Unit 1 & 2: Intro & Population
Which popular map projection is useful for navigation but distorts the shape of landmasses?
Mercator
True or false: Centripetal forces help unify a group of people.
True
True or false: The Kurds are an example of a stateless nation
True
The closer the land is to the city center, the more [expensive or inexpensive] it will be?
Expensive
The horizontal growth of a city from its center outward is known as...
Sprawl
Name something that is part of the built environment
Anything that is part of the landscape that is made by humans
Clusters of people of the same culture, surrounded by a majority culture
Ethnic enclave
The US is a unitary or federal state?
Federal
Second Agricultural Revolution
This theory helps explain the distribution of different sizes of cities...
Christaller's Central Place Theory
Name a form of transportation that limits the effects of distance decay...
Cars, Trains, Airplanes, etc.
Behaviors that are heavily discouraged by a culture are referred to as...
Taboo
A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction...
Choke point
A series of laws passed by the British government that shut down public lands for farming and sold off those plots to private owners.
Enclosure Acts
An uninterrupted urban area made of towns, suburbs and cities...
Conurbation
The theory that population growth would eventually outpace food production, resulting in crisis...
Malthusian Theory
When a cultural trait spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people, this is called...
Contagious diffusion
Give an example of an economic supranational organization
Explain one criticism of the Von Thünen model...
Government policies interfere, subsistence farming not taken into account, multiple markets these days, transportation advances, land not an isotropic plain
Explain one criticism of Borchert's Model of Urban Growth
Ends in 1970, does not include mass transit, biking, walking, or jet travel.
Mexico, Turkey, and Indonesia are all countries within which stage of Demographic Transition Model?
Stage 3: Late Expanding
The boundaries between variations in pronunciations or word usage are called...
Isoglosses
Give an example of an environmental centrifugal force
High pollution, unequal access to clean water, natural physical barriers like mountains and valleys
Draw & label the Von Thünen Model with the market at the center and at least 4 surrounding rings.
Market, Horticulture, Forest, Grain, Livestock,
Name one characteristic of a typical city in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
Suburbs are less dense, suburbs are more dense, city center with spine, traditional/colonial cbd