Show:
Vocabulary
Terms
Push/Pull
Site or Situation
Site or Situation 2
100
sparse
What is another name for a place with few people?
100
population density
What is the number of people/number of people per square mile
100
security and defense religious centers trade centers government administration manufacturing and service centers
What are the 4 functions of cities?
100
NYC, Alexandria, Istanbul
Name 3 cities that grew up as harbor sites?
100
Sacramento, Omaha,
The transcontiental railroad caused these 2 US cities to develop?
200
emigrate
What is the name for people who leave a country?
200
refugees
What are people who leave their homeland looking for freedom called?
200
religious freedom, jobs, land, political freedom, ethnic and family ties, farm land
Name 3 pull factors?
200
Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore
SHIP stands for which 3 island site?
200
Istanbul
IT's STRAIT stands for this city?
300
The ability to read
What is literacy?
300
people who come to another country.
What is immigration?
300
lack of jobs natural hazards environmental degradation conflict
What are four push factors?
300
Pittsburgh, Khartoum
PACK Is a way to remember which 2 confluence sites?
300
It controls fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates
Baghdad grew up because of this situation.
400
cultural diffusion
What is the spread of all aspects of cultures around the world?
400
the look of buidings in an area,Spanish influenced architecture in California, etc.
What is an example of the cultural landscape?
400
high literacy rate low infant mortality democratic government large urban population
What is a developed population?
400
Jerusalem, Rome, Athens
JAR Stands for these 3 hilltop sites?
400
Siberian, transiberian railroad, Vlaivostic, Novisibrisk
What does STARVING Stand for?
500
spreading out
What is sprawl?
500
dense
What do you call a very populated area with little space?
500
recycling programs, public transportation, regulations on air and water,city councils
Name an example of geographic application?
500
Oasis sites
Siwa, Egypt and Damascus,Syria are examples of this type of site?
500
CApetown,
This South African city grew up as a supply station for ships