Population & Migration
An economist who believed that population growth would outpace food production, leading to a crisis.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Land suitable for agriculture.
What is arable land?
The idea that the world is becoming more and more connected on a global scale, leading to general homogeneity.
What is globalization?
Sending industrial processes out for external production, typically where labor is cheaper than internal labor.
What is outsourcing?
The ways in which phenomena, such as technological innovations, cultural trends, or outbreaks of disease, travel over space.
What is diffusion?
Prevents a migrant from reaching their planned destination.
What are intervening obstacles?
The loss of distinct local features in favor of standardized landscapes.
What is placelessness?
Map projection primarily used for navigation due to its straight lines of longitude and latitude. This projection distorts the size of countries.
What is the Mercator Projection?
A location where large shipments of goods are broken up into smaller containers, for example, ports.
What is a break-of-bulk point?
This involves boundaries of districts being drawn to clearly support a particular individual or political party.
What is gerrymandering?
Number of people in a given unit of area; does not take into account physiographic differences in that area.
What is arithmetic density?
An illegal practice whereby lending institutions delimit an area on a map and use the map as a basis for determining loan eligibility.
What is redlining?
A follower of this ideology would claim that traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.
What is environmental determinism?
Form of mass production that became more common in the late 20th century; characterized by the use of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks.
What is post-Fordism?
The development of a new cultural trait as a result of the fusion of two distinct but interacting cultures.
What is syncretism?
An extension of the demographic transition model that explains the changing death rates and more common causes of death within societies.
What is the Epidemiological Transition Model?
A period in time that increased food availability to regions with rapidly growing populations with the use of GMOs, chemical fertilizers, and other technological innovations.
What is the Green Revolution?
The theory that the natural environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture, technology, and human agency determine how people adapt to, modify, and utilize their surroundings
What is possibilism?
A measure used by the United Nations that calculates development in terms of human welfare rather than money or productivity.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
Used to describe Jewish people, or black people of African descent who maintain aspects of their common heritage despite living outside their place of origin.
What is a diaspora?
Describes migrant flows from a common origin to the same destination. Family or friends move first, paving the way for more to come.
What is chain migration?
This is defined as the industrialized, corporate form of agricultural production.
What is agribusiness?
Influencing another country or group of people by direct conquest, economic control, or cultural dominance.
What is imperialism?
An area in which goods may be landed, handled, manufactured or reconfigured, and re-exported without the intervention of customs authorities.
What is a Free Trade Zone (FTZ)?
A tendency to evaluate other cultures against the standards of one's own, implying superiority of one's ethnic group.
What is ethnocentrism?