Geo 130 Final Flashcards
Religions in the US
Baptists - South Lutherans - Upper Midwest Catholics - NE, SW Mormons - UT Jews - NYC, Miami, (big cities) Pentecostals - AR, area non-believers - highest % in West
Eastern Orthodox locations
Coptic - Egypt
Maronite - Lebanon
Nestorian - Jordan
Buddhism divisions
Theravada (lesser) - SE Asia (Sri Lanka, Thailand)
Mahayana (greater) - East Asia (China, Japan)
Landscapes of the dead
- religious identity
- social status
- cultural differences
- values, hobbies
- ethnicity, nationality
- migration patterns
- physical geography
Hunters and gatherers
survive on what earth produces naturally
-(subsistence)
where?
-Amazon Rainforest, Congo, New Guinea
Nomads/Transhumance
cyclical movement of people and animals where? -fringe lands of Africa, Asia horizontal = yearly loop vertical = elevation changes throughout year
Peasant
focus on cereal crops, staple crops
where?
-Asia, Latin America, Africa
*supports most of world’s population
Commercial
focus on cash crops
-crop specialization, high yield
<2% American in agriculture
large scale, mechanized
Plantation
relies on cheap, manual labor
exotic cash crops
labor = biggest expense
Circle Four Farms
SW Utah why? -invited -isolated -close to I-15 corridor -cheap, available land -future : reach Pacific Rim
Rice
associated with peasant agriculture #1 exporter = Thailand #1 importer = Europe #1 producer = China
Wheat
mostly cash crop highly mechanized #1 exporter = US #1 importer = Russia #1 producer = China
Ancient cities
small, high density relatively small population religious place at center terrible conditions *top problems: -waste disposal -grain storage
Agglomeration
External: clustering of UNLIKE activities
Localization: clustering of LIKE activities
-associated w/ specific industry
ex: Detroit, Las Vegas, Silicon Valley
Era dates
Walking-Horse Car (1800-1890)
Electric Street Car (1890-1920)
Recreational Automobile (1920-1945)
Freeway (1945-present)
Walking/Horse Car
city shape = concentric
1830 - RXR impacted city DISTRIBUTION
1852 - horse-drawn street car (city starts to expand)
Electric Street Car
city shape = star
-expansion along trolly lines
Recreational Automobile
city shape = concentric
urban expansion - middle class to suburbia
average distance to work INCREASED
average density DECREASED
Freeway
*biggest impact on modern urban America
people leaving downtown, businesses follow
radial freeways first - similar to trolly lines
=poor left behind
beltways circumvent downtown
(government and stock exchange still downtown)
Formal culture region
people have one or more trait in common
core-periphery - farther from center = less
Functional culture region
created to complete a task
-(economically, socially, politically…)
ex: EU, a state, church boundaries
based on node or core area
-central point coordinates
clear-cut boundaries (no transition zone)
not as much homogeneity
Vernacular culture region
people perceive themselves as part of region
ex: Texas
Expansion/Contagious diffusion
diffusion waves spread out UNIFORMLY from node or core area
- to nearest neighborhood(s)
ex: illness
Relocation diffusion
innovation carried with people migrating to new area
ex: log cabin
Hierarchal diffusion
based on size of location (large cities to small)
-originates in large city, moves to other large cities, eventually to small cities
ex: fashion
REVERSE ex: Walmart
Stimulus diffusion
specific innovation rejected but concept or idea accepted
ex: domestication of wheat
ex: knife
