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| Most populated countries in the world |
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1. China – 1, 304 million
2. India – 1, 104 million
3. USA – 296 million
4. Indonesia – 222 million
5. Brazil – 184 million
6. Pakistan – 162 million |
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| the 60% of land that is uninhabited |
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| land you can grow crops on, good soil, productive farmland, relatively flat as to be found in valleys |
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number of lifetime live births per woman – influenced by:
1. nutrition and medical technology.
2. Social and cultural customs and practices – what is the appropriate # of children a woman should have? How old should she be to have children?
3. Govt policies – is contraception available or isn’t? |
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| live births per 1000 population per year |
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| the deaths per 1000 people |
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| deaths before one year of age per 1000 live births |
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| population (age-sex) pyramids |
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| i. Type of graph that breaks down the number of ppl in a population by their age and sex. |
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| forced <-> voluntary continuum |
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| some ppl have to move and some ppl can choose, some are in between. (involuntary – slaves, native Americans (trail of tears), etc. in between (looking for a job) |
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| (-) something bad about where you are that makes you leave |
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| (+)something positive about the place to which you move |
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| anticipated place utility |
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| it will be better in new location than current location |
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| getting goods or services from oneself/family/friends – typically without currency or great accumulation of excess |
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| commercial/market economy |
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| free price and production systems – guided by profit motive. |
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| govt influences or determines the basic geographic variables. |
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| a. Study of production, distribution, consumption of commodities (goods or services that have value) |
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| agriculture, gathering, extractive |
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| manufacturing, processing, construction, power production |
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| retail and wholesale, personal and public services, transportation and communication |
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| information, research, education, management |
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| executive decision making |
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| i. Refers to residences that are outside traditional urban and suburban areas, they’re in rural/wilderness areas |
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i. Traditional suburb is called a bedroom community
1. People built homes in the suburbs but left every morning to go into town to work, shop, etc. |
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| underdeveloped w/specialized economies, low productivity |
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a. What to grow where? Economic geographic model – costs of transporting agricultural products to the market, assuming that physical factors are common across the property.
b. Assumptions
i. Isolated state
ii. Isotropic plain
iii. One mode of transport
1. Cost of transport increases with distance
iv. Everybody is economically rational
c. Land rent varies with distance
d. Pattern of concentric rings
e. Pattern changes when assumptions relaxed |
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| small home based industry done by non specialists, typically part time labor |
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self regulating association of skilled craftpeople (men)
1. Manufacturing – hand made
2. Humans or animals provided the power |
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| diffusion of the industrial revolution |
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| starts in England. Early 1800s it gets to western Europe then USA. mid to late ninteenth century – japan, Russia, mid 20th century – Taiwan, korea, mexico |
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| weight of localized raw materials/ [divided by] weight of finished products |
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| is the point that minimizes the sum of distances to all the points. |
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| finding the best location for anything, Best = minimizing distance in some cases, |
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| carry out business in more than one country |
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competitors focus on revenue rather than cost, spatial variations in demand
i. Elastic – varies strongly with demand
ii. Inelastic – varies strongly with price |
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| world’s largest private industry, over 10% of the world’s economy |
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Medical care, productivity, consumption (calories, etc).
i. Material condition of inhabitants and the extent to which a region’s resources are brought into full productive use |
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| development is characterized by |
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a large amount of capital (wealth),
2. high production/consumption,
3. modernization and urbanization
4. particular social, cultural, political changes |
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| Gross National Income Per Capita, economic indicator of development |
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| demographic non economic indicator of development |
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| infant mortality, life expectancy, percent of adult literacy, nourishment |
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| social welfare non economic indicator of development |
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public assistance, medical availability, public water,
a. a combination of life expectancy, adult literacy, school enrolment and income |
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| dominated trade, controls technology |
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| i. An aggregated settlement of relatively high population size and density, that is internally structured (nucleated) and serves multiple functions for its own people and surrounding areas |
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| reasons why its likely that agriculture led to urbanization |
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1. Constant food supply
2. Control of water for irregation
3. Accumulation of material
4. stratification |
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| economically rational behavior by consumers – consumers go to the closest central place that has what they need |
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| Central Business District |
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| mobile ring, highest pop density – ring of max pop density around the central district (multistoried apartments, etc) |
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| Role of transit mid 19th, early 20th c |
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i. Transportation makes it so you don’t have to live so incredibly close to your job in a city
1. Can live outside of a city
2. Light rail – allows for early suburbanization
a. 1925 HL menkin described LA as 19 suburbs in search of a metropolis |
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i. Automobiles/ highways
ii. Flight of industry – to the periphery – further you can move away from the CBD the cheaper you pay per acre
iii. Reduction from work week
iv. Housing loans – low interest
v. Baby Boom
vi. Change in values and attitudes – where you live, what you do, what is the American dream? |
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| problems of surburbanization |
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1. deteriorization of the inner city
2. lack of support for mass transit
a. congestion, pollution, traffic
3. checkerboard dvlpment, lost of farmland |
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| back to center! desuburbanization |
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i. High rise and condominiums
ii. Raises real estate value
people wait longer to have families
gentrification |
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| Central Business District |
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