Key Theories in Geography Quiz

Migration Theories

• Henry Carey Warren Thompson's Theory of Mobility (1929) states that most migrants move only a short distance, and migration occurs step by step.

• Females are more migratory than males within their birthplace, but males more frequently venture beyond.

• Large towns grow more through migration than natural increase.

• The major direction of migration is from agricultural areas to centers of industry and commerce.

• The major causes of migration are economic.

• Everett Lee's Theory of Migration (1966) explains how migration patterns change in a society due to industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes.

• Factors contributing to migration include few services, lack of opportunities, unhappy life, disaster-prone areas, wars, conflicts, and shortage of necessities.

Geographical Concepts

• Sustainability is the practice of using natural resources responsibly to support both present and future generations.
• The United Nations created 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015.

Theories in Geography

Physical Geography Theories

• Plate Tectonics Theory explains the structure of the Earth's crust and associated phenomena through the movement of tectonic plates.
• Climatic Change Theories explain changes in climate over time, including natural cycles and human-induced changes.
• Geomorphic Theories explain the formation and evolution of landforms, including fluvial processes, glacial theories, and coastal dynamics.

Human Geography Theories

• Spatial Interaction Theory explains how and why places interact with each other, focusing on the movement of goods, services, and people across space.
• Central Place Theory explains the spatial distribution of human settlements and their sizes based on their functions and economic principles.
• Urban Growth and Decline Theories explain the processes and patterns of urbanization, suburbanization, and gentrification, including the Concentric Zone Model, Sector Model, and Multiple Nuclei Model.
• Human-Environment Interaction Theories include Cultural Ecology, which studies how human society adapts to environmental challenges, and Political Ecology, which examines political, economic, and social factors affecting environmental issues and resource use.
• Systems Theory in Geography applies the concept of systems to understand complex interactions within physical and human environments.
• Gravity Model predicts the movement of people and ideas between two places based on the number of people in a location and the distance they must travel.
• Demographic Transition Model shows how birth rate and death rate have influenced the total population of a place and changed over the years.