Jeopardy Key Concepts Pop. Geo Cult. Geo Ind. GeoUrban Geo. Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500
$100 The extent of area that is occupied by something.
$100 SPACE
$200 High level of consistency in a certain cultural or physical attribute. Ex:) political boundaries, French-speaking region of Canada.
$200 Formal Region
$300 Displays a single type of information.
$300 Thematic Map
$400 Has a node, or central hub, surrounded by interconnecting linkages. Relate to trade, communications, and transportations. Ex:) mall of America's surrounding area, Bank of America.
$400 Functional Region
$500 Locational map grid.
$500 GIS
$100 The total number of people divided by the total land area
Arithmetic Density
$200 The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates and a low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population
$200 DTM
$300 The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
Total Fertility Rate
$400 The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force
Dependency Ratio
$500 The number of people per unit of arable land
Physiological Density
100 a geographic area the includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior
$100 Cultural Landscape
process of division of a region/state into smaller regions/states that are often hostile with each other
Balkanization
300 common language used by speakers of different languages
$300 Lingua Franca
$400 people with a shared identity and culture (a nation) who possess their own territory and state government (e.g. - Aboriginal nation- state government within a country) (a type of boundary)
400 Nation State
500 The practice of judging another culture by its own standards (putting aside his her cultural preferences)
Cultural Relativism
$100 Transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low- paid less skilled workers, from more developed to less developed countries.
$100 New International Division of Labor
$200 Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution.
$200 Cottage Industry
$300 A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another.
Break of Bulk Point
400 company with no allegiance or ties to a country or location that can move its primary location
$400 Footloose
$500 In 1979, the Chinese government set up these zones on the coast near Macao, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Improved transportation, lower taxes, and other incentives attracted investments from foreign businesses. They helped stimulate innovation and helped China grow economically.
$500 Special Economic Zones
$100 Cluster settlement range in size from hamlets to megalopolises. They may be arranged in a hierarchy according to the complexity of their centralizing functions. the hierarchy includes (from smallest to largest): hamlet, village, towns, cities, metropolis, megalopolis.
$100 Urban Hierarchy
$200 The term was coined by Joel Garreau, they are cities located around a city's beltway. Nodes of consumer and business services, office parks found here. Specialized nodes in edge cities such as a warehouse near an airport or hotels near the interstate. They are self sufficient
$200 Edge Cities
$300 created by E.W Burgess, therefore is also known as the Burgess model. He viewed cities as growing outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings.
$300 Concentric Zone Model
$400 In urban hierarchy, the population of the city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. Ex- largest is 12 mil. second larges= 1/2=6 million, 3rd= 1/3=4 million, 4th=1/4=3 million
$400 Rank Size Rule
$500 a.k.a cosmopolitan based on centrality/accessibility of business consumers and public needs. Business (office, stock), Consumer (Retail, entertainment, cultural), Public (government headquarters) Ex- Tokyo, London, NYC Have an iconic image. (ex- Statue of Liberty= NYC)
$500 World Cities