Vocab Words
describing where something is using the exact site on an objective coordinate system (Long. & Lat.)
absolute location
This type of map uses dots that are all the same size.
What is a dot map
This term refers to the number of people per unit area of arable land, providing a more accurate measure of a region's carrying capacity than arithmetic density.
Physiological Density
These are the specific circumstances that either compel a person to leave their current location or draw them toward a new destination.
Push and Pull Factors
a method of taking a 3D object and putting in on a 2D plane
Map Projections
i.e. The diffusion of veggie burgers to India
Stimulus Diffusion
In the Demographic Transition Model (DTM), this specific stage is characterized by a rapid decline in the death rate while the birth rate remains high, leading to the highest rate of natural increase.
Stage 2
This model, based on Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it.
The Gravity Model
a physical material constituting part of Earth that people need and value
Natural Resources
In the Demographic Transition Model (DTM), this specific stage is characterized by a rapid decline in the death rate while the birth rate remains high, leading to the highest rate of natural increase.
Thomas Malthus
This term describes the process where migrants from a particular town follow others from that same town to a specific destination, often resulting in ethnic enclaves.
Chain Migration
You being able to watch and learn on YouTube is an example of what spatial concept?
Time-space compression
According to this 18th-century economist, the world’s population would eventually outpace food production because population grows geometrically while food supply grows arithmetically.
Dependency Ratio
Unlike a refugee, this type of person has been forced to migrate for similar political or environmental reasons but has not crossed an international border.
Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is
relative location
What are the 2 questions that geographers ask?
Where are things and why are they there?
While the Malthusian Theory focuses on resource depletion, this 20th-century economic theory argues that population growth actually acts as a stimulus for agricultural innovation and technological advancement, effectively increasing the Earth's carrying capacity.
Boserup’s Theory
E.G. Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration state that most long-distance migrants are typically of this specific demographic profile.
Young, single males (or young adults)