Chapter 1
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Physiological density
- The number of people per unit of area suitable for agriculter.
- Density
- Frequency with which something occurs in space.
- Expansion is the result of three possible processes
- Hierarchical Diffusion, Contagious Diffusion an Stimulus Diffision
- Distribution
- arrangment of feature in space
- Uneven development
- The increasing of gaps in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery.
- Pattern
- Geometric arrangment of objjects in space
- Agricultral density
- The number of farmers per unit of area of farmland
- Expansion Diffuison
- The spread of features from one place to another in a snowballing process.
- Transnational Corporation
- conducts reseach, operates facotires and sell products in many countries
- Properies of Distribution
- Density, Concentraion, patterns
- Diffusion
- Is the process by which a characterictic spreads
- Immanual Kant
- German Philosher, who compared geography's concern for space to history's concern for time.
- Distance Decay
- The farthest away one group is from another, less likely to interact.
- Hearth
- The place from which an innoviation originates.
- Globalization
- The scale of the world is shrinking - not relative size
- Patterns vary according to
- gender and ethnicity
- Space-time Compression
- Describes the relocation in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
- People migrate for
- A variety of political, economic and environmental reasons.