| 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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