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| show | of or pertaining to space on or near the Earth's surface
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| show | actual spot where something is located, including data such latitude and longitude
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| show | location relative to other human and physical features on the landscape
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| show | one created or modified by human action
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| show | an analytical technique that estimates the number of interactions occurring between an origin and destination locations.
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| show | the availability of an area for human reach and settlement
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| show | the relationship places have between themselves
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| show | the complicated system of connectivity amongst places all around the world
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| show | a process in which time is reorganized in such a way as to reduce the constraints of space; shortening of time and a ‘shrinking’ of space
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| show | the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
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| show | the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process
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| show | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
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| show | the spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected
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| show | the arrangement of something across Earth's surface
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| show | the number of poeple per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture
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| show | the spread of an idea, practice, etc. by varying methods
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| show | an area organized around a node or focal point
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| show | patterns of latitude and longitute put over a map
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| show | the meridian, designated at 0 degrees longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England
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| show | an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth opposite the Prime Meridian which offsets the date as one travels east or west across it; it corresponds to the time zone boundary separating +12 and -12 hours GMT
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| show | shows the spatial distribution of one or more specific data themes for standard geographic areas, generally by varying hues and shades of colors
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| show | used to display the distribution of a variable over a geographic area, usually defined by political boundaries
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| show | generally illustrates varying amounts of concentration using dots
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| show | map containing lines or shaded regions to distinguish different regions of various attributes (most weather maps)
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| show | a system for creating and managing spatial data and associated attributes; capable of integrating, storing, editing, analyzing, and displaying geographically-referenced information
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| show | A system that determines the precise position of something on Erath through a series of satellites, tracking sections, and recievers
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| show | simplified abstractions of realtiy, structured to clarify casual relationships, used to explain patterns, make informed decisions, and predict future behaviours
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| show | describes system of economic production; the most important reason for similarities between two (or more) unrelated societies is their possession of a similar adaptive strategy
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| show | pertaining to agriculture
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| show | purpose was to make it possible for fewer people to produce more; transformation of agriculture to more factory and production oriented
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| show | the area on which agriculture is cultivated, and its level of fertility
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| show | the deliberate effort to modify a protion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain
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| show | the end result of biotechnology. improved methods of producing food.
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| show | technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine; the manipulation of organisms to do practical things and to provide useful products
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| show | agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
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| show | a form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expand a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
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| show | an agricultural production system over a vast area of land, such as the Great Plains; practised on low-cost land and so doesn't require chemical stimulants
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| show | a boundary or outer part of any space or body; not as connected
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| show | the practice of growing two (or more) dissimilar type of crops in the same space in sequence; a practice of polyculture
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| show | areas where crops are more likely to be successful and able to cultivate
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| show | the portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials
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| show | sector of the economy associated with the technology and changes
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| show | any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any insect or pest
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| show | displacement of soil by the agents of wind, water, ice, movement in response to gravity, or living organisms, harming soil nutrients
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| show | a form of sustinence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period
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| show | a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
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| show | a form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
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| show | industries involved in finding, extracting, and associated processing of natural resources located in or on Earth's surface
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| show | occured during the 1980's; the depletion of true 'family farms' to industry
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| show | A plot of ground on which livestock are fattened for market
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| show | considered to have occurred some time around 9000-7000 BC, most likely in the "hearth areas"; generally recognized to have begun with the development of seed-based agriculture and the use of animals
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| show | rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
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| show | the period of each year when crops can be grown, determined by climate and crop selection
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| show | a form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yiled form a parcel of land
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| show | a small business growing fruits and vegetables, perhaps in glasshouses or in the open, which is sufficiently near a city – specifically its market – for produce to be transported there and arrive in fresh condition
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| show | a temperate biome, characterized by hot-dry summers and mild and rainy winters, with a specific pattern of agriculture, specializing in grapes and wine
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| show | the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam
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| show | an economic system in which decisions about the production, allocation and consumption of goods and services is planned ahead of time, in either a centralized or decentralized fashion
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| show | the modification of plants for human usage
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| show | a resource that has theoretically unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
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| show | a source of energy that is a finite supply capable of being exhausted
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| show | the settling of an area with characteristic of the country
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| show | a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages
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| show | a phase transition of rural settlments in a small but stable region
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| show | fierce critic of Environmental Determinism, which was the prevailing theory in Geography when he began his career; Sauer rejected positivism, preferring particularist and historicist understandings of the world.
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| show | the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose; specifically agriculture for a specific purpose
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| show | grains that compose the main part of ones diet, such as wheat, rice, corn, oats, barely, rye, millet, quinoa, sorghum, wild rice, spelt, and tef.
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| show | surveying long strips of land from one point to another (such as between bodies of water)
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| show | a system or method of describing land, 'real' property (in contrast to personal property) or real estate; uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of land
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| show | method of surveying where each piece of land is divided into geometrical shapes (like square miles)
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| show | farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typicalyl by rotating soil-resotring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizers and pesticides
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| show | agricultural revolution based primarily on increased productivity; the "miracle seed"
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| show | producing food for the masses rather than for individual use; includes collecting, packaging, etc
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| show | commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
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| show | developed the first serious treatment of spatial economics, connecting it with the theory of rent; created Von Thunen model of agriculture which organizes farming by methods to maximize profits
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| show | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
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| show | where a culture originated
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| show | geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
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| show | The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a part of a culture
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| show | fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
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| show | an area within a culture
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| show | the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material tratis that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition
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| show | the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
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| show | the adoption of innovations or inventions between cultures
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| show | each group that occupies and dominates an environment leaves its imprint
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| show | strategies a culture or group uses to adapt to their surroundings
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| show | characteristics found among the anglo-american landscape
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| show | The art and science of designing and erecting buildings according to cultural procedures or customs
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| show | The urban environment consisting of buildings, roads, fixtures, parks, and all other human developed improvements that form the physical character of a city.
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| show | culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups
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| show | types of food that originated by small, homogenous, rural groups living in relative isolation from other groups
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| show | traditional ways to build houses originating from a small, relatively isolated hearth, transmitted orally
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| show | a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
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| show | spanish, german, hindi, russian, english
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| show | a country lying between two rival or potentially hostile greater powers, which by its sheer existence is thought to prevent conflict between them
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| show | the principal city or town associated with its government. It is almost always the city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the seat of government and fixed by law
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| show | an association of sovereign states, usually created by treaty but often later adopting a common constitution.
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| show | the process by which a colony gains its independence from a colonial power
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| show | A two-tier system of government where defence and foreign policy is dealt with at one level and health, education and housing at another.
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| show | a capital that is forward in government
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| show | a zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control
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| show | common global happenings
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| show | organization involving more than one state (country)
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| show | a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea
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| show | a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses. Under conventions of international law, the flag flown by a ship generally determines the source of law to be applied in admiralty cases, regardless of which court has personal jurisdic
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| show | a state that encompasses a very small land area
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| show | small part of a state
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| show | A large number of people of mainly common descent, language, and history.
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| show | the process of determining representation in politics within a legislative body by creating constituencies. This is typically done in proportion to the population in the individual sectors. The United States, for instance, delimits the House of Representa
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| show | reunification of all of a "state" under a single political entity
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| show | a political term that refers to a country which is formally independent but which is primarily subject to the domination of another, larger power.
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| show | an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established goernment with control over its internal and foreign affairs (country)
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| show | group of united people with no set state or country
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| show | the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right.
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| show | a method of decision-making in international organizations, where power is held by independent appointed officials or by representatives elected by the legislatures or people of the member states.
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| show | conflicts between the area held by a state
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| show | A State’s physical shape
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| show | a form of government in which a religion or faith plays the dominant role. Properly speaking, it refers to a form of government in which the organs of the religious sphere replace or dominate the organs of the political sphere.
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| show | provided new universal legal controls for the management of marine natural resources and the control of pollution.
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| show | The changes in the USSR occurred most dramatically during the 1980s and early 1990s, with perestroika, the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall, and finally the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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| show | took many decades to achieve because women had to persuade a male electorate to grant them the vote. Many men — and some women — believed that women were not suited by circumstance or temperament for the vote.
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| show | the population characteristics of a region
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| show | the arrangement of people in comparison to available resources across earth
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| show | english economist who predicted that population would outgrow food resources
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| show | where crude birth rate equals crude death rate and the natural increase rate approaches zero
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| show | the age structure of a population
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| show | how diseases move from place to place
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| show | equates size distribution and composition of populations
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| show | amount of people a region can support
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| show | people who supported and grew off of malthus's predictions
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| show | factors that induce people to move to or from a location
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The movement of people from one area of a country to another, often to relieve population pressure.
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| show | permanent movement from one region of a country to another
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| show | utilizing a place for its abilities
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| personal space | show 🗑
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| show | prism which forcasts variables within time and space
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A model of the interaction between two places in relation to their distance apart.
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A type of migration which occurs in a series of movements, for example from a hamlet to a village, from a village to a town, and from a town to a city.
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| show | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
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| cyclic movement | show 🗑
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| show | form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location
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| periodic movement | show 🗑
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| show | seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
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| show | the labour force engaged in agriculture including farmers; stock raisers; farm managers and foremen; farm labourers; the personnel of establishments primarily engaged in custom threshing, ploughing, etc; varies between MDCs an LDCs
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| show | assumption of static expectations; states that migration is the key to agglomeration, but migrants base their decision on current wage differences alone
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| cultural convergence | show 🗑
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| show | the body of social science theories by various intellectuals, both from the Third World and the First World, that create a worldview which suggests that the wealthy nations of the world need a peripheral group of poorer states in order to remain wealthy.
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| development | show 🗑
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| show | the amount of energy used by a nation
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| foreign direct investment | show 🗑
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| show | sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture, and its effect
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| show | total value of final goods and services produced within a country's borders in a year, regardless of ownership. It may be used as one of many indicators of the standard of living in a country
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| show | The total market value of all the goods and services produced by a nation during a specified period
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| show | a comparative measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, childbirth, and other factors for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare
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| levels of development | show 🗑
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| show | economic, social, and demographic indicators which distinguish a country's level of development
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| neo-colonialism | show 🗑
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| show | an attempt to measure the quality of life or well-being of a country. The value is a single number derived from basic literacy rate, infant mortality, and life expectancy at age one, all equally weighted on a 0 to 100 scale.
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| purchaisng power parity | show 🗑
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| show | an American economist prominent for his staunch opposition to Communism and belief in the efficacy of capitalism and free enterprise
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| show | the purpose of this model is both to be able to understand the current situation in terms of a specific stage as well as to be able to develop strategies to move to a higher stage in the future
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| show | the differing level of available technology amongst nations, specifically LDCs and MDCs
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| technology transfer | show 🗑
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| world systems theory | show 🗑
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| show | any type of precipitation with a pH that is unusually low; causes damage to crops, structures, etc.
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| agglomeration | show 🗑
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| agglomeration economies | show 🗑
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| air pollution | show 🗑
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| aluminum industry | show 🗑
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| factors of production | show 🗑
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| show | a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create an end product
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| show | form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly
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| bid rent theory | show 🗑
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| break-of-bulk point | show 🗑
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| show | Ontario has evolved as the country's industrial heartland, partly because it could offer secure supplies of competitively-priced electricity over the past 100 years
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| show | ability of transportation to move products efficiently
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| comparative advantage | show 🗑
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| cumulative causation | show 🗑
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| show | The movement of industrial activity away from areas of concentration
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| deindustrialization | show 🗑
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| economic sectors | show 🗑
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| show | Factors that cause average cost to be lower in large-scale operations than in small-scale ones, therefore doubling ithe output results in a less than double increase in costs
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| show | An environmentally friendly alternative form of tourism
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| show | includes fossil fuels, solar, nuclear, wind, tiday, hyrdo, etc., sources from which energy are obtained
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| entrepot | show 🗑
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| show | eases tax and labor restrictions and their primary purpose is to generate export revenues in poor developing countries
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| show | prices for fuel that cannot be adjusted
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| show | An industry which has a relatively free choice of location and is not influenced by access to markets or raw materials
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| four tigers | show 🗑
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| show | anticipated increase in Earth's temperature, caused by carbon dioxide (emitted by burning fossil fuels) trapping some of the radiation emitted by the surface
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| growth poles | show 🗑
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| show | Rimland is the maritime fringe of a country or continent; in particular, the densely populated western, southern, and eastern edges of the Eurasian continent; Heartland is most often a geopolitical term used to refer to a central area of Eurasia
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| industrial location theory | show 🗑
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| show | specified regions of particular industries based on theory
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| fuel source | show 🗑
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| show | highly centralized, technologically developed
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| industrial revolution | show 🗑
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| show | declination in industry
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| show | industry that is increasing
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| infrastructure | show 🗑
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| international division of labor | show 🗑
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| labor-intensive | show 🗑
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| show | A site chosen for industrial development where total costs are at their theoretical lowest, as opposed to location at the point of maximum revenue
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| major manufacturing regions | show 🗑
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| show | Consists of companies that convert raw materials from a primary industry into finished goods or which assemble components made by other manufacturing companies. This is a secondary industry.
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| show | near the final destination of the product
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| show | A planned area with small, purpose built factory units often located near transport routes.
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| shared services | show 🗑
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| show | limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community
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| transportation (manufacturing) | show 🗑
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| taxes (manufacturing) | show 🗑
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| show | factories built by the U.S. companies in Mexico or near the U.S. border, to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico
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| market orientation | show 🗑
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| multiplier effect | show 🗑
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| show | possibilities that weigh into decisions based on the environment
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| show | North American Free Trade Agreement; a free trade agreement among Canada, the United States, and Mexico
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| outsourcing | show 🗑
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| ozone depletion | show 🗑
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| show | based on relative distance from market and transporation cost
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| supplies (plant location) | show 🗑
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| "just in time" delivery | show 🗑
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| show | a proposed name for an economy that has undergone a specific series of changes in structure after a process of industrialization
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| show | generally the cooling of food by the transfer of a portion of its heat away from it to expand perishability
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| resource crisis | show 🗑
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| resource orientation | show 🗑
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| show | found in Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou in Guangdong Province and Xiamen in Fujian Province, and designated the entire province of Hainan a special economic zone
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| show | a geographical region that has economic laws different from a country's typical economic laws
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| show | area where exports are shipped from
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| high-tech zone | show 🗑
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| subsitution principle | show 🗑
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| threshold/range | show 🗑
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| show | Improvements in transport systems reduces the time-space distance between places.
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| topocide | show 🗑
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| show | the complimentary import / export of produced goods from producers to consumers
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| transnational corporation | show 🗑
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| show | Material available anywhere and not having a locational pull. Common in industrial location theory.
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| variable costs | show 🗑
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| show | German economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture and his work was influential in the development of modern economic geography
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| Weight-gaining | show 🗑
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| weight-losing | show 🗑
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| show | major industrial centers of the earth
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