Unit 4 - 7 rapid

Question 1

Nation

Answer 1

Group of people w/ shared culture and heritage

Question 2

State

Answer 2

Formal term for a country

Question 3

Cultural

Answer 3

Divides cultural groups

Question 4

Antecedent

Answer 4

Drawn before populations get there

Question 5

Superimposed

Answer 5

Drawn by foreign powers

Question 6

Colonialism

Answer 6

A country takes over another

Question 7

Centripetal force

Answer 7

Force bringing people together

Question 8

Centrifugal force

Answer 8

Forces diving people

Question 9

Subsistence Farming

Answer 9

Farming to support oneself

Question 10

Commercial

Answer 10

Farming for profit

Question 11

1st (Neolithic) Revolution

Answer 11

Shift from nomadic to secondary lifestyle (birth of agriculture)

Question 12

Green Revolution

Answer 12

Advancements in plant biology and further technological development

Question 13

Bid- Rent Theory

Answer 13

Relationship btw distance and price of land

Question 14

Van Thunen Model

Answer 14

Relationship btw distance and products produced

Question 15

Urbanization

Answer 15

The continuous development of cities and towns

Question 16

Surburbanization

Answer 16

Movement to the outskirts of urban areas (rural -> urban)

Question 17

Urban Sprawl

Answer 17

The excessive outward growth of cities, puts stress on the environment

Question 18

Urban Challenges

Answer 18

Homelessness, rising costs, poor quality, destruction of wildlife

Question 19

Concentric Model

Answer 19

an urban model which suggests that cities grow outward from a central area in concentric rings, like the layers of an onion.

Question 20

Sector Model

Answer 20

describes the growth of US cities based on economic and physical geography.

Question 21

Multiple Nuclei Model

Answer 21

an urban center may have been founded with a CBD, other smaller CBD’s evolve on the outskirts of the city near the more high-class housing areas. This allows shorter commutes from the suburbs.

Question 22

Sub Saharan City Model

Answer 22

a generalized diagram of an urban area in sub-Saharan Africa that contains pre-colonial, European colonial, and post-colonial elements and is or was segregated by race.

Question 23

Southeast Asian City Model

Answer 23

City Model in that they each feature high-class residential zones that stem from the center, middle-class residential zones that occur in inner-city areas, and low-income squatter settlements that occur in the periphery.

Question 24

Latin American City Model

Answer 24

combines elements of Latin American Culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones.

Question 25

Gentrification

Answer 25

Displaces poorer residents

Question 26

Redlining

Answer 26

illegal discriminatory practice in which a mortgage lender denies loans or an insurance provider restricts services to certain areas of a community, often because of the racial characteristics of the applicant's neighbourhood.

Question 27

Gerrymandering

Answer 27

Process of re-drawing political voting districts to favor one political party

Question 28

Megacity

Answer 28

City over 10 million

Question 29

Metacity

Answer 29

City over 20 million

Question 30

Rank size rule

Answer 30

Predicts the development of population in different cities within the same country - divide population of the largest city in the country by the rank of the city being examined

Question 31

Primate City

Answer 31

A city that has over double the population of the next largest city in that country

Question 32

Industrial Revolution

Answer 32

Transition from an agricultural to manufacturing economic model, mainly happened in developed countries

Question 33

Industrialization

Answer 33

Industrialized countries = more power Many industrial powers exploited for less power countries for money

Question 34

Core country

Answer 34

High income countries

Question 35

Semi- Periphery

Answer 35

Middle income countries

Question 36

Periphery

Answer 36

Low income countries

Question 37

Agglomeration

Answer 37

Clumping together of industries for mutual advantage.

Question 38

Special Economic Zones (SEZ)

Answer 38

A type of export processing zone, defined as port locations where foreign firms are given a special tax privileges to incentivize trade.

Question 39

Gender Related Development (GDI)

Answer 39

Takes the same indicators used to calculate HDI but replaces GDI per capita with income

Question 40

Human Development Index (HDI)

Answer 40

Designed by UN to measure the level of development of states based on numbers of social indicators in addition to economic production

Question 41

Gross National Income (GNI)

Answer 41

The dollar value of all the goods and services produced in a country, plus the dollar value of exports minus imports in the same. (per capita) The estimated income of a person converted to U.S. dollars at currency exchange rate.

Question 42

Commodity Chain

Answer 42

A linked system of processes that gather resources, convert them into goods, package them for distribution, disperse them, and sell them on the market.

Question 43

5 stages of production

Answer 43

Primary - production Secondary - supplying Tertiary - buying Quaternary- selling Quinary- consumption of goods and services