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Question | Answer |
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Squatter settlement | an area within a city in a less developed county in which people illegally establish residencies on land they dont own or rent and erect homemade structures. |
Sustainable agriculure | farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution(rotating crops, reducing fertilizers) |
Extensive vs. intensive agriculture | intensive- depends on many laborers per use of land, much less advanced. extensive- more technology used, more crops, less labor. |
Chain migration | migrants move to where other migrants are. |
Distance Decay | the further and longer it has to go, the less likely to diffuse |
Forward capital | a symbollically relocated capital city |
gravity model | predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the are, and its convenience. |
carrying capacity | how well the environment can support them |
cartogram | a map in which some thematic mapping variable |
What does NAFTA stand for? | North American Free Trade Agreement |
morbidity | disease/disorder/illness |
OPEC | Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries- organiztion that protects the interests of oil producing countries |
Ecumene | proportion of earths surface occupied by permenant human settlement |
Cohort | a group for population group, unified by a specific characteric |
territoriality | when humans seek to control a portion of the earths surface |
complementarity | ability to produce goods in one area which are needed in another |
transhumance | ssensual migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures |
epidemiology | the study of patterns of health and illness and associated factors at the population level |
demography | the scientific study of population characteristics |
infrastructure | basic physical organizational structures needed for the operation of society |
population momentum | natural increase to the population |
irredentism | when you annex territory in another country(90% are your people so they belong in your country) |
remittance | money sent home to family by migrant |
spatial distribution | physical location of geographic phenomena across space |