State of the Map
This projection is known for preserving shape but greatly distorting size, especially near the poles.
What is the Mercator projection?
This process involves the spread of cultural elements from one area or group to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
This measure calculates how many people live per unit of land.
What is population density, especially arithmetic density?
This urban model depicts a city in concentric rings with the central business district at the center.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
This type of agriculture is practiced mainly to feed a farmer’s own household.
What is subsistence farming?
This term describes how features are arranged across Earth's surface.
What is spatial pattern?
This form of diffusion occurs when an idea spreads but is modified by the receiving culture.
What is stimulus diffusion?
This stage in the DTM features now declining birth rates and low death rates, leading to slower population growth.
What is Stage 3?
This urban process involves renovating inner-city neighborhoods and often displacing low-income residents.
What is gentrification?
This model explains agricultural land use based on distance from a central market and transportation cost.
What is the Von Thünen Model?
This term describes a cultural group that shares common traits, AND its political counterpart that refers to an independent governing body.
What are a nation and a state?
This term describes the geographic origin of a cultural trait or innovation.
What is a cultural hearth?
These are two types of migration categorized by whether the migrant had a choice.
What are voluntary migration and forced migration?
This theory explains the spatial distribution of cities and services based on thresholds and ranges, with larger settlements spaced farther apart.
What is Central Place Theory?
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This map projection is considered a compromise because it minimizes, but does not eliminate, all types of distortion.
What is the Robinson projection?
These are the two major categories of culture often compared in geography.
What are folk culture and popular culture?
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This is a major limitation of the Concentric and Sector Models in explaining today’s urban development.
What is its failure to consider multiple urban centers and modern transportation?
This is one key limitation of the Von Thünen Model in the context of global agriculture.
What is its assumption of uniform land and lack of consideration for global trade?
This is one major limitation faced by supranational organizations when trying to enforce policies across member states.
An example were the concerns brought up by the UK in the example of Brexit.
What is the prioritization of national sovereignty by individual member states?
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These two types of agriculture differ in their land use and labor intensity, with one using less land but more inputs, and the other using more land with fewer inputs.
What are intensive agriculture and extensive agriculture?
This term describes the decline in importance of the central business district as people and businesses move to the suburbs.
What is decentralization?
This system involves a large corporation controlling several steps of the agricultural production process, from seed to supermarket.
What is agribusiness?