Unit 3
Define hearth.
A cultural trait or factor that divides people within a country
Centrifugal force
Modifying the environment to raise plants or animals
Agriculture
primarily residential areas near cities, often with densities of only a few hundred people per square mile.
suburbs
a statistic created by the United Nations to try to measure how economically developed a country is - seen as more complete picture than just GDP PPP per capita
Human Development Index
What is hierarchal diffusion?
A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or people.
A cultural trait or factor that adds to the unity and stability of a country
Centripetal force
When the focus of agriculture is to produce a product to sell to other people
Commercial Agriculture
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
range
a monetary measurement of all the goods and services produced by citizens (including citizens overseas) in a year in a country but NOT con-citizen residents
Gross National Income
The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction.
Distance decay
An area of a country that has degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority.
Autonomous region
living thing that has been altered through genetic engineering
Genetically modified organism
process of developing towns and cities
urbanization
a monetary measurement of all the goods and services produced in a year in a country
Gross Domestic Product
A neighbourhood typically situated in a larger city and constructed by or composed of a local culture, with its own customs and traditions.
Ethnic Neighbourhood
A border established before an area was populated/a cultural landscape was established.
Antecedent boundary
the spread of new technologies like high yield crops and chemical fertilizers to the developing world in the 1960s and 1970s
Green Revolution
process of people moving away from cities to the outskirts of cities... in the USA, this was prompted by the building of high speed roads and the affordability of personal automobiles.
Suburbanization
the ability of a group to carry out an economic activity more effieciently than another economic activity
comparative advantage
The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits like dress, and speech, as they come into contact with another culture or society.
Assimilation
A strategic narrow route providing passage through or to another region
Chokepoint
subsistence agriculture form used in tropical areas that cuts down vegetation for burning which provides nourishment to the soil - every few years the farmer must move to a new location as the nutrients are gone and repeat (slash and burn)
Shifting cultivation
a disproportionately large city that dominates a country's economy, culture, and government and in which population is concentrated; usually the capital
Primate city
a statistic that is an offshoot of the HDI that measures gender gaps in life expectancy, education, and incomes
Gender Development Index