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Define Recourses:
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substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.”
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What are the two pressures on recources?
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Depletion and pollution
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What are the two types of recources?
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Renewable and non-renewable
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What was the shift of power in the IR?
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Animate to inanimate
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Define Urbanization:
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The process by which a city grows
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List the 2 elements of urbanization:
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Number of people living in a city and percentage of people living in a city
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What are some main indicators of development?
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Large % living in cities in MDC's, service oriented economy
Majority pop rural in LDC's |
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What is a megalopolis?
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Overlapping metropolitan areas
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Concentric Zone Model
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Explanation of distribution of different social groups
Cities grows outwards from a central area Central Business District (CBD) Expands like rings on a tree Rings differ slightly between cities, but pattern consistent A particularly North American model |
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Sector Model
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Wedge sections rather than rings around CBD
Wedges develop b/c environment, luck Expand by extension of wedges outwards |
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Multiple Nuclei Model
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City as complex structure
More than one center / node Airport, University, Neigbourhood Nodes attract different social groups / activities |
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GDP
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Total value of output of goods
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Human Development index
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The UN measures development by the :
GDP per capita Literacy and education Life expectancy |
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What are the two categories of human behavior?
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Culture and economy
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What are the 4 types of loctation?
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Toponym, site, situation,mathematical location
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What are Rubensteins 3 regions?
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Formal, functional and vernacular
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What is an ecumene?
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A portion of the earths surface permanently settles by humans
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What are the different types of density?
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Arithmetic density,physiological density and agricultural density
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What are Rubenstienes 2 types of boundaries?
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Physical and culutral
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Name the military mulit-state agreements:
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NATO, Warsaw pact
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Name the trade mulit-state agreements:
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MERCOSOR, EU, NAFTA
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Name the alliance mulit-state agreement
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League of Nations, UN
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Name a region where there exists territorial conflict:
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Israel/Palestine
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Name a region where there exists territorial conflict:
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Israel/Palestine
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Primary work:
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Agricultural
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Secondary:
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Factory work
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Tertiary:
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services
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What are 3 indicators of human development?
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Education and literacy, health and welfare, and gender equality
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MDC's are typically located in the global....?
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North
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LDC's are typically located in the global...?
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South
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India is an example of self sufficiency because...?
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They imposed many trade barries which included the requirement of a license, heavy taxes and no conversion of rupees to other money. This encouraged growth within india
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Rostow's model for international trade:
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traditional society, well educated leaders and infrastucture, modern technology, and the age of mass consumption
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Give an example of a country(s) that adopted the international trade alternative?
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Petroleum rich arabian peninsula
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What is the most common form of primary labor in the world?
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Farming/agriculture
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What are the two major types of farming?
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Subsistence ag.(farming to feed self), and commercial ag.( farming to sell and feed others.
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What are the tree hearths of seen ag?
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Western India, Northern China and Ethiopia
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What are the differences between the two types of ag?
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Purpose of farming
% farmers in labor force (~55% vs. ~5%) Use of machinery Farm size Relationship to other business |
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What is an economic geography
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a location relative to it's market
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Where did the industrial revolution start?
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northern england and southern Scotland.
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Define Gentricifation:
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Where middle class people move into a deteriorating urban area
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What 3 substances provide 5/6 of the worlds energy?
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Oil, natural gas and coal
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