Human Geography Models and Key Concepts for Chapters 1-13 Study Guide for May AP College Board Exam

1. Brandt Line

Brandt Line: Named after Willy Brandt, a chancellor of West Germany before the wall came down in 1989 that eventually united Germany. The line separates the Northern from the Southern Hemispheres (exception is Oceania). North of the line are More Developed Countries that benefit from wealth in terms of economic, social, and political stability. The southern hemisphere suffers from economic, social, and political instability or termed as Less Developed Countries.

2. Demographic Transition Model

Stage One: Pre-agricultural societies engaged in subsistence farming and transhumance, the seasonal migration for food and resources or owning livestock. Birth rates and death rates fluctuate due climate, warfare, disease, and environmental factors. There is little population growth. The NIR is generally low because of disease epidemics. Birth rates are high because children were an expression of a family's productivity and status and they were invaluable for helping with the work of gathering, herding, etc. Child mortality and infant mortality are very high due to lack of medical knowledge. Families were lucky if one or two children would make it to adulthood. Death rates are high. Overall population has a very low life expectancy. Limited medicine, sanitation, nutrition, hazards such as famine and war, all caused people to die easily. Hard physical labor and long migrations wore down the bodies and decreased life span.Stage Two: Stage 2 countries are agricultural-based economies. Birth rates remain high while death rates decline over time. The NIR goes up significantly as birth rates and death rates diverge. As a country advances, population growth explodes. Rapid population growth has been a concern when looking at the quality of life in LDCs. Life is better due to the Industrial Revolution first and the medical revolution second. MDCs like Europe, USA, and Canada experienced the Industrial Revolution first. Then the Medical Revolution came 2nd. LDCs did not move into Stage 2 until MDCs brought medical inventions and medicine to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Once LDCs received medical help, they could start surviving. Then the Industrial Revolution inventions began to spread to LDCs. Death rates began to plunge during Stage 2 due to the Industrial Revolution and medical revolution. During Stage 2, international migration resulted. Urbanization and shift from rural to urban centers for work also increased. Manufacturing is apparent and there is a focus away from agriculture toward the end of Stage 2. Between Stage 2 and 3, is where birth and death rates are furthest apart, resulting in high NIR.

Stage 3: Stage 3 is where most "industrialized" or manufacturing-based countries were found in the transition. MDCs of Europe and USA shifted their economies to more service-based focus. Birth rates continue to decrease as the effects of urbanization (less space, time, and need factors). Increases in health care, education, and female employment bring about less fertility per woman. Women have a choice and contraceptives are more available. Women's education and employment also results in

few children due to time constraints. Women are empowered to gain from their school and job experiences. There is access of health care, nutrition, sanitation, and education so life expectancy is greater. Also, death rates eventually bottom out. Everyone is going to die eventually. Life expectancies can go up even further in stage four, but the death rate stays the same. There is no way to stop people from dying.Stage 4: Birth and death rages converge and there is a limited population growth -- even a decline. Tertiary service industries like finance, insurance, real estate, health care, and communications are what grow the economy. Manufacturing is dying. Women are not having as many babies -- zero population growth. When birth rates reach the same level of death rates, this is zero population growth. NIR equal 0.0 percent. Birth rates can decline and even be lower than death rates. This results in a negative NIR and a shrinking population. USA services are 80% of the GDP, and manufacturing is only 17% in Stage 4. USA is not ZPG due to the USA being a desirable place for immigration. In Western Europe and Anglo-North America, there is a large, over 65 dependency rate.

New term to remember: demographic momentum: the term that describes the concept that population will continue to grow even after fertility rates decline.

3. Epidemiological Transition Model

Stage 1: Plagues, pestilence, famine, Black PlagueStage 2: Receding Pandemics (disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population) due to Industrial Revolution (improved sanitation, nutrition, medicine) - Cholera and Dr. John SnowStage 3: Stage of degenerative and human created diseases (heart attacks, cancer, cardiovascular)Stage 4: Delayed degenerative diseases due to operations, medicine, reduce tobacco and alcohol, better info, more education multi-media, exerciseStage 5: Reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases. Evolution of microbes that cannot be destroyed by medicine. Poverty causes infectious diseases. Improved travel spreads microbes all over the world. AIDS. Societies could revert back to Stage 1.

4. Heartland-Rimland Theory

Heartland-Rimland Theory: In 1904 British geographer Halford Mackinder proposed what would become the theory above. Mackinder's model was an effort to define the global geo-political landscape and determine areas of potential future conflict. He identified that agricultural land was the primary commodity that states were interested in. Several states with limited land area wanted to expand their territory. However, they also noted each other's European farming areas. The largest of these was the Eastern Europe steppe, a productive area of grain mostly controlled by the Russian Empire at the time. This combined with the mineral and timber-rich region across the Urals into Siberia, was named by Mackinder as the valuable heartland. It was this portion of the earth's surface that bordering Rimland states such as the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Romania were potential invaders of. The Rimland also contained other landwolves eager to grab at neighboring territory such as France and Italy. This is the main geo-political model in the AP course that covers the two world wars and the Cold War.

5. Shatterbelt Theory: In 1950 American geographer Saul Cohen proposed the above theory. He modified Mackinder's who died in 1947. He modified Mackinder's into the “Pivot Area" and Rimland into the "Inner Crescent." The rest of the world became the "outer Crescent," including the USA. His land-based concept was the Cold War conflicts would likely occur within the Inner Crescent. He pointed out several Inner Crescent Areas of geopolitical weakness that he called Shatterbelts. He accurately identified numerous areas where wars emerged from 1950 and the end of the Cold War in 1991: North and South Korea, Palestinians versus Jews in Israel, North and South Vietnam, Balkan Wars. Also can refer to present-day “troubled spots” of the world: Syria, Somalia, North Korea, Israel, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, etc.

6. Containment Theory : U.S. diplomat George Kennan first proposed the strategic policy of containment to the American government in 1947. In this proposal, the USA and its allies would attempt to build a containment wall around the core Communists states. Any time the USSR or China attempted to expand the realm of influence politically or militarily, the forces of NATO and other democratic state allies should be deployed to stop them.

7. Thomas Malthus Theory

Malthus claimed that the population was growing much more rapidly than Earth's food supply because population increased geometrically, whereas food supply increased arithmetically. National Increase Rate (NIR) declines for 2 reasons: lower birth rates 2. higher death rates. Only hope is to reduce birth rates. OPPOSITE: Ester Boserup: A Danish agriculturist, she provided a hopeful alternative to Malthus. Should population growth out number food supply, humans must upgrade the

productivity of the food supply. This is done by human ingenuity and technology. Humans will find ways to provide enough food to handle the population growth. Innovations in soil production, cultivation, and technological advances to enhance food production will save human lives.

8. Nomadic Warrior Theory by Marija Gimbutas - Kurgan People from steppes near the border between present-day Russia and Kazakhstan spread Indo-European

Language -- origin. Spread the language with horses.

New term to remember: consequent: cultural defined political boundaries such as those determined by the spatial patterns of religion or language.

9. Sedentary Farmer Theory by Colin Renfrew - Origin and Diffusion of Indo-European Language by Farmers who may have originated 2,000 years in Turkey/Anatolia before Kurgans.

10. Gravity Model of MigrationWhen applied to migration, larger places attract more emigrants than do smaller places. Additionally, destinations that are more distance have a weaker pull (distance decay) than do closer opportunities of the same caliber.

11. Gravity Model of PopulationThe gravity model takes into account the population size of two places and their distance. Since larger places attract people, ideas, and products more than smaller places and places closer together have a greater attraction, the gravity model

incorporates these 2 features.

12. Zelinsky's Migration Transition ModelStage One: Hunters and gatherers move from one place to another for survival. High CBR and CDR and low NIR. Search for local food rather than permanent migration to a new place.

Stage Two: High NIR because of rapidly declining CDR. Point when international migration becomes especially important. Interregional migration from one's country's rural areas to its cities. Improvement in agricultural practices reduces the number of people needed in rural areas, and jobs in factories attract migrants to the cities in another region of the same country or in another country.Stage Three and Stage Four: Internal migration is more important. Moderating NIR because of rapidly declining CBR. The principal destinations of the international migrants leaving the stage 2 countries in search of economic opportunities. The principal form of internal migration within countries in stages 3 and 3 is intraregional, from cities to surrounding suburbs.

13. Lee's Push and Pull Model

Push Factors Pull Factors*Political (wars, persecution) *Political (lure of freedom, democracy)*Economic (lack of jobs) *Economic (perceived opportunities for jobs)*Physical (flooding, drought, *Physical (lure of attractive climate, land natural disasters) form regions)

14. Language Families

Language: A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.Language Family: A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.Language Branch: A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that branches derived from the same family.Language Group: A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.English: Language family is Indo-European; Language branches: West Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian. Language Group: West Germanic: German, English, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Afrikaans, Danish. Romance : Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, Venetian, Haitian Creole, Catalan, Sicicilian, Neapolitan. Balto-Slavic: Belarusan, Russian, Czech, Polish, Slovak Slavic, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, Czech. Indo-Iranian: Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Sinhalis, Nepali, Kurdish, Farsi, Bengali, Punjabi, Balochi, KashmiriIndo-European language family includes major languages of Europe and those dominant in Russia, Northern India, Iran, and Eastern and Southern Australia.

15. Universalizing Religions (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism) vs. Ethnic Religions (Hindu, Judaism)

16. D.W. Meinig's Core Domain Sphere Model

17. World's Dependencies: not a separate country but depends on an MDC to protect and trade with it. These are mostly islands, Most are relatively isolated. Most have extremely small populations. Most are remnants of empires. Examples: Dependencies and Territories of the World

The modern political world includes (58) territories and/or dependencies. All are listed in alphabetical order with capital city and country of dependency reference.

DEPENDENCY / CAPITAL CITY / CLAIMED BY

(A) American Samoa (Pago Pago) usa Anguilla (The Valley) britishAruba (Oranjestad) netherlandsAshmore & Cartier Islands (na) australian

(B) Baker & Howland Islands (na) usa Bermuda (Hamilton) british Bouvet Island (na) norwegian British Indian Ocean Territory (Diego Garcia) british British Virgin Is (Road Town) british

(C) Cayman Islands (George Town) british Christmas Island (Flying Fish Cove) australian Cocos Islands (West Island) australian Cook Islands (Avarua) new zealand Coral Sea Islands (na) australian

(F) Faeroe Islands (Torshavn) denmark Falkland Islands (Stanley) british French Guiana (Cayenne) frenchFrench Polynesia (Papeete) french

(G) Gibraltar (Gibraltar) british Greenland (Nuuk) denmark Guadeloupe (Basse-Terre) french Guam (Agana) usa Guernsey (St. Peter Port) british

(I) Isle of Man (Douglas) british

(J) Jan Mayen (na) norwegian Jarvis Island (na) usa Jersey (St. Helier) british Johnston Atoll (na) usa

(K) Kingman Reef (na) usa

(M) Macao (Macao) now controlled by china Martinique (Fort-de-France) french Mayotte (Mamoudzou) french Midway Islands (na) usa Montserrat (Plymouth) british

(N) Navassa Island (na) usa Netherland Antilles (Willemstad) netherlands New Caledonia (Noumea) french Niue (Alofi) new zealand Norfolk Island (Kingston) australian Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan) usa

(P) Palmyra Atoll (na) usa Paracel Islands (Woody Island) disputed by china, taiwan and vietnam Puerto Rico (San Juan) usa Peter Island (na) norwegian

(R) Reunion (Saint-Denis) french

(S) St. Helena & DependenciesSt. Pierre & Miquelon (South Georgia & South Sandwich Islandsbritish Spratly Islands (na) disputed by china, vietnam, malaysia, and more Svalbard (Longyearbyen

(T) Tokelau (na) new zealand Turks & Caicos Islands (

(V) Virgin Islands (Charlotte Amalie

(W) Wake Island (na) usa Wallis & Futuna (Mata Uta

Source: worldatlas.com

Countries of the world

(H) Heard & MacDonald Islands (na) australian Hong Kong (na) now controlled by China

Pitcairn Islands (Adamstown) british

18. Global Positioning System versus Geographic Information

System

19. New concept: Forward capital: Forward capital: a symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons; sometimes used to integrate outlying parts of a country into the state (e.g., from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília, New York to Washington D.C.).

20. Robinson Projection: useful for displaying information across the oceans. Due to allocating space to the oceans, the land areas are much smaller.

21. Mercator projection; shape is distorted very little, direction is consistent, and the map is rectangular. Its greatest disadvantage is that area is grossly distorted toward the poles, making high latitude places look much larger than they actually are.

22. E.G. Ravenstein’s Laws of Migrationa. The majority of migrants travel short distancesb. Migrants who are traveling a long way tend to move to larger cities than smaller

cities.c. Rural residents are more likely to migrate than are urban residents.d. Every migration stream creates a counterstream. Therefore, net migration is the

number of people in the original flow minus the number of people in the opposite flow (or counterstream).

e. Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults.

23. Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces

What is a centripetal force? A centripetal force is a force or attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state (p.239). They provide stability, strengthen the state, help bind people together, and create solidarity.

There are several examples of what a centripetal force in a state can be. Religion is a centripetal force in many states. For example, Hinduism in Nepal and India brings people together as they feel a sense of unity. Islam in Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as Buddhism in Bhutan, is another example of religion as a centripetal force.

The term centripetal force comes from the Latin words centrum, meaning "center", and petere, meaning "tend towards" or "aim at". They are forces that unite and bind a country together - such as a strong national culture, shared ideological objectives, and a common faith.

Examples:

Cultural homogeneity, national culture:

France used to be a classic case of this, but immigration over the last 3 decades has changed this formerly white, Roman catholic, Francophone country, and produced serious centrifugal forces

A strong commitment to building a new nation; nationalism:

Israel in 1948 - people with very different backgrounds, but desiring to create the state of Israel; helped by a common religion, and war

One religion can be an extremely strong centripetal force:

Roman Catholicism (in Italy, in Mexico, in Brazil, in the Republic of Ireland) Hinduism in India Judaism in Israel Islam in several countries

One language is another strong unifier, since it is through language that culture is transmitted and acquired:

Israel - the modern Hebrew language was created to unify people from many different countries who came to live in the new Jewish homeland USA - immigrants through the 19th century learned American English Indonesia - created a national language, Bahasa Indonesia, to unify a tremendously fragmented country

A powerful external threat can unite citizens:

USA since 9.11.2001 USA during the Cold War - fear of Communism USSR during the Cold War - fear of "Capitalists" Citizens of the American Colonies united in opposition to British control in 18th century

A “charismatic” leader: Yugoslavia - Tito India - Mohandas Gandhi> Nehru> Indira Gandhi> Rajiv Gandhi; in combination with nationalism Germany 1930s - Adolf Hitler

Infrastructure: The transportation system in the US unites the people. The railroads in India unite the people.

Physical Geography: Pakistan is a good example for demonstrating how physical geography is a centripetal force. Pakistan as a river valley is isolated by mountains and deserts. These geographic features act as barriers that keep the people of Pakistan inside.

LanguageLanguage acts as a specific centripetal force because it unites people through a common form of communication. English in the U.S, Hindi in India, Bengali in Bangladesh, and Punjabi in Pakistan, eliminate miscommunication.

Transportation and Communication

When there is good transportation in a state, there is easy access to all that is in the state. This makes life easier for people and helps reduce problems that would harm an easy-flowing society. Public transportation in the U.S and railroads in India are examples of this. Communication helps keep everyone in touch when it comes to important decision making. Having a good transportation/communication system helps to create a more dependable infrastructure for a country.

Nationalism

Loyalty and devotion to a nationality helps to emphasize the common culture in a state through things such as mass media. It also promotes government, beliefs, and symbols (i.e. flags & songs). Communism once used symbols like the hammer and sickle to unite the people. The U.S has the national anthem, sung in schools and public events, to unite the state.

Compact State

A compact state’s distance from the center to any boundary doesn’t vary greatly when it is a compact state. This makes internal communication easy in states such as Burundi, Rwanda and Poland; therefore it strengthens a country’s infrastructure. Compact shapes are beneficial to smaller states since it helps establish good communication in all regions.

What is a centrifugal force?

A centrifugal force is the exact opposite of a centripetal force. It is a force or attitude that tends to divide a state. Centrifugal forces lead to Balkanization (the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among ethnicities—as threat to world peace, not just in a small area), as happened in the Balkans during WWI. Centrifugal forces are closely related not only to Balkanization, but also to devolution, which is also the breaking apart of a state. Centrifugal forces destabilize and weaken a state by disrupting the internal order of the state.

Just as centripetal forces were in abundance, centrifugal forces are as well. Many examples of centripetal forces can also apply to centrifugal forces because they are in different context within varying states. For example, the religion of Hinduism in India acts as a centripetal force, but in Pakistan it is a different situation. Religious Muslims groups of Shiite and Sunni, act as a centrifugal force because they fight amongst each other and break apart the state rather than unify it. Other examples of religion as a centrifugal force in a state include Islam and Hindu in India and Bangladesh, Buddhist and Hindu in Sri Lanka, Islam and Hindu in Kashmir, and Jains and Hindu in India.

The term centrifugal force comes from the Latin words centrum, meaning "center"’ and fugere, meaning "to flee". They are forces that divide a country - such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic or ideological differences.

Examples

Different religious beliefs can be the dominant centrifugal force in a country:

Muslims and Hindus in India

Different languages can also be important causes of unrest :

Canada - Francophones, especially in Quebec, will not be satisfied till they have a totally independent country.

Cultural diversity - in some countries important differences in several aspects of culture create powerful divisions and centrifugal forces:

the former Yugoslavia - shattered into 5 separate countries and probably more to come typified diversity in culture, with Serbs, Croats, and Muslims the main groups Sri Lanka - Hindu Tamils wage terror against the Sinhalese Buddhists

Irredentism - an external country may seek to expand its territory by appealing to peoples of the same culture living as a minority in a nearby country:

Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Pushtun/ Pathan China and Xizang Tibet "Turkestan" - the Uzbeks Iran-the Azeri

Physical Geography: Just like physical features, such as mountains and rivers, can unify a country. They can also separate a country. Mountains divide communities in Nepal.

Language There are over 2,000 languages spoken in the African continent alone, with as many as 8,000 dialects. This acts as a centrifugal force because it creates a rupture in communication. Conflicts can easily begin due to a lack of communication.

Ethnic groups

There are at least 2 million ethnic and tribal groups in African States. Each group has differing sets of cultural styles of living and beliefs. Not having the same beliefs is a way to easily break up states. Conflicts begin and wars occur. This difference in lifestyles is a major step away from further developing a country, especially if they are in a stage 1 or stage 2 of the demographic transition.

Multinational State If a state has 2 or more ethnic groups that are aiming for self- determination, this can be considered a centrifugal force. States that want self-determination are not united and they wish to separate and form their own country. This is an exact model of a centrifugal force and its result can be seen in what was Yugoslavia. The conflicting

ethnic groups caused world wars and eventually broke up into several countries. Former Soviet Union is also an example of a multinational state that experienced the effects of centrifugal forces. It broke up into 15 independent countries

Physical Boundary

Physical boundaries, like mountains and bodies of water, cause an obvious split within states. Mountains in Nepal cause a separation among communities in the state. There is great difficulty in communicating and traveling between communities which further exemplifies the breaking apart of a state.

24. European Union

Member states of the European Union

An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and

increase cooperation among its members.

Category Sovereign states[1]

Location European Union

Created 1952/1958[2]

Number 28 (Croatia July 1, 2013)

Possible types Republics (21)

Monarchies (7)

Populations 502,064,211

European Union (EU): union of 28 democratic member states of Europe; began with the formation of Benelux by the end of WWII, then with the formation of the European Economic Community (EEC) years later. The EU's activities cover most areas of public policy, from economic policy to foreign affairs, defense, agriculture and trade. The European Union is the largest political and economic entity on the European continent, with over 500 million people and an estimated GDP of >US $20 trillion (2012).

25. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): a military alliance of western democracies begun in 1949 with 28 member states today in 2013; its members agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.

26. Balkanization and Devolution and Ethnic Cleansing.Balkanization: The political term used when referring to the fragmentation or breakup of a region or country into smaller regions or countries. The term comes from the Balkan wars, where the country of Yugoslavia was broken up in to six countries between 1989 and 1992.

Ethnic cleansing: Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. Example: Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Ethnicity: Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.

Devolution: process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government (e.g., Basque and Catalonia in Spain, Chechnya in Russia, …).

27. SupranationalismDefinition: Political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation among national states to promote shared objectives. Tendency for states to give up political power to higher authority in pursuit of common objectives (political, economic, Military, environmental). Venture involving multiple national states (two or more, many, several) with a common goal.

Examples: European Union, NAFTA, Warsaw Pact, League of Nations, United Nations, NATO, OPEC, etc.

Changes resulting from supranationalism in Europe Larger market (free trade, greater trade, reduced tariffs, greater economic

prosperity) Greater international influence (greater political/economic power, greater ability to

compete with economies of other countries) Open borders for labor and tourists Common currency Common policy (resources, agriculture, economic, environment, trade, military) OR

loss of control over individual policy Loss of identify (only with explanation in terms of political/economic situation) War is less likely

28. Von Thunen's Model of Agriculture

29. First World, Second World, Third World CONCEPTS

First world: the largely democratic and free-market states of the United States and Western Europe (Cold War to today)Second world: the communist and state-planned countries of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China (Cold War)Third world: the generally poorer countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Cold War to today)

30. Shapes of Countries AP Human GeographyTerritorial morphology: study of states’ shapes and their effects

-Compact: distance from geometric center is similar (e.g., Germany, Hungary,…)-Elongated: a.k.a. attenuated (e.g., Chile, Vietnam,…)-Fragmented: two or more separate pieces (e.g., Indonesia, Philippines,…)-Perforated: territory completely surrounds that of another state (e.g., Italy, Azerbaijan,… South Africa with Lesotho and Swaziland)-Prorupted: a.k.a. prorupt; have an area that extends from a more compact core (e.g, Thailand, India,…)-Bifurcated: has two distinct territories (e.g., Malaysia, Michigan, ...)

31. Types of Boundaries

-Geometric: straight-line, unrelated to physical or cultural landscape, lat & long (US/Canada)-Physical-political: (natural-political) – conform to physiologic features (Rio Grande: US/Mexico; Pyrenees: Spain/France)-Cultural- Hindu in India and Muslim in PakistanPolitical: mark breaks in the human landscape (Armenia/Turkey) (Palestine and Israel)

32. Types of States AP Human Geography Chp. 7 EthnicityEthnicity: identifies groups with distinct ancestry and cultural traditions such as African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Chinese Americans, or Polish Americans.Nationalism: loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.Nationality: identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.Multiethnic state: State that contains more than one ethnicity. USA is the best example.Multinational state: contains two ethnic groups or more with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nations. Russia is the largest. United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland, IrelandNation-state: state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. Denmark, Slovenia, GermanyNation: a group of people with a particular ethnicity but do not have their own official state. Sometimes they reside in several states/countries. Example: Kurds, Palestinians, American Indian tribes.

33. Concentric Model of Urban Development by Burgess

Ernest Burgess Represents the Anglo-American city of the USA and Canada during the height of

industrialization This is a theoretical model and no city is perfectly laid out in even rings. All cities have a CBD (central business district) CBD contains the highest density of commercial land use. Most expensive land is in the CBD. Buildings built vertically to maximize the use of one parcel of urban land. CBD is surrounded by an area of low-density commercial land that has factories,

warehouses, rail yards, and port facilities. In the era of deindustrialization, many American and Canadian cities have rebuilt

former industrial areas into festival landscapes: convention centers, outdoor concert venues: Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta

High-density housing surrounds both the CBD and industrial zones: poor tenements, public housing, small apartments, row houses. Some of these

Areas have been replaced or renovated through a process of gentrification.

34. Bid-Rent Curve

Space for downtown commercial rest estate is sold or leased by the square foot. By comparison, land in the suburbs is sold by the acre. Along the curve you could plot different land uses. Land for a suburban home or space for a suburban apartment building are not that much different in price. However, land for that apartment building and land for building downtown is vastly different in price.The bid-rent curve represents the cost-to-distance relationship of real estate prices in the urban landscape. The closer one moves toward the peak land or CBD, the more expensive the price for CBD land.35. Sector Model of Urban Development by Homer Hoyt

Homer Hoyt Concepts of the industrial corridor and neighborhood are combined for practical

purpose. Results in a more realistic representation compared to the concentric zone model. This model is also used to depict ethnic areas/variations in a city. CBD is at center. Outside of the CBD is the industrial space or corridor. There is a corridor of upper-class housing extending outward from the CBD. Middle class neighborhoods also radiate out from the CBD like a corridor/wedge.

36. Multiple Nuclei Model by Harris and Ullman

Harris and Ullman, authors The model attempts to practically represent the urban landscape with

neighborhoods and commercial corridors.

Instead of all commerce being focused on the center of the city as in the sector model, the term "multiple-nuclei" implies that there is more than one commercial center within the city landscape.

People with different social characteristics tend to live within an urban area. A city is a complex structure that includes more than one center around which

activities revolve or a node (like functional). Nodes include a port, neighborhood business center, university airport, and park.

What do the 3 models explain? If the 3 models are combined, they help geographers: help geographers explain where different types of people live in a city People tend to reside in certain locations depending on their particular personal

characteristics. Most people prefer to live near others who have similar characteristics One family owns its home and the other rents. The owner-occupant is much more

likely to live in an outer ring and the renter in an inner ring(concentric). If two families who own their homes, the family with the higher income will not live

in the same sector of the city as the family with the lower income (sector) People with the same ethnic or racial background are likely to live near each other

(multiple-nuclei)

37. Latin American City Model by Griffin and Ford

Ford and Griffin, authors - Applies to LDC cities of Latin America

Based on Law of the Indies (1500s) Spain required colonies in Latin America to build their cities to look like Madrid.

Wealthy people push out from the center in a well-defined elite residential sector. The elite sector forms on either side of a narrow spine. The narrow spine contains offices, shops, and services attractive to wealth people;

restaurants, theaters, parks, zoos. Middle class would be section 3. Sector 4: zone of in situ accretion: Europeans who married natives. Disamenity are sectors which are poor land area: city dump, hillside, rocky, flood

plain, etc. When rural poor would move to big LDC cities for jobs, they would arrive with no money and sleep on the streets or in abandoned buildings of the disamenity. Then they would begin looking for scavenged items to build a shack in the "periferico" sectors.

Periferico are sectors that house squatter settlements. Families erect primitive shelters with scavenged cardboard, wood boxes, sack cloth, and crushed beverage cans. As they find new bits of material, they add them to their shacks. Perhaps later they can build a tin roof or partition space into rooms, and the structure acquires a more permanent appearance.

38. Rostow's Development Model - 1950s - International Trade Model

W.W. Rostow proposed a five-stage model of development. Several countries adopted this approach during the 1950s.

According to the International Trade Model, each country is in one of these five stages of development.

MDCs are in stage 4 or 5 LDCs are in one of the three earlier stages.

The model assumes that LDCs will achieve development by moving along from an earlier to a later stage.

The model also assets that today's MDCs passed through the early stages in the past.

USA: stage 1 prior to independence, stage 2 during the first half of the 1800s, stage 3 during the middle of 1800s, and stage 4 during the late 1800s, before entering stage 5 during the early 1900s.

A country that concentrates on international trade benefits from exposure to consumers in other countries.

To remain competitive, the takeoff industries must constantly evaluate changes in international consumer preferences, marketing strategies, production engineering, and design technologies.

Rostow's optimistic development model was a success and most countries in the world in 2013 apply this model of trade.

39. Self-Sufficiency Model of Development A country should spread investment as equally as possible across all sectors of its

economy and in all regions. The pace of development is modest The system is fair because resident and enterprises through the country share the

benefits of developments. Incomes in the countryside keep pace with those in the city. Reducing poverty takes precedence over encouraging a few people to become

wealthy. Helps fledgling businesses in an LDC by isolating them from competition with large

international corporations. Countries promote self-sufficiency by setting barriers that limit the import of goods

from other places. Barriers includes: setting high taxes (tariffs) on imported goods, fixing quotas to

limit the quantity of imported goods, and requiring licenses in order to restrict the number of legal importers.

The approach also restricts local businesses from exporting to other countries.

40. Christaller’s Central Place Theory – Walter Christaller from Germany

Helps to explain how the most profitable location for a shop can be identified. Central place: is a market center for the exchange of goods and services by

people attracted from the surrounding area. It is so called because it is central located to maximize accessibility.

Market area or hinterland: the area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted. The market area is an example of a nodal region – a region with a core where the characteristic is most intense.

Market area of every service varies. To determine the extent of a market areas, you need TWO pieces of information about a service: RANGE and THRESHHOLD

Range: is the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. The range is the radius of a hexagon drawn to delineate a service’s market area. People are willing to only go a short distance for everyday consumer services like groceries. Buy they will travel a long distance for such services as a concert or a ball game. A median range for a Kroger supermarket in Dayton would be 1.2 miles.

Threshold: is the minimum number of people needed to support a service. A median threshold needed to support Kroger supermarket in Dayton is about 30,000 people.

Market-Area Analysis: The range and threshold together determine whether a good or service can be profitable in a particular location. This is how it is done:a. Compute the rangeb. Computer the thresholdc. Draw the market area

Gravity Model for Central Place Theory: Predicts that the optimal location of service is directly related to the # of people in an area and inversely (negative aspect) related to the distance people must travel to access it. According to the gravity model, consumer behavior reflects two patterns:

a. The greater the # of people living in a particular place, the greater is the # of potential customers for a service.

b. The father people are from a particular service, the less likely they are to use it.

41. Louis Wirth Theory Urban dwellers follow a different way of life than does a rural dweller. City is a permanent settlement that has 3 characteristics:

1. Large size – If you live in a rural settlement, you know most of the other inhabitants. In urban settlement, you can know only a small percentage of the other residents. Most of your relationships are contractual: your supervisor, your lawyer, your supermarket cashier, etc. Consequently, the large size of an urban settlement produces different social relationships than those formed in rural settlements.

2. High Density: High density produces social consequences for urban residents. The only way that a large # of people can be supported in a small area is through specialization. Each person in an urban settlement plays a special role or performs a specific task to allow the complex urban system to function smoothly. At the same time, high density also encourages people to compete for survival in limited space. Social groups compete to occupy the same territory, and the stronger group dominates. This behavior distinguishes an urban settlement from a rural one.

3. Social Heterogeneity: The larger the settlement, the greater the variety of people. A person has greater freedom in an urban settlement than in a rural settlement to pursue an unusual profession, sexual orientation, or cultural interests. Residents of a crowded urban settlement often feel that they are surrounded by people who are indifferent and reserved; sense of loneliness. Urban areas in MDCs offer jobs, services, culture, and recreation.

42. Rank-Size Distribution of SettlementsGeographers observe that ranking settlements from largest to smaller population produces a regular pattern of hierarchy. This is the Rank-Size Rule. The country’s nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. In other words, the second-largest city is one-half the size of the largest, the fourth-largest city is one-fourth the size of the largest, and so on. The United States’ cities follow Rank-Size Rule. New York is largest, ½ of New York is Los Angeles, a 1/3 of New York is Chicago, a ¼ of New York is Philadelphia, etc. This is advantageous because goods and services are available

throughout the USA rather than Americans looking only to New York City for the best of services and goods.

43. Primate City Distribution of SettlementsIf the settlement hierarchy does not graphs as a straight line, then country does not have a rank-size distribution of settlements. Instead, it may follow the primate city rule. This is where the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. In this distribution, the country’s largest city is called the primate city.

Denmark: Copenhagen is the primate city with 1 million inhabitants. The second largest is Arhus with only 200,000.

United Kingdom/England: London has 8 million, whereas as Birmingham, the second-largest – has only 2 million.

44. Human Development Index – Chp. 9 Development – from United Nations

A country’s level of development can be distinguished according to three factors: 1. Economic 2. Social 3. Demographic

Human Development Index (HDI), created but the United Nations, recognizes that a country’s level of development is a function of three of these factors.

Economic GDP (Gross Domestic Product). GDP is the value of the total output of goods

and services produced in a country, normally during a year. Dividing the GDP by total population measures the contribution made by the average individual toward generating a country’s wealth in a year.

Types of Jobs:a. Primary (including agriculture)b. Secondary (including manufacturing)c. Tertiary (includes services)

Quartenary sector: types of jobs that includes wholesaling, finance, banking, insurance, real estate, advertising, and marketing (business services)

Quinary sector: includes retailing, tourism, entertainment, and communications, government, or semi-public services such as health, education, and utilities (consumer services)

Productivity is the value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it. Productivity can be measured by the value added per capita. The value added in manufacturing is the gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.

Consumer Goods – Part of the wealth generated in MDCs is used to purchase goods and services. Especially important are goods and services related to transportation (motor vehicles) and communications (telephones, computers).

In LDCs transportation and communications do not play a central role in daily life. In many LDCs, those who live in urban areas have access to transportation and communications.

Social Education and Literacy – literacy rate Health and Welfare – People are healthier in MDCs and in LDCs In most MDCs, health care is a public service that is available at little or no

cost – 70% paid by government. An exception is the USA where private individuals are required to pay an

average of 55% of health care, more resembling the pattern in LDCs. Total expenditures on health care exceed 8% of GDP compared to less than

6% in LDCs.

Demographic Life expectancy (LDCs = sixties) (MDCs = seventies) Infant Mortality Rate – 94% of infants survive in LDCs and 6% die in LDCs.

MDCs = 99.5 infants survive, and ½ of 1 percent die. Natural Increase Rate (NIR) – 1.5 % annual in LDCs compared to only 0.2% in

MDCs. Greater natural increase strains a county’s ability to provide hospitals, schools, jobs, and other services that can make its people healthier and more productive.

Crude Birth Rate (CBR). LDCs have higher natural increase rates because they have higher crude birth rates. Annual CBD rate is 23 per 1,000 in LDCs, compared to 12 per 1,000 in MDCs.Crude Death Rate: does not indicate a society’s level of development. The CDR is lower in LDCs than in MDCs. Two reasons account for the lower rate in LDCs: 1. Diffusion of medical technology from MDCs has sharply reduced in the incidence of several diseases in LDCs. 2. MDCs have higher percentages of older people who have high mortality rates, as well as lower percentages of children, who have low mortality rates once they survive infancy.

45. Least-Cost Theory by Weber - Industry A company faces two geographical costs: SITUATION and SITE

a. Situation : relates to the transportation of materials into and from a factory 1. bulk-reducing industry: industry in which the inputs weigh more than the final products. To minimize transport costs, a bulk=reducing industry needs to locate near its source of inputs. Example: steel 2. bulk-gaining industry: makes something that gains volume or weight during production. To minimize transport costs, a bulk-gaining industry needs to locate near where the product is sold. Example: fabricated metals, beverage production, single-market manufacturers that produces parts for motor-vehicles, car production companies, newspapers, food

* just-in-time deliveries: shipment of parts and materials to arrive at a factory moments before they are needed. Arrive daily if not hourly.

b. Site: factor result from the unique characteristics of a location. Land, labor, and capital area the 3 traditional production factors. 1. Labor-intensive industry is one in which wages and other compensation paid to employees constitutes a high percentage of expenses. Labor intensive is not high wage; it is measured as a percentage. High wage is measures in dollars or other currencies. Examples: Textiles (making of clothing)

2. Land suitable for constructing a factory can be found in many places. If considered to encompass natural and human resources, land is a critical site factor. One-story factories are common now and require a large piece of land. Electricity is used for aluminum industry so that is generated by using coal, oil, natural gas, running water, nuclear fuel, energy, and wind.

3. Capital. Manufacturers typically borrow funds to establish new factories or expand existing ones. Financial institutions like banks are key. The ability to borrow money in MDCs is much easier than in LDCs. LDCs with unstable political systems, a high debt level, or ill-advised economic policies find it hard to find a bank to loan them money to establish manufacturing companies.

Terms to Know that Go Far Beyond Weber's Original Theory in 2013 and on* right to work laws:* convergence regions* competitive and employment regions* new international division of labor* vertical integration* outsourcing* Fordist production* Post-Fordist production* Maquiladora

46. DENSITY versus CONCETRATIONDensity: the frequency with which something occurs in space. The feature being measures could be people, houses, cars, volcanoes, etc. Also measured in kilometers, square miles, hectares, acres, or any other unit of areas (numbers)

3 Kinds of Density

a. Arithmetic: Total number of objects in an area – used to compare the distribution of population in different countries. Belgium’s arithmetic density: 900 persons per square mile.

b. Physiological: the number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture – may mean that a country has difficulty growing enough food to sustain its population.

c. Agricultural: the number of farmers per unit area of farm land – may mean that a country has inefficient agriculture.

Concentration: the extent of a feature’s spread over its space. If the objects in an area are close together, they are CLUSTERED; if relatively far apart, they are DISPERSED. Geographers use concentration to describe changes in distribution. The distribution of people across the USA is increasingly dispersed. The total number of people living the USA is growing slowly. But the population distribution is changing from relatively clustered in the Northeast to more evenly dispersed across the country.

47. 5 Types of Climates according to AP Human Geography Tropical Dry climates Warm mid-latitude climates Cold-mild mid-latitude climates Polar climates

48. Possibilism versus EnvironmentalismPossibilism: the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment. Please can choose a course of action from many alternatives in the physical environment. Humans endow the physical environment with cultural values by regarding it as a collection of resources which are substances that are useful to people, economically and technologically, and socially acceptable to use. AP human geographers support this view.Environmental determinism: A 19th and 20th century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. The environment in which people are born determines their outcome and limits their potential. A person born in Africa is often limited by the LDC status and may not be able to rise to the prosperity of an MDC born person. AP Human Geography does not believe in this limitation.

49. Types of DiffusionDiffusion: is the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time. This from which an innovation originates is called a hearth.

Two Types of Diffusion

a. Relocation – the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.

b. Expansion – the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process.

Three Ways of Expansion Diffusion

1. Hierarchical – is the spread of an idea from person or nodes of author or power to other person or places. This may result from the spread of ideas from political leaders, socially elite people, or other important persons to others in the community. Innovations may also originate in a particular node or place of power, such as a large urban center, and diffuse later to isolated rural areas. Hip-hop or rap music is an example of an innovation that diffused from a group of people.

2. Contagious – is the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population: spread of influenza, AIDS. An idea placed on the World Wide Web spreads through contagious diffusion because Web surfers throughout the world have access to the same material simultaneously and quickly

3. Stimulus – is the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse. Early desktop computer sales in the USA were evenly between Apple and IBM. By 1990s, Apple sales had fallen far behind IBM. Then Apple came up with the mouse at an icon. – new technologies.

50. Types of Regionsa. Formal: The selected characteristic is present in an entire region. Laws of Montana. North American wheat belt is a formal region. b. Functional: also called a nodal region is an area organized around a node or a focal point. Examples: television station’s viewing area. Circulation area of a newspaper. A Department Store like Nordstrom’s threshold area. c. Vernacular: is a perceptual region or a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity. “Dixie” = Southern States of the USA. “Retirement State” – Florida or AZ “Coffee Drinkers’ Region” – Pacific Northwest. “Rust Belt” – Midwest States of the Auto Industry due to heavy snows and salt placed on roads that cause cars to rust.

51. Population Pyramids:

Stage 4

Stage 4 Zero Population Growth

Stage 3

Stage 3

Stage 2

Stage 4

52. Population StatisticsThe BIRTH RATE: CBR is an annual statistic. The total # of infants born living is counted for one calendar year and then calculated. The figures is then divided by the populat6ion divided by one thousand, or 'every thousand members of the population.

Live Births_____Population + 1,000What does this mean? High bird rates (18 to 50) are found in mostly rural agricultural LDC countries and that low birth rates (8 to 17) are more likely to be found in urbanized industrial and service based countries (MDCs).

The DEATH RATE: The crude death rate or CDR, or what is called the death rate is an annual statistic calculated in the same. The number of deaths are counted for the calendar year in a country and divided by every thousand members of the population (or population/1,000). Deaths______Population = 1,000What does this mean? High death rates usually indicate a country that is experiencing war, disease, or famine. Higher death rates (20 to 5) were recorded in the poor of LDCs where the combination of poverty, poor nutrition, epidemic disease, and a lack of

medical care resulted in low life expectancy. HOWEVER, conditions have improved in LDCs through the Green Revolution (increased food and nutrition) and access to sanitation, education and health care have increased, life expectancies have gone up, and death rate has gone down.

The NATURAL INCREASE RATE (NIR): By comparing the birth rate and death rate for a country, we can calculate the rate of natural increase (RNI as stated by Princeton Review or NIR as stated by Rubenstein textbook). If you subtract the death rate from the birth rate, the difference is the amount of population change per thousand members of the population for that year. Then divide the result by 10 and then you will have the NIR or RNI. The NIR or RNI is also the annual percentage of population growth of that country for that one-year period. Put a % sign after you get the answer to the equation.Birth Rate - Death Rate

10Is a negative NIR/RNI possible? It is possible. Mathematically, the death rate can larger than the birth rate, resulting in a negative number that is divided by 10 to get the negative NIR/RNI. When the NIR/RNI is negative, it means the population has shrunk during the year the data was collected. One current possibility would be in a LDC location where disease, warfare, or famine has decimated the population -- Swaziland: affected by the AIDS epidemic has currently an NIR/RNI of -0.1 %.Why "Natural" Increase? Important to keep in mind regarding the rate of natural increase is that it does not account for immigration or emigration. A country with a high rate of natural increase can have an unexpectedly low long-term population prediction if there is a large amount of emigration. Oppositely, a country with a low rate of natural increase can still grow significantly over time if the amount of immigrants is high. Data shows that migrant population also have much higher fertility rates. In the USA population growth is not necessary from the immigrants cross the border, but the fact that they will have a large number of children once they have settled.

DOUBLING TIME: This is an estimate regarding how long it would take a country to double in size by this formula. 70_________Rate of Natural IncreaseUsing Peru as an example, an RNI of 2.1 percent would result in a doubling time of 33.3 years. This is fast but demographers expect the 8 million people to grow to 16 million by 2050.This won't happen according to demographers because people are leaving Peru for work. There is a negative net migration. Out-migration to other countries reduces the long-term prediction to around 12-13 million by 2015.

The TOTAL FERTILITY RATE: The TFR is the estimated # of children born to each female of birthing age (15 to 45).Number of Children Born Women Ages 15 to 45Remember: THE TFR is not an annual statistic -- it is more an estimate, a picture of fertility for both over the prior 30 years.

The REPLACEMENT RATE: The replacement rate is a TFR of 2.1. We must think about this in a basic biological terms. If a couple has two offspring, they have replaced themselves. What about the remaining 0.1? This is what would be referred to as an error factor. We have to estimate that some small portion of the population will die before they reach adulthood -- disease and accidents do happen. Thus, to replace itself, a large population must have 2.1 children per female of birthing age.