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| 13541463487 | Tobler's First Law of Geography | everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things | 0 | |
| 13541466592 | Boserup thesis | population growth acts as a stimulus, not a deterrent, to development | 1 | |
| 13541494503 | Concentric Zone Model | (syn zonal model) a model describing urban land uses as a series of circular belts or rings around a core CBD, each ring housing a distinct type of land use | 2 | |
| 13541506139 | Gravity Model | A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. | 3 | |
| 13541521904 | Demographic Transition Model | A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time. | 4 | |
| 13541530364 | Malthus | said human population cannot continue to increase exponentially; Where as Resources increase arithmetically | 5 | |
| 13541545728 | von thunen | A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market | 6 | |
| 13541556442 | Epedimiologic Transition | distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition | 7 | |
| 13541569227 | Heartland Theory | A geopolitical hypothesis, proposed by British geographer Halford Mackinder during the first two decades of the twentieth century, that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world. Mackinder further proposed that since Eastern Europe controlled access to the Eurasian interior, its ruler would command the vast "heartland" to the east | 8 | |
| 13541581834 | Ravenstien's Migration Laws | Set of 11 "laws" that can be organized into 3 groups: the reasons why migrants move, the distance they typically travel, and their characteristics | 9 | |
| 13541590396 | Zelinsky | a cultural geographer (1921) who studied American popular culture, including the patterns of migration in accordance to social and economical changes and the motives and distance for migration (also studying the spatial patterning of classical space-names, personally given names, and religious denominations, or values/amounts) | 10 | |
| 13541599875 | Rostow's Modernization Model | Model created by W.W. Rostow in the 1950's that gives an idea of where a country is in their stage of development. There are five stages in this model, including: 1. "The traditional society," 2. "The preconditions for takeoff," 3. "The takeoff," 4. "The drive to maturity," 5. "The age of mass consumption" | 11 |
