Thinking Geographically
The mathematical relationship between the size of map and the part of the real world it shows
What is map scale?
A negative cause that compels someone ot leave a location
What is a push factor?
The visible modification of the environment to demonstrate cultural traits.
What is the cultural landscape?
A narrow passageway to another place that can be strategically closed
What is a choke point?
This agricultural practice happens closest to the CBD due to the perishability of the product.
What is dairy farming?
The occurrence of an urban area expanding in an unplanned and uncontrolled way away from a city center.
What is urban sprawl?
This revolution transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Model that describes a fundamental relationship: the impact of distance on the interactions between locations
What is distance decay?
The maximum population size an environment can sustain
What is carrying capacity?
The spread of ideas from a person of power to lower levels of society.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
A boundary created by an outside force without regard for cultural distinctions.
What is a superimposed boundary?
The model that described the ideal pattern for agricultural practices outside of a city center
What is the von Thunen model?
An area of parkland, agricultural land, or other open space around an urban area to limit sprawl.
What is green space?
This represents the total value of goods and services produced within a country's borders over a specific period (usually one year)
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
The shape and features of land surfaces
What is topography?
The average amount of children born to women each year in a country.
What is Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?
What is Islam?
What is sovereignty?
A plant or animal product that has had one or more changes made to its genome in an attempt to change its characteristics.
What are genetically modified organisms (GMOs)?
A large urban region composed of multiple dense centers, suburbs & green spaces. Has a population of 20 million or more.
What is a metacity?
The sector of the economy that includes the manufacturing and processing of raw materials into higher-value goods.
What is the secondary sector?
An integrated network of at least 31 satellites in the U.S. system that orbit Earth and transmit location data
What is the Global Positioning System (GPS)?
What is Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
A variation of standard language specific to a general area
What is a dialect?
The process that occurs when the central power of a state is broken up into lower regional governments.
What is devolution?
This Revolution created a surplus of food that allowed the Industrial Revolution to occur and led to the mechanization of farming.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
This theory analyzes spatial patterns of urban and outlying areas based on the flow of goods and services, with the key concepts of range and threshold.
What is Christaller's Central Place Theory?
What is the informal sector?
The processes causing the relative distance between places to shrink
What is time-space compression?
The person who said that population growth will inevitably outpace the ability to produce food, leading to poverty, famine, and other societal crises.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
A guest worker who sends earning back to their family in their home country.
What is remittance?
The process of "packing" or "cracking" a district
What is gerrymandering?
The theory that explains the relationship between land value, commercial location, and transportation.
What is bid-rent theory?
The most important factor in Weber's Least Cost Theory
What is transportation cost?
Occurs when a person is skilled at two different services yet chooses the job/service that makes the most money.
What is comparative advantage?