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Name a country involved in Slash and Burn Agriculture

Any country in a rainforest region

What is terracing?

Farming on plots of land built into hillsides

Define Arable

Land suitable for farming

What is an Entrepot? Give an example of a state that is

also an Entrepot.

A port where merchandise can be imported and then exported

without paying import duties; Bahrain, Singapore

Define Footloose industry

An industry that is not tied to any particular location or country,

and can relocate across national borders in response to changing

economic conditions. Many manufacturing industries seem to

have this characteristic.

Give an example of a footloose industry

Computer chips, diamonds

Which is NOT an example of a Supranational organization?

NAFTAColorado River Authority

European UnionOAS

CRA

List the 4 economic activities by their geographic terms

PrimarySecondary

TertiaryQuaternary

What theory is the term NODE associated with?

Central Place Theory

What type of country has this age/sex diagram shape?

Developing

What sort of issues does a country with this age/sex diagram face?

Zero Population Growth will affect the tax base, dependency ratio, and

amount of available workers

What theory did Alfred Mahan develop related to political

geography?

Sea Power Theory – Control the sea, control the world

+ maritime boundary = 12 nautical miles from land

What was Malthus’ population theory?

Population will outrun the food supply and we will all starve.

(Did not take new technologies into account…)

What is Boserup’s population theory?

Larger populations will stimulate economic growth/ farming

production will increase to meet population needs.

Who came up with the Laws of Migration?

RavensteinRavens fly/migrate

What is the Green Revolution? Who created it?

Bio-Engineering of plants to produce higher yields.

Norman Borlaug – Aggie, Nobel Prize Winner, Congressional Medal

of Honor, Aggie….

Who said the world is a system?

Wallerstein

What are Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth?

1.TRADITIONAL SOCIETY

2.PRECONDITIONS FOR TAKEOFF

3.TAKE OFF

4.DRIVE TO MATURITY

5.HIGH MASS CONSUMPTION

Who created the Concentric Zone Model?

Burgess

Who does the Multiple Nuclei model?

Harris and Ullman

Multiple ppl/Multiple Nuclei

Who is the Sector model guy?

Hoyt

What does Muller say is the key factor in the success of population

clusters (cities)

geo graphic mobility is crucial to the successful functioning of any

population cluster

What US city is the main urban model when studying urbanization

Chicago

What theory did Carl Sauer come up with regarding humans and the

environment?

Possibilism > humans can change their environmental conditions.