Thinking Geographically
What is the answer to distance decay?
Time Space Compression
Exists in specific locations such as the arid west coasts of continents, where olives, dates, grapes grow.
Mediterranean climate
The Industrial Revolution.
What is a boomburb?
A suburb that experiences double digit growth year to year and has over 100,000 residents (psst Frisco)
What is the map scale of world map?
Small.
Crude birth rate - crude death rate
Rate of Natural Increase OR Natural Increase Rate
What is the outer ring of the Von Thunen model and why?
Ranching - animals can transport themselves and they smell.
A break of bulk point located on a port.
Entrepot.
What is the difference between range and threshold?
Range is how far a person is willing to go for a product/service and threshold is how many people a business needs to support itself.
What are the three types of expansion diffusion?
Contagious
Stimulus
Hierarchical
Resurgence of epidemic diseases due to globalization.
Stage 5 of Epidemiological transition model.
What is neo-malthusianism?
Believe that environmental degradation leads to lack of food and vice versa high birth rates lead to environmental degradation.
What is HDI? What are two factors that determine it?
Human Development Index. Measures level of development by looking at GDP, literacy rate, years of schooling, and life expectancy.
Gravity Model uses what two factors to determine interaction?
Population and distance.
Latitude and Longitude OR an address
Absolute Location
Program after WWII in which Mexican field workers were granted work visas.
Bracero Program.
Where does planation agriculture take place?
Former tropical colonial holdings.
Define "maquiladora." Why?
Factories built across the border in Mexico so that companies can have lower labor costs.
Design initiative featuring walkability, mixed-use zoning, transportation-oriented development, greenbelts, and slow-growth cities.
New Urbanism
Define functional region and give an example.
Functional: an area organized around a node or focal point. Pizza delivery zone.
What are the three methods of calculating population density and what do they tell us?
Arithmetic - basic density
Physiological - carrying capacity
Agricultural - technological development
Companies like Nestle, Frito Lay, and Starbucks are examples of what type of integration?
Vertical Integration
Explain the concept of neoliberal policies and give and example of an organization that supports these policies.
Policies that promote free trade: EU, WTO, Mercosur, OPEC
Explain inclusionary zoning.
A policy that requires developers to include a certain percentage of affordable housing units in new residential developments alongside market-rate units.