Thinking Geographically
List the five themes of geography.
What is place, location, movement, environment, and region.
A negative cause that compels someone to leave a location
What is push factor
Name of first agricultural revolution
What is Neolithic
The visible objects and technologies that a culture creates
What is artifacts
A political unit with defined boundaries, a population, recognition and sovereignty
What is a state
The mathematical relationship between the size of a map and the part of the real world it shows.
What is map scale
The number of years in which a population growing at a certain rate will double.
What is doubling time
Model that described the ideal pattern for agricultural practices outside of a city center
What is the Von Thunen Model
The spread of ideas from highest to lowest power
What is hierarchical diffusion?
A boundary created by outside force
What is superimposed boundary?
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
Main agricultural activity in the northeast United States
What is dairying
The oldest universalizing religion
What is Buddhism
When a nation lacks control of a state. Example: The Kurds
What is stateless nation
The shape and features of land surfaces
What is topography
Model that uses stages to explain the growth of the world's population over time
What is demographic transition model or DTM
This revolution is about Genetic Modified Organisms and renovation of agricultural practices while benefiting other countries in need of increased food production
What is the Green Revolution
A variation of a standard language specific to a general area
What is dialect
The process that occurs when the central power of a state is broken up.
What is devolution
An integrated network of at least 31 satellites in the U.S. system that orbit Earth and transmit location data.
The theorist who concluded that population increased arithmetically while food production increased geometrically
Who is Thomas Malthus
This type of agriculture is found in LDC
What is subsistence agriculture
Family with the largest number of speakers
What is Indo-European
Example: Israel and Kashmir today + Eastern Europe during the Civil War
What is shatterbelt