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Frazzle

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?The game of

getting the words just right

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!Vocabulary

Round 1?

Formal region

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Mercator Projection

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Emigration

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Environmental Determinism

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Intervening Obstacles

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Creolized language

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Apartheid

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!Answer

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Formal Region

• A uniform region • An area in which everyone shares in

one or more distinctive characteristics

#1

Mercator Projection

#2

Preserves direction; distorts at the poles

Emigration

• Migration from a location

#3

Environmental Determinism

• The physical environment causes social development

#4

Intervening Obstacles

• A physical feature which hinders migration

#5

Creolized language

• A mix of indigenous and colonial languages (a pidgin language that became a written down language)

#6

Apartheid

• The geographic separation of races in South Africa

#7

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!Theories

Round 2?

Thomas Malthus’ Theory

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Von Thunen Theory

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Boserup Theory

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Weber’s Least Cost Theory

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Bid-Rent Curve

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Rostow’s Development Model

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Gravity Model

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!Answer

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Thomas Malthus’ Theory

• The world’s rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies

#1

Von Thunen Theory

• Emphasizes transportation cost in this model of agricultural land use

• From the center: city, horticulture & dairy, forestry, crop rotation, grazing

#2

Boserup Theory

• Population determines agricultural methods

• Food supply is adapted by farmers to meet the changing population

#3

Weber’s Least Cost Theory

• Cost of transportation determined by weight of the good and distance

to the market

#4

Bid-rent curve

• Land decreases in value as one gets farther from the CBD

• Intersections at major roads leading to the CBD can increase in land

values

#5

Rostow’s Development Model

• The traditional society• The preconditions for takeoff

• The take off• The drive to maturity

• The age of mass consumption#6

Gravity Model

• The potential use of a service at is location is related directly to

population and inversely to distance

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!More Vocabulary

Round 3?

Density

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Site

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Relocation diffusion

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Sino-Tibetan

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Ethnic religion

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Southwest Asia

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Balkanization

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!Answer

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Density

• The frequency with which something exists within a given unit

of area

#1

Site

• The physical character of a place• Examples—climate, water, soil,

vegetation, latitude, elevation

#2

Relocation Diffusion

• The spread of a feature/trend through bodily movement of people from one

place to another• Examples: Amish, economic

development through international trade, folk culture

#3

Sino-Tibetan

• Second largest language family after Indo-European

#4

Ethnic religion

• Religion that appeals mostly to one group of people in one place

#5

Southwest Asia

• Where the world’s three major monotheistic religions originated

#6

Balkanization

• Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its

ethnicities

#7

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!Other Stuff

Round 4?

Scale

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Physiological Density

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Sovereignty

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Nation-State

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Transhumance

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Intensive Subsistance Farming

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Quinary sector

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!Answer

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Scale

• Relationship between the portion of the Earth being studied and the

Earth as a whole• Large Scale=city

• Small Scale=continent#1

Physiological Density

• Number of people per area suitable for agriculture

#2

Sovereignty

• Self-governing; internal affairs not controlled by other states

#3

Nation-State

• A State whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular

ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

#4

Transhumance

• Seasonal movement from highlands to lowland pastures

#5

Intensive Subsistance Farming

• Great effort to produce enough food to feed yourself

• Most practice type of agriculture in the world

#6

Quinary Sector

• High level decision making jobs in the quaternary sector

#7

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!Miscellaneous Hodge-podge

Round 5?

Four Asian Tigers

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Break-of-Bulk Point

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Megalopolis

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Primate City

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Edge City

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Gentrification

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Swidden

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!Answer

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Four Asian Tigers

• a.k.a. “Four Asian Dragons” or “Four Economic Tigers”

• Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan

• First countries to adopt the international trade alternatives

#1

Break-of-Bulk Point

• Where a company which uses more than one mode of transportation

will locate• Examples: Seaports and airports

#2

Megalopolis

• When adjacent metropolitan statistical areas overlap

• Examples: Boston to Washington, DC; Los Angeles to Tijuana, Tokyo to

Yokahama, Chicago to Pittsburg

#3

Primate City

• An urban center that is disproportionately larger than the

second largest city in a country• Dominates country’s social, political,

and economic activities

#4

Edge City

• Originated as suburban residents for central city workers then shopping malls, etc. where built in the area

• Near the interstate

#5

Gentrification

• Distressed inner city neighborhoods are refurbished

#6

Swidden

• A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning

#7