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APHUG REVIEW TERMS

The document outlines key concepts across various units related to geography, population theories, cultural dynamics, political structures, agriculture, urban development, and economic systems. It covers topics such as migration types, cultural relativism, state definitions, agricultural revolutions, urban models, and trading blocs. Each unit presents fundamental theories and frameworks essential for understanding human geography and societal interactions.

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APHUG REVIEW TERMS

The document outlines key concepts across various units related to geography, population theories, cultural dynamics, political structures, agriculture, urban development, and economic systems. It covers topics such as migration types, cultural relativism, state definitions, agricultural revolutions, urban models, and trading blocs. Each unit presents fundamental theories and frameworks essential for understanding human geography and societal interactions.

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UNIT 1​

●​ Large scale maps - map of world, less detail


●​ Small scale maps - less of Earth, but more detail
●​ Distance decay - the further two places are, or the farther you get
from the origin point interaction decreases
UNIT 2
●​ Malthusian Theory
○​ Believed population would grow faster than food supply
●​ Neo-Malthusians are ppl who still believe he is right
●​ Step migration
○​ Occurs in stages
●​ Chain migration
○​ Immigrants travel along kinship links
●​ INTRAregional migration
○​ Permanent move within ONE region
●​ INTERregional migration
○​ Permanent move from one region to another region of a
country
UNIT 3
●​ Cultural relativism
○​ Viewing another person’s culture through their perspective
and trying to understand it
●​ Syncretism
○​ Blending of different religions and cultures to create a new
hybrid form
●​ Multiculturalism
○​ Multiple ethnic and cultural groups coexisting
●​ Universalizing religions
○​ Attempts to appeal to all people, seek to attract followers and
diffuse worldwide
■​ EX - Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam
●​ Ethnic religion
○​ Tied to a specific ethnic group
■​ Hinduism and Judaism
●​ Ethnic enclave
○​ High concentration of one specific ethnicity
UNIT 4
●​ State
○​ An entity with a permanent population, sovereignty over its
affairs, recognized by other states, defined boundaries
●​ Nation
○​ Made up of a group of ppl with shared history/cultural identity,
self determination
●​ Subsequent boundary
○​ Drawn to accommodate religious, ethnic, linguistic differences
●​ Consequent boundary
○​ Used to divide diff cultural groups
●​ Unitary state
○​ Power concentrated to national/central government
●​ Federal state
○​ Power shared between national and subnational/regional
governments
●​ Choke points
○​ Strategic narrow waterway between two larger bodies of water
■​ Suez Canal
●​ Shatterbelts
○​ Regions caught between external conflicts that cause the
location to suffer instability
●​ Irredentism
○​ When a country seeks to annex territory in another country bc
of ties to population
●​ Ethnonationalism
○​ belief that a nation is primarily defined by a shared ethnic
heritage, centrifugal force
●​ Imperialism
○​ Exerting control and influence over another country through
cultural, economic, social means
●​ Colonialism
○​ Dominating another country by establishing settlements in
their territory
●​ Fragmented
○​ Italy
●​ Compact
○​ Poland
●​ Prorupted
○​ Thailand
●​ Elongated
○​ Norway
●​ Perforated
○​ South Africa

UNIT 5
●​ Intensive Farming
○​ Uses lots of labor and resources
■​ Plantation, mixed crop/livestock, market
●​ First Agricultural Revolution
○​ Domestication of plants and animals
●​ Second Agricultural Revolution
○​ Happened alongside Industrial Revolution, mechanization of
farming, improved methods of cultivation, harvesting
●​ Green Revolution
○​ GMO’s, worked to dramatically increase food supply and
decrease famine specifically in developing countries, fertilizers,
high-yield seeds
●​ Desertification
○​ Lower land productivity caused by overfarming, climate change
and leads to lower biodiversity
●​ Metes and bounds
○​ Natural features mark irregular pieces of land
●​ French long lot
○​ Linear settlements along road or river
UNIT 6
●​ Hoyt sector model
○​ Follows TRNSP routes
●​ Galactic city model
○​ Large suburban area, edge cities, connected to city via
highway
●​ Smart growth
○​ preserve open space and farmland, reduce urban sprawl
●​ New urbanism
○​ Mixed use land, walkable neighborhoods,
●​ Urban sprawl
○​ Rapid expansion from urban areas to rural areas
●​ Disamenity zones
○​ Under drug/gang control
●​ Site
○​ Physical characteristics; landmarks and ppl
●​ Situation
○​ Location of settlement in relation to surrounding features
●​ Primary hearths of urbanization
○​ Mesopotamia, mesoamerica, indus river valley
●​ Central place theory
○​ Explains size and distribution of settlements
UNIT 7
●​ Trading blocs
○​ Group of countries agrees to lower trade barriers to increase
trade
●​ Neoliberalism
○​ Free trade, free markets, minimal gov intervention
●​ Growth poles
○​ Economic activities organized around high growth industries
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