Unit 5 food and agriculture
Unit 6 Industrializing
Unit 7 cities & urban land use
Unit 8 Political geography
Unit 9 Development
100
What is the definition of agriculture?
The deliberate effort to modify a portion of earth surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain.
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What is a break of bulk point?
A location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another.
100
What is agglomeration?
a built up area consisting of central city and its surrounding suburbs.
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What is political geography?
Study of political organization of the planet and political boundaries between countries.
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What is the definition of development?
A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.
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200
What is the agricultural revolution?
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
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What is a deindustrialization?
The cumulative and sustained decline in the contribution of manufacturing to a national economy.
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What is blockbusting?
The process of white families selling their homes because of fears that blacks would move in and lower the property value.
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What are stateless nations? Give one example.
Stateless nations are groups of people who are not recognized by or within a state. As seen in the picture on the question prompt, the Kurds are one example of this. Another example is the Palestinians.
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200
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (normally one year)
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300
What is food security?
Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
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300
What is the dependency theory?
The notion that resources flow from a ¨periphery¨ of poor and underdeveloped states to a ¨core¨ of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former; poor states are impoverished and rich ones are enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the ¨world system¨
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300
What is the CBD?
(Central business district) the main business and commercial area of a town or city.
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300
What is a nation state? Give one example.
One homogenous group of people in one area. One example of this is Iceland.
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300
What is the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)?
Compares the ability of women and men to participate in economic and political decision making.
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400
What is pastoral nomadism?
A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
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400
Describe cultural convergence.
The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication.
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400
Who was Walter Christaller?
creator of the central place theory, which explains how services are distributed and why there are distinct patterns in this distribution.
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400
What is gentrification?
Converting urban neighborhood from a predominantly low income renter occupied area to a predominantly middle class owner occupied area.
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400
What is a less developed country? Give two examples.
A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development. Some possible examples are Madagascar, Mali, Gambia, and Lesotho.
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500
What are two economic differences between subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture?
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1. High inputs of human labor
2. Hand tools
3. Limited mechanization
4. Low technology
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500
What is a footloose industry?
An industry or firm showing neither market nor orientation.
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500
What is an ethnic enclave? Give one example.
An ethnic enclave is an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background. Tokyo is a common example of an ethnic enclave.
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Who created the Rimland theory?
500
What are the three sectors? Give an example of each.
Primary (raw materials): fishing, agriculture,mining, ranching
Secondary:manufacturing, textile products
Tertiary: restaurants, retailing, basic service jobs
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