The frequency of which something exists within a given area.
What is density?
100
Theory/theorist that explains that the optimum location of a manufacturing establishment in terms of minimization of relative transport costs, labor costs, and agglomeration. Concludes that transport costs are a major consideration when determining location.
What is Weber's Least Cost Theory?
100
Any small and relatively homogeneous group or region surrounded by another larger and different group or region.
What is an enclave?
100
A system of communication through speech or other conventional methods that groups of people understand to have the same meaning.
What is language?
100
The commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area.
What is livestock ranching?
200
An invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory.
What is a boundary?
200
Theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action for many alternatives.
What is possibilism?
200
Old political boundaries that no longer exist as international borders, but that have left a mark on the local cultural or environmental geography.
What is a relict boundary?
200
Strong feeling of belonging to a minority nation that is contained within a state dominated by a more powerful region.
What is ethno-nationalism?
200
Intensive growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
What is horticulture?
300
The scientific study of population characteristics.
What is demography?
300
Person who believed that most people migrate for economic purposes, other for cultural and/or environmental reasons and believed that migration has been tremendously enhanced in the past century due to various types of transportation.
Who is E.G. Ravenstein?
300
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its own international and foreign affairs.
What is a state?
300
Christianity, Buddhism, Islam.
What are the three main universalizing religions?
300
Large farm specializing in one or two crops, situated in a sparsely populated are, where workers are imported and provided with food, housing, and social services.
What is plantation farming?
400
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
What is centripetal force?
400
Theory/theorist that stated that he who rules Eastern Europe rules the heartland, and he who rules the heartland rules the world.
What is Mackinder's Heartland Theory?
400
A system of government in which power is distributed among certain geographical territories rather than concentrated within a central government.
What is federalism?
400
Found in large, heterogeneous societies, sharing certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. Produced for profit and dies out quickly.
What is pop culture?
400
Concentric model representing commercial agricultural location.
What is Von Thunen's Model of Agricultural Land Use.
500
A measure of how much absolute distance affects the interaction between two places.
What is friction of distance?
500
Theory/theorist that argued that states are living and larger by acquiring more nourishment in the form of land.
What is Ratzel's Organic Theory?
500
The rearranging of political boundaries to benefit the party in power.
What is gerrymandering?
500
Traditionally practiced by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas.
What is folk culture?
500
Large farm size, output sold to processors, increased mechanization, integration with other business, and small percentage of farmers.
What are characteristics of agriculture in more developed countries?