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1 Introduction Cartography Choropleth Map Cognitive Maps Concentration Cultural Landscape Density Arithmetic Physiological Diffusion Relocation Expansion Hierarchical Contagious Stimulus Distance Decay Dispersion Hearth Environmental Determinism (vs. possiblism) Friction of Distance Globalization Homogenization Less Developed Country Location (LDC) Map Map Projections - Gall - Peters, Fuller, Mercator, Robinson, Winkel Tripel, Mollweide Map scale (distance on a map relative to distance on Earth) Map types (thematic, statistical, cartogram, dot, choropleth, isoline) Mathematical Site Place Name Situation More Developed Country (MDC) Multi-National Corporation (MNC) Possibilism (vs. determinism) Region Formal uniform Functional nodal Perceptual/vernacular Sauer, Carl, In relation to the Cultural Landscape Scale Spatial Introduction (continued) Spatial Interaction - (accessibility, connectivity, network, distance decay, friction of distance, time-space compression) Time Zones Cultural Geography Concepts of Culture Acculturation Assimilation Innovation adoption Maladaptive diffusion Sequent occupance Folk and Popular Culture Adaptive strategies Anglo-American landscape Built environment Folk culture Folk food Folk house Folk songs Folklore Material culture Nonmaterial culture Popular culture Language Creole Dialect Indo-European languages Isogloss Language Language family Language group Language subfamily Lingua franca Linguistic diversity Monolingual/multilingual Official language Pidgin Toponymy Trade language 1

2 Economic Development Asian Tigers (Japan, Hing Kong, S. Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) Break-of-bulk point Comparative Advantage Core Region Core - Periphery Model Deindustrialization Dependency Theory Dependent Region Economic Activities (Primary / Secondary / Tertiary/Quaternary) Ecotourism Export Processing Zone (EPZ) First World Footloose Industry Foreign Direct Investment Globalization Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Gross National Product (GNP) Human Development Index (HDI) International Division of Labor International Monetary Fund (IMF) Less Developed Country (LDC) Maquiladoras Marxism More Developed Country (MDC) New International Division of Labor Newly Industrialized Country (NIC) Outsourcing Post Industrial Primary Activity Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) Rostow, Walter Rostow s Development Model Rust Belt Second World Secondary Activity Specialized Economic Zones (SEC s) Structural adjustment program (SAP s) Third World Tertiary Activity Transnational Corporation Weber, Alfred Weber s Theory of Industrial Location Population AIDS Age distribution Agricultural Density Agricultural Revolution Arithmetic Density Carrying Capacity Concentration Crude Birth rate Crude Death rate Demographic Transition Model Density Dependency Ratio Doubling Time Infant Mortality Rate Malthus, Thomas - In relation to possible overpopulation Physiological Density Population Bomb Population Pyramid World Health Threat Carrying capacity Cohort Demographic Transition model Dependency ratio Doubling time Ecumene Epidemiological Transition Infant mortality rate J-curve Maladaptation Malthus, Thomas Mortality Neo-Malthusian Overpopulation Population explosion Population pyramid Rate of natural increase S-curve Sex ratio Sustainability Underpopulation 2

3 Political Geography Annexation Apartheid Balkanization Berlin Conference (1884) Boundary Boundary, disputes (definitional, locational, operational, allocational) Boundary, origin (antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic) Boundary, type (natural/physical, ethnographic/cultural, geometric) Buffer State Centrifugal Centripetal City-state Cold War Colonialism Culture Decolonization Devolution Domino Theory Empire Enclave/Exclave Ethnicity European Union Federal State Forward Capital Frontier Genocide Geopolitics Gerrymander Heartland/rimland Imperialism International Organization Iron Curtain Irredentism Landlocked Law of the Sea Mackinder, Halford Microstate Ministate Nation Political Geography (continued) Nation-State Nationalism NATO Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Shatter belt Supranational Sovereignty State Stateless nation Territorial Morphology (compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt, perforated) Unitary State Supranational Institutions European Union (EU) International Criminal Court (ICC) International Monetary Fund (IMF) NorthAmericanFreeTradeAgreement (NAFTA) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) United Nations World Bank World Trade Organization (WTO) 3

4 Agricultural Geography Agribusiness Agriculture Carbon Footprint ConAgra Climate Commercial Agriculture (intensive, extensive) Desertification Extensive subsistence agriculture (shifting cultivation [slash-and- burn, milpa, swidden], nomadic herding/ pastoralism) First agricultural revolution Frankenfood Genetic Modification (GM) Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Global Warming Green Revolution Horticulture Hunting and Gathering Intensive Subsistence agriculture Milkshed Monsanto Micro Loans Organic Oxfam Pastoral Nomadism Second agricultural revolution Slash and Burn Agriculture - Shifting cultivation Slow Food Shifting cultivation - Slash & Burn Swidden Subsistence Sustainable Agriculture Third agricultural revolution (mechanization, chemical farming, food manufacturing) Von Thunen s Model Migration Chain Migration Cyclic Movement Distance Decay Emigration Ethnic Enclaves Forced Migration Green Card Guest Worker Internal Migration Intervening Obstacles Immigration Migration patterns Intercontinental Interregional Rural-urban Push/Pull factors Refugee Remittance UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for refugees Visa U.S. Visa - HB1/HB2 (A&B) 4

5 Urban Geography Agglomeration Annexation Bid Rent Block busting Burgess, Ernest - Concentric Zone Model Central Business District (CBD) Central Place Central Place Theory Christaller, Walter Colonial City Concentric Zone Model (Burgess Model) Edge City Exurb Favela Functional Specialization Gateway Cities Gateway city Ghetto Generica Gentrification Gravity Model Hinterland Homogenous Infill Invasion and Succession Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) Megacity Megalopolis Megapolitans Multiple Nuclei Model Nerdistans Polycentric Metropolis Primacy - Primate Cities Redlining Rank-Size Rule Sector Model (Homer Hoyt - Hoyt Model) Segregation Shanty Town Slum Smart Growth Sprawl Squatter Settlements Street pattern (grid, dendriti) Suburbanization Sustainable Urban Geography (continued) Threshold/Range Urban Renewal World City Urban Renewal World City Urban City Models Concentric Zone Model - Burgess Model Multiple Nuclei Sector Model - Hoyt Model Human Geography Laws & Models Political The Core Periphery Model Domino Theory MacKinder s Heartland/Rimland Theory Wallerstein s World Systems Theory Economic Rostow s Model Modernization Theory Dependency Theory Weber Model of Industrial Location - least cost theory Population Demographic Transition Model Epidemiolgic Transition Model Malthus, Thomas - Principles of population growth Agricultural Von Thunens Model Migration Migration Transition Ravenstein s Laws of Migrations Urban Gravity Model Concentric Zone Model - Burgess Model Sector Model - Hoyt s Model Multiple Nuclei Model Central Place Theory - Christaller s Model Urban Renewal 5

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