This term is a synonym for describing the relative location of something
What is situation?
The religion that this symbol represents
What is Islam?
This is ONE of the places where farming first started
Where is Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia, Fertile Crescent, Indus River Valley, Sub-Saharan Africa?
These areas on the edges of the Latin American city model are where homeless populations go, usually forming big communities of people in similar situations
What are squatter settlements/zones of disamenity?
This advancement in society is the main cause of urbanization, causing more people to leave rural areas and move into cities for living and jobs.
What is the industrial revolution?
If many dots on a map are grouped close together, this term is used to describe them
What is clustering?
What are centripetal forces?
Monocropping, which grows just 1-2 types of crops throughout the year to then sell, is classified as this type of agriculture (hint: intensive or extensive, commercial or subsistence)
What is intensive commercial?
This term describes a city that has AT LEAST 10 million people living in it
What is a megacity?
A country like India focuses on this sector the most, creating goods from raw materials, and then shipping them to more developed countries who can sell them for cheap
What is the secondary sector?
The farther things are from each other, the less likely they are to interact
What is distance decay?
Big macs made of chicken instead of beef in India show that McDonalds spread, but changed its menu to fit the culture of the people, also known as this type of diffusion
What is stimulus diffusion?
The Green revolution was helpful in helping grow more crops using fertilizer and pesticides, but it was especially helpful in THESE countries (Hint: What development level?)
What are LDC's?
These "higher class" suburbs, which are separated from the city by farmland, are usually on the edges of cities
What are exurbs?
What is a break-of-bulk point?
This is considered the best way to measure population density, showing the pressures a population might be facing compared to their arable land
What is physiological density?
Boundaries resulting from cultural differences, such as the boundaries between Palestine and Israel, are called this
What are consequent boundaries?
When fields run out of nutrients and dry out due to salt build up, this term is used to describe it
What is soil salinization?
If the biggest city in a country had a population of 5 million, this is the number of people the next biggest city SHOULD have (according to the Rank Size Rule)
What is 2.5 million?
In a bulk-reducing industry (such as copper mining), the factory should usually be placed closer to this point (Hint; the raw materials, or the market?)
What is raw materials?
This term is used to describe the loss of education in a country due to emigration
What is brain drain?
When two cultural traits combine to create something new, for example the Virgin of Guadalupe blending Christian and Mesoamerican religious ideas, this term describes it
What is syncretism?
What are GMO's?
This city model, known for its port zones and trading, has no clear CBD, and many intensive farming areas scattered throughout
What is the Southeast Asian City Model?
When a country wants to take advantage of another country's cheap labor, or cheap raw goods, they'll move their factories to these countries, also known as this
What is outsourcing?