Cities & Development
This term refers to the increasing proportion of people living in urban areas.
What is urbanization?
An origin area for agriculture is known by this general term.
What is an agricultural hearth?
This is a common language used among speakers of different native languages.
What is a lingua franca?
This DTM stage features high birth rates, declining death rates, and rapid population growth.
What is Stage 2?
Migration that follows earlier migrants to a destination is called this.
What is chain migration?
A city that is more than twice the size of the next largest city is called this.
What is a primate city?
Name one region where agriculture independently originated.
What is the Fertile Crescent? (also accept East Asia, Mesoamerica, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America)
This ethnic, polytheistic religion is dominant in India.
What is Hinduism?
This term describes the maximum population an environment can sustainably support.
What is carrying capacity?
This term describes political fragmentation into smaller, hostile units.
This term describes political fragmentation into smaller, hostile units.
This urban process involves wealthier residents moving into poorer neighborhoods, raising property values.
What is gentrification?
Companies do this to reduce labor costs and increase profits by moving production elsewhere.
What is outsourcing? (will also take offshoring)
This concept refers to judging a culture by its own standards.
What is cultural relativism?
This region has the highest natural increase rate (NIR) in the world today.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
This type of boundary is a straight-line border like much of the U.S.–Canada boundary.
What is a geometric boundary?
Most of the world’s megacities are located on this continent.
What is Asia?
This model predicts what type of agriculture will be practiced where in relation to a urban market
What is the Von Thunen Model
This is one major way language spreads through migration.
What is relocation diffusion?
These regions are most associated with Stage 5 or declining populations.
What are Europe and Japan (or even Korea or China)?
Give one push factor and one pull factor for migration.
What is push = war/unemployment; pull = jobs/stability?
Give one effect of urban sprawl.
What is increased car dependence/traffic congestion/environmental degradation?
This is one major limitation of GDP as a development measure.
What is it does not account for inequality/quality of life?
These religions are less likely to spread globally because they are tied to place and do not seek converts.
What are ethnic religions?
Explain one consequence of industrialization on population.
What is lower death rates due to improved healthcare/sanitation leading to rapid population growth?
Banks denying loans based on neighborhood demographics is known as this.
What is redlining?