Unit 5
Name two global crop hearths.
Southwest Asia. East Asia. Southeast Asia. Sub-Saharan Africa. Latin America.
List the five stages of Rostow's model and a characteristic of each.
1. Traditional: limited tech, static society
2. Preconditions of takeoff:
3. Takeoff
4. Drive to maturity
5. High mass consumption
Land gets less _______ and buildings get ______ as you move out from the CBD.
valuable, smaller
Compared to the United Kingdom, the amount of sprawl in the United States is A) greater. B) less. C) about the same. D) better controlled. E) declining.
What is greater
What caused LDCs to go into stage 2 of the demographic transition?
Medical revolution.
Commercial agriculture differs from subsistence agriculture because commercial agriculture...
Uses more fertilizer. Usually sells to food processing companies. Have larger farms. More concerned with profit.
Richard Florida's research identified a relationship between the distribution of A) talent and diversity. B) central places. C) talent and economic prosperity. D) rural and urban settlements. E) business and consumer services.
What is talent and diversity
European urban areas attack sprawl by designating rings of open space surrounding the cities called...
greenbelts
In the United States, which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area? A) central business district B) central city C) urbanized area D) metropolitan statistical area E) regional government federation
What is metropolitan statistical area
Industries base their location on what two factors?
Cost of transporting raw materials and cost of transporting a finished product.
What is one major complaint about the Green Revolution?
Chemical Fertilizer is poisoning groundwater. Kills biodiversity. Harms environment. Increases erosion.
A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is A) public administration. B) industrial. C) office. D) retail. E) legal.
What is industrial
A culture of poverty in inner-city residents has led to reduced services because of an eroding...
tax base
What are the two types of agriculture closest to the market? Why are they there?
What are the two types of agriculture closest to the market? Why are they there?
In which urban model would people be least likely to use the CBD? Why?
Multiple nuclei
What is another name for the Third Agricultural Revolution? What did it do to food?
The Green Revolution. It modified the type of food- introduced chemical fertilizer. Increased yield. HIGHER YIELD
The multiple nuclei theory A) involves four linked CBDs. B) includes nodes such as a port, a university, airport, and a park. C) includes a nucleus in the CBD which is connected to a nucleus in the suburbs. D) links a seaport, an airport, and a railway station. E) disregards the use of nodes.
What is includes nodes such as a port, a university, airport, and a park.
In pre-colonical cities most people lived in rural settlements with cities often laid out surrounding a _______ core.
religious (places of worship)
Latin American Cities are designed based on which of the urban models?
Sector Model
Why are GMOs so popular in MDCs? Why do LDCs resist them?
MDCs- increase production, increase agribusiness LDCs - loss of right to grow own food, harm to environment and traditional farming practices
What was the First Agricultural Revolution?
Hunting and Gathering --> Farming (Neolithic Revolution)
The "Boswash" corridor that stretches from Boston to Washington, D.C., was named "Megalopolis" A) by geographer Jean Gottmann. B) because it covered more than one-fourth of total U.S. land area. C) because it was planned to house more than half of the U.S. population. D) as a counterbalance to the plans of geographer Hugh Separalle. E) by economist, philanthropist, and geographer Harvey Keitel.
What is by geographer Jean Gottmann
The demand for space in CBDs has caused vertical distribution in the form of which two structures?
underground areas and skyscrapers
An urbanized areas with a population of at least 50,000 with high population density is called...
metropolitan statistical area/MSA
Define functional, formal, and vernacular regions. Give an example of each.
Functional: an area organized around a node or focal point Formal: an area in which everyone shares one or more characteristics Vernacular: An area people "believe" exists as part of their cultural identity