Extra Practice

Sequent occupancy

Ethnic groups move in and out of a neighborhood and create imprints in the landscape.

Exmpl: buildings, roads, and traditions.

Globalization

People, countries, and businesses share ideas,things, and cultures with eachother even if they’re far apart.

Cultural convergence

The process of 2 or more cultures coming into contact and adopting each others traits to become more alike.

Exmpl: McDonald’s.

Syncretism

The combining of elements of 2 groups into a new culture or trait.

Exmpl: Sikhism- combo of Islam and Hinduism.

Stimulus diffusion

An idea spreads to a new place, but it changes a little bit to fit that new place.

Exmpl: McDonald’s

Assimilation

The process by which a group cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group. Sometimes forced.

Exmpl: American forcing religion and language on native Americans.

Acculturation

When someone moves to a new place and learns the new culture, but they still keep some parts of their old culture too.

Creolization

When two or more cultures come together and mix to make a something new like new languages, foods, musics, or cultures.

Imperialism

When one country tries to take control of another place. Their lands, people, and resources, even if the people living there don’t want it.

Malthusian theory

Idea that people grow faster than food does so one day there will not be enough food for everyone.

Neo-Malthusian’s theory

Not only will we run out of food, but we could also run out of water, energy, and clean air because population is growing fast.

Boserups theory

Farmers will find a way to sustain and grow more food for everyone as populations grows.

Erlich Theory

If population keeps growing as rapidly there will no longer be food avaible.

Ravensteins Laws of Migration

1. most people move short distances

2. If they live far they move to big cities

3. People move from crowded places to less crowded places

4. Young people move more than older people

5. Woman move as much as men

Internally displaced migration

Someone who has been forced to flee their home but never crossed an international border.

Chain migration

Immigrants migrate to a location because their family membersor friends live there or bc you were previously in that place.

Transhumance

Traditional migration of nomadic herders that move livestock from high elevation in summer and lower elevation in the winter.

placessness

A place that isn’t unique or special from other places.

Functional region

A place that is organized around a main point/focal point/ main activity.

Formal region

An area where everyone shares something in common, like language/cultural, laws, or physical aspects.

Decentralization

Distribution of authority power from a. Central authority to a regional/local govt.

De facto segregation

Separation of people along racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic lines that is not mandated by law.

Blockbusting

Real estate practice that puts panic to homeowners to sell their homes by suggesting that a racial/ethnic group are going to move in.

Redlining

Discriminatory practice of denying financial services (mortgages/insurance) to certain neighborhoods based on race or ethnicity.

Brownfields

Previously developed land that’s been abandoned.

Disamenity zone

Areas within cities that lack basic infrastructure, services, and opportunities.

Squatter settlements

A residential area where people have built there homes on land they don’t legally own or have permission to occupy.

Smart growth

Building and planning that regulates the amount of infrastructure and preserves farmland, green space, walkability.

Neocolonialism

Uses their economic or political influence to influence a country without directly settling troops in it.

Break of bulk point

A place where shipment is moved from one transportation to another and split into smaller parts.

Comparative advantage

When a country or region is is better, faster, and cheaper at making an item than others.

Commodity dependence

When a country is dependent on selling one main thing to make money.

Export processing zones

Special places in a country where big companies build factories, these zones are usually have lower taxes and cheaper rules to help businesses.

Neoliberal policies

Rules that let companies do more and limit the govt to intervene.

Offshoring

Company moves its jobs to places with cheap labor.

Outsourcing

When a company pays another company to do work for them.

Special economic zones

Areas in the country where the rules for businesses are easier.