Political Geography
Culture
Ag & Farms
Vocabulary
Concepts
Tough
100
The desire or policy to restore a nation to their historical region or country.
What is irredentism?
100
Gondolas are used in Venice, Italy, but may also be useful in this northern European city and country where canals facilitate trade, and urban transportation.
What is Amsterdam, Netherlands
100
High labor and capital inputs relative to land use is this agricultural system which produces high yields.
What is intensive agriculture?
100
Farming for the purpose of feeding your own family or community. Developing countries tend to have more of these types of farms than do developed countries.
What is subsistence farming?
100
Dealing with production of goods, consumption of said goods, wages, GDP, income per capita and the state of markets in a country is known as this.
What is economics?
100
Mostly flat, and dry grassland prairie
What is steppe?
200
The handing down of political power and autonomy to a smaller political entity.
What is devolution?
200
Ideas spread by movement of people bringing culture and innovations to different parts of the world.
What is relocation diffusion?
200
Rural survey methods characterized by land and real estate property using distance and landmarks to define boundaries. Creates irregular shaped plots of land.
What is metes and bounds?
200
Unlike commodity crops (wheat, soy, corn) these high-value "special" crops which include peppers, berries, mushrooms, flowers are cultivated for other uses other than consumption (medicine, aesthetics, .
What are specialty crops?
200
Factors dealing with climate, rainfall levels, droughts, deforestation, land-use, desertification, sea levels and the overall state of weather patterns.
What is environmental?
200
UNCLOS a committee which dictate exclusive economic zones and sovereignty for states beyond your coastal boundaries says this is the distance from a countries coast for which they have exclusive economic rights.
What is 200 nautical miles?
300
Political organization which comprises two or more sovereign states with stated economic, environmental, and/or political goals.
What is supranational organization?
300
Full fledge language that develops from a contact language and one or more indigenous local languages.
What is creolization?
300
Rural survey used to divide land perpendicular to a river and having equal access to a river or road.
What long lot?
300
26.19°N 97.69° W is this type of location. While 29 miles west northwest of Brownsville/Matamoros is this other type of location.
What is Absolute location and relative location?
300
This factor of human activities deals with policies, laws, and other actions taken by public officials.
What is political?
400
3 Boundary dispute types: mapping or physical location; access to resources around a boundary, and the management and maintaining of a boundary.
What are locational, allocational, operational?
400
In this religion, elephants are considered a symbol of mental strength and is related to the birth of the key character by Queen Maya.
What is Buddhism?
400
Changed human activities and lifestyles starting c. 8,000 BCE.
What is neolithic / 1st agricultural revolution?
400
the specific level, scope, or "lens"—ranging from local to global—at which geographic data can be grouped, examined, and understood.
What is scale of analysis?
500
A demographer seeking to understand GDP of a continent, or specific sections of a country, would seek to analyze data from either of these scales of analysis?
What is regional and subregional?
500
Increased yields across commodity and specialized crops starting in the 20th century.
What is the Green Revolution?
600
Technological innovations in agriculture and farming led to efficiency, higher production and increased use of mechanization and machines beginning around the 19th century during this era.
What is 2nd agricultural revolution?