Unit 1-2
The making and studying of maps or charts
What is Cartography
variants of the standard language accent plays part of this
What is dialect?
States with very small land areas
What are microstates?
The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
`What is the agricultural revolution?
Agglomeration
what is the action or process of regions or areas collecting in mass
The early spread of Christianity, which spread from the middle east to Europe (diffusion type?)
What is contagious diffusion?
spoken by more people than any other language. (700, Asian)
What is Mandarin Chinese?
complication that arises from the lack of fit between nations and state is that some nations do not have a state
What is a stateless nation?
the manufacturing industries like chemical, textiles, and others
What is secondary industries?
a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood
What is blockbusting?
Geographic approach that emphasizes human environment relationship
What is human ecology?
The political theory that if one nature comes under communist control then neighboring nations will also come under communist control
What is the Domino theory?
The meeting of European powers in 1884-1885 resulting in the Berlin Treaty and the partition of Africa into colonies of the attending nations
What is the Berlin conference?
A location along a transport route where goods must be transported from one carrier to another
what is Break-of-Bulk
created the central place theory which displayed the ideas that central places would provide services and goods to the surrounding areas
Who is Christaller, Walter?
Formula of age dependency ratio
children+elderly divided by working times 100
Area in which resources found up to 200 nautical mile offshore belong exclusively to the geographically bordering country
What is Exclusive Economic Zone?
UNCLOS
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
the ability to produce a good at a lower opportunity cost than another producer
what is comparative advantage?
a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings
what is concentric zone model?
Decrease in deaths caused by infectious diseases and an increase in diseases associated with age in stage
3 of epidemiologic Transition
The policy of a state wishing to incorporate within itself territory inhabited by people who have ethnic and linguistic links with the country but that lies within a neighboring state
What is Irredentism?
The actual placing of a political boundary on the landscape by means of barriers, fences, walls, or other markers
what is boundary demarcation?
A model of the spatial structure of development in which underdeveloped countries are defined by their dependence on a developed core region
what is core-periphery model
the Brazilian equivalent of a shanty-town which are generally found on the edge of the city
what is favela?