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The theory does Von Thunen's Model uses to determine land cost
What is Bid-Rent Theory?
125
Population divided by arable land ___
What is Physiological Density?
125
This is a famous stateless nation
What is
-Kurds
-Palestinians
-Basques
125
A pidgin langauge
What is a simplified language between speakers of different languages that is nobody's native language?
125
This map is often called "Eurocentric"
What is the Mercator map projection?
250
This group of people travel intraregionally more often, according to Ravenstein 6th law.
What is women?
250
The gravity model and it's 2 factors
What is a model that determines interaction between two cities, based off of distance and size of cities?
250
Characteristics of the 3rd stage of the Demographic Transition Model
What is...
- Birth rates decline
- Deaths rates continue to decline
- NIR decreases
- Less incentive for children
- Moving further into industrialization
250
Largest Ethnic Religion
What is Hinduism?
250
Definition of edge cities and exurbs
What is a semi-independent community at the edge of a city, and what is a wealthy community of commuters outside the suburbs still connected to the city
450
This model and it's key features
What is Multiple Nuclei Model
-Decentralization begins
-Multiple CBDs
-Emphasizes role of cars
450
The 3 types of expansion diffusion
What is
-contagious
-hierarchical
-stimulus
450
The 5 Economic sectors and what type of jobs fit into each sector
What is...
-Primary: Agriculture/resource extraction
-Secondary: Manufacturing
-Tertiary: Service
-Quanerary: Managing Data and capital
-Quinary: Politics, CEO's, etc
450
One positive and one negative of the Green Revolution
What are positive effects?
- Surplus food for developing countries to export
- Surplus of food decreased death rates from starvation
- Modified food that makes nutrients more accessible to some people
- More reliable harvests reduce hunger
What are negative effects?
- Large corporations monopolize expensive technology and displace poor/family farms
- More pollution from chemicals and machines
- Farming is more expensive for many people
- Chemicals in our food
- Ethicacy problems
- Green Revolution didn't reach many African regions
450
The parts of a language tree from largest to smallest
What is family, branch, group, language, dialect, and accent
625
This model, and how it improves upon the Concentric Zone Model, plus what the sectors are based off of
What is the Hoyt Sector Model; who's sectors based off of transportation routes, and improved by adding direction and transportation.
625
Blockbusting's effect on urban landscapes and an example
What is creating racially divided cities that usually tie to social class
-Chicago, Harlem, Detroit,
625
The 4 main agricultural hearths and key items from each
What is...
- Fertile Crescent/SW Asia --> Wheat, barley, oats, sheep, pig, cattle
- Indus River Valley/S Asia --> Wheat, barley, peas, cattle, buffalo, and camels
- SE Asia --> Sugarcane, root veggies and fruits, pigs
- Mesoamerica --> sweet potato, beans, maize/corn, turkey, and dogs
625
4 supranational organizations and their purpose
What is...
- NAFTA--> Economic alliance to open borders and promote trade between US, Canada, and Mexico
- EU--> To create a economically and socially unified Europe with a single market
- OAS--> Every state in the Western hemisphere besides Cuba; promotes social, cultural, and economic links
- OPEC--> Economic alliance concerning petroleum exploration/markey
- UN--> Focuses on peace and human development on an international scale
-AU--> Social and economic development and cooperation among African states
- NATO--> A military alliance formed in the North Atlantic after WWII
- Warsaw Pact--> Communist military alliance formed as a response to NATO
- CARICOM--> Promotes free trade in the caribbean
- MERCOSUR--> Created to pursue economic cooperation in South America; similar to EU
- ASEAN--> A regional trade agreement to promote trade amongst SE Asian countries
625
How political policies effect birth rates, and examples of this
What are natal policies?
- Pro-natal policies encourage having children; tax breaks, money incentives, free childcare/schooling, or longer leave from work --> Hungary, Poland, South Korea, Japan, France, and Singapore
- Anti-natal policies discourage having children; paying fines to have multiple children, expensive child care/schooling, punishment via law, and less access to family planning --> China, Uzbekistan, India, and Nigeria
700
The 5 Stages of Rostow's model, and an assumption of his model.
What are the stages of...
Traditional
Preconditions for Takeoff
Takeoff
Drive to Maturity
Mass Consumption
-Assumes that all countries take linear path and can't skip
-Assumes all countries want to/will develop
700
What urban sprawl is, and 3 ways city planning or zoning can counter it
What is unplanned growth of a city that can be slowed or stopped using;
- New Urbanism
- Green Belts
- Smart Growth
- Urban Growth Boundaries
- Increased walkability
- Mixed land use
- Farmland protection policies
- Infilling
- Urban Renewal
700
The 3 land survey methods, and their corresponding settlement patterns
What is
- Metes & Bounds --> Clustered/nucleated settlement pattern
- Township & Range --> Dispersed settlement pattern
- Long Lots --> Linear settlement pattern
700
The UN measurement of gender equality, and an economic incentive that can help women in countries with high inequality. What region in the world has the highest inequality.
What is the the GII? Which is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is microlending?
700
Description of complementarity and comparative advantage. Also how Wallerstein's theory demonstrates dependency theory.
What is a relationship in which two countries produce goods for each other regarding the countries respective demands and surplus, and what is an economic advantage in which a country can produce a commodity or crop at a lower opportunity cost.
What is Wallerstein's theory explains dependency theory because it explains why LDC's are still at, "the bottom" ,because they are dependent on MDCs. MDCs flourish off of LDCs suffering.