APHG Major Terms

Policies that seek to restrict growth

Predicts the degree of interaction and probability of mobility between two places

The larger idea of creating an empire by exerting force to control other nations from afar

A movement that diffused modern agriculture farming methods to developing countries after the mid-20th century

The movement of upper/middle class from the urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts

Cities develop in wedge-like sectors, not rings, and usually form along major transportation routes

Trade is greater if each side has something that the other side wants or needs

Relationship to river

The total cost of land relative to its distance to the market

Drawn where people have already settled with cultures already established

Geographic areas where access to affordable, healthy food options is limited do to the lack of supermarkets

Urban areas shift from a manufacturing base to a service sector economic base

Cost advantages reaped by countries when production becomes efficient(Increasing production and lowering costs)

People have the right to govern themselves, usually a nation or ethnicity seeking statehood

Lead city in a country in terms of size and influence

Highly educated people migrate internationally in order to make more money

Stays close to its hearth and doesn't seek converts

A movement by a nation to unite other parts of its nation that are spread over other borders

The deliberate removal or Killing of a particular ethnic group

When several countries form an organization to achieve common goals and benefits for all of the countries

When a group of people in one's culture adopts traits from another

The moving of manufacturing and production, as well as jobs and services, outside of a country

When a national groups homeland has a state of its own and spreads across the borders of other countries

The farther away one place is from another, the less interaction those two places will have

Where people can afford to live based on work

Evaluating a culture by its own standards - contradicting cultures is okay - celebration of diversity

People leaving a country

Humans have control over their choices and technology to overcome environmental limitations

Involves processing information, finance, insurance, and real estate

Conflicts between larger political and cultural forces that can cause regional problems at the local scale

The passing of power from central to lower governments, the breaking up of a state into smaller units

When a state is unable to perform basic governmental responsibilities and lacks proper authority over the land

People start having one mass global culture

The full idea does not spread, but the underlying idea spreads

Tourism based on the natural environment, environments often threatened by looming industrialization or development

Evaluating a culture through the lens of one's own culture - thoughts of superiority - can lead to violence

Warned that population growth would outpace food supply b/c population grows geometrically and food grows arithmetically

The relationship between a population size and the amount of resources

government holds almost all authority, very little power is given to local governments

Sprawling urban areas with more than 20 million residents

Share political power with the lower levels of government

Regions that have a center of activity(Node)

Has influence not just within its region, but also around the world

Migration where livestock are led to highland areas in the Summer and low land areas in the Winter

A residential area that has developed without legal claims to the land

Money sent back to a home country

What stage of economic growth in Rostow's Model is the takeoff?

Shows where different types of agriculture are most likely to be located based on transportation costs

helped increase food production, changed the demand for manual labor, increased life expectancy

Reduced Urban Sprawl, increased affordable housing, mixed use neighborhoods

Includes a spatial extent, permanent population, defined borders, sovereign government, recognition from other states

An airport or seaport where businesses can be landed, stored, handled, manufactured, and re-exported usually tariff free

Economic centers on the fringe of a city with an extensive amount of resource space, usually near major roads

One ethnic group is convinced to sell their homes at a low price once they hear another ethnic group is moving in

Requires a large amount of labor and capitol

Edge Cities pop up along intersections of major transportation routes

The outcome of globalization and the interconnectedness of the global economy, LDCs can produce goods cheaper

A countries contagious zone extends - to - nautical miles from the shore

# of people per unit of arable land

There is still an original CBD, but now there are several others present

Banks refuse loans to those who want to purchase homes in certain urban areas

Crops grow for profit, large percentage of machines used, large farm size, highly productive

The size of population necessary for a service to exist and be profitable

Latitude and longitude shown at right angles, preserves shape, but distorts size massively at high altitudes

The reduction of time it takes for something to get from one place to another

Resources flow from poor and underdeveloped states the wealthy states(Periphery to core)

Analyzes the locations for industry using triangles(Resources and market at its angles)

Requires a low amount a labor and capitol

The process of mixing cultural traits, primarily languages

Sites that have been abandoned and have some level of environmental contamination

Information gathered by satellites orbiting Earth can gather data about droughts, urban sprawl, and agriculture land use

Automation, robots and computer systems, replaces the human assembly line

Leads to the loss of soil fertility, deforestation, and soil erosion

Based on the former mother countries that control the extraction of resources and the labor in former colonies

Natural factors alone determine the cultural attributes of human societies

An area of a country(Typically LDCs)where the business and trade laws are different from other parts of the country

Explains the distribution of goods and services across a region(Hexagons)

The major party in power of the state legislature redraws the districts to give them a partisan advantage

When a minority group eventually adopts the prominent culture, sometimes it is forced

Concentration of highly innovative and technologically advanced industries

The clustering of similar industries in the same location to share costs, customers, and/or infrastructure

Positive circumstances or features that hinder migration

these limit the access to people, land, and resources making the control of these places crucial for countries

The renewal or rebuilding of a lower income neighborhood into a middle/upper class neighborhood