Unit 1&2
It is the process of change in a society’s population from a condition of high crude birth and crude death rates, and low rates of natural increase, to a condition of low crude birth and crude death rates, low rate of natural increase, and higher total population.
What is the demographic transition model (DTM)?
a strategic narrow route providing passage through or to another region
What is a chokepoint?
It explains the reasons behind the distribution patterns, size, and number of cities or towns across the globe. This theory serves as the framework for both historical and locational patterns today.
What is Central place theory
a strategy for maintaining just the right amount of inventory so as to not have to pay for storage
What is Just-in-time delivery?
(not exactly how it is used in real life) transferring part of a company's operations to an outside company or in another place
What is outsourcing?
The ratio of non working members to the number of working adults.
What is the dependency ratio?
A repetitive act that a particular individual performs
What is a habit?
farming that uses natural fertilizers and natural methods of pest control instead of artificial
What is Organic Agriculture/Farming?
a movement that encourages multi-national corporations to pay living wages to workers in LDCs instead of the lowest possible wage
What is fair trade?
Ratio/fraction, written, and graphic
What are types of map scale?
The meridian, designated at 0 degrees longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
the theory that a place can be occupied by multiple different groups each modifying the landscape and having its own imprint for future occupiers
What is Sequent occupancy?
temporarily changing crops to limit the depletion of soil nutrients
What is crop rotation?
A monetary measurement of all the goods and services produced in a year in a country
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
a factory in Mexico owned by a foreign company that only creates products to export to other countries
What is a Maquiladora?
The map's features in relation to the actual size on the Earth
What is map scale?
The process of a country breaking into smaller pieces that are hostile to each other.
What is Balkanization?
A very large urban centers around the globe that have a population of greater than 10 million people.
What is a Mega city?
form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly.
What is the Fordist production?
the process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of good
What is Industrialization?
The movement of people within the same country.
an area previously in conflict from which weapons and military forces have been removed
What is a Demilitarized zone?
calculated by dividing the total population by the amount of arable land.
What is Physiological Density?
the part of an economy that is neither taxed, nor monitored by any form of government including illegal activities
What is a Informal economy?
using farming techniques that protect the environment, public health, human communities, and animal welfare and can go on indefinitely
What is Sustainable agriculture?