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This type of map uses colors or shading to represent the density or average value of a variable (like population or income) in a predefined area.
What is a choropleth map?
A language that is mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
What is a Lingua Franca?
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
What is Gerrymandering?
A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals (found in dry climates)
What is pastoral nomadism?
This urban model, developed by Harris and Ullman, suggests that a city does not grow around a single CBD but rather around several independent nodes of activity.
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
The concept that the physical environment causes social development and dictates human behavior.
What is environmental determinism?
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
What is a Universalizing Religion?
This refers to a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals.
This explains the importance of proximity to the market in the choice of crops on commercial farms.
What is the Von Thunen Model?
The process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing.
What is gentrification?
This specific map projection is notorious for extreme size distortion at the poles, making Greenland look as large as Africa, yet it remains the standard for nautical navigation due to its preserved direction.
What is the Mercator projection?
This linguistic process involves the simplification of a colonizer's language into a trade tongue with no native speakers, which then evolves into a stable, formal language learned by the next generation as their primary tongue.
What is creolization?
This type of boundary is drawn by outside powers and ignores existing cultural or ethnic patterns on the landscape, often leading to conflict in former colonial regions like Africa.
What is a superimposed boundary?
Maize's hearth
What is mesoamerica?
This model suggests that all countries pass through five stages of development, ending in "High Mass Consumption."
What is Rostow's Stages of Growth?
These modern thinkers argue that global overpopulation is a threat due to the depletion of non-renewable resources like clean water and arable land.
What are neo-Malthusians?
This specific type of expansion diffusion occurs when an underlying idea spreads to a new group but the specific trait is rejected or modified to fit the new culture
What is stimulus diffusion?
The transfer of certain powers from the central government to lower levels of government, often to appease ethnic or separatist groups.
The transfer of certain powers from the central government to lower levels of government, often to appease ethnic or separatist groups.
This modern agricultural trend involves the integration of various steps in the food-processing industry, from seed production to retailing, usually controlled by massive corporations.
What is agribusiness?
According to Weber’s Least Cost Theory, an industry like "Soft Drink Bottling" is considered this:
What is a Bulk-Gaining Industry?
This social factor is statistically the most effective long-term method for lowering a country's Total Fertility Rate (TFR).
What is the education and economic empowerment of women?
This term describes the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the environment
What is cultural landscape?
This specific legal concept, defined by the UNCLOS, gives a country sole rights to the natural resources (like oil and fish) within 200 nautical miles of its coast.
What is the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
In the 19th century, this type of "intensive" subsistence agriculture was developed in hilly or mountainous regions of Asia to increase the amount of arable land for rice production.
What is terracing?
These are where goods are moved from one mode of transport to another, often bypassing traditional city centers.
What is a break-of-bulk point?