Unit 2
This measure represents the number of live births per 1,000 people in a year.
What is crude birth rate?
The beliefs, customs, and traditions of a group of people.
What is culture?
The city where a government is headquartered.
what is a capitol city?
This agricultural practice involves growing crops primarily for family consumption.
What is subsistence farming?
The movement of people from rural areas into cities.
What is urbanization?
A factor that encourages people to leave a place.
What is a push factor?
This religion is the second-largest in the world, who follow the Qur'an.
What is Islam?
The process by which regions or peoples become more politically independent.
What is devolution?
This model explains the relationship between agricultural activities and distance from a market city.
What is the Von-Thunen model?
A city with global influence in finance, culture, and politics.
What is a global city?
This stage of the Demographic Transition Model is characterized by low birth and death rates with slow growth.
What is stage 4?
A religion closely tied to a particular ethnic group and location.
What is an ethnic religion?
A boundary created before an area is heavily populated and based on agreement.
What is an antecedent boundary?
A field constantly used for crops without being left fallow may experience this problem.
What is soil depletion?
The process of renovating older urban neighborhoods, often increasing property values.
What is gentrification?
The total number of people a population can sustainably support is called this.
What is carrying capacity?
This term refers to the process of migrants maintaining their cultural traditions while adapting to a new society.
What is acculturation?
This term describes political and cultural divisions that remain after colonial boundaries were drawn.
What is superimposed boundary?
The Green Revolution depended heavily on irrigation, fertilizers, and these specially bred crops.
What are high yield seeds?
This urban model was developed to describe North American cities with multiple centers.
What is multiple nuclei model?
This graph shape is typical of a rapidly growing country.
What is a pyramid-shaped population pyramid?
This hypothesis suggests language differences arise because of environmental barriers and distance.
What is the isolation hypothesis?
This is a political geographer who developed the Heartland Theory.
Who is Halford Mackinder?
This type of agriculture combines crops and livestock on the same farm.
What is mixed crop and livestock farming?
This urban planning strategy promotes walkability and mixed-use development.
What is new urbanism?