Population and Migration Patterns
the migration from a location while the other is the migration to a location
What is the difference between emigration and immigration?
the mix of values, beliefs, behaviors, and material objects that form a people’s way of life.
What is culture?
Provided inexpensive fencing to keep livestock in grazing areas.
what is Barbed wire
it takes up less than 1 percent of the urban land area, yet contains a large percentage of the services offered in the city.
what is central business district
Aided the Second Agricultural Revolution
what is the Industrial revolution
the spread of people,objects, ideas, cultural practices, disease, technology, weather, social normalities, and other factors from place to place.
What is diffusion
the spread of culture to areas surrounding the cultural hearth.
what is cultural diffusion
it began with the development of high-yield seeds (for example: rice, wheat, maize), resulting in the increased use of chemical and mechanized farming.
what is the green revolution
denying someone a loan simply because of their address
what is redlining
the total value of all goods and services produced by a country's economy in a year
what is gross national product (GNP)
pushes or people to move out of their present location
gives people a positive reason to move into a new location
what are push and pull factors?
the process of the less dominant culture adopting the traits of the more dominant one.
what is acculturation
Total number of farmers/Land Used for Farming
what is agricultural density
when several metropolitan areas are close to each other
what is a megalopolis
Political and economic relations among countries limit the ability of LDCs to modernize and develop because the MDCs are dependent upon LDCs to remain at the top of the world economy(less/more developed countries)
what is the dependency theory
Most migrants only go a short distance
Migration occurs in steps
Long range migrants usually move to urban areas
Each migration produces a movement in the opposite direction
Rural dwellers are more migratory than urban dwellers.
Within their own country, females are more migratory than males, but males are more migratory over long distances
Most migrants are adults
Large towns grow more by migration than by natural increase
Migration increases with economic development
Migration is mostly due to economic causes
What is Ravenstein's laws of migration
the area where civilizations first began that radiated the customs, innovations, and ideologies that transformed the world.
what is a cultural hearth
Total number of People/Land Used for Farming
What is physiological density
the process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing.
what is Gentrification
the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
what is colonialism
Total number of people to area
what is arithmetic density
when immigrants lose their native customs completely.
what is assimilation.
created in the 1800's the modification of farming culture created a desire for a spatial understanding of agricultural layout
what is Von Thunen’s model of farming
region comprising a number of cities, large towns, and other urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion
Conurbation
Explains and predicts where industries will locate based on cost analysis of transportation, labor, and agglomeration factors.
what is Alfred Weber's least cost theory