Vocab Review
A new matcha store opens in a once affordable neighborhood, followed by high-end boutiques and restaurants. Rent rises, and many longtime residents are forced to move.
What is gentrification?
This geographer created the model that describes how population grows exponentially and food grows arithmetically.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
The dividing of a state into electoral districts to favor a party.
What is gerrymandering?
This type of agriculture involves growing enough food to feed the farmer's family, with little surplus for sale.
What is subsistence agriculture?
This term refers to the process of rebuilding and revitalizing urban areas that have fallen into disrepair.
What is urban renewal?
A person moves from rural Mexico to the U.S. to join their family already living there.
What is chain migration?
This model explains the stages of population change based on birth and death rates.
What is the demographic transition model (DTM)?
A country divided into two regions with different ethnic or linguistic groups, like Belgium or Canada, is known as a ________ state.
What is a multinational state?
This type of farming involves rotating different crops in the same field to preserve soil fertility.
What is crop rotation?
The area between the Central Business District and lower-income housing, often in flux and undergoing change.
What is zone in transition?
This area of protected land around cities like London is designed to prevent urban sprawl and preserve natural spaces.
What is a greenbelt?
This theory explains where factories are located in response to maximize efficiency and minimize production costs, considering factors like transportation and labor.
What is the Least Cost Theory?
This term refers to the desire of a state to acquire territories in neighboring states that are inhabited by people of the same nation.
What is irredentism?
This term refers to a company controlling multiple stages of production, from raw materials to finished products.
What is vertical integration?
This urban design movement promotes walkable neighborhoods, mixed-use development, and sustainable communities as alternatives to suburban sprawl.
What is New Urbanism?
Japan has more deaths than births each year and is closing schools due to a shrinking youth population.
What is negative/ zero population growth?
Los Angeles has several distinct centers of activity, not just one central business district.
What is the multiple nuclei model?
This term refers to the desire of a region or group to separate from a larger state and form its own independent state.
This type of agriculture involves clearing a piece of land for farming, then moving to a new plot once the soil loses its fertility, commonly practiced in tropical regions.
What is shifting cultivation?
This type of urban development focuses on high-density building around public transit hubs to promote sustainable living and reduce car dependency.
What is transportation-oriented development?
Native American children placed in boarding schools and forced to abandon their language and customs.
What is Assimilation?
This model explains the interaction between two places based on their size and the distance between them, with larger cities and closer distances increasing the likelihood of interaction.
What is the gravity model?
An alliance of three or more states working together for common goals or to address global challenges.
What is a supranational organization?
This movement advocates for better prices, fair labor conditions, and environmental sustainability for farmers in developing countries, particularly those producing coffee, cocoa, and handicrafts.
What is the Fair Trade Movement?
This model explains how cities and towns are spaced based on their size and the services they provide, with larger cities offering specialized goods and services and smaller towns offering basic necessities.
What is central place theory?