Thinking Geographically
The region from which innovative ideas originate.
What is a hearth?
Worldwide, migration tends toward ____ areas.
What are urban areas?
A people's native language.
What is an Indigenous Language?
Political unit with a permanent population and boundaries that are recognized by other states that allow for the administration of laws, collection of taxes, and provision of defense.
What is a state?
The trend that led to the development of pesticides and crops that are more drought-resistant.
What is the Green Revolution?
These types of cities exert influence far beyond their national boundaries. All are currently media hubs and financial centers with stock exchanges, banks, and corporate headquarters.
What are World (or Global) Cities?
Wallerstein's World System Theory divides countries into three types. What are they?
The concept of the shrinking "time-distance" between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication.
What is Time-Space Compression?
A stage within the DTM model that exhibits low death and birth rates related to improving economic conditions.
What is Stage 3 on the DTM?
This is when two or more separate languages mix and develop into a more formal structure and vocabulary. This can be a person' first language.
Creolization
These boundaries are still visible on the environment, but no longer used.
What is a relic (or relict) boundary?
In the late 15th and 16th centuries, food products were carried both ways across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood.
What is blockbusting?
This type of economic sector provides services rather than working with natural resources.
What is the tertiary sector?
The number of something in a specifically defined area.
What is Density?
A model that shows historical changes in birth and death rates and is used to explain rapid population growth.
What is the demographic transition model?
An area within a city occupied by a distinctive minority culture.
What is an ethnic neighborhood?
The main goal is to benefit the mother country by trading goods or to accumulate raw materials, thus enriching the country.
What is colonialism (will also accept imperialism)?
Model that explains what economic activities are located where and why.
What is the Von Thünen model?
A city of 10 million people.
What is a mega city?
Theory that predicted where industries would locate based on the places that would be the lowest cost to them.
What is the least cost theory?
The concept of the inverse relationship between distance and connection.
What is distance decay?
A belief that the world is characterized by scarcity and competition in which too many people fight for too few resources.
What is Neo-Malthusian?
Hinduism and Judaism
What are the ethnic religions?
These are things that can fragment a state
What are centrifugal forces?
A type of agriculture uses higher amounts of input of capital and paid labor relative to the amount of space being used.
What is intensive farming?
This theory depicts hexagonal hinterlands as market areas surrounding each central place.
What is Christaller' Central Place Theory?
Raw materials are converted into a product that is lighter that the raw materials that went into the factory.
What is bulk reducing?
A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
What is GPS?
A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time; a sudden, widespread occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon.
What is an epidemic?
A culture found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
What is popular culture?
Redistricting that is unfair and gives an advantage to a particular political party by concentrating voting strength.
What is Gerrymandering?
These farms are typically smaller and focus on free-range or organic food. These are getting bought up by factory farms
What is a family run farm?
The size of a city directly correlates to their status within a state or region.
What is the rank size rule?
Industries clump together in the same geographic space.
What is agglomeration?