Population and Migration
The process of moving from one place to another.
What is migration?
The spread of cultural traits, ideas, or innovations through the physical movement of people from one place to another.
What is relocation diffusion?
A cultural concept referring to a large group of people who share a common cultural identity (such as language, ethnicity, history, or religion).
What is a nation?
An agricultural economic theory that explains how distance from a central market dictates land use and crop choices.
What is von Thünen's model?
An example of jobs in this category would be retail and service jobs.
What is the tertiary sector?
The involuntary migration of individuals or groups away from their point of origin.
The process of two cultures or philosophies mixing and creating a third blended culture.
What is syncretism?
A stateless nation located in western Asia with approximately 35-40 million inhabitants.
What is Kurdistan?
A farming system where the primary goal is to grow crops and raise livestock to feed the farmer and their family.
What is subsistence agriculture?
Locations where goods are transferred from one mode of transportation to another.
What are break of bulk points?
This event is historically credited with driving Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) by drastically lowering Crude Death Rates across much of Europe and North America.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The tendency to evaluate and judge other cultures based exclusively on the standards, values, and norms of one's own culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
A political boundary that is established before a region is significantly populated or before the cultural landscape fully develops.
What is an antecedent boundary?
Mesopotamia, Indus River Valley, Mesoamerica, Andes, and Central Africa.
What are the ancient agricultural hearths?
A city with over 20 million inhabitants.
What is a metacity?
A non-communicable, chronic illness primarily caused by daily habits and environmental behaviors. Typically seen in stages 4-5 in the DTM.
What is lifestyle disease?
An example of this would be an American fast-food chain that opens locations in India, but changes its menu to offer chicken and vegetarian options instead of beef.
What is stimulus diffusion?
A strategic, narrow passage or bottleneck that restricts the smooth flow of traffic, trade, or resources.
What is a choke point?
The intensive agriculture form featuring the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
What is horticulture?
What is the Homer-Hoytt sector model?
The theory suggests that population grows geometrically while food production grows arithmetically.
What is Malthusian theory?
An ethnic religion and an animistic belief system that is highly localized and deeply tied to Japanese culture.
What is Shintoism?
An example of this would be the Berlin Wall.
What is a relic boundary?
The export and growing of this good is heavily relied upon in Côte d'Ivoire.
What are cocoa beans?
Pn = P1/n
What is the equation for the rank-size population rule?