Unit 1
Approximate measurement of distance relative to other places
Relative distance
Where people live
Population distribution
Beliefs, traditions, and language of a nation.
culture
Nation without territory.
Stateless Nation
What model shows a series of rings around the CBD?
Concentric Zone Model.
Humans' ability to adapt to their situation
Possibilism.
Farmable land
Arable land
Structures and organizations of a nation
sociofacts
Ability to be an independent state.
Sovereignty
A city and the surrounding area.
Metropolitan area.
The larger the distance between two places, the lower the interaction between them.
Distance decay.
Births per 1000 people
Crude Birth Rate
Belief that one culture is better than another.
Ethnocentrism.
A strategic passageway
Choke point
Bid rent theory assumes what?
Land is flat, and all jobs are in the CBD.
A map using shading to show a pattern of a variable
Choropleth map
Data about populations
Demographics
A split off of a larger religion.
Denomination
Stronger states influence weaker states to gain resources
neo colonialism
Why is the high-class residential on the opposite side of the CBD from the low-class in the Harris and Ulman Multiple Nuclei Model?
To be far from noise and factories.
A map showing the Earth from one pole.
Azimuthal projection
A population pyramid with a wide base that narrows quickly.
Rapid growth
the spread of ideas, trends, or innovations from nodes of high authority, power, or influence down to smaller, less influential places or people
hierarchical diffusion
A boundary created after an area has been settled.
consequence boundray
Planners use smart-growth policies to create what?
Slow-Growth cities.