Population and migration
Stage of the Demographic Transition Model characterized by dropping death rates and rapidly soaring birth rates.
What is Stage 2?
A repetitive act that a particular group of people perform, distinguishing them from other cultural groups.
What is a custom?
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
What is a nation-state?
The form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals in arid climates.
What is pastoral nomadism?
The legally defined, continuous urban area where retail and office activities are traditionally clustered.
What is the Central Business District (CBD)?
The geometric maximum population size that an environment can sustain indefinitely without degrading the geographic base
What is carrying capacity?
The process by which a minority culture adopts some traits of a dominant culture while still maintaining its own distinct identity.
What is acculturation?
Redrawing voting district boundaries to give an unfair political advantage to one specific party or group.
What is gerrymandering?
The ring closest to the market in the Von Thünen model is dedicated to this perishable activity.
What is dairying (or intensive farming/market gardening)?
This urban model features a city growing outward from a central point in a series of rings.
What is the Concentric Zone Model (Burgess Model)?
He predicted in 1798 that food production would grow arithmetically while population grew exponentially, leading to famine.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
This type of religion actively seeks converts and attempts to appeal to all people globally, rather than one specific group or location.
What is a universalizing religion?
This type of boundary is drawn across an area before the cultural landscape is developed or populated.
What is a superimposed boundary?
The historic period in the mid-20th century that introduced high-yield seeds and chemical fertilizers to developing nations.
What is the Green Revolution?
A city with a population of over 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
This type of migration involves a series of shorter, less extreme moves to reach a final, distant destination.
What is step migration?
A simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two groups that do not share a common language.
What is a pidgin language?
The process by which a central government grants powers to regional governments, sometimes risking the breakup of the state.
What is devolution?
This rural settlement pattern features houses clustered close together with fields surrounding the village.
What is a nucleated (or clustered) settlement pattern?
The rule stating that the nth largest settlement in a country is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.
What is the rank-size rule?
The total number of live births per year per 1,000 people in a society
What is the Crude Birth Rate (CBR)?
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the physical landscape.
What is the cultural landscape?
Halford Mackinder’s theory stating that whoever controls Eastern Europe and Russia controls the world island and the world.
What is the Heartland Theory?
Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer’s family.
What is subsistence agriculture? [1]
The process where middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing.
What is gentrification?