Culture patterns and processes
This type of diffusion spreads rapidly through a population, like viral trends online.
What is contagious diffusion?
This is an invisible line that marks the boundary between two states.
What is a boundary?
This type of agriculture is primarily for personal consumption.
What is subsistence agriculture?
This is the central area of a city where business and commerce are concentrated.
What is the CBD (Central Business District)?
This sector of the economy focuses on extracting natural resources like mining or fishing.
What is the primary sector?
This religion is considered the world’s largest universalizing religion.
What is Christianity?
This supranational organization promotes cooperation between European countries and includes a shared currency among many members.
What is the European Union?
This model explains agricultural land use based on distance from a central market.
What is the Von Thünen Model?
This model shows a city growing outward in rings
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
his model explains how countries develop economically over time and includes five stages
What is Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth?
This term refers to the loss of a culture’s original traits due to outside influence.
What is cultural assimilation?
This is a state with a single centralized government.
What is a unitary state?
This agricultural practice involves growing a single crop.
What is monocropping?
This term refers to the outward spread of urban areas into rural land
What is urban sprawl?
This sector of the economy focuses on providing services like healthcare, education, and retail.
What is the tertiary sector?
This language family includes Spanish, French, and Italian.
What is the Romance language family?
This term describes a nation without a state, like the Kurds.
What is a stateless nation?
This revolution introduced new high-yield crops and fertilizers in the mid-20th century.
What is the Green Revolution?
This model suggests cities develop in multiple centers rather than a single core.
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
This sector of the economy focuses on manufacturing goods like cars or electronics.
What is the secondary sector?
This type of diffusion occurs when trends spread from influential people or groups, like celebrities, to the wider population.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
A boundary drawn using straight lines, often based on latitude and longitude rather than cultural or physical features.
What is a geometric boundary?
This survey technique uses long strips of land connected to a transportation route
What are Long lots?
This process occurs when people move from urban centers to surrounding suburban areas, often for more space or affordability.
What is suburbanization?
This measure of development combines income, education, and life expectancy to compare countries’ overall quality of life.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?