Unit 5: Agriculture
Unit 6: Urban Use
Unit 7: Wealth
Major Models
CED Vocab
100
Farming focused on feeding the farmer's family with little surplus.
What is Subsistence Agriculture?
100
A city with a population of more than 10 million people.
What is a Megacity?
100
The total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year.
What is GDP?
100
This model explains agricultural location based on transport costs.
What is Von Thünen?
100
The physical gap or interval between two objects.
What is Space?
200
This "Revolution" introduced high-yield seeds and chemical fertilizers.
What is Green Revolution?
200
A city more than twice as large as the next biggest city in that country.
What is Primate City?
200
Wallerstein’s category for highly developed, wealthy countries.
What is Core?
200
This model describes city growth in a series of rings outward from the CBD.
What is Concentric Zone (Burgess)?
200
The loss of uniqueness of place so that one place looks like the next.
What is Placelessness?
300
Clearing land by cutting and burning vegetation to add nutrients.
What is Slash-and-Burn?
300
Low-income settlements on the outskirts of LDC cities on unowned land.
What is Squatter Settlements?
300
This index (HDI) measures life expectancy, education, and income.
What is HDI?
300
The theory that divides the world into Core, Semi-Periphery, and Periphery.
What is World System's Theory?
300
A boundary drawn after a population has settled (e.g., based on religion).
What is Subsequent Boundary?
400
Large-scale farming of one crop, usually in tropical regions of LDCs.
What is plantation?
400
A strategy for urban growth that focuses on walkability and parks.
What is New Urbanism?
400
Zones (SEZs) that offer tax breaks to attract foreign investment.
What is SEZs?
400
This model features "edge cities" and a beltway surrounding the city.
What is Galactic?
400
The transition from high birth and death rates to low ones.
What is Demographic Transition?
500
The bid-rent theory states that land closest to the CBD has this.
What is Highest Rent/Value?
500
The process of middle-class people moving into and renovating inner-city housing.
What is Gentrification?
500
Rostow’s final stage of development where consumers buy high-value goods.
What is Age of High Mass Comsumption?
500
The rule that the nth largest city is 1/n the size of the largest city.
What is Rank-Size Rule?
500
An underlying principle spreads even though the characteristic is rejected.
What is Stimulus Diffusion?