Geography Review Flashcards

Flashcards covering key concepts from the Geography Review.

What are the key components of 'Place' in the 5 Themes of Geography?

Physical and human characteristics of a location.

Explain Human-Environmental Interaction.

How people interact with and are affected by their environment.

Define 'Regions' in the context of geography.

Areas that are distinctive from one another due to certain characteristics.

What is the focus of Human Geography?

Culture

What does an Isoline map show?

A line of equal value representing data such as pressure and temperature.

What information do Choropleth maps display?

Information with the use of different colors

What is the function of the GPS?

Global Positioning System

What are the characteristics of intensive farming?

Market gardening, plantation agriculture, mixed crop/livestock systems

What are the characteristics of extensive farming?

Shifting cultivation, nomadic herding, ranching

Describe a clustered rural settlement pattern.

Settlements in close proximity to one another.

What are metes and bounds?

A rural survey method that relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features.

What characterized the First Agricultural Revolution?

Neolithic

What does a population pyramid show?

Percentage of males and females in different age groups.

What are the stages of the Demographic Transition Model?

Sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.

Briefly describe the Malthusian Theory of Population Growth.

Human population grows more rapidly than the food supply.

What is emigration?

The act of leaving a country to settle elsewhere.

What is Arithmetic density?

The number of objects in a given area.

What is the Concentric Zone Model?

A model of urban structure where the city grows outward in a series of rings.

What are squatter settlements?

Low-income residential areas developed without legal claim to the land.

Define 'Situation' in the context of urban development.

Factors that favor city growth, such as access to resources or transportation routes.

What are the key traits of Folk culture?

Traditions, dress modes

Define Cultural Relativism.

Understanding a person's beliefs, values, and practices based on their own culture.

Explain the concept of Ethnocentrism.

The belief that one's own culture is central and using it to evaluate other cultures.

Give examples of Universalizing religions.

Christianity, Islam, Buddhism

What is acculturation?

When a less dominant culture adopts elements of a more dominant culture

What is syncretism?

The blending of two cultures.

What is the definition of Geopolitics?

Interplay between international political relations and territories.

What is Sovereignty?

Authority of a state to govern itself.

What distinguishes a state from a nation?

A state is a political unit, and a nation is a cultural unit.

Define 'Nation-State'.

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

Name an example of a 'Stateless Nation'.

Kurds or Palestinians

What is an antecedent boundary?

A boundary established before the area was well populated

What is irredentism?

A political movement that intends to reunite a nation or reclaim lost territory.

What are the sectors of the economy?

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary, and Quinary.

Describe the Primary sector of the economy.

Extracting raw materials and harvesting.

Differentiate between Formal and Informal economic activities.

Formal economic activities are legally registered and taxed, while informal activities are not.

List the stages of Rostow's Model of Economic Growth.

Traditional Society, Pre-Conditions for Takeoff, Takeoff, Drive to Maturity, High Mass Consumption.

What is Weber's Least Cost Theory focused on?

Transport, Labor, Agglomeration