Geographers Flashcards
(11 cards)
Walter Christaller was known for the ___________ Place Theory.
Central
Central to spatial analysis and at the heart of all urban models is the basic concept of central place theory. Explained simply, central place theory holds that all market areas are focused on the central settlement that is a place of exchange and service provision
William Denevan was known for the Native American ____________.
Depopulation
Donovan found that diseases of European origin or the main culprit behind the decline, which in some cases wiped out whole native culture groups. Diseases such as influenza, measles, and cholera were unknown to the Americas prior to the arrival of European colonists Native Americans had no immune system defense against these pathogens
Larry Ford and Ernest Griffin were known for the __________ American _____ Model
Latin. City
The Latin American city model was first presented by Larry forward and Ernst Griffin in 1980. The model is updated in 1996. During the 1500s, the Spanish government in the New World enacted a number of colonial legal codes collectively known as the Laws of the Indies.’One of these laws dealt specifically with the planning and the layout of colonial cities
Homer Hoyt was known for the ________ sector model.
Sector
In the model, the concepts of the industrial Corredor a neighborhood are combined for practical purposes. These result in a much more realistic urban representation compared to the concentric his own model. The model is also used to depict ethnic variations in the city
Thomas Malthus was known for the _______________ Theory.
Malthusian
His main idea was that the global population would one day expand to the point where cannot produce enough food to feed everyone. But but inventions such as the internal combustion engine, artificial fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation pumps, advanced plant and animal hybridization techniques, the tin can, and refrigeration were developed which means that food production has stayed ahead of pop growth
Friedrich Ratzel was known for being an _____________________ and the ___________ of human geography.
Anthropogeographie
Father
Built a large body of research claiming that all aspects of culture were defined by physical geographic factors such as climate, landforms, mineral resources, timber, food, and water supplies.
Walt Rostow was known for ____________ Model/ Stages of Growth.
Rostow’s Rosstown proposed that countries went through five stages of growth between agriculture roll and service-based economy’s one of Rostow’s assumptions is that each country had at least some form of comparative advantage that could be utilized in international trade and thus fun the country’s economic development over time. there were five stages: 1 traditional society. 2 preconditions for take off. 3 take off. 4 drive to maturity. 5 age of mass consumption.
Carl Sauer was known for ___________ and cultural landscape.
Possiblism
This idea allergy stated that cultures were to a partial degree shaped by their environment and the material resources available to them. However, cultural groups have the ability to adjust and modify the environment. The research of star and others in the 1920s onward showed that in many cases, cultures made massive modifications to the environment, often destroying the natural environment in the process.
Johan von Thünen was known for the ___________ State model.
Isolated
Von thünens model explains the cost to distance relationship in agricultural land use. It can be described as an inverse relationship between the value of labor and the distance from the center of the model. The higher the total labor costs, the closer it is to the center, and the lower the labor costs, the farther it is from the center.
Alfred Weber was known for the ____________ location theory.
Industrial
Weber states that in terms of location, manufactured goods can be classified into two categories based on the amount of inputs in relation to product output:
Weight-losing or bulk - reducing manufacturing involves a large amount of inputs that are reduced to a final product that weighs less or has less volume or bulk than the inputs. - farther from consumer
Weight gaining or bulk gaining manufacturing involves a number of inputs that are combined to make a final problem product that gains bulk, volume, or weight in the production process - closer to consumer
Ernest Burgess was known for the ____________ Zone Model.
Concentric
The concentric zone model was first published in 1923 by theorist Ernest Burgess. The model represents the Anglo-American city of the United States and Canada during the height of industrialization. representations of the model vary but follow this general pattern of rings
