Terms to know

Question 1

What is a European Medeival City?

Answer 1

Characterized by high walls surrounding city, winding streets, narrow buildings, and a church at the center

Question 2

What is a diaspora?

Answer 2

community of people who are dispersed throughout the world, but retain their cultural, religious, or ethnic differences

Question 3

What is global division of labor?

Answer 3

transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-paid, less skilled workers, from more developed to less developed countries

Question 4

What is Carl Savor?

Answer 4

was an American geographer who was an authority on desert studies, tropical areas, the human geography of American Indians, and agriculture and native crops of the New World

Question 5

What is boserup?

Answer 5

a famous agricultural geographer

Question 6

What is remittiance?

Answer 6

Money immigrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash

Question 7

What are neoliberal policies? (FRQ on it)

Answer 7

market-oriented reform policies such as “eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers”

Question 8

What is ghettoization?

Answer 8

the degradation of inner cities in America

Question 9

What are yuppies, sinks, and dinks?

Answer 9

young urban professionals, single income no kids, double income no kids

Question 10

What are LDC’s?

Answer 10

less developed countries

Question 11

What are MDc’s?

Answer 11

more developed countries

Question 12

What are NDC’s?

Answer 12

newly developing countries

Question 13

What is shamanism?

Answer 13

a specific form of local religion that exists in many different parts of the world and has been a part of human society for countless thousands of years

Question 14

What is animism?

Answer 14

Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and life

Question 15

What is an exurb?

Answer 15

the ring of prosperous communities beyond the suburbs, that are commuter towns for an urban area

Question 16

What is conurbation?

Answer 16

An extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities

Question 17

What is Mcmansion?

Answer 17

Large homes, often built to the outer limits of the lot

Question 18

What is an iron curtain?

Answer 18

the “curtain” being pulled over Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union which removed those countries from the global capitalist market and isolated Eastern Europe from Western Europe

Question 19

What is an inter faith boundary?

Answer 19

the boundaries between the world’s major faiths, such as Christianity, Muslim, and Buddhism

Question 20

What is an intra faith boundary?

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boundaries within a major religion

Question 21

What is infill?

Answer 21

the construction of new buildings in underutilized or vacant land lots within urban areas

Question 22

What is deagglomeration?

Answer 22

The process of breaking up or dispersing that which has agglomerated, or aggregated, or clustered together

Question 23

What is dollarization?

Answer 23

When a poorer country ties the value of its currency to that of a wealthier country

Question 24

What is economy of scale?

Answer 24

the reduction in the per unit cost of production as the volume of production increases

Question 25

What is irredentism?

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belief that territory outside a given state should be made part of the state due to a large amount of people living there of the same ethnicity as live in the state in question or due to the state having historically been in possession of the territory

Question 26

What is footloose industry?

Answer 26

one which is not tied to any particular location or country and can relocate to another place without effect from factors of production such as resources, land, labour, and capital

Question 27

What are asian tigers?

Answer 27

high-growth economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. All four economies have been fueled by exports and rapid industrialization, and have achieved high levels of economic growth since the 1960s

Question 28

What are BRICS?

Answer 28

the acronym denoting the emerging national economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

Question 29

What are growth poles?

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a specific area or sector that drives economic development in a region

Question 30

What is fordism?

Answer 30

the use of labor specialization and a moving assembly line production to create a large number of standardized goods at decreased prices for consumers

Question 31

What is just in time?

Answer 31

companies keep just what they need for short-term production and new parts are shipped quickly as they are needed

Question 32

What is redlining?

Answer 32

financial institutions and other organizations deny or limit financial services, insurance, or other resources to residents of certain areas, typically because those areas are predominantly inhabited by racial or ethnic minorities

Question 33

What are backwash effects?

Answer 33

The negative effects on one region that result from economic growth within another region

Question 34

What is a sun belt?

Answer 34

the name used to describe much of the South and West of the United States

Question 35

What is a rust belt?

Answer 35

based on the rusting heavy machinery lying around throughout the Midwest

Question 36

What is an apartheid?

Answer 36

Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas