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spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process. This can happen in 3 ways
What is Expansion diffusion
100
Has 4 steps. Stage 1 is low growth, Stage 2 is High Growth, Stage 3 is Moderate Growth, and Stage 4 is Low Growth and Stage 5 although not officially a stage is a possible stage that includes zero or negative population group. This is important because this is the way our country and others countries around the world are transformed from a less developed country to a more developed country.
What is the demographic transition model
100
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.
What is culture?
100
political, economic, conflict, etc. that causes the splitting of a state
What is Centrifugal (forces)
100
Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
What is agribusiness
200
The region from which innovative ideas originate. This relates to the important concept of the spreading of ideas from one area to another
What is Hearth
200
The number of people who are too you or too old to work compared to the number of people in their productive years. This is important because this tells how many people each worker supports. For example the larger population of dependents, the greater financial burden on those who are working to support those who cannot.
What is Dependency Ratio
200
the boundaries between the world's major faiths, such as Christianity, Muslim, and Buddhism
What is Interfaith boundary
200
the decentralization of a government from a unitary to a federal system
What is devolution
200
The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
What is crop rotation
300
arrangement of something across earth's surface
What is distribution
300
The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births. Its is expressed as the annual number of deaths among infants among infants per 1000 births rather than a percentage. This is important because it tell how developed a country is, if they have a high IMR they are an LDC and if it is low they are an MDC.
What is Infant Mortality rate or IMR?
300
this is the belief in one god
What is monotheism
300
the idea that if one land in a region came under the influence of Communists, then more would follow in a domino effect
What is Domino Theory
300
defined cultural landscape, as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group. A combination of cultural features such as language and religion; economic features such as agriculture and industry; and physical features such as climate and vegetation. “Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape is the result.”
Who is Carl Sauer
400
Position on Earth’s surface using the coordinate system of longitude (that runs from North to South Pole) and latitude
What is absolute location
400
Was one of the first to argue that the worlds rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food population. This is important because he brought up the point that we may be outrunning our supplies because of our exponentially growing population.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
400
The pilgrimage to Mecca for Islam followers
What is Hajj
400
a symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons
What is Forward Capital
400
man who said... When choosing an enterprise, a commercial farmer compares two costs; cost of the land versus the cost of transporting production to market. Identifies a crop that can be sold for more than the land cost, distance of land to market is critical because the cost of transporting varies by crop
Who is Von Thunen
500
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. This is an important concept in geography because it symbolizes how humans interact with their surroundings.
What is Sequent occupance
500
Was one of the first to argue that the worlds rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food population. This is important because he brought up the point that we may be outrunning our supplies because of our exponentially growing population.
What is Ecumene
500
that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and life
What is animism
500
the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the political party in power
What is gerrymandering
500
diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizer
What is Green Revolution