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Vocab Agricultural
Vocab Political
100
This political scientist developed an economic measuring tool called the j-curve.
Who is Ian Bremmer?
100
Blank increased the the productivity of farming through mechanization and access to market areas through better transportation.
What is second agricultural revolution
100
A blank is a group of people with common cultural characteristics whereas a blank is an area with defined boundaries that has sovereignty within its boundaries. Fill in the blanks.
What is a nation vs a state
100
This phase refers to a period time when people began shifting from activities of hunting and gathering to farming.
What is the first agricultural revolution?
100
This process occurs when migrants to a new country or region slowly give up their old customs and adopt the ways of life of their new homes.
What is assimilation?
200
The place where the characteristics began in relation to diffusion.
What is the hearth?
200
This crop started the third agricultural revolution.
What is rice
200
Blank is determined by race, skin color, language, religion and other factors. Whereas blank is different and is determined by by perceived inheritable biological characteristics. Fill in the blanks.
What is Ethnicity vs Race?
200
Agreement between debtor and lender countries. The debtor country agrees to set aside an area of land for preservation in exchange for the cancellation of monetary debt to the lender.
What is dept-for-nature swap?
200
These forces encourage a country or state to come together.
What is centripetal forces?
300
The theory that the world population is growing faster than the food production and as a result mass starvation will occur.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
300
Blank's model focuses on transportation. The distance and the weight of crops as well as their distance to market affect which ones are grown.
Who is Von Thunen
300
An allegiance of nations designed to support world cooperation.
What is the UN
300
This process involves clearing rocks and weeds from fields by hands.
What is intertillage?
300
Blank refers to an official system of segregation that existed between the white minority and the black African majority in blank (country)
What is apartheid?
400
The largest language family in relation to cultural patterns and processes.
What is Indo-European?
400
Another type of subsistence farming involves moving animals on a seasonal basis to areas that have the necesary resources to meet the needs of the herd.
What is pastoral nomadism
400
The heartland theory suggests that whoever owns the Heartland of Eastern Europe will control the world. Name whom established this theory.
What is Halford Mackinder
400
This process refers to the way in which a large body of water affects the temperature of an area.
What is continentality?
400
This process occurs when an existing nation adds more territory.
What is annexation?
500
The five means of industrial transportation.
What is truck, train, plain, pipeline and ship.
500
The process where plants are split into two and and both parts are replanted to propagate crops.
What is vegetative planting?
500
The rimland theory suggests that sea power is more valuable and that alliances will keep the heartland in check. Name whom developed this theory.
Who is Nicholas Spykman?
500
This type of blank power results from the splitting of uranium atoms.
What is fission nuclear power?
500
This process occurs when an existing nation splits into two or more new nations, often as a result of ethnice conflict.
What is Balkanization?