Vocabulary
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
Globalization
This agricultural land use model explains why dairy farms are located closest to the market and forests just beyond.
Von Thünen Model
This British economist predicted that population growth would outpace food production, leading to famine and war.
Malthusian Theory
This type of agriculture is practiced primarily to feed the farmer and their family.
Subsistence Agriculture
This is the name for a politically organized territory with a permanent population, defined boundaries, and sovereignty.
State
This organization was created after World War II to promote peace, security, and cooperation among member states.
United Nations (UN)
The physical characteristics of a place (e.g., climate, water sources, topography, soil, latitude, elevation).
Site
According to this urban model, a city develops in rings, with the central business district (CBD) at the center.
Burgess Concentric Zone Model
This theory argues that wealthy nations continue to exploit poorer ones, especially former colonies, keeping them economically dependent.
Dependency Theory
This type of farming involves the use of large amounts of labor and capital on small plots of land.
Intensive Agriculture
This process occurs when regions within a state demand and gain political power or independence.
Devolution
This type of diffusion occurs when people physically move to a new location and bring their cultural traits with them.
Relocation Diffusion
The maximum number of people that an environment can sustainably support.
Carrying Capacity
This urban model shows a city growing in wedges or slices based on transportation routes like railroads.
Hoyt Sector Model
This human-environment interaction theory rejects environmental determinism and emphasizes human decision-making within environmental limits.
Possibilism
This agricultural movement introduced new crops like corn and potatoes to Europe and horses to the Americas.
The Columbian Exchange
This term describes a nation that does not have its own state, like the Kurds or Palestinians.
Stateless Nation
This term describes forces or factors that divide or weaken a state's unity, often leading to conflict or fragmentation.
Centrifugal Forces
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.
Cultural Landscape
This model explains how patterns of disease and causes of death shift as a country develops economically.
Epidemiologic Transition Model
This updated version of Malthusian thinking argues that population growth will strain all types of resources, not just food.
Neo-Malthusian Theory
This revolution began in the 20th century and involved the use of high-yield seeds, chemical fertilizers, and irrigation.
The Green Revolution
This is a type of boundary that uses physical features like rivers or mountains.
Natural or Physical Boundary
This is the largest language family in the world by number of speakers.
Indo-European language family
A small area occupied by a distinctive minority culture.
Ethnic Enclave
This economic model (theory) explains that the price of land increases closer to the central business district because of competition
Bid-Rent Theory
This theory connects patterns of human movement to a country’s development stage in the Demographic Transition Model.
Zelinsky’s Migration Transition Model
This is the term for the area where a particular crop or agricultural practice began.
Crop Hearth
This is the redrawing of voting district boundaries to favor one political party over another.
Gerrymandering
This type of diffusion can be seen when technologies like smartphones spread worldwide, but different features or apps are adapted to local needs or preferences.
Stimulus Diffusion
Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
Agribusiness
This population model includes five stages, from high birth/death rates to population decline.
Demographic Transition Model (DTM)
This theory describes a global economic system with core, semi-periphery, and periphery nations.
Wallerstein’s World-Systems Theory
Turning raw milk into cheese or yogurt is an example of this type of agricultural product.
Value-added Product
This supranational organization includes European countries that share policies on trade, currency, and borders.
European Union
This was the main centrifugal force that led to the devolution of Yugoslavia, as ethnic groups sought independence.
Ethnic Nationalism
An entity composed of three or more states that forge an association and form an administrative structure for mutual benefit (e.g., the EU, UN).
Supranational Organization
This model predicts the level of interaction between two places based on their population sizes and distance from each other.
Gravity Model
This theory outlines five stages of economic development, ending in mass consumption.
Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth
This is the name for the global system in which food is grown, processed, distributed, and consumed.
Commodity Chain
This term describes a zone where political boundaries are blurred due to conflict, competing claims, or unclear control.
Shatterbelt
What is Mrs. Bradshaw's birthday?
Jan. 30th, 1995