Vocab 5 APHG

Population/Migration

• Arithmetic population density

• Physiological population density

• Agricultural population density

• Vectored disease

• Non-vectored disease

• AIDS

• Malaria 

• Brain drain

• Forced migrant

• Refugee

• Asylum

• Ravenstein’s laws of migration

• Intervening obstacles

• Intervening opportunities

Culture

• Ethnocentrism (Eurocentrism)

• Cultural relativity

• Animism

• Cultural taboo

• Language family

• Language

• Dialect

• Isogloss

• Mutual intelligibility

Agriculture/Rural Land Use

• Desertification

• Sahel

• Shifting cultivation

• Pastoral nomadism

• Plantation agriculture

• Commodity dependence

• Commodity chain

• Fair trade

Cities/Urban Land Use

• African city model

• Island of development

• Residential segregation

• Redlining

• Blockbusting

Econ. Dev./Industrialization

• Formal economy

• Informal economy

• Sustainability

• Gini coefficient

• Rostow model

• World systems theory

• Dependency theory

• Core

• Periphery

• Semi-periphery

• Structural adjustment program

• Globalization

Political Geography

• Berlin Conference

• Imperialism

• Territorial morphology

• Compact state

• Prorupted state

• Elongated state

• Fragmented state

• Perforated state

• Enclave 

• Exclave

• Landlocked state

• Failed state

• African Union

• Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

• Self-determination

• Neocolonialism

• Apartheid