Section Three - On Campus Test Three
Key Concepts - Introduction to Geography Textbook
Most of these terms are listed at the end of its respective chapter with a page number, all are in the textbook.
Be sure to read the summary at the end of each chapter, you will find it helpful.
You will find the glossary and the index very helpful, as well.
Chapter Nine: Political Geography
antecedent boundary: examples
*centrifugal force
*centripetal force
colony
Common Market
devolution
domino theory
enclave
*ethnic cleansing
European Union (EU)
*gerrymandering
irredentism
multinational state
nation
nationalism
*nation-state
natural (physical) boundary
North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO)
redistricting
relic boundary
self-determination
separatism
sovereignty
state
stateless nation
*superimposed boundary:
territorial dispute
United Nations
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: four zones
zoning
Chapter Ten: Economic Geography
comparative advantage
intensive vs. extensive
extensive commercial agriculture
extensive subsistence agriculture
Green Revolution
high-tech and US corridors: Orlando, Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Austin, Silicon Valley, Boston, etc.
hunting and gathering
*infrastructure
intensive commercial agriculture
intensive subsistence agriculture
maximum sustainable yield
nomadic herding
place utility
*planned economy
plantation: what is their market orientation
primary activity
quaternary activity
quinary activity
secondary activity
tertiary activity
shifting cultivation, slash-and-burn, swidden
subsistence economy
substitution principle
*transnational corporation (TNC)
von Thünen rings
Discussion Topics
1. The distinctive differences between subsistence and commercial economies.
2. Secondary industry decline and growing high-tech corridors and concentrations.
3. The characteristics of primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities.
Chapter Eleven: An Urban World
megalopolis
central business district (CBD)
primate city, world city
What's wrong with the suburbs***? (fueluse, infrastructure needs, cultural opportunity, commute times)
***sustainable communities NOT!
suburb, suburbanization
central place theory
economic base
ethnicity
*gentrification
*greenbelt
basic (economic) sector: What happened at Seaside?
Metropolitan Statistical Area
multiplier effect
service sector
What are Seaside's successes and failures as a new town?
what about pedestrian scale, sense of place, community spaces, social interaction
*urban flight: How has suburbanization affected central cities?
Discussion Topics
1. Distinguish urban from nonurban settlement.
2. Economic base theory and the multiplier effect.
3. Third World cities now contain some one billion inhabitants and are projected to quadruple
in population by A.D. 2025-2030. Discuss the upsurge in Third World urban populations
and the problems and land use patterns that explosive growth entails.
4. (Lecture Class)What urban ideals were considered in the planning of Seaside, Florida?
Chapter Twelve: Human Impact on the Environement
ecology
biosphere
troposphere
hydrologic cycle
ecosystem, nich, food chain
*exotic species impact of
environmental pollution,
*biological magnification
*food chain; fig 5.29 which level of the is most affected by pollution?
channelization
salinization
soil erosion
subsidence causes and effects
*desertification & the Sahel
water pollution sources
*eutrophication: runoff and algal blooms
thermal pollutionWhat is a typical location for this?
global warming
greenhouse effect: Is this a new phenomenon?
acid rainDoes acid rain affect industrial areas mostly?
CFCs What's the problem and what has been done?
Distinguish between ozone pollution & ozone layerWhere does each occur?
what appears to be happening to the ozone layer?
photochemical smog
PCBs
Hazardous waste: how it is defined by the U.S. government?
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