This quizlet is designed to help you match the geographer with his work. This quizlet is NOT designed to help you match the models their descriptions.
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| 25733492 | (Jared) Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) (geographic luck/environmental determinism) | |
| 25733493 | Sauer | ______ discussed cultural geography; fierce critic of environmental determinism, his ideas supported cultural ecology. | |
| 25733494 | Zelinsky | _______was student of Carl Sauer; a cultural geographer who, for six decades, has been an original and authentic voice in American cultural geography. | |
| 25733495 | Wegener | Continental drift | |
| 25733496 | Ravenstein | Laws of migration (1885), Gravity model, distance decay | |
| 25733497 | Malthus | Gave a dystopian (not Utopian) view of the future; food production increases arithmetically, whereas human reproduction increases geometrically (doubling each generation); despite checks on population (e.g., plague, famine) there would continue to be starvation. | |
| 25733498 | Boserup | (opposite of Malthus) In 1965, ________ discussed that population growth stimulates intensification in agricultural development (stimulates technology) ... rather than being increased by agricultural output ; the rate of food supply may vary but never reaches its carrying capacity because as it approaches the threshold, an invention or development increases food supply, however, the depletion of nutrients creates diminishing returns. | |
| 25733499 | Marx | Capitalism promotes class struggle and an unequal distribution of wealth (and food); socialism promotes the equal distribution of power and wealth (and food). | |
| 25733500 | Mahan | Sea Power | |
| 25733501 | Ratzel | German geographer who discussed geopolitics (1901) and more specifically, lebensraum ("living space"). _______ organic theory postulated that a country, which is an aggregate of organisms (people), would itself function and behave like an organism ... to survive, a state requires nourishment - in the global context, this means territory - to gain political power. | |
| 25733502 | Mackinder | Heartland Theory (1904) | |
| 25733503 | Spykman | Rimland Theory | |
| 25733504 | Gimbutas | Kurgan Hypothesis | |
| 25733505 | Renfrew | The Anatolian Hypothesis | |
| 25733506 | Garreau | The Nine Nations of North America (1981) | |
| 25733507 | von Thunen | Isolated State | |
| 25733508 | Borlaug | Has been called the father of the Green Revolution. | |
| 25733509 | Burgess | Concentric Zone Model (1925) | |
| 25733510 | Harris and Ullman | Multiple Nuclei Model | |
| 25733511 | Ullman | Conceptual Frame | |
| 25733512 | Christaller | Central Place Theory (hexagons) | |
| 25733513 | Weber | Least Cost Theory | |
| 25733514 | Rostow | Modernization Model: a liberal model that postulates that economic modernization occurs in five basic stages: 1)Traditional society 2)Precondition for takeoff... | |
| 25733515 | Wallerstein | World Systems Theory (1974-89) | |
| 25733516 | Hoyt | Sector Model |
