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Name a country involved in Slash and Burn Agriculture
Any country in a rainforest region
What is terracing?
Farming on plots of land built into hillsides
Define Arable
Land suitable for farming
What is an Entrepot? Give an example of a state that is
also an Entrepot.
A port where merchandise can be imported and then exported
without paying import duties; Bahrain, Singapore
Define Footloose industry
An industry that is not tied to any particular location or country,
and can relocate across national borders in response to changing
economic conditions.
Give an example of a footloose industry
Computer chips, diamonds
Which is NOT an example of a Supranational organization?
NAFTAColorado River Authority
European UnionOAS
CRA
List the 4 economic activities by their geographic terms
PrimarySecondary
TertiaryQuaternary
What theory is the term NODE associated with?
Central Place Theory
What type of country has this age/sex diagram shape?
Developing
What sort of issues does a country with this age/sex diagram face?
Zero Population Growth will affect the tax base, dependency ratio, and
amount of available workers
What theory did Alfred Mahan develop related to political
geography?
Sea Power Theory – Control the sea, control the world
+ maritime boundary = 12 nautical miles from land
What was Malthus’ population theory?
Population will outrun the food supply and we will be faced with
famine.
(Did not take new technologies into account…)
What is Boserup’s population theory?
Larger populations will stimulate economic growth/ farming
production will increase to meet population needs.
Who came up with the Laws of Migration?
RavensteinRavens fly/migrate
What is the Green Revolution? Who created it?
Bio-Engineering of plants to produce higher yields.
Norman Borlaug – Aggie, Nobel Prize Winner, Congressional Medal
of Honor, Aggie….
Who said the world is a system?
Wallerstein
What are Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth?
1.TRADITIONAL SOCIETY
2.PRECONDITIONS FOR TAKEOFF
3.TAKE OFF
4.DRIVE TO MATURITY
5.HIGH MASS CONSUMPTION
Who created the Concentric Zone Model?
Burgess
Who does the Multiple Nuclei model?
Harris and Ullman
Multiple ppl/Multiple Nuclei
Who is the Sector model guy?
Hoyt
What does Muller say is the key factor in the success of population
clusters (cities)
geo graphic mobility is crucial to the successful functioning of any
population cluster
What US city is the main urban model when studying urbanization
Chicago
What theory did Carl Sauer come up with regarding humans and the
environment?
Possibilism > humans can change their environmental conditions.
