Population & Migration
An index that relates a country’s population density to its available arable land.
What is physiologic density?
Keeping other cultures out and keeping their own culture in are two goals of this type of culture.
What is folk or local culture?
A cultural concept implying a group of people occupying a particular territory and unified by shared beliefs
What is a nation?
The ability of a group or country to carry out a form of economic activity more efficiently than other groups or countries.
What is comparative advantage?
These two continents that have the most linkages between their world cities.
What is Europe and North America?
Awarding tax breaks to families with three or more children is an example of this type of government policy.
What is pronatalist?
The rapid diffusion of innovations through modern technology that quickly links distant locations is an example of this geographic concept.
What is time-space compression?
This shape state typically encompass diverse types of climates, resources and peoples.
What is elongated?
An organization responsible for promoting the International Trade approach of development.
What is the WTO or World Trade Organization?
An industry that exports all or nearly all of its production.
What is a basic industry?
The reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases is representative of a possible stage 5 in this model.
What is the epidemiological transition model or ETM?
Spaces that are separately designed or designated for men and women.
What are gendered spaces?
A small Mediterranean state ethnically divided between Greeks and Turks.
What is Cyprus?
Name of the report in 1980 that created a map showing the relative wealth of the countries north of the line about 30 degrees North latitude compared to countries south of the line.
What is the Brandt report?
A legal form of segregation in U.S. cities.
What is zoning?
A population density map of the world shows that the distribution of people is most obviously affected by this type of factor.
What are environmental factors?
The effort to protect regional and national cultures from Americanization and the homogenizing effects of globalization.
What is cultural nationalism?
Geometric boundaries predominate in this region of the United States.
What is the West?
This development strategy encourages countries to spread its investments equally across all sectors of its economy and regions and encourages high tariffs and measures to protect new emerging industries. The main goal is to reduce poverty.
What is self-sufficiency?
According to this theory large cities are economic hubs with radiating connections for commerce.
What is the Central Place Theory?
The census has been keeping track of the U.S. population for over 200 years and occurs every ______ _______.
What is 10 years?
The practice of evaluating a culture by its own standards, and not by the standards of one’s own culture.
What is cultural relativism?
In this form of government power given to smaller units of government within the state.
What is a federal state?
Loss of local ownership of companies, loss of control of local affairs, and change in culture are all potential negative impacts of this process.
What is globalization?
A system of land division developed primarily to allow access to rivers.
What is the long-lot system?