Geographic Thinking
This type of map preserves shape but distorts size
What is a conformal projection?
A population pyramid with a wide base usually indicates this.
What is rapid population growth?
A reason that encourages people to leave a place.
What is a push factor?
What is culture?
This sector of the economy focuses on extracting natural resources.
What is the primary sector?
The concept that areas are defined by their physical and human characteristics
What is Place?
This term refers to the number of children born to a woman during her lifetime.
What is total fertility rate (TFR)?
The migration model that explains the layout of towns and cities around a larger location.
What is Central Place Theory?
Food, clothing, and architecture are examples of this type of culture.
What is material culture?
Also known as the interconnected theory of Capital.
What is Wallerstein's theory?
A geographer using satellite images to study deforestation is using this type of tool.
What is remote sensing?
Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model is characterized by this key change.
What is a rapid decline in death rates?
People forced to flee because of conflict, persecution, or disaster fall into this category
What are refugees?
The spread of cultural traits from one place to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
This sector of the economy focuses on services, such as sales and design.
What is the tertiary sector?
This concept explains how a location's position relative to other places affects its development
What is relative location?
Countries in Stage 4 of the DTM typically experience this population trend
What is stable or slow growth?
According to Wallerstein's theory people in this type of country would most likely to be forced to move away from their homes.
What is a peripheral country.
This type of diffusion spreads through direct contact between neighboring cultures.
What is contagious diffusion?
This theory states that all countries will go through the same process of growth and industrialization, independent of each other.
What is Rostow's Model?
This geographic approach studies how phenomena are arranged and organized on Earth's surface.
What is spatial analysis?
This concept compares the number of people to the amount of available land.
What is arithmetic density?
This type of migration involves moving from the countryside to a more densely packed, industrial or post-industrial area.
What is rural to urban migration?
The process by which immigrants adopt aspects of the dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
This tern describes a country with low industrialization and lower standards of living.
What is a developing country? (or less developed country)