Concepts, ideas and terms Flashcards
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Land hemisphere
The half of the globe containing the greatest amount of land surface, centered on Europe
Physiography
Refers to the total physical geography of a place; includes all of the natural features on the earths suface, including landfills, climate, soil, vegetataion, and water bodies.
Infrastructure
Foundations of a society: urban centers, transport networks, communications, energy distribution systems, farms, factories, mines and facilities.
Local functional specialization
A hall mark of Europes economic geography that later spread to many parts of the world, whereby particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods and services.
Isolated State
The transformation of Europe’s farmlands reshaped its economic geography, producing new patterns of land use and market links. John Heinrich von Thunen, studied the changes and published his observations named The Isolated State
Model
An idealized representation of reality built to demonstrate its most importany properties.
Industrial Revolution
The social and economic changes in agriculture, commerce, and manufacturing and urbanization that resulted from technological innovations and specialization.
Centripetal Forces
To designate forces that end to divide a country
Complementarity
Exists when two regions, through an exchange of raw materials and finished products, which specifically satisfy one another demands.
Transferablilty
The compacity to move a good from one place to another at a bearable cost
Intervening opportunity
In trade or migration flows, the presence of a nearer opportuinity that greatly dimenishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.
Primate city
A county’s largest city, ranking atop the urban hierarchy most expressive of the national culture and usually the capital city as well.
Metropolis
urban agglomeration consisting of a central city and its suburban ring.
Central Business District
The downtown heart of a central city; marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings
Supranationalism
involving 3 or more states-political, economic, and cultural coorporation o promote shared industrilization.
Devolution
The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central governmnent
Four Motors of Europe
France, Germany, Spain, Italy. Each is a high-technology driven region marked by exceptional industrial vitality and economic successnot onlywithin Europe but on the global scene as well.
Regional State
A natural economic zone that defies political boundries and is shaped by the global economy of which it is a part; its leaders deal directly with foreign partners and negogiate the best terms they can with the national governments under which they operate.
Site
The internal locational attributes of an urban center, including its local spatial organization and physical setting
Situation
The external locational attributes of an urban center; its relative location or regional position position eith reference to other nonlocal places.
Conurbation
General term used to identify a large multimetropolitan complexed formed by the coalescnce of 2 or more major urban areas.
Landlocked location
An interior state surrounded by land.
Break of bulk
A location along a transport where goods must be transffered from one carrier to another.
Entrepot
A place usually a port city where goods are imported, stored, and transshipped
