Thinking Geographically
The mathematical relationship between the size of a map and the part of the real world it shows
What is map scale?
A negative cause that compels someone to leave a location
What is a push factor?
The visible modification of the environment to demonstrate cultural traits.
What is the cultural landscape?
A narrow passageway to another place that can be strategically closed.
What is a choke point?
This agricultural practice happens closest to the CBD due to its perishability of product.
What is dairy farming?
Occurrence of an urban area expanding in an unplanned and uncontrolled way away from a city center
What is urban sprawl?
A group of businesses in one area that compete with each other and often have organized systems of transportation.
What is an agglomeration?
Model that describes a fundamental relationship: the impact of distance on the interactions between locations
What is distance decay?
The maximum population size an environment can sustain
What is carrying capacity?
The spread of ideas from a person of power to lower levels of society.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
A boundary created by an outside force without regard for cultural distinctions.
What is a superimposed boundary?
Model that described the ideal pattern for agricultural practices outside of a city center
What is the von Thünen model?
a planning and design movement that promotes walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods and sustainable development
An item that becomes lighter in weight through the production process.
What is a bulk reducing good?
The shape and features of land surfaces
What is topography?
The average amount of children born per woman each year in a country.
What is Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?
Mecca is a sacred site of pilgrimage for what universalizing religion?
What is Islam?
The ability to rule and make decisions for yourself.
What is sovereignty?
A plant or animal product that has had one or more changes made to its genome in an attempt to change its characteristics.
What are genetically modified organisms (GMOs)?
A large urban region composed of multiple dense centers, suburbs, & green spaces. Has a population of 20 million or more.
What is a metacity?
Sector of the economy that includes the manufacturing and processing of raw materials into higher value goods.
What is the secondary sector?
An integrated network of at least 31 satellites in the U.S. system that orbit Earth and transmit location data
What is global positioning system (GPS)?
Model that uses stages to explain the growth of the world’s population over time
What is Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
A variation of a standard language specific to a general area
What is a dialect?
The process that occurs when the central power of a state is broken up into lower regional governments.
What is devolution?
This Revolution created a surplus of food that allowed the Industrial Revolution to occur and led to the mechanization of farming.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
This theory analyzes spatial patterns of urban and outlying areas based on the flow of goods and services with the key concepts of range and threshold.
What is Christaller’s Central Place Theory?
Stages of development that include traditional society, pre-conditions to take-off, take-off, drive to maturity, and high mass consumption
What is Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth?
The processes causing the relative distance between places to shrink
What is time-space compression?
The person that concluded that population increased arithmetically while food production increased geometrically
Who is Thomas Malthus?
the process where individuals or groups integrate into a dominant culture, often leading to a loss of their original cultural traits and becoming indistinguishable from the majority
What is assimilation?
The process of “packing” or “cracking” a district
What is gerrymandering?
The theory that explain the relationship between land value, commercial location, and transportation
What is bid-rent theory?
The most important factor in Weber’s Least Cost Theory.
What is transportation cost?
Occurs when a person is skilled at two different services yet chooses the job/service that makes the most money.
What is comparative advantage?