Ap Flashcards

13703283888	Rimland Theory	Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest.	0
13703283889	Heartland Theory	the belief of Halford Mackinder that the interior of Eurasia provided a likely base for world conquest	1
13703283890	World Systems Theory	Theory developed by Immanuel Wallerstein that explains the emergence of a core, periphery, and semi periphery in terms of economic and political connections first established at the beginning of exploration in the late 15th century and maintained through increased economic access up until the present.	2
13703283891	Buhdism	Meditate, tall buildings go towards sky	3
13703283892	Hinduism	Large temple,Brahma,shiva and one other guy	4
13703283893	Islam	5 pillars, quaran face Mecca	5
13703283894	compact state	ideally circular with capital at the center ~ Ex. Lesotho ~ Ex. Swaziland	6
13703283895	fragmented state	2 or more parts are separate from the state can be an island	7
13703283896	Prorupted State	a compact state with a large projecting extension:sticks out	8
13703283897	Perforated State	a state that completely surrounds another one	9
13717906589	Geometric boundary	a fixed limit or extent that typically follows straight lines	10
13717906590	superimposed boundary	a political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape	11
13764299955	Van Thunen Model	The first ring is the town/city 2.dairying,vegetables,market gardens 3. Wood forest 4. Grain crops, hay fields 5. Meadows, grazing land	12
13764856331	vernacular region	A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.	13
13764856332	formal region	An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics	14
13769586254	Where are the three main agricultural hearths?	Central America North western South America Western Africa South east Asia	15
13785724098	Asian Tigers	the highly developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.	16
13805591647	agricultural sector	Primary sector:Natural resource harvesting Secondary:factory Tertiary:consumer Quaternary:scientific methodology Quanary: high-level decision making	17
13805808695	Rostow's Model	five stages a country goes through in developing their economy through international trade 1.traditional society 2. Preconditions for takeoff 3. Take off 4. Drive to maturity 5. Hi mass consumption	18
13825647270	remote sensing	the scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it.	19
13825647272	GPS	Using satalite System for determiningAbsolute location of places and geographical features	20
13825740084	Distance Decay	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.	21
13826034211	cultural landscape	The built environment of humans	22
13826050757	Spatial Perspective	the essential questions and intellectual framework that looks "where" a specific phenomena locates, and searches for "why" the phenomena is happening there	23
13826061139	Concentration	The spread of something over a given area.	24
13839369764	Great Migration	Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.	25
13839369765	Census	the official count of a population	26
13839369766	Voluntary Migration	Movement of an individual who consciously and voluntarily decides to locate to a new area- the opposite of forced migration	27
13849326959	natural increase	Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths; does not reflect either emigrant or immigrant movements	28
13849332444	Creole language	a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in a place of the mother tongue	29
13849355262	lingua franca	A common agreed language of business in an area where people speak different languages	30
13849808901	Edge City	A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.	31
13862167451	relic boundary	they no longer exist as international boundaries.	32
13952445087	Expansion Diffusion	originates in a central place and then expands outward in all directions to other locations	33
13952445088	Hierarchical Diffusion	Originates in a first order location and then moves down to second order location and from these to subordinate locations at increasingly local scales	34
13952445089	Contagious Diffusion	Begins at a point of origin and then moves outward to nearby locations,ex Arab spring	35
13952445090	Stimulus Diffusion	Diffuses then stimulates the creation of new products, gets better	36
13952445091	relocation diffusion	Begins at a point of origin and then crosses a significant physical barrier ex ocean	37