Vocabulary Review Assignment

Vocabulary Review Assignment

Functional Region (Nodal Region)

An area organized around a node or focal point and are defined by an activity that occurs across the region. Ex: Pizza delivery areas - the pizza shop is the node.

Perceptual Region (Vernacular)

An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

Peters Projection

Focuses on keeping landmasses equal in area. As a result, the shapes are distorted, and the map looks unfamiliar to viewers.

Possibilism

A view that acknowledges limits on the effect of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays.

Robinson Projection

Projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors. It does not maintain completely accurate area, shape, distance, or direction, but it minimizes errors in each.

Robinson Projection

Projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors. It does not maintain completely accurate area, shape, distance, or direction, but it minimizes errors in each.

Arithmetic density

The total number of people divided by the total land area

Dependency ratio

The number of people under 15 and over 64 compared to the number of people in the workforce

Ecumene

The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement

Sustainability

The level of development that can be maintained without depleting resources

Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)

An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in food production, which would lead to widespread famine and disease

Brain Drain

Large-scale emigration by talented, educated people

Distance decay function

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

Gravity model

A mathematical formula that describes the level of interaction between two places, based on the size of their populations and their distance from each other

Intervening obstacle

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Migration selectivity

Only people exhibiting certain characteristics in a population choosing to migrate

Net migration

The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

Urbanization

An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements

Suburbanization

The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe

Counterurbanization

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries