Exam 1 Flashcards
BRICI
List of countries that could become global superpowers.
Brazil, Russia, India, China, Indonesia
Built Environment
man-made surroundings ranging from buildings to parks
capital
wealth in the form of money or property owned by a business or person; human resources of economic value
Carrying capacity
maximum number of people that the earth can sustain
Cartogram
a map that combines statistics information with geographic location; a map that shows a specific thing and how it is grouped
Commodity chain
The stages that a commodity passes through from raw materials into a finished product
Conflict minerals
a mineral mined in an area of armed conflict; proceeds from its trade are used to fund the fighting
Anthropocene
the idea that nature has been re-engineered by humanity; it is the era in which humans started to have the most impact on the environment
Core/Periphery Model
Core regions
Periphery regions
Semi-periphery regions
Core
regions that retain command and control over world economy
exploit materials from periphery and sell the finished products back to these areas
high technology areas
Periphery
regions that supply core and semi-periphery with cheap raw materials and labor
low technology
labor intensive agriculture
Semi-periphery
regions that were exploited by core regions but in turn prospered from the relationship
regions that lay between periphery and core
regions on the rise (examples BRICI) or
regions on decline from Core (Spain and Portugal)
Cultural Landscapes
the idea that a people’s culture impacts their natural environment in a way
Carl Sauer’s The Morphology of Landscape (1925)
DDT/Chemical Pesticides
chemicals used after WWII as a pesticide against mosquitoes; these mosquitoes were falsely believed to carry Polio
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring (1962)
Demography
the study of statistical information as it pertains to human population
Ecological footprint
the amount of useful land and sea area needed to supply the resources that a human population consumes and to assimilate human waste
the impact of a person or community on it’s environment
expressed as the amount of land required
Economic Geography
the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world.
it is important in developed nations because it allows researchers to understand the structure of the area’s economy and its economic relationship with other areas around the world
Environmental Determinism
the idea that the natural/physical environment affect social and cultural development
Friederich Ratzel - Anthropogeographic (1882)
Ellen Churchill Semple - Influences of a Geographic Environment: Basis of Ratzel’s System of Anthropogeography (1911)
Environmental Justice
responsibility to make the environment better should be proportional to the ecological footprint created by certain societies
Extractive Colonialism
to colonize for the raw materials
e.g. buffalo hides, guano, gold, beaver fur
Fordism
Mass production techniques of Henry Ford where there is a correlation between productivity and increases in wages.
Assembly Line
Post-Fordism
An approach to production that emphasizes flexibility and small batch production of niche goods in specialized markets
robots
temporary, seasonal employees
Global North
the more developed countries in the world
most reside in the northern hemisphere
Global South
the more undeveloped countries in the world
mose reside in the southern hemisphere
