Unit 1
This type of map distorts size to show data like population, such as a map where India and China appear larger.
What is a cartogram?
The ratio of the number of people to the amount of arable land, used to assess pressure on food supply.
What is physiological density?
The spread of an idea through people of similar status or characteristics.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
Countries like the United States or India, with many ethnic groups under one government.
What is a multinational state?
Farmers alternating corn and soybeans in the Midwest use this technique.
What is crop rotation?
Using latitude and longitude to locate places like (40°N, 74°W) for New York City demonstrates this concept.
What is absolute location?
The stage of the Demographic Transition Model characterized by high birth rates, declining death rates, and rapid population growth
What is Stage 2?
Immigrants adopting the dominant language and customs in the U.S. illustrate this process.
What is assimilation?
The U.S.-Canada border along the 49th parallel is an example of this type of boundary.
What are antecedent and/or geometric boundaries?
Large banana farms in Central America owned by corporations are examples of this.
What is a plantation?
The relationship between Chicago and its access to the Great Lakes and railroads is an example of this.
What is situation?
The theory that predicts migration flows based on distance, population size, and economic opportunity.
What is the gravity model?
The dominance of English on the internet and in global business illustrates this type of linguistic diffusion tied to power structures.
What is lingua franca diffusion?
Cold War-era Eastern European countries influenced by the USSR are examples of this.
What is a satellite state?
Wheat farming falls into this section of the Von Thunen model.
What is ring 3?
A map showing population density using varying sized shapes or symbols?
What is graduated symbol map?
This English economist famously predicted that population growth would outpace food production, leading to crisis.
Who was Thomas Malthus?
The spread of McDonald’s adapting menus to local tastes (e.g., McAloo Tikki in India) reflects this process combining global and local culture.
What is glocalization?
The breakup of Yugoslavia into multiple countries is a classic example of this process.
What is balkanization?
The Amazon rainforest losing acreage is an example of this
What is slash/burn agriculture?
The concept that explains how Tobler’s First Law (“near things are more related than distant things”) applies to patterns like clustering of fast-food restaurants.
What is spatial interaction (or distance decay)?
The concept that a population will stabilize when birth rates decline to match death rates due to economic development.
What is zero population growth (ZPG)?
When a minority group adopts dominant traits but also influences the dominant culture in return (e.g., food, music in the U.S.), this more complex process is occurring.
What is syncretism?
If oil is found outside of 200 nautical miles from a country shore, it falls into this category of jurisdiction.
What is High Seas?
This time period is characterized by the introduction of mechanization in farming.
What is 2nd Ag Revolution?