Thinking Geographically
The mathematical relationship between the size of a map and the part of the real world it shows
What is map scale?
A negative cause that compels someone to leave a location
What is a push factor?
The visible objects and technologies that a culture creates
What are artifacts?
A narrow passageway to another place
What is a choke point?
A crop that is produced for its commercial value
What is a cash crop?
Model that describes a fundamental relationship: the impact of distance on the interactions between locations
What is distance decay?
The maximum population size an environment can sustain
What is carrying capacity?
The spread of ideas from a person of power
What is hierarchical diffusion?
A boundary created by an outside force
What is a superimposed boundary?
Model that described the ideal pattern for agricultural practices outside of a city center
What is the von Thünen model?
The shape and features of land surfaces
What is topography?
The number of years in which a population growing at a certain rate will double
What is doubling time?
The oldest universalizing religion
What is Buddhism?
The concept that each nationality/ethnic group should be able to govern themselves
What is self-determination?
Main agricultural activity in the northeast US
What is dairying?
An integrated network of at least 31 satellites in the U.S. system that orbit Earth and transmit location data
What is global positioning system (GPS)?
Model that uses stages to explain the growth of the world’s population over time
What is Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
A variation of a standard language specific to a general area
What is a dialect?
The process that occurs when the central power of a state is broken up
What is devolution?
This Revolution is about Genetic Modified Organisms and renovation of agricultural practices while benefiting other countries in need of increased food production
What is the Green Revolution?
The processes causing the relative distance between places to shrink
What is time-space compression?
The person that concluded that population increased arithmetically while food production increased geometrically
Who is Thomas Malthus?
a region where human activities have modified or transformed the physical environment, leaving behind visible evidence of cultural practices, beliefs, and values
What is a cultural Landscapes?
The process of “packing” or “cracking” a district
What is gerrymandering?
The theory that explain the relationship between land value, commercial location, and transportation
What is bid-rent theory?