MOVEMENT IN GEOGRAPHY
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MIGRATION
URBANIZATION
GLOBALIZATION: Globalization takes years. Three main ideas helped countries and people from all around the world interact.The three main ideas that helped spark this were the GPS, GIS, and Maps. GPS stands for Global Positioning System. This system includes for satellites, even though they use only three, these satellites are positioned in a triangle formation, and it is used to send information around the world. For instance in class we learned how they used it to help kenyan citizens after an earthquake by sending information to them.
TRADE: Due to the massive expansion of globalization, trade has been drastically changed. countries around the world trade: goods, services, money, capitol, investments. These trades not only impact the economy but the cultures of the affected countries. These countries trade because of the scarcity of some products in their countries and because some countries specialize in certain products, this is called specialization. Also, counties have comparative advantages, some will have access to boat ports and other countries do not.
GLOBALIZATION AND TRADE
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Geographic Information System: This is a device that helps prevent global warming, and also helps police to see criminal activity and where it is the highest and lowest. This software runs on computers.
EXAMPLE OF SPECIALIZATION: Côte D'Ivoire is a country in southern africa. They specialize in cacao beans, and their economy is based off them. The climate is perfect for them to grow. They export cacao beans to places all around the world.
GPS: GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
Imports: Imports are when a country will receive a product from another country or company. For example, we import a lot of fish to colorado from our surrounding states.
Exports: Exports are products coming out of a country and being EXPORTED to another, for example countries on the coast export fish to countries that are landlocked.
MEGACITY: a city with a population of more then 10 million people. Also known as a megapolis
SUBURB: A suburb is a residential area outside a city.
PRIMATE CITIES: A city whose population is at least twice the population of the second largest city in that country. Also is the political, cultural, and economic center of a city. and example of a primate city is New Mexico, Mexico, Paris, and France.
WHAT IS A CITY?: a city is a place that centers an economical, political, and cultural change. It is a magnet for migration, and is growing rapidly.
This is a normal city but with the jagged edges around it is the "urban sprawl around the periphery"
This image shows the population growth among the transportation axes.
THIS IS SATELLITE DEVELOPMENT
These Symbols signify a NEW CITY CENTER
CHARACTERISTICS OF A CITY
Carrying Capacity: The number of people an environment can support.
THE CARRYING CAPACITY RELIES ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF A CITY
INFRASTRUCTURE: The basic physical and organizational structure of a society. Example: streets, roads, bridges, and buildings.
Asylum: Protection from one country to protect one from their original country
HOST COUNTRY: a host country hosts immigrants.
Asylum Seeker: an Asylum seeker is a person seeking asylum from a country.
INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSON: Also known as an IDP they are uprooted and forcibly moved from their hometown or country.
UNHCR: this is an organization that helps immigrants.
MIGRANT: a group of people or one individual who leaves their country for a job, or to see their family. These people are not fleeing as dangerous life threatening scenarios like immigrants are.
REFUGEE: A person who flees his country due to some sort of negative event going on there
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT: When an arriving person does not have the proper records and identification for admission into the U.S.
DOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT: When an arriving person has the proper records and identification for admission into the U.S.
