Population, Migration & Cultural Patterns
This model explains population growth in stages based on economic development.
This model explains population growth in stages based on economic development.
A state with a single nation of people living in it.
What is a nation-state?
Growing only enough food to feed your family.
What is subsistence farming
A central place with goods and services for a surrounding area.
What is a central business district (CBD)?
The shift from manufacturing to service-based industries.
What is post-industrialization?
A group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin.
What is a language family?
A boundary that no longer functions but can still be detected.
What is a relic boundary?
The model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy.
What is the Von Thünen model?
The term for the shift of population from cities to surrounding suburbs.
What is suburbanization?
The theory that explains where industries locate to minimize costs.
What is Weber’s Least Cost Theory?
A reason people move voluntarily, like better jobs or education.
What is a pull factor?
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit a political party.
What is gerrymandering?
The shift from hunting and gathering to farming.
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
A city with influence beyond its borders, such as Tokyo or New York.
What is a world city (or global city)?
Economic activity involving raw materials like farming or mining.
What is the primary sector?
When a culture is altered through interaction with another culture.
What is acculturation?
A fragmented state example in Southeast Asia.
What is Indonesia?
Crops like coffee and sugar grown primarily for export.
What are cash crops?
A model where cities develop in sectors radiating out from the CBD.
What is the Sector Model (Hoyt Model)?
Countries that are developing rapidly and have growing economies.
What are NICs (Newly Industrialized Countries)?
The number of people per unit of arable land.
What is physiological density?
The concept that control of land equals power, associated with Mackinder.
What is the Heartland Theory?
A form of agriculture involving heavy use of inputs like labor and fertilizers.
What is intensive agriculture?
The process where low-income neighborhoods are transformed and residents displaced.
What is gentrification?
Factories located in Mexico near the U.S. border to take advantage of cheap labor.
What are maquiladoras?