Geography
The process of making maps.
What is cartography?
A person who is fleeing a country seeking a better life, usually being pushed out by a certain factor like war.
What is a refugee?
The theory that the farther you got away from the market the more expensive it costed to transport and the less it costed.
What is von Thunen's theory?
A map that uses differences in shading, coloring, or symbols in an area to show the values of that place.
What is a choropleth map?
The destruction of land usually caused by floods or big rains.
What is erosion?
An outbreak of infectious diseases in a certain geographic area affecting a lot of people.
What is a pandemic?
The theory that talks about how economic prosperity is open to all countries and how it takes place in 4 stages.
What is the W.W. Rostow modernization theory?
What is the map projection that balances all distortions?
What is Robinson projection?
A model of land used to show the values of land certain distances away from the market.
What is von Thunen's model?
A settlement that is long and narrow across an area
What is a linear pattern settlement?
A period of time where everything transitioned to new manufacturing processes.
What is the Industrial revolution?
The theory that our population was growing geometrically and our food arithmetically and that we would end up dying because of overpopulation and not enough food.
What is the Thomas Malthus' theory?
What are isolines?
A type of agriculture that involves burning all your plants and moving them to a new section of land for better nutrients in the soil.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
The features of a certain space of land.
What is topography?
The physiological density or real population density is the number of people per unit area of arable land.
What is arithmetic population density?
The theory that described the optimal location of a manufacturing firm in relation to the cost of transportation, labor, and advantages of agglomeration.
Weber's Least Cost Theory
A map that emphasizes a certain topic or special theme in a certain area or country
What is a thematic map?
A widespread transfer of goods in the 15th century from the Old World to the New World (Africas and Americas).
What was the Columbian exchange?
The increasing sense of connectivity or feeling of getting closer together with someone or something when your physical distance is not changing.
What is space-time compression?
The effect of distance on social or cultural interaction causing either a higher or lower influx of people than usual.
What is distance-decay?
The theory that states that goods and services are located within a threshold distance of the urban center based on how far people are willing to travel for work and consumption.
Christaller's Central Place Theory
A map that combines statistical evidence with geographic location.
What is a cartogram?
The rights of inheritance always going to the eldest son.
What is primogeniture?