Models
Famous Geographers
Economic/Political Geography
Language/Religion
Vocabulary
100
The second ring in Von Thünen’s Model
What is forestry?
100
This geographer developed the Central Place Theory
Who is Walter Christaller
100
The Silicon Valley is an example because of nearby growth poles
What is an agglomeration?
100
The largest language family which includes English, German, French, etc.
What is the Indo-European language family?
100
Where people of one culture are eliminated by another, often under threat of violence or death
What is Ethnic Cleansing?
200
This model defines the population dynamics and economic context of a country through birth and death rates.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
200
This geographer thought that population grows exponentially while the food production only grows arithmetically
Who is Thomas Malthus?
200
Exclusive economic rights are here from the shore to the 200 nautical mile limit.
What is the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
200
Judaism, Hinduism, Animism, Jainism
What are Ethnic Religions?
200
The maximum distance that people are willing to travel to gain access to a service.
What is the Range?
300
This model is a visual showing the relations of people between population and gender
What is a Population Pyramid?
300
Traditional; 2. Preconditions to Takeoff; 3. Takeoff; 4. Drive to Maturity; 5. Age of Mass Consumption
Who is Walt Rostow?
300
The very first supranational organization created in 1919
What is the League of Nations?
300
Iran’s government
What is a theocracy?
300
States that all places are interrelated, but closer places are more related than father ones
What is Tobler’s Law?
400
In this model the Elite residential sector runs along the Spine and connects to the CBD
What is the Latin American City Model?
400
This famous geographer opposed Environmental Determinism and replaced it with Possibilism
Who is Carl Sauer?
400
A mandate developed by the UN to erase poverty by 2015
What are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
400
A group of migrants from the Indian subcontinent were concentrated in the peninsula that makes up Turkey and migrated into continental Europe bringing their language with them.
What is the Anatolian Theory?
400
Process where groups move seasonally to follow animal herds guiding them up and down mountain ranges.
What is Transhumance?
500
This model predicts the interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them
What is the Gravity model
500
This geographer is nicknamed ‘The Father of Human Geography’
Who is Friedrich Ratzel?
500
The agreement made in 1985 where West Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands opened their borders to one another.
What is the Schengen Plan?
500
This is formed by local or immigrant linguistic syntheses (Ex. Spoken in the islands of Martinique or Reunion)
What is a patois?
500
Boundaries that exist from prehistoric times (ex. French-Spanish border along the Pyrenees)
What are Antecedent Boundaries?
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