| Question |
Answer |
| Globalization | A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope |
| Transnational corporation | Conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters and principal shareholders are located |
| Immanuel Kant | compared geography's concern for space to history's concern for time |
| The arrangement of a feature in space is known as _______ | distribution |
| The frequency with which something occurs in space is ________ | density |
| Arithmetic density | is the total number of objects in an area |
| T o F: High population density is related to poverty | FALSE |
| Physiological density | the number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture |
| Agricultural density | the number of farmers per unit area of farmland |
| The extent of a feature's spread over space is its __________ | concentration |
| pattern | the geometric arrangement of objects in space |
| space-time compression | describes the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place |
| diffusion | the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time |
| the place from which an innovation orginates is called ________ | a hearth |
| the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another is termed ________ | relocation diffusion |
| the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process is ______ | expansion diffusion |
| hierarchical diffusion | the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to spread to other persons or places |
| contagious diffusion | the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population |
| stimulus diffusion | the spread of anunderlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently failes to diffuse |
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