AP vocab Flashcards

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