13994359285 | Physiological density | The number of people per area suitable for agriculture | ![]() | 0 |
13994367244 | Arithmetic density | The total number of people per square kilometer or unit of land | ![]() | 1 |
13994369003 | Agricultural density | The number of farmers per unit of arable land | ![]() | 2 |
13994376471 | One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implication is that | The most rapid growth is occurring in the developing world | 3 | |
13994380586 | Intraurban migration | To move within the city | 4 | |
13994383733 | International migration | When people cross state boundaries | 5 | |
13994387786 | Inter-regional migration | Permanent movement from one region to another | 6 | |
13994389578 | Intra-regional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country | 7 | |
13994394538 | Interurban migration | To migrate from City to City | 8 | |
13994396330 | Brain drain | The large-scale emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge | 9 | |
13994400535 | Chain migration | When immigrants from a particular Town follow one another to a different city | 10 | |
13994403487 | Many Asians are currently migrating to the United States through the process of | Brain drain followed by chain migration | 11 | |
13997200431 | Relocation diffusion | The spread of an idea through physical movement from one place to another | 12 | |
13997207195 | Stimulus diffusion | When one people receives a cultural element from another but gives it a new an unique form | 13 | |
13997222809 | The current distribution of soccer demonstrates that | A folk custom can become part of a pop culture | 14 | |
13997229120 | Literary tradition | The written form of a language | 15 | |
13997234543 | Language family | A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history | 16 | |
13997240156 | Religion branch | A large and fundamental division within a religion | 17 | |
13997247430 | Nation-State | The system of organizations defined by Geography, politics and culture | 18 | |
13997259287 | Nation or Nationality | A group of people title place to legal status and personal alliance... to a particular place as an effective being born there | 19 | |
13997275758 | Ethnic Cleansing | The process when a group forcibly removes another group | 20 | |
13997279242 | State | An area organized into an independent political unit | 21 | |
13997287433 | Sphere of influence | An area surrounding a settlement that is affected by the settlement activities Ex. The S.o.I of a shop if how far people will be prepared to go make use of it | 22 | |
13997313005 | THE LAW OF THE SEA | Standarizing the territoral limits for most countries at 12 nautical miles | 23 | |
13997337428 | What has to happen so the self-sufficiency approach can develop? | It calls for a country to identify it's unique economic assests | 24 | |
13997349326 | Intensive agriculture | The form of subsistence agriculture that feeds the largest number of people in the developing world | 25 | |
13997360219 | What is a commercial farmer most concerned with regarding costs based on the Von Thünen model | The cost of land The cost of transporting output to market | 26 | |
13997377402 | Plantation agriculture | A form of commercial agriculture found in developing countries | 27 | |
13997383970 | Bulk-reducing industry | An industry where the final product has much high value per weight Ex. Copper production | 28 | |
13997399123 | Break-of-bulk points are | Locations where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another | 29 | |
13997410899 | Rural settlements differ from Urban settlements primarily according to what type of activity | Economic | 30 | |
13997417211 | Linear rural settlements | A cluster of buildings near a road, river, to facilitate communication | ![]() | 31 |
13997440078 | Use of the Central place theory | Helps explain how the most profitable location can be identified | 32 | |
13997455726 | According to the gravity model, the potential use of a service at a location is related | Directly to population and inversely to distance (More people = more use of the service) (Less distance = more use of a service) | ![]() | 33 |
13997903412 | Rank-size rule | The distribution of size by rank in decreasing order of size | 34 | |
13997912606 | Peripheral model | Model of North America cities consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential areas and business areas | ![]() | 35 |
13997928496 | Concentric zone model | Middle: CBD 2: Transition zone 3: Low income housing 4: Middle income housing 5: Commuting Zone | ![]() | 36 |
13997959710 | Multiple Nuclei Model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. | ![]() | 37 |
13998004355 | Sector Model | a description of urban land uses as wedge-shaped sectors radiating outward from the CBD along transportation corridors. The radial access routes attract particular uses to certain sectors, with high-status residential uses occupying the most desirable wedges | ![]() | 38 |
13998032689 | Metropolitan statistical area | The definition of a city covers the largest land area (covers a geographical region with a relatively high pop. density at it's core (The U.S.A.) | ![]() | 39 |
13998089049 | Urban cluster | In the US, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,000 inhabitants | ![]() | 40 |
13998108006 | Blockbusting | A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood | 41 | |
13998113647 | Annexation | The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit. | 42 | |
13998122124 | Filtering | When social groups move from one area to another leading to changes in the nature of the residential areas | 43 | |
13998141672 | Subsidize | To underwrite it financially, providing the support that keeps it going | 44 | |
13998162715 | Public transportation in European cities is relatively extensive because | European governments subsidize public transit | 45 | |
13998180159 | Where is the best housing located jnt he sector model | A corridor from downtown (the CBD) to the edge of the city | 46 | |
13998202930 | Urban economic and social geographic challenges in the U. S. Do not include | A bigger concentration of low-income residents in suburban areas | 47 | |
13998244842 | Critics and defenders of sustainable development both agree that | More international cooperation is needed to reduce the gap between developed and developing countries | 48 | |
13999000294 | Gerrymandering | the drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party, group, or incumbent | 49 | |
13999047554 | Primary sector | The portion of the economy concerned with direct extraction of materials from the Earth's surface generally through agricultural although sometimes by mining fishing and forestry | 50 | |
13999076192 | Secondary sector | Test portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials | 51 | |
13999117775 | Tertiary sector | Test portion of the economy concerned with transportation communications and utilities sometimes extending to the provisions of all goods and services to people in the exchange for payment | 52 | |
13999163061 | Quaternary sector | Service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance, and legal services. | 53 | |
13999175288 | Quinary sector | The most advanced form of Quaternary activities consisting of high-level decision making for large corporations or high-level scientific research. | 54 | |
13999195120 | Site | The physical character of a place | 55 | |
13999199916 | Situation | the location of a place relative to other places | 56 | |
13999210213 | Distance decay | the tapering off of a process, pattern, or event over a distance | 57 | |
13999245946 | Who were the original counties within the European Community, the predecessors to the European Union | France, Belgium, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands | 58 | |
13999259888 | Space-time compression | The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place. | 59 | |
13999276132 | Amritsar, India | Holiest religious site for the Sikh's (the golden temple) | 60 | |
13999304003 | What is not true for truck farming | Labor cost are often high on these large-scale farming operations *They are actually a lot cheaper* | 61 | |
13999374924 | What was the first prerequisite for the start of urbanization | Privatization of land ownership | 62 | |
13999418872 | What region is most threatened by desertification | Australia {88%} | 63 | |
13999419547 | Mackinder's geopolitical heartland theory | If anything was outside the dominance of Eurasia it would be less powerful | 64 | |
13999566529 | What did Thomas Malthus not account for | The green revolution (improved fertilizer and crop strains) | 65 | |
13999584741 | Substitution principal | What leads to the industrial location theory | 66 | |
13999597316 | Topcide | Planned destruction of a place to make way for an industrial center | 67 | |
13999612847 | Foreign direct investment | The investment of foreign companies in countries outside their headquarters. Ex. American companies in Indonesia | 68 | |
13999632984 | Footloose industry | Type of industry that doesn't have high transportation costs | 69 | |
13999641422 | Comparative advantage | the idea that a region or country will produce goods it can make at a lower cost than other regions can and will trade them for goods that other regions can make more efficiently than it can | 70 | |
13999669406 | Effects of the British enclosure movement in the 1850s | Agricultural efficiency increased Urban migration increased Feudal village life was disrupted Communal fields were consolidated | 71 | |
13999694672 | In 1998 an estimated is 350,000 asylum-seekers were from Croatia. What were the primary destination in that year | Yugoslavia in Bosnia-Herzegovina | 72 | |
13999715871 | Linguistic refuge area | A place that is relatively free from forces of language diffusion and convergence Ex. A mountainous area | 73 | |
13999732080 | Primate city | The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. Examples: Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, Lagos in Nigeria | 74 | |
13999760244 | Agglomeration | a mass or collection of things; an assemblage. | 75 | |
13999783907 | Hinterland | The surrounding area serviced by the functions in an urban center; the larger the urban place = the larger the hinterland | 76 | |
13999813691 | Informal sector | Workers who do not report their incomes are jobs for the government | 77 | |
13999843680 | Cognitive distance | 78 | ||
13999395151 | What region is most threatened by desertification | 79 |
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