs and high-yield seeds in the 20th century
What is the Green Revolution?
This model of urban structure has a central CBD and rings of development.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
This index combines income, education, and life expectancy to rank development.
What is the Human Development Index
A population pyramid with a wide base typically indicates this.
What is a high birth rate?
This type of boundary is drawn with no regard to existing cultural, ethnic, or political divisions, often leading to conflict; it is commonly found in Africa due to European colonization.
What is a superimposed boundary?
This land survey system, used primarily in the U.S. Midwest, creates a grid pattern of rectangular plots, heavily influencing rural settlement and land ownership.
What is the township and range system?
The term for rebuilding and revitalizing deteriorated urban areas.
What is gentrification?
This spatial model explains how core regions dominate periphery regions economically and politically by exploiting resources and labor
What is World Systems Theory?
This theory argues that population growth will outpace agricultural production, leading to inevitable famine and societal collapse unless checked by moral restraint or disaster.
What is Malthusian theory?
This concept describes a sovereign state that is dominated politically and economically by another, more powerful country.
What is a satellite state?
This form of agriculture, characterized by the cultivation of crops and livestock within the same agricultural system to maintain balance and sustainability, is most commonly practiced in subsistence farming regions.
What is mixed crop and livestock farming?
This theory suggests that urban land use is influenced by accessibility and competition for space, with the most accessible and desirable areas occupied by the most profitable activities
What is bid-rent theory?
This model explains how a country's economy develops in five stages, from traditional to high mass consumption.
What is Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth?