Population & Migration
The average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime.
What is the Total Fertility Rate (TFR?)
When a trend starts with a celebrity, influencer, or famous athlete and suddenly everyone copies it.
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
A state the contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that may agree to coexist peacefully.
What is a Multinational State?
Growing a single crop year after year on the same piece of land.
What is Monocropping?
A city with over 10 million people.
What is a Megacity?
When your country has long life expectancy, good schools, and high income levels, this index says you’re doing pretty well.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
This model describes population change through stages of industrialization.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
A large group of people who share common cultural traits, such as language, religion, or ancestry.
What is Ethnicity or Ethnic Group?
When politicians redraw voting districts in the weirdest snake-shaped maps imaginable so they can win elections.
What is Gerrymandering?
Farming done mainly for personal consumption.
What is Subsistence Agriculture?
The outward expansion of cities into surrounding rural land.
What is Urban Sprawl?
The shift from manufacturing to service industries in developed countries.
What is a Post-Industrial Economy?
Lee's model describing factors that causes people to migrate.
What is the Push-Pull Theory?
When a weaker culture adopts traits from a dominant culture and loses its own traditions.
What is Assimilation?
The political concept where the state's power is supreme within its borders.
What is sovereignty?
A type of subsistence agriculture where farmers clear land by cutting and burning vegetation before planting crops.
When wealthy young professionals move into a historically low-income neighborhood, open coffee shops, and rent goes from $600 to $2,400.
What is Gentrification?
Factories moving to countries with cheaper labor.
What is Outsourcing / Offshoring?
This type of population density measures the number of people per unit of total land area.
What is Arithmetic Density?
The spread of an idea or innovation through person-to-person contact.
What is Contagious Diffusion?
A country completely surrounded by another country.
What is an Enclave?
This agricultural land-use model predicts that intensive farming such as dairy and market gardening will occur closest to cities due to transportation costs.
What is the Von Thünen Model?
The model showing multiple centers of activity within a city.
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
The measure of how much land and water area a population needs to sustain itself.
What is Ecological Footprint?
Countries experiencing rapid population growth but declining death rates due to improvements in medicine and sanitation are typically in this stage of the Demographic Transition Model.
What is Stage 2?
Culture of a small, homogeneous rural group that is isolated from others.
A boundary drawn by colonial powers without regard for the cultural groups living there, often leading to conflict.
What is a Superimposed Boundary?
The Green Revolution involved the spread of these high-yield seeds and farming technologies.
What are High Yield Varieties (HYVs)?
The model with a central business district and transportation corridors.
What is the Sector (Hoyt) Model?
The theory that development spreads outward from a core region to peripheral areas.
What is the World Systems Theory?