| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Zelinsky | Who came up with the 15 Major Perceptual Regions?` |
| 15 Major Perceptual Regions | Includes South, Arcadia, Gulf, SOuthwest, West, Pacific, Northwest, Midwest, North, East Canada, Atlantica, North East, New England and East Mid Atlantic. |
| Malthusian Theory of Population | What theory did Thomas Malthus invent? |
| Malthusian Theory of Population | The world's population is increasing faster than the food supply needed to sustain it. |
| Demographic Transition Model | High Stationary Stage - high birth and death rate/ Early Expanding Stage - birth rate remains high, but mortality rate begins to decline/ Late Expanding Stage - birth rate begins to decline with the mortality rate but still a lot of growth/ Low Stationary Stage - a low # of births and deaths/ Early Declining Stage(?) - birth rate still declines while mortality rate increases. |
| Ravenstein's Laws of Migration | What set of laws did Ravenstein come up with? |
| Ravenstein's Laws of Migration | 1. Net migration amounts to a fraction of gross migration/ 2. Majority of migrants move a short distance/ 3. Long distance migrants move to large cities/ 4. Urban residents are less migratory than rural/ 5. Families are less likely to move internationally than young adults. |
| Conquest Theory | Speakers of early Proto-Indo European spread westward on horseback from north of the Black Sea overpowering weaker inhabitants. |
| Agricultural Theory | Farming peoples of Anatolia (Present Turkey) moved slowly westward and north into Europe mixing with non-farmers, diluting genetic identity. |
| Genetic Boundary Classification | What classification did Hartshorne come up with? |
| Genetic Boundary Classification | Reasoned certain boundaries were defined before political delimitation today. |
| Mahan | Who came up with the Sea Power Doctrine? |
| Sea Power Doctrine | Control over the seas led to increased power. |
| Ratzel | Who invented the Organic Theory? |
| Organic Theory | A state resembles a living organism; it recieves nourishment by taking advantage of less powerful competitors; space is a life giving force. |
| Mackinder | Who came up with the Heartland Theory? |
| Heartland Theory | Land based power would rule not sea power; Eastern Europe (Eurasia) was the largest most populated land mass. Whoever controls Eurasia controls the world. |
| Spykman | Who came up with the Rimland Theory? |
| Rimland Theory | He who controls the rim around Eurasia controls the world. |
| Multipolar World Theory | There are 4 or 5 major world super powers controlling influence and economy. They are the US, China, Europe and Russia. |
| Wallenstein | Who invented the World Systems Theory? |
| World Systems Theory | The world is broken into cores, semi-peripheries and peripheries. |
| Containment Theory | The US theory that stated, if Communism in Asia could be contained in the area the system would eventually die out. |
| Dominoe Theory | The US theory that stated, if one country in SE Asia would fall to Communism then they all would. |
| 11 Hearths | Carl Saur came up with what? |
| 11 Hearths | There are 11 hearths that diffused agricultural innovations. |
| Spencer and Thomas | Who came up with the Spencer/Thomas Theory? |
| Spencer/Thomas Theory | There are six primary zones of agricultural domestication and 5 secondary zones of related species. |
| Von Thunen's Spatial Model of Farming | What model did Thunen come up with? |
| Von Thunen's Spatial Model of Farming | Each town or market center is surrounded by rings of commodities of crops. 1. Central Market/2. Market Gardening and Dairying/3. Forest/4. Increasingly extensive feild crops, grains/5. Ranching, livestock. |
| Structuralist Model | Veiws disparities as features in the global economy which are not easily changed. People who believe this model think that poorer countries will have a difficult time improving their situation due to the structured global economy's concentration of wealth and unequal relations in some places. |
| Liberal Model | Assomes all countries are at the same stage of development and any economic differences must be from short term inefficiencies in the local or regional market. |
| Rostow | Who came up with the Modernization Model? |
| Modernization Model | Each country goes through five stages of development. 1.Traditional-subsistence farming, resistence to technological change / 2.Preconditions of Takeoff - production increase, desire to raise standard of living/ 3.Takeoff - industrial revolution, urbanization increases, technology and mass/ 4.Drive to Maturity - technologies diffuse, industrial specialization, international trade expands, modernization in core area, population growth reduced/ 5.Total Maturity - high mass consumption, high incomes, production of goods and service, majority of workers enter the service industry. |
| Dependency Theory | Political and economic relationships between countries and regions of the world control and limit the economic development possibilities of well off areas. |
| Weber | Who came up with the Least Cost Theory? |
| Least Cost Theory | 1.Choose a site with the lowest cost of transporting materials to the factory/ 2. The cheaper the labor the better/ 3. Agglomeration - a # of enterproses organize in large cities because of lower costs. |
| Christaller | Who came up with the Central Place Theory? |
| Central Place Theory | The model shows how and where central places in the urban hierarchy would be spatial and functionally distributed. |
| Concentric Zone Model | What model did Burguess come up with? |
| Concentric Zone Model | 1.Central Business District/ 2.Wholesale and Light Manufacturing/ 3.Low-Class Residential/ 4. Medium-Class Residential/ 5. High-Class Residential. |
| Sector Model | What model did Hoyt come up with? |
| Sector Model | Industrial location and low income housing will be located along transportation lines. Industry will feed into the core business district with middle and high rent residential areas opposite the industrial location. |
| Multiple Nuclei Theory | What Theory did Harris and Ullman invent? |
| Multiple Nuclei Theory | Central business district is losing centrla dominance in urban areas and competing with other "nuclei". |
| Urban Realm Model | Creates super cities of multiple urban areas connected by freeways. |
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