MASTER STUDYGUIDE ( All The Stuff I Meed To Know But Cant Remember. Flashcards
Latitude vs longitude
Latitude = north/south
Longitude = west /east
Tertiary quaternary and Quinary sector meaning ( specifically cus the all service)
Tertiary. Business services
Quaternary : knowledge services
Quinary consumer services
Who is Norman Borlaug
The main spearheaded of the green revolution invented super wheat seeds
Irredentism
The movement to unite a nations homeland when part of it is contained in another state
Technopole
Node of important scientific research innovation etc ex silicon valley
Arab spring
A rise of democracy in 2011 through several revolts in Arab countries
Iron law of wages
Wages turned toward the minimum required to sustain workers. As worker pool narrows pay increases and vice versa
Difference run pop and folk culture specifically
Folk culture made in smaller unnamed isolated groups pop is opposite
Geographic definition of place
An area of bounded space of some human importance
Geographic definition of space
The geometric surface of the earth
Map scale geographic definition
The ratio of distance on a map to that in the real world
Geographic definition of scale
The relationship between an object and the earth
How to calculate doubling time with rni
70 divided by rni
Globalization definition
A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something a worldwide scope ( communication trade etc )
Distance decay
The theory that the father away two people are the less likely they are to interact
Space-time compression
The lessening of distance decay because connection takes less time do to new technology
Three pillars of sustainability
Environment society economy
Assimilation
The process by which a groups cultural are altered to resemble those of another group
Acculturation
The process of changes in the culture that result from the meaning of two groups
Elder support ration
Work age people divided by number of age, 15 to 65
Parts of epidemiologic transition
1 need for food
2 treatable disease
3 degenerative disease like cancer etc
4 delayed lifestyle diseases
Terroir
Contribution of a location, distinctive, physical features to have food taste
Pidgin language
Created by learning grammar rules in words of lingua franca, and mixing in certain elements of other language, no native speakers
Major branches of Buddhism
1 Theravada. Mainland south Asia in Sri Lanka.
2 Mahayana china Japan Korea
3 vajvayana. Mongolian Tibet
Example of syncretic religion
Taoism because it combines Confucianism and Buddhism
Toponym
Journal name for any place or geographical entity. Nickname for place.
cosmogony
Set a religious beliefs concerning creation of the universe
Balkanization
The process by which a state collapsed due to ethnic conflict
Boundary types
1 cultural ( follows patterns of cultural factors
2 geometric (human ideas latitudes borders )
Physical ( landscape features)
LAw of the sea rules
Territorial: 12 km can set laws
Contiguous: 12-24 pollution taxes customs immigration
Exclusive economic zone EEZ all fishing and mining rights reserved
Crops hearths worldwide
East Asia : soybean, rice , walnut
SW Asia lentils/beans, olives, rye barley wheat
SEAsia mango taro coconut pigeonpea
Africa yams,sorghum,finger miller, coffee
Latin American maize, cotton, potatoes ,Lima bean
What’s in rings of con thunen model
1 market
2dairy market gardening
3 lumber
4 grain field crops
5 livestock
6 wilderness
Main idea of von thunen model
Predicts location of different farming industries based on land and transport costs
Green revolution stuff
Defined by two practices high yield seeds and fertilizers 1950-1984
Second agricultural revolution
Began UK 17th century due to increased productivity with breeding of livestock and crop rotation
Central place theory
Used to determine the most profitable place for a business
Gravity model
Determines that optimal service location is directly related to the number people and that area and inversely related to distance needed to travel to access it
Megalopolis
A collection of adjacent or overlapping metropolitan areas that merge into a continuous urban region. Ex east coast
MSA metropolitan statistical area
An urbanized area of over 50,000 . Contains county of urbanized are and parts of adjacent area ex La MSA complicated
Ûsa micropolitan statistical area ( weird u is supposed to be upside down h)
Same as MSA but central city 10,000-50,000 people
galactic city model
When urban area consists of an inner-city, surrounded by suburban residential service nose, or nuclei, all interconnected by surrounding Ring Road
Important part of Latin American city model
Mall strip going through center and central business district 
IHDI.
Inequality adjusted human development index
Measure HDI but with amount of j equality in a country if HDI lower there is inequality the bigger the difference the more inequality
GDI
Gender development index
1 reproductive health, or adolescent fertility rate, and maternal mortality rate
2 empowerment, or percent of women, in legislation and percent with secondary school education
Five factors of rosters model of international trade
One traditional society
Two preconditions for takeoff
Three takeoff
Four. Drive to maturity.
Five age of mass consumption
Centripetal
A force that unifies people in a country
Centrifugal force
A force that the force that divides people in a country
Criticisms of Rostow model for international trade
ethnocentric views, being too linear, and having overlapping stages. Many note that it focuses only on the Westernized path to economic development.
Right to work laws
Laws that make it harder for workers to unionize. More prevalent in the south and west.
Metes and bounds
The system on east coast relies on description of natural features to set property boundaries
Sector model factors
Takes ethnicity into account
Made without private automobile ownership
Sequent occupancy
The way, the current cultural landscape of a region is defined as the sum total of all the marks the previous civilizations have left on the region
Metes and bounds
Based on a medieval European method of dividing land, depends, solely upon natural features such as rivers forest, etc.
How to calculate the gravity model
Population X location
Divided by square of distance between them
Heartland theory
Idea that whoever controls Eurasia would dominate the world
Tragedy of commons
When communal things are messed up because of people acting in their own self interest. Mess up resources.
This is why we can’t have nice things type shit
Why is the first world 2nd world third world country model no longer used?
Because it was based on the soviet system
Free trade zones
Geographic areas where goods may be receive, sent, manufactured, or reconfigured under customs regulations without have to pay customs duty
Agglomeration
How concentrated connectivity is around a central place
Theory of industrial location
Manufacturing sites are best, determined by looking at the site available transportation labor in agglomeration
Urban hierarchy
Shows several layers of places across the human landscape that follow regular patterns. Related to central place theory example: Village market for small items, town market for me and items city market for large items
Footloose industry
One that can be placed at any location because it is not affected by factors, such as transportation or resources. Example chip manufacturing or diamond cutting.
What is market area
Defined by
Threshold and range
Piedmont industrial region
Southeastern United States
Total fertility rate
Ages, 15 to 45
New Asian tigers and old Asian tigers
Old Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong
No, vietnam India, Malaysia, Indonesia, China
Operational border dispute
Occurs when borders are agreed to, but passes across the border is a problem
Allocational border dispute
When a resource lies on either side of a border
Locational border dispute
When a border moves like a river
Five pillars of Islam
Five daily prayers, Islamic creed ohms to the poor observance of Ramadan and a hajj
