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| Elongated State | territory is much longer than its average width, often 6X as long.
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| Fragmented State | composed of 2/ more non-contiguous segments.
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| Compact State | possesses roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory; distance from the geometric center to any point on the boundary exhibits little variance.
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| Industrial Revolution | Social & economic changes in agriculture, commerce & manufacturing.
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| Dispersed Rural Settlement |
1 of main types of settlement pattern used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England & other parts of the world.
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| Greenbelt | extensive area of largely undeveloped or sparsely occupied land associated with community set aside to contain development.
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| Habit | act, behavioral response, practice, or custom established in one's repertoire by frequent repetition of the same act.
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| Ethnic Religion | particular to 1, culturally distinct, group of people.
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| Dialect | Local or regional characteristics of a language
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| Development | process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage; act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining.
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| Gentrification | rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residents.
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| Filtering | deleting or delaying negative information or using less harsh words so that events sound more favorable
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| Blockbusting | Rapid change in racial composition of residential blocks in American cities.
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| Gravity Model | used to account for wide variety of flow patterns in human/economic systems.
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| Break-Of-Bulk Point | location along transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another.
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| Edge City | relatively new concentration of business, shopping, & entertainment outside traditional urban area in what had recently been residential suburb or semi-rural community.
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| Extinct Language | may be contrasted w/ dead languages: no longer spoken as main language.
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| Creole Language | stable language that originates seemingly as a pidgin, but was later on adopted as mother tongue.
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| Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) | Synthetic organic compounds first created in the 1950’s and used primarily as refrigerants and as propellants.
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| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | Involves cultivation of small parcels of land through the expenditure of great amounts of labor per acre.
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) | collection of comp. hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, etc.
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| Census | periodic and official count of a country’s pop.
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| Environmental Determinism | view that natural environment has numerous influences on human life.
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| International Date Line | Imaginary line through the Pacific Ocean, roughly following 180th meridian where date changes.
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| Concentric Zone Model | structural model of the American central city that suggests the existence of 5 concentric land-use rings arranged around a common center.
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