Urbanization, population, and development
The growth of cities due to a population shift from rural areas to urban ones.
What is urbanization?
The pattern by which a phenomenon spreads.
What is diffusion?
Paddy rice farming, plantation agriculture, and grain farming are examples of this type of system.
What are crop-based farming systems?
Places with the most unique, misunderstood, or endangered tongues
What are language hotspots?
The belief that the physical environment is the dominant force shaping people
What is environmental determinism?
A metropolitan area with a population greater than 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
Carl Sauer is a key figure in this area of geography.
What is cultural geography?
A state of complete physical, mental, and social, well-being.
What is health?
Related languages that share a common ancestry
What are language families?
Human geography is the study of the _________ organization of human activity.
What is spatial?
The model that predicts trends in birth rates, death rates, and overall population change.
What is the demographic transition?
As technologies become more advanced, the barriers of space seem to be removed.
What is time-space compression?
A set of meanings, assumptions, and practices that create a common sense view of the world which we use to communicate and negotiate versions of the truth.
What is discourse?
Part of a national territory separated from the main body of the country to which it belongs.
What is an exclave?
A particular position in space.
What is location?
This perspective on the relationship between population and resources grew out of a Marxist critique of Malthus.
What is structuralist/neo-structuralist?
Fashion trends that begin in Paris, spread to other world cities such as London and Tokyo, and then spread to smaller cities is an example of this phenomenon.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
A set of research and technology transfers to increase food production in many regions of the tropics and sub-tropics.
What is the Green Revolution?
States that have two or more culturally distinct groups within their boundaries tend to be subject to these types of forces.
What are centrifugal forces?
The mental images that people have of the environment, shaped by knowledge, experience, emotions, and values.
What is environmental perception?
The world’s first cities arose in these areas.
What are urban hearth areas?
This cultural group is associated with the rise of mass-produced goods and long-distance communication technologies.
What is popular culture?
Von Thünen’s land use model is a good example of this perspective in human geography.
What is spatial modelling?
National parks and monuments are good examples of this type of force.
What is centripetal?
A wifi-network is an example of this type of region.
What is a functional region?