Unit 1
An area of land bound together by a common purpose or practice.
Functional Region
The time required for a population to double in size.
Doubling Time
The process of any idea or innovation diffusing across borders and across cultures to become a global phenomenon.
Globalization
Metes and Bounds
Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, and quinary.
Economic Sectors
The precise location of a place as defined by longitude and latitude.
Absolute location
This is determined by subtracting a populations Crude Birth Rate (CBR) from it's Crude Death Rate (CDR).
Rate of Natural Increase
The spread of an idea or innovation caused by people moving from one place to another.
Relocation Diffusion
Extremely large cities that have a population of at least 20 million people.
Metacities
The period of history (originating in Europe and diffusing globally) where farming and other industries became mechanized, and people began leaving the farm to find factory jobs.
Industrial Revolution
A system of hardware and/or software used to show, analyze, and represent geographic data (ex., Google Earth)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
The ratio of people who are either too old, too young, or unable to care for themselves in relation to the population as a whole.
Dependency Ratio
The feeling or belief people have of belonging or being connected to a particular group, region, or place.
Sense of Place
The steps in the production of a good from raw materials through marketing, and finally the distribution of the product.
Commodity Chain
This measures the level of the inability of women to access things such as labor participation, access to healthcare, and political empowerment.
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
The less likely it is for something to diffuse the further away it gets from it's hearth.
Distance Decay
This theory proposed that because food production grows in a linear fashion, and population grows in an exponential fashion, population will eventually overtake food supply, causing famine and conflict.
Malthusian Theory
Language Families
The process of real estate agents trying to create fear in homeowners, motivating them to sell their property at a low price.
Blockbusting
The process of domestic companies (like U.S. companies) moving jobs to other countries around the world to access cheaper labor markets.
Outsourcing
Information that the U.S. Government collects every 10 years about the demographic characteristics of U.S. Citizens.
Census Data
This theory helps explain the reasons and conditions under which most people migrate, and is based on 11 principles.
Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
A state where most or all of the decision-making power is focused on the national government.
Unitary State
A small region with limited access to fresh and/or nutrient-rich foods.
Food Desert
A commitment by two or more countries to agree to prefer one another's goods and services and lower or eliminate tariffs for the economic benefit of all countries involved.
Free Trade Agreements