The process by which a characteristic spreads across a space.
What is Diffusion
100
What type of diffusion is this?
The spread of a trend or feature among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.
What is Expansion
100
Thomas Malthus said subsistence grows at what rate?
What is Linear/Arithmetic
100
What concept can also be called the Regional Tradition
What is the Area Studies Tradition
100
A bar graph that displays a country's population by age and gender
What is a Population Pyramid
200
The frequency with which something exists in a given unit of area.
What is Density
200
A location that is the origin of an innovation.
What is a Hearth
200
Who argued against Malthus' theory and said "Private capitalists owned the means of meeting the mens needs?"
Who is Karl Marx
200
Which tradition do these fall under?
Mapping
Areal distribution
Boundaries and densities
Movement and transportation
What is Spatial tradition/Locational tradition
200
A policy of population control in China, where a married couple is allowed only one child
What is the One-Child Policy
300
The reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place.
What is Space-Time Compression
300
Vocab
Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole; specifically, the relationship between the size of an object on a map and of its actual size on the earth's surface.
What is Scale
300
These four principles belong to whom?
A. Food is necessary for human existence.
B. Human population tends to go faster than the power in the earth to produce subsistence, and that.
C. The effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal.
D. Since humans tend not to limit their population size voluntarily; population reduction tends to be accomplished through the "positive" checks of famine, disease, poverty and war.
Who is Thomas Malthus
300
What tradition do these fall under?
Physical geography
The lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
Earth-sun interaction
What is The Earth Science tradition
300
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
What is The Total Fertility Rate
400
A map projection that fairly accurately shows shape and direction, but distorts distance and size of land masses.
What is Mercator Projection
400
What Island is located at about 20 degrees S and 47 degrees E?
Where is Madagascar
400
Who's theory rivaled Thomas Malthus'? Saying that there is a way out of the Malthusian crisis by increasing food productivity like cultivating more land and adding extra resources like more manure, water, and fertilizer.
Who is Boserup
400
What tradition do these fall under?
Human impact on nature
Impact of nature on humans
Natural hazards
Perception of environment
Environmentalism
What is the Man-land tradition
400
The total number of people divided by the total land area
What is Arithmetic Population density
500
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
What is Sequent occupance
500
An area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity.
What is Vernacular Region
500
Which two people argued in The Population Explosion (1990)
that a baby born in an MDC poses a graver threat to global overpopulation that a baby born in an LDC.
Who are Paul and Anne Ehrlich
500
What tradition do these fall under?
World regional geography
International trends and relationships
How regions are different from one another
The chorographic tradition (regions)
What is the Area studies tradition
500
The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement