Intro to Geography
This line runs parallel to the Equator and helps measure distance north or south.
What is latitude?
This graph shows the age and gender distribution of a population.
What is a population pyramid?
This model explains the placement of agricultural activities around a central market based on transportation cost.
What is the Von Thunen Model?
This model places a central business district at the center, with rings of different land uses radiating outward.
What is the Burgess Concentric Zone Model?
This system uses layered digital maps to analyze spatial data.
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)?
This model explains population changes over time in five stages, from high birth/death rates to low ones.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
Unlike Malthus, this theorist believed technology and innovation would increase food production.
Who is Esther Boserup?
This theory explains the distribution of services based on settlements acting as "central places."
What is Christaller’s Central Place Theory?
This map shows broader category that shows data through color or patterns.
What is a thematic map?
This theory warned that population growth would outpace food production, leading to famine.
What is the Malthusian Theory?
According to the Von Thunen Model, dairy farms are located close to the city because of this reason.
What is perishability or transportation cost?
In Hoyt’s model, land use grows in these types of shapes, rather than rings.
What are sectors?
Longitude lines converge at these two geographic points.
What are the poles?
In Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model, this factor causes the death rate to drop.
What is improved medical care (or sanitation/public health)?
Boserup’s theory suggests that as population increases, this also increases in agriculture.
What is agricultural intensity or innovation/labor input?
Christaller's theory assumes that people will travel this far to get a service, depending on its importance.
What is a range?
This line of 0° longitude divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A wide base and narrow top in a population pyramid usually indicates this trend.
What is a high birth rate and low life expectancy?
In the Von Thunen model, the zone farthest from the market is usually used for this type of agriculture.
What is extensive agriculture or livestock ranching/forestry?
According to Burgess, low-income housing is typically located in this ring near the city center.
What is the zone of transition?